RustySpoons
Established Member
Get well soon.
And take your time till you get over it.
Thank you,
I hope so, been ill for about 10 months now, spent 6 months in hospital, still waiting a diagnosis.
Get well soon.
And take your time till you get over it.
Picked up one of these today...
Intel PRO/1000 PCI-e Gigabit Dual-Port Lan Card (D33682) | eBay
Which hopefully is the same card (Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port)
Hi, I just bought a 3TB hdd and would like to install it on my N54L. I understand that I will need this bios update for N54L to recognise a 3TB HDD. Can someone please help me with the process? As per the first post, I just need to unrar "TheBay_Microserver_Bios_041.rar" and run the executable to create a bootable usb stick and then boot using this to update the bios... Is this all or there are any additional steps? I also have the below questions.
1. I have hard drives, additional RAM and Video card currently installed, do I need to take any of these out before the RAM upgrade?
2. I remember reading on HP website that I need to use a 1GB flash drive for bios updates. I only have 4GB and 32GB flash drives. Can I use these?
Thanks
Thanks very much for the reply. Then I will try the new drive without the bios mod first. I would still like to know the bios mod process and what needs to be connected or removed from the machine during the update, just in case I decide to do the mod.I don't think you need the BIOS mod for it to recognise a 3TB HDD.
I don't think you need the BIOS mod for it to recognise a 3TB HDD.
Hi I just installed the new 3TB drive and only 2TB is shown as usable under windows 8. The remaining space is unusable. So I think, I need the bios update. Can someone please help me with the steps?
If it helps, I just successfully upgraded my N54L to 16GB memory, using this (Amazon uK)a) yes
b) Non-Ecc, ECC Unregistered, a mix of both but NOT ECC Registered
I recently setup my N40L with 16GB ECC RAM and 4 x 2TB HDDs. Following some guides (most of which were from a year or two ago), I flashed the hacked BIOS from the bios-mods site, but I then just found this thread. Is the BIOS in this thread different to the 'standard' hacked BIOS that is referred to in the other guides, and if so, what are the differences?
Just wanted to say thanks to TheBay for this work and making it available. I'm going to locate my OS drive to the top bay so will want to use the modded BIOS. I see you are working on an update so I will wait for that first I think.
I was able to sort this out. I had the make the partition as a "GPT Disk" to be able to format it to 3TB. But before figuring this out, I had done the bios mod anyway...What mode did you set the SATA controller for the drive bays in the BIOS to ? It will probably need to be set as AHCI to recognise 3TB disks. You don't need to flash the BIOS unless you want a 3TB drive in the top bay.
Newer BIOS? For the N54L???There are some "newer" bios's available which I am playing with, however there is still no S3 support in any of the bios tables. I am looking in to a way around it. I can however change the ACPI level from 1.0 up to 3.0. It looks at the moment these are only capable of level S5 (Power off). I will still continue to work on this and see if there is any way I can add S3.
Any chance to make S3 working? I found this setting (imm.io - dl.dropboxusercontent.com.png), but seems changes anything....I may release a few different versions with different functionality and some pre-configured for all 6x SATA/AHCI with or without options to change it back for simplicity.