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Just registerd to this website so I can say Thanks for all teh discussion. I was lurking and trying a bunch of ways to flash my LSI 9211-8i. I had many issues flashing the 9211-8i card. Used a bunch of websites. Final solution was to move to a PCI 2.0 slot and the sas2flash utility started working. For Flashing the LSI 9211-8i from IT to IR firmware. Tried a Rufus built FreeDos with the SAS2flash apps (3 of them). - No go. Tried a MSDOS boot disk - No adapters present Tried the Ultimate Boot CD - UEFI Loader - No Adapters present Moved card to another PC, tried in Windows - Error about not being able to erase memory, even as Admin. Back to fist PC, created another UEFI disk - Received error - ERROR: Failed to initialize PAL. Exiting program Happened to read on TweakTown link below Had this weird feeling to change the card to another port. I was originally in the PCIe 3.0 x16 port, changed to a PCIe 2.0 x8 port and voila! The card showed up at POST, loaded up the shell and ran the sas2flash.efi and was able to flash the card from IR to IT mode. Usefull Links http://blog.monsted.dk/?q=node/5 http://www.rootedconsulting.com/2013/05/20/lsi-it-and-ir-firmware-update/ http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/52097-z77-extreme4-how-boot-efi-shell.html