OCZ Agility2 40GB, help me update FW

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So I bought a slightly used Agility2 40GB and now I'm trying to flash the firmware from 1.11 to 1.32.

1. I have followed the guide for flashing with Toolbox 2.35 under Win7. Clean install of Win7 x64 home premium to a conventional hdd. Update procedure in Toolbox looks 100% exactly like in OCZ' guide but when I recheck FW it's still 1.11. Tried with safe mode+network, reboots, etc. to no avail.

2. Followed the guide for linuxflashing w/ usb using pmagic-5.10, Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.3.9 and fwupd_v113, again I'm very sure I followed OCZ' guide 100%. Error message given is that "drive is locked or frozen". Tried rebooting, changing sata controller from IDE to ACHI and back again, still to no avail and finaly I ritually slaughtered two chickens while standing on one leg singing the Swedish National Anthem in reverse but that didn't seem to work either.

The last thing OCZ mentions in the guide is that if there's still problems my BIOS isn't right/compatible and that I could try unplugging the drive's power while the system is running (!!?). I'm a little hesitant to do this..

Has anyone out there had this problem and knows a workaround? Or is it OCZ' decision that these drives should not be updated?

Specs of my rig (everything at stock settings, latest MB bios);
Q6600
Asus P5K
2x2GB Corsair XMS2, 2x1GB Corsair XMS2
XFX HD4870 1GB
OCZ Agility2 40GB
Samsung F4 2TB
Samsung SATA DVDRW
Corsair HX520

Peace, out.
 
Does the toolbox allow you to upgrade firmware when the drive is the OS drive and running?

I know on the Vertex2 I can't upgrade firmware w/ the drive set as my OS drive.
 
DisrupTer911 said:
Does the toolbox allow you to upgrade firmware when the drive is the OS drive and running?

I know on the Vertex2 I can't upgrade firmware w/ the drive set as my OS drive.
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According to the OCZ guide thats not possible, according to the Toolbox 2.35 changelog it is now possible. I'm not running anything from the SSD; it's completely blank, Win7 is loaded from the Samsung HDD. Toolbox goes through the update procedure without any visible errors but the FW is still not being updated.. :(
 
Boxarez said:
I had no problem updating the firmware with the drive as my OS drive.
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I've tried that too, flash is done without any visible errors, I see the "Download firmware complete" in the lower left corner but FW is still shown as 1.11 and not 1.32.

The only time I get an error message is when I use method #2 above, fwupd_v113 states that the drive is locked or frozen, this error is not visible with method #1. If that is the problem also for method #1, i.e. the drive is "locked or frozen", whatever that means in this context, I find it extremely strange that OCZ has not made Toolbox display this error code if this error is in fact what stops the fw-flash.

It is of course possible that my rig is causing this error, I find this strange if that would be the case since the P5k, Q6600 etc. are in such widespread use. I have no reason at all to believe that any component in the rig is faulty (baring the SSD..).

</bitch mode>

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