AW17 R2, old raid? Need new BIOS.

Yeah keep up the good work man , at least someone is trying to actually make a fix. Makes me wonder if they actually have people working on it or do they use free labor from universities and

Sadly, new BIOS A03 is back to Aptio 5.. I won't be upgrading as I can't modify this BIOS without breaking Secure Boot.. And they didn't add anything I submitted.. In fact, over a month and I've heard nothing. If nothing in A04, I will release my modified A02 with RAID and OC options. I have been stable for a month and no issues reported, and SB works fine using a MSDM table I added to the BIOS for my OEM key of Windows 8.1 (Not from Dell, they gave me 7). So, I have RAID, OC, SLIC2.1 for Windows 7 activation, and MSDM Table for Windows 8.1 activation using purchased keys/TechNet keys. BIOS works great.

I'm not sure why Dell isn't listening.. I've worked with a lot of manufactures with bios's including Asus and they at least get back to me if I need a bigger oprom option or other stuff.. In fact Asus for a P5W-DH years ago gave me the BIOS code to do what I pleased.. Its obvious others are asking for this option for whatever needs, and the system/platform supports it. Not sure why we're not getting any fixes including the throttling after sleep issue some have with their AW15 and AW17R2's, or the broken fan profiles in A02 from A00... (A lot complaining the system runs hot in A02)

Also, the Haswell/Broadwell CPU microcode was updated by Intel from 1C to 1D, this BIOS is still on 1C so I'm not sure why they don't keep the actual BIOS stuff up to date either.. Microcode are patches for bugs found in CPU's they can't just fix so they patch..

Their ignorant always have been. it would be nice to hear an answer either way. Definitely would like a copy of what you have done once you release it as im not too concerned about warranty. 

Sounds like everything they do is *** backwards, no recovery options are ridiculous, like you said makes a long wait for the consumer for no reason, and more expensive. Its is a shame they have taken so much functionality out of the machines over the last few generations and basically ignoring every question on any site about it. Why offer 5x drive config if they do not even offer raid to atleast to join them as 1 drive. 

 I have no faith in the fact weather or not they will introduce raid again, but will be anxiously waiting your release when available, to hell with their ignorance 

Yeah, I've noticed.. I've had no issues with CS or technical support.. That's why I still deal with them, but when it comes to the actual hardware support, it seems the engineers don't care about adding functionality..

Once we find the proper BIOS recovery for these machines since its not AMI default, it will be released by myself.. But until we have the proper BIOS recovery steps, I won't release it as I have hardware flashers to fix this, Dell only offers motherboard replacements.. (Not sure why.. A USB Stick with the BIOS recovery would be a lot cheaper on Dell, and less downtime for the consumer..)

I know i don't understand it at all either and any attempt at trying to get an answer, all the responses a guy seems to get from various sites might as well be from Dell PR trolls, trying to feed me the other end of the stick deluding the question i have asked and point i'm trying to make.

1 Why after all this time did you "Dell" take out RAID?
2 Will it be implemented in the future? 

Not very hard questions to answer!

Hello dell reps did the engineers decide whether or not they will opt RAID -0? its been 3 months ????

All i hear is crickets ?

seems nothing till now.  i just updated to A03 to check if they enable the raid.. but i ended in this post and still nothing... AW seems going back for forward.

lordzog by any chance are you going to be releasing your bios?

Any updates on this? It's June 29 and I may be late to the game (received 17 inch today) but of course quickly found out my hands are tied on RAID.

So no RAID for this model? .... I can still return machine for full refund..

LordZog - Awesome work you've done on this!  Hope the Dell engineers are working on it.  I just ordered an AW 17R2 yesterday and stumbled across this forum.  Anything from them yet?  How about BIOS A05 released last month?  Please give us an update on what you know.  Thanks!!!

Atomicbear

Seems they have got nowhere after 9 months. Would you mind release your unlocked bios somewhere Lord Zog? Really appreciate it !!!

Are you releasing your unlocked bios by any chance? It's been 9 months since we brought this up and I feel that can't rely on Dell to resolve this for us now.