Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR rev1.1 4TB request

[gunnard]

I changed the Intel RAID OROM only so you can use HDs >3TB. I'll leave everything else stock since some users had difficulty with those changes for this motherboard.

Modified GA-EP45-UD3LR rev 1.0 F12e bios with the following changes:

Intel RAID - v11.2.0.1527 Intel RAID with trim. This version is stable and is fast with the raid chipset used on these motherboards. I personally use it myself.

Let us know how this one works out.

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

[gto4ben]

I changed the Intel RAID OROM only so you can use HDs >3TB. I'll leave everything else stock since some users had difficulty with those changes for this motherboard.

Modified GA-EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 F12e bios with the following changes:

Intel RAID - v11.2.0.1527 Intel RAID with trim. This version is stable and is fast with the raid chipset used on these motherboards. I personally use it myself.

Let us know how this one works out.

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

[gunnard]

I changed the Intel RAID OROM only so you can use HDs >3TB. I'll leave everything else stock since some users had difficulty with those changes for this motherboard.

Modified GA-EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 F12e bios with the following changes:

Intel RAID - v11.2.0.1527 Intel RAID with trim. This version is stable and is fast with the raid chipset used on these motherboards. I personally use it myself.

Let us know how this one works out.

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

 Great! i gonna test it now! I tried to install Win10 and had this problem: CMPXCHG16b / CompareExchange128. So it will be the Xeon X5460 that I'm using in this mobo. Is there any solution to this? Maybe something about the microcodes?

[gto4ben]

I changed the Intel RAID OROM only so you can use HDs >3TB. I'll leave everything else stock since some users had difficulty with those changes for this motherboard.

Modified GA-EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 F12e bios with the following changes:

Intel RAID - v11.2.0.1527 Intel RAID with trim. This version is stable and is fast with the raid chipset used on these motherboards. I personally use it myself.

Let us know how this one works out.

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

 Great! i gonna test it now! I tried to install Win10 and had this problem: CMPXCHG16b / CompareExchange128. So it will be the Xeon X5460 that I'm using in this mobo. Is there any solution to this? Maybe something about the microcodes?

I downloaded and executed in a CMD line "coreinfo.exe" and it shows my Xeon X5492 supports CX16 which is for the CMPXCHG16B instruction. This explains why I did not see a problem. It also correctly identified the CPU as a X5492. Execute "coreinfo" on your machine and see if it correctly shows a X5460. If it shows another CPU, then a microcode update in the bios is needed. I tried a microcode update for your motherboard once but another user had problems. If you can solve your 3TB problem first, let me know and I'll update the microcodes for you to try. Just be prepared to perform a recovery from your motherboards backup bios just in case.

[gunnard]

I changed the Intel RAID OROM only so you can use HDs >3TB. I'll leave everything else stock since some users had difficulty with those changes for this motherboard.

Modified GA-EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 F12e bios with the following changes:

Intel RAID - v11.2.0.1527 Intel RAID with trim. This version is stable and is fast with the raid chipset used on these motherboards. I personally use it myself.

Let us know how this one works out.

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

 Great! i gonna test it now! I tried to install Win10 and had this problem: CMPXCHG16b / CompareExchange128. So it will be the Xeon X5460 that I'm using in this mobo. Is there any solution to this? Maybe something about the microcodes?

I downloaded and executed in a CMD line "coreinfo.exe" and it shows my Xeon X5492 supports CX16 which is for the CMPXCHG16B instruction. This explains why I did not see a problem. It also correctly identified the CPU as a X5492. Execute "coreinfo" on your machine and see if it correctly shows a X5460. If it shows another CPU, then a microcode update in the bios is needed. I tried a microcode update for your motherboard once but another user had problems. If you can solve your 3TB problem first, let me know and I'll update the microcodes for you to try. Just be prepared to perform a recovery from your motherboards backup bios just in case.

Thank you! I have this information from coreinfo:

C:\Windows\system32>c:\coreinfo.exe

Coreinfo v3.31 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright © 2008-2014 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Intel® Xeon® CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 00000A0B
HTT             *       Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR      -       Hypervisor is present
VMX             -       Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM             -       Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
X64             *       Supports 64-bit mode

SMX             -       Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT          -       Supports AMD SKINIT

NX              *       Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB         -       Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE             *       Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT             *       Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE             *       Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36           *       Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE             *       Supports global bit in page tables
SS              *       Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME             *       Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE    -       Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU             *       Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX             *       Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT          -       Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW           -       Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT        -       Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE             *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3           *       Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4a           -       Supports Streaming SIMDR Extensions 4a
SSE4.1          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES             -       Supports AES extensions
AVX             -       Supports AVX intruction extensions
FMA             -       Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR             *       Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR            *       Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE           -       Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE         -       Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND          -       Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED          -       Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV            *       Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH           *       Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8             *       Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16            -       Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 2
ADX             -       Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA             -       Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C            -       Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR            *       Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR           -       Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR         -       Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE           -       Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB           -       Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLMULDQ        -       Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT          -       Supports POPCNT instruction
LZCNT           -       Supports LZCNT instruction
SEP             *       Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF       *       Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE             -       Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM             -       Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE              *       Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64          -       Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS              *       Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL          -       Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID            -       Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID         -       Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM            -       Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP          -       Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC             *       Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE    -       Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT   -       TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR            -       Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST            -       Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI            *       Implements MSR for power management
TM              *       Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2             *       Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC            *       Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC          -       Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID         -       L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE             *       Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA             *       Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE             *       Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN             -       Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW       *       Supports PREFETCHW instruction

Maximum implemented CPUID leaves: 0000000D (Basic), 80000008 (Extended).

Logical to Physical Processor Map:
*---  Physical Processor 0
-*--  Physical Processor 1
--*-  Physical Processor 2
---*  Physical Processor 3

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
****  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
****  NUMA Node 0

No NUMA nodes.

Logical Processor to Cache Map:
*---  Data Cache          0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
*---  Instruction Cache   0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Data Cache          1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Instruction Cache   1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**--  Unified Cache       0, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64
--*-  Data Cache          2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--*-  Instruction Cache   2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Data Cache          3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Instruction Cache   3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**  Unified Cache       1, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64

Logical Processor to Group Map:
****  Group 0

[gunnard]

Genius!! Thank you so much! I´m gonna test it and tell you about the stability. Notice that my mobo is EP45T and support DDR3 memories, is it the same?

Do you know what kind of changes we need to be able to run windows 10 in this motherboard? I've read that the UEFI BIOS is the essential

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

 Great! i gonna test it now! I tried to install Win10 and had this problem: CMPXCHG16b / CompareExchange128. So it will be the Xeon X5460 that I'm using in this mobo. Is there any solution to this? Maybe something about the microcodes?

I downloaded and executed in a CMD line "coreinfo.exe" and it shows my Xeon X5492 supports CX16 which is for the CMPXCHG16B instruction. This explains why I did not see a problem. It also correctly identified the CPU as a X5492. Execute "coreinfo" on your machine and see if it correctly shows a X5460. If it shows another CPU, then a microcode update in the bios is needed. I tried a microcode update for your motherboard once but another user had problems. If you can solve your 3TB problem first, let me know and I'll update the microcodes for you to try. Just be prepared to perform a recovery from your motherboards backup bios just in case.

Thank you! I have this information from coreinfo:

C:\Windows\system32>c:\coreinfo.exe

Coreinfo v3.31 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright © 2008-2014 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Intel® Xeon® CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 00000A0B
HTT             *       Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR      -       Hypervisor is present
VMX             -       Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM             -       Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
X64             *       Supports 64-bit mode

SMX             -       Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT          -       Supports AMD SKINIT

NX              *       Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB         -       Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE             *       Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT             *       Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE             *       Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36           *       Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE             *       Supports global bit in page tables
SS              *       Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME             *       Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE    -       Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU             *       Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX             *       Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT          -       Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW           -       Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT        -       Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE             *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3           *       Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4a           -       Supports Streaming SIMDR Extensions 4a
SSE4.1          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES             -       Supports AES extensions
AVX             -       Supports AVX intruction extensions
FMA             -       Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR             *       Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR            *       Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE           -       Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE         -       Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND          -       Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED          -       Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV            *       Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH           *       Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8             *       Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16            -       Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 2
ADX             -       Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA             -       Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C            -       Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR            *       Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR           -       Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR         -       Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE           -       Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB           -       Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLMULDQ        -       Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT          -       Supports POPCNT instruction
LZCNT           -       Supports LZCNT instruction
SEP             *       Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF       *       Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE             -       Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM             -       Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE              *       Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64          -       Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS              *       Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL          -       Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID            -       Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID         -       Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM            -       Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP          -       Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC             *       Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE    -       Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT   -       TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR            -       Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST            -       Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI            *       Implements MSR for power management
TM              *       Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2             *       Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC            *       Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC          -       Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID         -       L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE             *       Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA             *       Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE             *       Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN             -       Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW       *       Supports PREFETCHW instruction

Maximum implemented CPUID leaves: 0000000D (Basic), 80000008 (Extended).

Logical to Physical Processor Map:
*---  Physical Processor 0
-*--  Physical Processor 1
--*-  Physical Processor 2
---*  Physical Processor 3

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
****  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
****  NUMA Node 0

No NUMA nodes.

Logical Processor to Cache Map:
*---  Data Cache          0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
*---  Instruction Cache   0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Data Cache          1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Instruction Cache   1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**--  Unified Cache       0, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64
--*-  Data Cache          2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--*-  Instruction Cache   2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Data Cache          3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Instruction Cache   3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**  Unified Cache       1, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64

Logical Processor to Group Map:
****  Group 0

Respect to the 3 Tb HDD, I would like to know what option should I choose in the bios: ahci, ide or raid ? I tried RAID and does not recognize any disk.

What can I need to do the bios backup?

[gto4ben]

The file in the attachment is correct for the ga-ep45t-ud3lr which is your motherboard. Thanks for catching the typo. Windows 10 will run fine on your motherboard without an UEFI bios. If in doubt, try the Win10 upgrade evaluation that checks if it can run Win10.

 Great! i gonna test it now! I tried to install Win10 and had this problem: CMPXCHG16b / CompareExchange128. So it will be the Xeon X5460 that I'm using in this mobo. Is there any solution to this? Maybe something about the microcodes?

I downloaded and executed in a CMD line "coreinfo.exe" and it shows my Xeon X5492 supports CX16 which is for the CMPXCHG16B instruction. This explains why I did not see a problem. It also correctly identified the CPU as a X5492. Execute "coreinfo" on your machine and see if it correctly shows a X5460. If it shows another CPU, then a microcode update in the bios is needed. I tried a microcode update for your motherboard once but another user had problems. If you can solve your 3TB problem first, let me know and I'll update the microcodes for you to try. Just be prepared to perform a recovery from your motherboards backup bios just in case.

Thank you! I have this information from coreinfo:

C:\Windows\system32>c:\coreinfo.exe

Coreinfo v3.31 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology
Copyright © 2008-2014 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Intel® Xeon® CPU           X5460  @ 3.16GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
Microcode signature: 00000A0B
HTT             *       Hyperthreading enabled
HYPERVISOR      -       Hypervisor is present
VMX             -       Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization
SVM             -       Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization
X64             *       Supports 64-bit mode

SMX             -       Supports Intel trusted execution
SKINIT          -       Supports AMD SKINIT

NX              *       Supports no-execute page protection
SMEP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention
SMAP            -       Supports Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
PAGE1GB         -       Supports 1 GB large pages
PAE             *       Supports > 32-bit physical addresses
PAT             *       Supports Page Attribute Table
PSE             *       Supports 4 MB pages
PSE36           *       Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages
PGE             *       Supports global bit in page tables
SS              *       Supports bus snooping for cache operations
VME             *       Supports Virtual-8086 mode
RDWRFSGSBASE    -       Supports direct GS/FS base access

FPU             *       Implements i387 floating point instructions
MMX             *       Supports MMX instruction set
MMXEXT          -       Implements AMD MMX extensions
3DNOW           -       Supports 3DNow! instructions
3DNOWEXT        -       Supports 3DNow! extension instructions
SSE             *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3            *       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3           *       Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4a           -       Supports Streaming SIMDR Extensions 4a
SSE4.1          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
SSE4.2          -       Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2

AES             -       Supports AES extensions
AVX             -       Supports AVX intruction extensions
FMA             -       Supports FMA extensions using YMM state
MSR             *       Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions
MTRR            *       Supports Memory Type Range Registers
XSAVE           -       Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions
OSXSAVE         -       Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions
RDRAND          -       Supports RDRAND instruction
RDSEED          -       Supports RDSEED instruction

CMOV            *       Supports CMOVcc instruction
CLFSH           *       Supports CLFLUSH instruction
CX8             *       Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions
CX16            -       Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction
BMI1            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 1
BMI2            -       Supports bit manipulation extensions 2
ADX             -       Supports ADCX/ADOX instructions
DCA             -       Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device
F16C            -       Supports half-precision instruction
FXSR            *       Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions
FFXSR           -       Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction
MONITOR         -       Supports MONITOR and MWAIT instructions
MOVBE           -       Supports MOVBE instruction
ERMSB           -       Supports Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
PCLMULDQ        -       Supports PCLMULDQ instruction
POPCNT          -       Supports POPCNT instruction
LZCNT           -       Supports LZCNT instruction
SEP             *       Supports fast system call instructions
LAHF-SAHF       *       Supports LAHF/SAHF instructions in 64-bit mode
HLE             -       Supports Hardware Lock Elision instructions
RTM             -       Supports Restricted Transactional Memory instructions

DE              *       Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE
DTES64          -       Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses
DS              *       Implements memory-resident debug buffer
DS-CPL          -       Supports Debug Store feature with CPL
PCID            -       Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE
INVPCID         -       Supports INVPCID instruction
PDCM            -       Supports Performance Capabilities MSR
RDTSCP          -       Supports RDTSCP instruction
TSC             *       Supports RDTSC instruction
TSC-DEADLINE    -       Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer
TSC-INVARIANT   -       TSC runs at constant rate
xTPR            -       Supports disabling task priority messages

EIST            -       Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep
ACPI            *       Implements MSR for power management
TM              *       Implements thermal monitor circuitry
TM2             *       Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control
APIC            *       Implements software-accessible local APIC
x2APIC          -       Supports x2APIC

CNXT-ID         -       L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS

MCE             *       Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE
MCA             *       Implements Machine Check Architecture
PBE             *       Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin

PSN             -       Implements 96-bit processor serial number

PREFETCHW       *       Supports PREFETCHW instruction

Maximum implemented CPUID leaves: 0000000D (Basic), 80000008 (Extended).

Logical to Physical Processor Map:
*---  Physical Processor 0
-*--  Physical Processor 1
--*-  Physical Processor 2
---*  Physical Processor 3

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
****  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
****  NUMA Node 0

No NUMA nodes.

Logical Processor to Cache Map:
*---  Data Cache          0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
*---  Instruction Cache   0, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Data Cache          1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
-*--  Instruction Cache   1, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
**--  Unified Cache       0, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64
--*-  Data Cache          2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--*-  Instruction Cache   2, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Data Cache          3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
---*  Instruction Cache   3, Level 1,   32 KB, Assoc   8, LineSize  64
--**  Unified Cache       1, Level 2,    6 MB, Assoc  24, LineSize  64

Logical Processor to Group Map:
****  Group 0

Respect to the 3 Tb HDD, I would like to know what option should I choose in the bios: ahci, ide or raid ? I tried RAID and does not recognize any disk.

What can I need to do the bios backup?

[gto4ben]

Coreinfo is reporting that the X5460 does not support
CX16 " -" Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction.
It would have a "*" if the bios supports. According to CPU-WORLD.com, your processor supports CMP16XCHG16B instructions. Looks like you need the Xeon microcodes inserted into the bios. I'll get to it in a few days. It's been a while since I did this so it you find a bios version on the web with the latest microcodes, attach it to this post to make things move quicker.

Turn ON the Intel RAID in the bios and make sure the HD is connected to the Intel SATA ports and not the GSATA ports. It should recognize your HD correctly with the updated bios. Let's get this working before fixing the microcodes.

I never had to use the backup bios but as I understand the manual, it reverts automatically after an unsuccessful POST attempt. From a Gigabyte manual.

"What is DualBIOS™?
Motherboards that support DualBIOS have two BIOS onboard, a main BIOS and a backup BIOS. Normally, the system works on the main BIOS. However, if the main BIOS is corrupted or damaged, the backup BIOS will take over on the next system boot and copy the BIOS file to the main BIOS to ensure normal system operation. For the sake of system safety, users cannot update the backup BIOS manually"

Looking at the Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 manual, your MB has dual bios so it's safe if the bios upgrade does not go well.

[gunnard]

Coreinfo is reporting that the X5460 does not support
CX16           " -"       Supports CMPXCHG16B instruction.
It would have a "*" if the bios supports. According to CPU-WORLD.com, your processor supports CMP16XCHG16B instructions. Looks like you need the Xeon microcodes inserted into the bios. I'll get to it in a few days. It's been a while since I did this so it you find a bios version on the web with the latest microcodes, attach it to this post to make things move quicker.

Turn ON the Intel RAID in the bios and make sure the HD is connected to the Intel SATA ports and not the GSATA ports.  It should recognize your HD correctly with the updated bios. Let's get this working before fixing the microcodes.

I never had to use the backup bios but as I understand the manual, it reverts automatically after an unsuccessful POST attempt. From a Gigabyte manual.

"What is DualBIOS™?
Motherboards that support DualBIOS have two BIOS onboard, a main BIOS and a backup BIOS. Normally, the system works on the main BIOS. However, if the main BIOS is corrupted or damaged, the backup BIOS will take over on the next system boot and copy the BIOS file to the main BIOS to ensure normal system operation. For the sake of system safety, users cannot update the backup BIOS manually"

Looking at the Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR rev 1.0 manual, your MB has dual bios so it's safe if the bios upgrade does not go well.

all right! with the bios I am calm now because I ruined a Xeon E5440 and MSI P45 Diamond mobo  trying to insert the microcode a few months ago, I can't fix it.

I already flashed the bios that you sent and I write to you from that mobo (does not have GSATA).

OK, next step: I'm going to remove all hard drives and try the 3TB only because the system did not detect any HDD in RAID mode, just AHCI or IDE. Should it run the other disks in RAID mode? They are now at AHCI.

[gto4ben]

Very strange. A HD will be automatically detected on the Intel SATA ports if you are in raid mode. Can you see your HD after hitting CTRL - I during boot upon seeing the Intel RAID screen? If you are looking for your HDs within windows, you'll need to install the Intel RST Driver 11.2.0.1006.