Author: HarleyevoSubject: X370 Gaming X Bios update. Kills Systems.
Posted: 14 May 2019 at 9:59pm
Final Update:
So I wound up Spamming pretty much every option in every support region, no responses after a few days.
Then I spammed every mail address i could find, webmaster, sales etc.. for every region and re-spammed support .
Next day, I was contacted by John from ASRock Support. He gave me a BIOS that allowed me to revert to 5.20
The mail on how to do, seemed that it would be complicated and difficult and dangerous, it was not.
The reversion ran a bit from within windows, then the system rebooted and UFEI Bios did its thing and self flashed to 5.20
All good.
However since the raid was broken by 5.40 I had some issues there. The Bios said there is no raid array but the disks still had a signature on them that they were part of an array.
No big worry, I've been down this rabbit hole before. You just need to low-level the disk and all is good. Except the Hitachi tool though able to wipe the disk doesn't apparently touch the area of the disk where the bits are set that indicate the disk is part of an array.
The fix. I fired up Dban, and Wiped the disks, I did not let it run fully just long enough that I felt confident the areas in question got zero filled. I then set the disks back to AHCI and initialized them under windows as basic disks.
Reboot and reconfigure as RAID and bam I could now initalize the disks and make them part of a new array.
A quick boot then off my cloned disk (before all this brouhaha started.) and reclone back to to my Raid1 Array. 24 hours later... everything is back and working as normal.
Raid... Working.
USB attacked disk Dock (attached via ASRock usb 3.1 Gen2 card). Working
Made 2 more new clones of the boot drive (Just in case.) They'll eventually be rotating boot backups, but for now...
And Stability testing is underway.
So color this solved. 5.40 Bios is problematic, so I'll wait, until the Ryzen3's come out and then flash at that time with whatever bios is out then, and if it doesn't work I have a backout for the thing you apparently cannot backout.
John, Kudos to you.