GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[Kodo28]

Hello there. B550 Gaming X V2 (rev. 1.x) new beta maybe?

Check on official bios link it is there.

[mgfirewater]

Wrote to Gigabyte's support asking for Max CPU Boost Override and the ability to change VDDG voltage. They gave me F15a beta BIOS!
I personally haven't tried this BIOS yet. And remember, it's a beta BIOS, so as usual be careful.

do you have try this uefi?

performace is better, but the first boot of the day makes yesterday and today some trouble.
yesterday i get an uefi info. ftpm detect an new cpu and blocked the boot (cpu is the same). i didn't use bitlocker so i said yes and the windows try to boot. the load cycle freeze. after reboot everthing is fine. my uefi setting (ram oc and some little chnages wasn't reset.

today win10 will also not boot. after reset. win starts the auto reparation and said the system wasn't correct start.
i inform the esupport.
i believe thats is something with the tpm modul. tpm is active.

[Petz]

F36b is up for x570 Master. Am I a few days behind the times? Says posted on the 16th of feb

download: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileLi...0e2436eed10290

Board page: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...-10/support#dl

2022/02/16

1. Checksum : 08AE
2. Update AMD AGESA V2 1.2.0.6 B
3. Reappear the option of Max CPU Boost Clock Override for Vermeer

[WoodyUK]

Hi,
Are there any links for a Gigabyte Z590I AORUS ULTRA ITX beta bios? I can't find any.
Thanks.

[stasio]

Hi,
Are there any links for a Gigabyte Z590I AORUS ULTRA ITX beta bios? I can't find any.
Thanks.

Strange.....I can see F8a.....

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...upport-dl-bios

[WoodyUK]

@stasio

Sorry, my mistake. I was under the impression this forum could provide access to something other than what is accessible by all via the Gigabyte website BIOS release list.

The warning in the OP had me believe; the beta BIOSes shared on this thread are for testing and people not familiar with beta BIOS should only flash the recommended release BIOSes that are posted on the GIGABYTE website.

I have just come from an ASRock board where a beta bios is clearly marked in a beta section on the official website. Under the impression, release BIOSes are posted on the GIGABYTE website. I sought to find a newer beta bios on this thread.

With no love for the Z590I on the OP list, I thought I would ask.

Thanks.

[Aromat]

Guys

I've been using AORUS B550 Elite V1 for a year and a half, but I still haven't figured out what to turn on and what to turn off? For example, Windows has its own HPET, and the BIOS has its own. Should I disable it in the BIOS if I disabled it in Windows? So.. Next. I see such a function as CSM. It is enabled in every new version of the BIOS, is it worth turning it off? I'm sorry for my English, but I'm not English. The essence passed, probably :D

[jwsg]

Guys

I've been using AORUS B550 Elite V1 for a year and a half, but I still haven't figured out what to turn on and what to turn off? For example, Windows has its own HPET, and the BIOS has its own. Should I disable it in the BIOS if I disabled it in Windows? So.. Next. I see such a function as CSM. It is enabled in every new version of the BIOS, is it worth turning it off? I'm sorry for my English, but I'm not English. The essence passed, probably :D

CSM off enables UEFI boot as required by the W11 checker
- but you need the boot drive to be GPT (possible to convert MBR to GPT)
- and a UEFI compliant GPU

I enable XMP - but test your RAM before using Windows
I disable CSM
I enable manual fan profiles but also use SIV in Windows
I disable startup logo
I enable above 4G and RBAR
I enable virtualisation - but not VBS in Windows
[fTPM is now on by default]
I enable secure boot - with great care (after toggle standard to custom, custom to standard accepting factory defaults)
I enable fast boot
I enable ECO mode

[lap0573]

Hey guys, so I'm in a bit of a pickle :/

Basically I've got an ITX rig with an Aorus X570 I Pro Wifi, Ryzen 5950x and a RTX 3090 (all watercooled). Did that rig about a year ago, worked fine for the past year but I wanted to format everything (to clean things up) & I had an issue with Docker that appeared a week ago and that I didn't manage to fix. So I decided to do everything at once : take advantage of that to upgrade to Windows 11, format everything to clean & maybe start from scratch for Docker.

For that I needed to update my BIOS (to have TPM 2.0 for win11), so I updated from F33e to F35 (I didn't do any bios backup because I'm a dumb ****). This seemingly resetted all my bios settings (including the setting telling my pcie slot to be in gen 3 (not 4 because my riser does not support 4 in my Antec Striker case). So I spent some time troubleshooting that (which caused my screen to have wrong resolution, drivers not to install, some weird **** ike this. But that's "normal", had the same issue when I first built my rig and I finally remembered the setting to fix in the bios).

However, now I'm in this position : I installed win11, formatted everything, but my computer crashes/reboots every 2min or so :/ It'll boot up, with good resolution, I start using it a bit and boom, black screen, fans going high (sign that it's rebooting), then sometimes It'll just stay black (and I need to force reboot), sometimes It'll reboot for real, freeze for a good minute on boot image, then I get ****ty res (as if my pcie ports were back in gen 4 instead of 3). I also get small freezes every so and then.
Some rare times I also get a BSOD with VIDEO SCHEDULER INTERNAL ERROR. This has happened before I installed win11 too (these instabilities started as soon as I updated the bios), but I only remembered about the gen3/gen4 pcie stuff after installing win11 (so it's not related to win11).

I also tried installing lots of other versions of the bios (F34, F33, reinstalling my exact F33e), no luck.

Any clue what ccould have gone wrong ? It almost feels like an overclock going wrong (small freezes, random crashing) but since the bios has gotten reset, I guess my previous OC settings have also resetted right? (I had the CPU slightly OCed before all this stuff)

Sorry for the wall of text, I'm at a loss :(

[Waltc]

AMD's Newest BIOS Code Reportedly Wreaks Havoc on Performance, Stability

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ag...bugs-amd-ryzen

It doesn't come close to doing that...;) Perfectly stable for me...;) Tom's is often biased towards AMD, pro Intel. Sensational. Clickbait.

[mgfirewater]

the first report comes from german techside deskmodder.de. after that the biggest german tech side computerbase.de (CB) reports about the user feedback in their forum and on reddit. after this tom's hardware wrote about agesa 1.2.0.5.

CB has a huge "pro AMD" community so it isn't clickbait. everthing ask, why amd remove features and performance of a product which is over one 1 on market. that's nvidia style to promote better performance of new cards, but you don't know that from AMD ;)

[lotharmatheos]

do you have try this uefi?

performace is better, but the first boot of the day makes yesterday and today some trouble.
yesterday i get an uefi info. ftpm detect an new cpu and blocked the boot (cpu is the same). i didn't use bitlocker so i said yes and the windows try to boot. the load cycle freeze. after reboot everthing is fine. my uefi setting (ram oc and some little chnages wasn't reset.

today win10 will also not boot. after reset. win starts the auto reparation and said the system wasn't correct start.
i inform the esupport.
i believe thats is something with the tpm modul. tpm is active.

Officialy posted F15a has different checksum than F15a from Gigabyte support email to Boing.
AGESA 1.2.0.6b, still with VDDG bug :-(

[obogobo]

what is this VDDG bug folks keep referring to? have I been gaslit while trying to tune my IF voltages?? if so, might lose my mind

[jwsg]

Hey guys, so I'm in a bit of a pickle :/

Basically I've got an ITX rig with an Aorus X570 I Pro Wifi, Ryzen 5950x and a RTX 3090 (all watercooled). Did that rig about a year ago, worked fine for the past year but I wanted to format everything (to clean things up) & I had an issue with Docker that appeared a week ago and that I didn't manage to fix. So I decided to do everything at once : take advantage of that to upgrade to Windows 11, format everything to clean & maybe start from scratch for Docker.

For that I needed to update my BIOS (to have TPM 2.0 for win11), so I updated from F33e to F35 (I didn't do any bios backup because I'm a dumb ****). This seemingly resetted all my bios settings (including the setting telling my pcie slot to be in gen 3 (not 4 because my riser does not support 4 in my Antec Striker case). So I spent some time troubleshooting that (which caused my screen to have wrong resolution, drivers not to install, some weird **** ike this. But that's "normal", had the same issue when I first built my rig and I finally remembered the setting to fix in the bios).

However, now I'm in this position : I installed win11, formatted everything, but my computer crashes/reboots every 2min or so :/ It'll boot up, with good resolution, I start using it a bit and boom, black screen, fans going high (sign that it's rebooting), then sometimes It'll just stay black (and I need to force reboot), sometimes It'll reboot for real, freeze for a good minute on boot image, then I get ****ty res (as if my pcie ports were back in gen 4 instead of 3). I also get small freezes every so and then.
Some rare times I also get a BSOD with VIDEO SCHEDULER INTERNAL ERROR. This has happened before I installed win11 too (these instabilities started as soon as I updated the bios), but I only remembered about the gen3/gen4 pcie stuff after installing win11 (so it's not related to win11).

I also tried installing lots of other versions of the bios (F34, F33, reinstalling my exact F33e), no luck.

Any clue what ccould have gone wrong ? It almost feels like an overclock going wrong (small freezes, random crashing) but since the bios has gotten reset, I guess my previous OC settings have also resetted right? (I had the CPU slightly OCed before all this stuff)

Sorry for the wall of text, I'm at a loss :(

fTPM is needed by the W11 checker but there's no need to update BIOS to enable it - its a CPU feature always available but GB have just enabled it by default on the recent BIOS

I have seen threads about stutter with fTPM enabled - I havent seen it and dont undertand the connection because it shouldn't have any performance impact but thats what some people are saying theyre getting

Its natural to blame new BIOS for many issues but often its just that settings are different - and sometimes the process of updating has an effect - I think some device firmware was updated when I updated to F15 on my B550i

[lotharmatheos]

what is this VDDG bug folks keep referring to? have I been gaslit while trying to tune my IF voltages?? if so, might lose my mind

AGESA Bug. You cannot raise VDDG CCD nad VDDG IOD voltages above 1.0V
You need higher VDDG CCD when overclocking CPU and higher VDDG IOD when overclocking IF (for stable IO communication beetwen Chipset/PCIex/RAM/CPU)

Try it yourself, lower VDDG IOD to 0.9V and see whats happens. Mostly USB disconnects, Audio crackling, PCIex errors, lots of WHEA errors.