silicon image 3512 SATA card & BSOD

silicon image 3512 SATA card & BSOD

I updated the BIOS on my SiI3512 SATA card this morning because of some boot issues with Windows not detecting the card. Now my WinXP BSODs every time I boot, no matter if I choose safe mode or normal startup. The BSOD happens so fast that I can't see the specific driver.sys file thats causing the problem. But, I'm almost positive it will be the 3512. If I use the WinXP cd-rom and try to use the recovery console doesn't detect the drive. I can get into the card's BIOS and all looks ok. So here are my 2 questions.

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Silicon Image bios files come in 2 flavors, a "Raid" version and a "Base" version. I had inadvertantly flashed the RAID version. This is what was causing the BSOD. I downloaded FreeDOS and added the SII3512 to the CD image and burned the CD. I then followed the instructions in the bios update documentation to reflash the controller with the "BASE" version of the bios. And now I'm typing this answer on the machine that was BSOD earlier.