GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[frcraig]

When I enable Above 4G Decoding + Resize BAR, with CSM disabled, I now can get into windows with Resize BAR Enabled, however I cannot get back into bios via pressing the Delete key on cold boot or reboot, it just passes by the bios option screen and boots into windows. Is that normal? I'd have to re-set the bios and reload my bios profile to get back into the bios without Resize BAR

EDIT: sorry, X570, Xtreme Rev 1.0, F33

Do you have a secondary monitor or perhaps a VR headset attached to your graphics card? I ask because my X570 Aorus Elite WiFi exhibited this identical behavior with 4G Decoding + Resize BAR + CSM Disabled, and it turned out that with these bios options selected my computer was first booting to my Valve Index VR headset as monitor (during bios boot) and then switching to my computer monitor when Windows loaded. I finally figured it out by unplugging my VR headset, booting my computer - and voila, there was the bios flash screen again. This occurs on my mobo even when the bios option to use the gpu in my top pcie x16 slot as my primary on boot is selected. Now every time a bios update is available I have to unplug my VR headset in order to get to the bios screen in order to flash the new bios. I then plug the VR headset back in and everything works fine (except of course it goes straight to Windows without displaying the bios splash screen).

[baldersz]

Why does gigabyte take so long to update their support site? They still has F13g from March as the latest beta BIOS for their b550i, even though statios has posted more recent updates here

[jwsg]

There's not a lot we can do but I think next time I might go back to Intel/Asus.
The B550i with F12 is OK with XMP and rBAR and the 10.050 LAN driver is an improvement, but still needing to only use certain USB ports and a BT dongle with a year old motherboard is pretty poor.

[TweakinOut!]

Do you have a secondary monitor or perhaps a VR headset attached to your graphics card? I ask because my X570 Aorus Elite WiFi exhibited this identical behavior with 4G Decoding + Resize BAR + CSM Disabled, and it turned out that with these bios options selected my computer was first booting to my Valve Index VR headset as monitor (during bios boot) and then switching to my computer monitor when Windows loaded. I finally figured it out by unplugging my VR headset, booting my computer - and voila, there was the bios flash screen again. This occurs on my mobo even when the bios option to use the gpu in my top pcie x16 slot as my primary on boot is selected. Now every time a bios update is available I have to unplug my VR headset in order to get to the bios screen in order to flash the new bios. I then plug the VR headset back in and everything works fine (except of course it goes straight to Windows without displaying the bios splash screen).

Hmm that's interesting.. thanks for the reply! Sounds like a bug

No I do not. I think I initially did the install of the OS with CSM support Enabled close to 2yrs ago.

[plee82]

There's not a lot we can do but I think next time I might go back to Intel/Asus.
The B550i with F12 is OK with XMP and rBAR and the 10.050 LAN driver is an improvement, but still needing to only use certain USB ports and a BT dongle with a year old motherboard is pretty poor.

I agree. Gigabyte certainly is taking their sweet time updating stuff lol.

[FranciscoCL]

Do you have a secondary monitor or perhaps a VR headset attached to your graphics card? I ask because my X570 Aorus Elite WiFi exhibited this identical behavior with 4G Decoding + Resize BAR + CSM Disabled, and it turned out that with these bios options selected my computer was first booting to my Valve Index VR headset as monitor (during bios boot) and then switching to my computer monitor when Windows loaded. I finally figured it out by unplugging my VR headset, booting my computer - and voila, there was the bios flash screen again. This occurs on my mobo even when the bios option to use the gpu in my top pcie x16 slot as my primary on boot is selected. Now every time a bios update is available I have to unplug my VR headset in order to get to the bios screen in order to flash the new bios. I then plug the VR headset back in and everything works fine (except of course it goes straight to Windows without displaying the bios splash screen).

You can "enter" to BIOS on the next boot with the Gibagyte software (App Center + Fast Boot). It does not need to be always running.

[FedeS]

I agree. Gigabyte certainly is taking their sweet time updating stuff lol.

yes of the time .... for now we have reached one year
do you still believe it?


for sure for me it is the last time with gigabyte

[Matchstick]

Why does gigabyte take so long to update their support site? They still has F13g from March as the latest beta BIOS for their b550i, even though statios has posted more recent updates here

Actually that is incorrect, as they had updated to F13i in that time... what happen is they pulled all bios's relating to agesa 1.2.0.2 at the request of AMD (All board makers did the same), and instead move to agesa 1.2.0.3

[TweakinOut!]

You can "enter" to BIOS on the next boot with the Gibagyte software (App Center + Fast Boot). It does not need to be always running.

That sounds more like a work-around to a bug. One should be able to access the bios during boot no matter what.

[mrfatcatt]

Can you please get B550 VISION D-P board thunderbolt working in hackintosh. Ive tried 4 differnt bios and it worked once i think in 11.2 big sur. Its not working as of 11.4 big sur.

tried f11 to f12l no go.

I should know better with amd running thunderbolt but its been cool in windows for audio so far so it would be nice to get it working like the visond d board works fine

thanks, us audio guys need love too :D

[LymeM]

That sounds more like a work-around to a bug. One should be able to access the bios during boot no matter what.

If you have "ultra fast boot" turned on, it is often too fast to get the key press in.
That being said, for windows 10. Go into Windows settings, Update and Security, Recovery, advanced startup, restart now -> Then it has an option to go directly to uefi bios on reboot. No additional software required.

[obogobo]

X570 Aorus Xtreme F34c, was working well, just failed to POST after a reboot... continually looping with these debug codes:

de ad 30 55 90

Flashing backup BIOS back to F33h and primary BIOS to F33...

UPDATE: nevermind, this was likely bad PBO power limit settings on my end.

[jwsg]

Actually that is incorrect, as they had updated to F13i in that time... what happen is they pulled all bios's relating to agesa 1.2.0.2 at the request of AMD (All board makers did the same), and instead move to agesa 1.2.0.3

Nope the posters wording was correct - as of right now F13g is the latest on the GB website and F12 from 7 months ago the latest non-beta. Why F13h and F13i disappeared we dont really know as fact and what the official status of F13k and F13l is we also dont know for sure - but we do know as fact that there is still no release BIOS for B550i that fixes the disappearing BT module and USB issues even after a year.

[raichea]

I bought a B550 Aorus Pro AX-based system three months ago, provided by a custom builder to my spec (I used to build from scratch but I couldn't beat their system price buying the individual components). It came with F13h and suffered from the disappearing BT module and a weird USB problem (the GUI of a specific app used to control a USB-connected audio interface is very laggy and unresponsive). It may also have occasionally dropped a USB connection but I never really confirmed that.

When F13i appeared (albeit briefly) on the Gigabyte site, I attempted to update but it failed due to "OEMid mismatch". My builder said there is a way to load a generic BIOS, but I decided to wait for them to get it from Gigabyte. Last weekend, they sent me F13l which I installed on Saturday. The audio interface app is much better - not perfect, but does not suffer the severe lags I was seeing with F13h. More importantly, the BT module has been rock solid since F13i was installed - it's survived five days so far and never managed more than two days without disappearing with F13h.

[TweakinOut!]

If you have "ultra fast boot" turned on, it is often too fast to get the key press in.
That being said, for windows 10. Go into Windows settings, Update and Security, Recovery, advanced startup, restart now -> Then it has an option to go directly to uefi bios on reboot. No additional software required.

Thanks for the reply, I do not have any boot ultra fast options enabled. I had the logo disabled and the old school screen where when you do press the Delete key it will say it's Entering bios...

And I did try that option through windows 10 and unfortunately it did not work.