Taichi x399 new bios?

I think with Meltdown and Spectre most Bois people are bust elsewhere.

If they delay making a new BIOS for their premium platform for too long or skip it altogether, then people will think twice before buying the next one. Surely people don't have the enthusiasm to buy another £1000 worth of hardware or more with the worry of RAM incompatibilities and BIOS bugs that may never be fixed.


Edited by JayB33 - 05 Mar 2018 at 7:38am

With the issues I've had trying to get the onboard RAID to work on my x399 taichi (I've given up), I don't think I'll ever buy another high end AMD platform. I'd rather pay the premium with intel and know things will work.

This is not entirely unrelated to this thread, as it pertains to getting a stable platform out. Live and learn.

MisterJ wrote: daddyo, Please don't give up, I think I have figured it all out.  If you will tell me what you want to do, I will provide the instructions of how to do it.  Works well for my 3 SSD NVMe RAID0 system disk.  Enjoy, John.

You're a good man, and I truly appreciate your dedication to the community.

In the interest of learning something, I'll tell you what I initially wanted to build.

I have a single SATA SSD which is my current boot drive, and want to keep it as such. I have a PCIE nmve SSD which is a cache drive, which I want to keep as such. I also have 2x10tb SATA disks and 2x2TB SATA SSD's that are currently 4 independent volumes, all under AHCI in my UEFI.

What I wanted to do was have the 2x2TB SSD's as a RAID1 volume, and the 2x10TB drives as another RAID 1 volume, both for data storage, while the single SATA SSD would be the boot drive, and the single PCIE NVME SSD be a cache drive for tasks like video editing (This is my home post production workstation)...

Does that make sense?

I could never get the single boot drive to be recognized under windows setup after my attempts at designating it as a single RAID container in UEFI RAID2.0 mode. So I basically gave up and built the system in AHCI, which worked just fine. I tried just about everything in the UEFI, I never could get it to be a drive Windows would consider as bootable (although it would "see it" in the drive list after loading all the RAID drivers during the pre loading phase). There's nothing wrong with the drive, it's a samsung 950 PRO, pretty standard and proven to work in previous builds. I just couldn't get past installing Windows on it....


Edited by daddyo - 07 Mar 2018 at 8:34am

Mr J,
Thanks for responding, you are right in your assessment.  I have the Taichi.

I did try to create a VOLUME for my boot drive while my SATA mode was in "RAID". This is the part that failed. I would see my VOLUME in UEFI, and it would show during windows setup once I loaded the AMD RAID drivers (all 3 steps).

But windows kept saying this was not a bootable drive and could not proceed with installation... Perhaps a more detailed explanation of the volume creation procedure is required. I tried it different ways, no dice.

This said, if reconfiguring my system to the ideal profile will require a complete reinstallation of windows (which I suspect it will) let me stop you right here. It's not worth the effort. Installing windows is the easy part. I have so much software to configure that it takes me days to get this workstation where I need it to be. I'd rather deal with not having drives in RAID than spend days reinstalling programs...

I come from Intel high end platforms, where RAID is mature and I never expected to have so many problems to get it going.