GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[baldersz]

Is gigabyte ever going to release a F16 final for the B550i? Nearly been a year since the last stable bios release.

[krato]

Since 37d I have laggy keyboard again, so sometimes double printed chars. I disabled duo bios via switch, should I nevertheless update the second bios?

[diabetes]

krato I wouldn't recommend it, since you cannot downgrade your UEFI back to a version that was introduced before gigabyte started using firmware capsules. If you want to properly use PBO, the lower version is a must.

[Puffnstuff]

This morning my x570 aorus master regurgitated all bios settings forcing me to manually reenter everything and I'm so frustrated with it. Seems that all gigabyte x570 boards are doing the same thing. At this point I'm weighing my options as I'm tired of this behavior which is completely unacceptable.

Edit: In a last ditch effort I have set the board to single bios mode just to see if the behavior changes any and now I'm actively shopping for replacement hardware.

[skynetDE]

This morning my x570 aorus master regurgitated all bios settings forcing me to manually reenter everything and I'm so frustrated with it. Seems that all gigabyte x570 boards are doing the same thing. At this point I'm weighing my options as I'm tired of this behavior which is completely unacceptable.

Edit: In a last ditch effort I have set the board to single bios mode just to see if the behavior changes any and now I'm actively shopping for replacement hardware.

Happens from time to time on my B550 Aorus Master as well. I think I had to reenter everything 3 times since I bought the board two years ago.

[RoyFJ]

I would try replacing the motherboard battery to see if the issue goes away.

[plee82]

bios reset usually means it detected an error. Are you OCing or playing with ram timings?

[Waltc]

I would try replacing the motherboard battery to see if the issue goes away.

Bingo.

[Waltc]

Happens from time to time on my B550 Aorus Master as well. I think I had to reenter everything 3 times since I bought the board two years ago.

Do you have a thumb drive that you use to update your bios? If so, leave it plugged into the back port marked BIOS permanently, and when you get all of your bios settings like you want them, save the settings profile to the thumb drive--not to one of specific positions inside the bios you could use. The reason you don't want to save them there is because if you lose the bios because your CMOS battery is failing, or for any other reason, you also lose the saved profile settings in those positions, too. But when you save your preferred bios settings to the thumb drive you will never lose them even if the current bios is lost. My settings file on my thumb drive is named "F36f final settings," for instance.

My x570 Aorus Master needs a battery, but I've been too lazy to open 'er up and remove the GPU so that I can insert a new CMOS battery. So when the bios is lost, I do the following:

Bring up the bios normally with the Del key.
Hit F2 for Advanced mode
Open the last category on the right (brain fart!..;))
highlight "Load profile" (from your thumb drive--if it is in the bios port on the back panel, it will display contents automatically)
hit "OK" when asked to load the profile
then hit "save settings & reboot"

...and you are done--takes about 2 seconds, and there's no need to retype all your settings in if this happens more than once.

This will be the second time I've had to replace the CMOS battery in my x570 Master. So it looks to me that the average lifespan is 18-24 months per battery in my board. I bought the x570 Master in July 2019. Not sure why that is--the battery should recharge automatically. I have ErP turned off, so when I power down at night, there should be a residual trickle of power to recharge the CMOS battery if it needs recharging. I don't know what is causing the batteries to wear down so quickly.

[Puffnstuff]

CMOS battery replacement does not make a difference and I've done it several times plus on my board leaving a thumb drive in a port results in a hot drive. I do, however, have my settings profile saved on a ssd and while loading it is easy the fact that it keeps dumping the settings is annoying. My Asus boards never dumped the bios settings but they did force you to review them before rebooting. I just want this setup to hang on until I can replace it.

[baldersz]

I am still getting weird Bluetooth module failures, randomly I hear the windows disconnect chime followed by the reconnect chime, and the Bluetooth icon disappears/reappears in the system tray - all my Bluetooth devices disconnect/reconnect at the same time too.

Running latest everything and 2 years on Bluetooth still isn't fixed on this motherboard. So frustrating!

[axaro1]

Strix B550-F just got Curve Optimizer support with 5800x3d with bios version 2806.

Is there any news about Gigabyte working on a something similar?

[plee82]

There's no even a stable 1.2.0.7 AGESA bios atm lol for B550 chipset on Gigabyte.

[Waltc]

CMOS battery replacement does not make a difference and I've done it several times plus on my board leaving a thumb drive in a port results in a hot drive. I do, however, have my settings profile saved on a ssd and while loading it is easy the fact that it keeps dumping the settings is annoying. My Asus boards never dumped the bios settings but they did force you to review them before rebooting. I just want this setup to hang on until I can replace it.

Interesting, my thumb drive is cool as a cucumber and inserted the back panel port for the last ~3 years....;) Generally, a thumb drive only heats up when in continuous operation, I've noticed. You don't leave it in "a" port, you leave it in the port marked "BIOS" on your back panel, if your mboard has one. I could offer only suggestions that worked for me with my x570 Aorus Master...sorry they didn't work for you. Complaining here does nothing, however. You want to go here and complain:

https://esupport.gigabyte.com/

[MrHugelberg]

F8c for X670e Master is not usuable for me. Bluescreens like every hour when playing a game, I downgraded back to F8b and it doesn't happen anymore.
I think F8c is a mess and should be avoided.

HUUGE improvement on boot times/memory training though.