Areca FAQ System - Q10011805 - When powering on and the ARC-1203-2I RAID-BIOS starts, the firmware accepts absolutely no input from keyboard using Asus Mainboard P10S-V/4L BIOS3103.

Q10011805 - When powering on and the ARC-1203-2I RAID-BIOS starts, the firmware accepts absolutely no input from keyboard using Asus Mainboard P10S-V/4L BIOS3103.

You can make an USB-Boot stick with the good old MS-DOS, downloaded the latest BIOS from Asus and flashed the Mainboard to fix this issue.

Tags: ARC-1203, BIOS, firmware

Last update:: 2022-01-06 07:40
Author:: Simone
Revision:: 1.1

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Q10062009 - Do you have any alternate sector processing in the event of a Reading Error or similar failure?
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