Samsung 840 Evo problem

[UKflames]

In a nutshell I have an AsRock FM2A75 Pro 4 motherboard running the AMD chipset drivers, which do not work with Samsung Magician and I cannot update the firmware on my 840 Evo SSD (Silly boy for buying these together in the first place but that's for another day). I tried doing it with a USB key but that didn't seem to work either.

After much digging around it appears that if I change the AHCI drivers to either the Intel ones or the Microsoft ones the firmware update will work.

1) Has anyone else had this problem and solved it this way?
2) Stupid question but how would I go about changing the AHCI drivers?
3) Any other suggestions on how to fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bledd]

Use the ISO link.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/samsungssd/downloads.html

Use IMGBurn to burn the ISO file to disc.


-could use Rufus to 'burn' it to a USB stick instead.


Then boot from CD or USB.

 

[UKflames]

Hi Bledd, thanks for the suggestions above.

I did what you said and downloaded the ISO image and burned it to a USB stick using Rufus, however when I tried to boot from it I got an exception error and it didn't work?? It just froze waiting for a new command, should i have typed anything. I entered a Y, in case it was waiting for a yes or something (how can you tell I don't know what i am doing lol) but it said it was a bad command.

Would a screen shot help??

 

[bledd]

do it via cd instead, that's what you're meant to do with it

 

[wazza300]

you can change the ahci drivers by installing latest intel rapid storage drivers off asus website

no issues here updating fw through Samsung magician tool

 

[Puppetmaster]

you can change the ahci drivers by installing latest intel rapid storage drivers off asus website

no issues here updating fw through Samsung magician tool

He is using an AMD board though. Intel drivers will not work