The latest release available and validated for this motherboard is 3.6.0.1093 and this should be obtained from our official site downloadcenter.intel.com
OK, good to hear that. So any newer version is not compatible, got it. :-)
You did not provide a reason for updating the Renesas driver and what version is being used, however as per the information you provided, you should take under consideration that this motherboard is not validated for Microsoft* Windows* XP or any server edition operating system. In the other hand the Renesas driver in our web site is not compatible or validated for Microsoft* Windows* 8. Hence due to compatibility issues it might be expected that you get such error messages. The only operating system that would require such driver would be Microsoft* Windows* 7.
I do not have to provide "reasons", have I? Yes, it's the mentioned problem with Code 58 in BIOS while booting. Somehow, the problem "solved itself", because update failed, but problem is gone (however this is done??).
"Nice" to hear, this motherboard is NOT compatible with any Server-O/S. NICE!
This motherboard is designed to support PCI Express* 3.0 when using a processor that does support that as well. In this case, the processor you are using only features PCI Express* 2.0, therefore that is what you see as supported for your video cards.
OK ... So my sightings before buying the board where wrong? I am definitely sure, 100% sure, and I can't tell you often enough, VERY sure, I saw the PCIe 3.0 spec under ark.intel.com BEFORE I bought the board and the CPU. And YES, they both stated, they would be PCIe 3.0 compatible. But I read a lot of forum posts after posting here, and I found a lot of posts and threads ybout this "PCIe 3.0 issue" on NVIDIA's forums. The board was made before PCIe 3.0 standard was declared by whoever it should be declared as such (JEDEC? I don't remember ... ). Because of that, NVIDIA "was afraid, the boards would not run stable" with PCIe 3.0 enabled and disabled it on specific INTEL boards in combination with Geforce 6xx or 7xx GFX. It can be enabled by running an EXE file from NVIDIA. But INTEL responded to this mess by changing the status from PCIe 3.0 to PCIe 2.0.
If I only made a screenshot of that ...
Concerning the HDDs clicking noise you report, we have not seen any similar issue being reported. While troubleshooting this, did you test these drives in the SATA III ports, swapped power and data cables? Did you test the system out of the chassis to check for any grounding issues? Have you updated the system BIOS? Have you tried this from the operating system's safe mode? If all this has been done, you could possibly replace the motherboard to isolate any hardware related problem with the motherboard.
- SATA-3-ports: checked! => NO CLICKING NOISE!
- swapped cables: checked! => clicking noise is there!
- tried HDD on another PC: checked! => no clicking noise!
- tried with own PC / different PSU: checked! => clicking noise is there!
- updated BIOS: YES! from 0525 step-by-step to 0590 (newest availible)
- safe-mode: skipped, because of using a lot of different O/S to test on -> same issue!
Is it possible to cross-flash the "normal" RST-rom into the BIOS of the DX79TO to replace the RSTe-rom? I only had RST before and never heard a clicking-noise. Knowledge (basic) is there, so I would only need the tools to do so.
Sincerely
IDDQD