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Well, I managed to update the fw and the BIOS of the card to latest versions in Windows 11 Pro with command prompt, but am unable to execute the BIOS wipe. With sas2flash.exe (sas2flash_win_x64_rel) in Windows I get a message "(erase) command not supported in this environment" and when booted (finally managed to do that with CSM enabled) into FreeDOS from USB an error message "failed to initialize PAL" right when I try to start sas2flsh.exe (sas2flash_dos_rel). I tried to follow these instructions, but am unable to find the mentioned EFI shell setting in my BIOS, which could be the reason: https://serverfault.com/questions/679175/failed-to-initialize-pal-while-upgrading-an-lsi-9211-8i-to-it

From what I read shortly this forum seems like a great find. After all the official support from SuperMicro/LSI has been a letdown ever since I got my HBA card around 2014 or so. I'm running LSI OEM 9217-8i (Supermicro AOC-S2308L-L8e - flashed to LSI 9207-8i). I've never needed RAID functionality, only additional SATA connections. Today I updated my system from i9-12900k to 13900k. Subsequently my system wouldn't post after enabling XMP for the RAM. Also the LSI card seemed to disappear from my system without any sign either in BIOS or Windows, with all the drives connected to it. I'm dealing with the possible RAM incompatibility issue elsewhere, and meanwhile started searching if there were any fw updates to the HBA card. I switched back to 12900k for the time being and everything works as norm. I've attached pics of what my motherboard submenu has to say about the card. It seems the bios version is 7.27.01.00 and the IT firmware 20.0.2.0. I read that the most recent versions would be 7.39.02.00 and 20.00.07.00, is that correct? Also it was suggested that in HBA mode the BIOS is pretty much redundant and could be erased and thus disabled, am I right? Anything to speed up the startup. I hardly doubt updating the fw by a small increment will resolve the problem with the 13900k, but I might as well do it anyway. Also, it came to my mind after I switched the 12900k back that the BIOS might've re-assigned the PCIe lanes all to the GPU, disabling the 2_PCIe_x16, which is where the LSI card is attached. I did load optimized defaults for the BIOS, but never checked weather the BIOS had done this on its own after the CPU update. If it's true there's an update to my HBA card, would you be so nice as to point out a trusted source where I can download it? It looks as Broadcom/LSI haven't stored the files for bit now or at least I can't find them. My system specs are as follows: edit: I browsed the thread, but couldn't find the exact instructions to update my card, so I went ahead with these ones: https://www.stevenkussmaul.com/2020/06/12/how-to-flash-a-new-bios-and-firmware-to-your-lsi-9217-8i-sas2308-controller/ And I also was pointed to the update files that still resides over at Broadcom site by their support: https://u4977512.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=1CUR-2BByiJ4AplZmi3YlaGAl0laie8uLA3fo-2B1VPgBVyGe4Ys1Uth2kvTIr-2B4yclFQR-2Fu-2FBCJh54fqeTNm7lZ75uXyBZ3RSAzVrEPbDxtkdY2kwzpMcEv03qB-2Fo-2BcLpfH8zFDr2U9aK1ZT7-2BmD4mwovcYVrFqDoxw80axOwpY2asIPaG1em55G-2B9jec7En8XdJeKQEZ-2BQWNGP5-2BVXEadJxSFdkHkMRRDHy2PMBG2KoVA-3D4yFy_mGueFG7Rfpx-2F84EakNz586ljXl-2Fo-2BcP7JPEERWufWacjtdPklVWDLFJZM4HHRK5skEjcsm-2FZ-2BrmqWBCTCx6-2FfqSuJkKTO8bqmn8WGMdhg4d168NbfcQxJYt9bqUZ45qyiHyk6kxWSQyQL4eKswgV4mmmAD01KIh-2BGlmhc-2B1zt5I25o5uxtxntp4vGhUWnyLAoNgpcWcSb-2Fs-2BgmehS-2F7MBdefh3q5Rqk0Glo-2BbfFUYMY-3D First I tried the instructions in Windows 11 Pro environment, but the first procedure of the flash "sas2flsh -o -e 6" ends up in a error around the lines "unable to execute command in this environment", so I tried to prepare a bootable USB flash drive with Rufus, copied sas2flsh.exe from sas2flash_dos_rel directory to the USB stick, with 9207-8.bin. I tried to boot from the stick with all SATA drives disconnected (is this necessary?) from the HBA, but was unable to do so. For some reason I only end up back in the BIOS. Maybe I need to change some settings in BIOS to be enable to boot into freeDOS from a FAT32 stick aside from setting it to first (and only) boot priority? Can someone give me assistance with the process or point to a previous guide how to perform the flash? I would like to update the fw and erase the BIOS for optimized boot up speed, as I won't be needing the RAID functionality. Many thanks.