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HELP! ---- EDIT >> SOLVED I tried from a different motherboard and everything went fine with that one. I still find it weird that on the first motherboard flashing did not fail entirely but went up to 70% and failed then. ---- I just bought a brand new M1015 and tried flashing it according to the instructions and I am stuck :-((( 1. Megarec -readsbr 0 backup.sbr >> OK, no errors 2. megarec -writesbr 0 empty.bin >> OK, no errors 3. megarec -cleanflash 0 >> starts erasing, then stops at 70%: Completed: 70% Flash Erase Error Flash Chip Erasing Error Error in downloading image. Error code = 64 Failed to flash the image. Please retry recovery. 4. Power cycle your system (yes, no boot-time bios screen appear, this is normal) >> I did this in spite of the error and at boot I get something that looks promising to me: RAID Adapter Firmware Failed Validation!!! Adapter needs to be reflashed. Press Any Key to Continue 5. sas2flsh -o -f 2108it.bin -b mptsas2.rom Now this doesn't work at all :-(. I initially tried with the P11 version from the LSI site (latest FW) but the FW included in the origional archive gives me the exact same problem. Btw: when using the latest FW, I only need to take the updated FW-file, not also the Bootrom-file, right? ... Advaced Mode Set Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Executing Operation: Flash Firmware Image Firmware Image has a Valid Checksum. Firmware Image compatible with Controller. Valid NVDATA Image found. NVDATA Device ID and Chip Revision match verified. Valid Initialization Image verified. Valid BootLoader Image verified. Chip is in RESET state. Attempting Host Boot... takes about a minute here, then goes on: ERROR: Firmware Host Boot Failed ! Due to errir remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to Process Commands. Exiting SAS2Flash I didn't try to flash back to the original firmware, as this is not the direction I want to take. Also I don't know whether I want to find out just now that I might have bricked a brandnew controller :-( I really hope someone can help me out! I have also added this to an existing thread about my hardware-setup over at hardforums (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1037942388). I postet here too because I am anxious to find out what to do now. EDIT I noticed my card is reported to be a "B2" model - SAS2008(B2) - is this of any meaning? And btw. I used the sas2flsh.exe from the original package which is v9 - I could give v11 a try but not now - it's too late here. And @madbug: thanks anyway for the good howto and your instructions! I believe whatever is going wrong with my card is nothing that could have been foreseen - I haven't found any mentions of the errors I get with Google.