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Gigabyte said it was up to me as to whether to post their efi2awd program (!), so here it is, attached. I think this should be made a sticky.
Instructions:
To flash back to Award Bios, please put the supplied flash file onto a bootable
usb flash drive along with a legacy bios image for your motherboard (that you do
wnloaded from our website). From there boot off the flash drive and execute the
below command
1) efi2awd bios file name , press Enter
2) After updating process completed, it will asked you to remove AC power cord.
3) Reboot your system, back to Award BIOS now.
Thanks for the download. I was unable to use the BIOS menu or boot order, nothing would work however it did boot up so i disconected my HDD so it would boot dos.
Tried U1a on my GA-Z68A-D3-B3. Made booting significantly faster, but also made it impossible to overclock to any significant degree. The DVID option was visible in the menu, but it was grayed out, so I couldn't select it. All of the other voltage options were visible. LLC was also missing, but I never use it anyway.
There's no place in the UEFI to set my VCore to "normal," as some people advise doing before messing with DVID. Is Gigabyte planning to release more UEFI revisions for these boards, or are we going to be stuck with this?
Thanx Statio reset CMOS after flashing F9q did the trick. Without CMOS reset it would never had worked. After CMOS reset i selected reset to default then reboot and voila correct DRAM voltage detected. One thing i noticed for the first time i got USB surge message in windows, I then went into bios again and chose " Smart Auto" instead of "Auto" got into windows and the message was gone.. i hope.
I just wanted to check do you still have to increase VTT & IMC (1.095v + 1.1v) for sandy bridge on F9q ?? or is Auto ok
**** I think i will CMOS reset after every bios flash from now on...This could be the cause of many issues specially freezes ****
Anybody tried the F16 and F17 bios' on GA-Z77-D3H? My systems fails to boot using the F16 (fans just spin up and down), and sound blaster Audigy 2 (PCI) stops working on F17.
Tried GA-Z68XP-UD3 - U1g . Everything seems to be ok and better than the AWARD bios (faster boot, graphical interface) except for two things: my discrete video card (GTX460) is not being detected. This made me realy confused, as my monitor has only DVI socket, so after flashing bios i thought that it went wrong - the screen didn't light up and no resets helped. So if someone is curious about trying the UEFI bios on this board, make sure to have and HDMI cable, to use the integrated VGA in case discrete card doesn't work. There are no signs of the discrete card in windows device manager or AIDA program. Tried both 16x and 8x lane, and the bios is not saving the option of PCI card instead of auto.
Another issue is with the Dolby home theater app, that is not working.
Is there something I could try to get my video card working before going back to AWARD bios ?
Update: I think its been just over a week now I got the cold cycle boot problem again. Ram timing make no difference. To fix it I have to unplug power and turn the computer on to drain on power and then turn it back on.
This seems to reset it for another weeks or so but still rather annoying.
Are people still getting this problem?
Intel i7 2700K (@4.6Ghz) - 8GB Corsair - Windows 7 64Bit - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H - Corsair Force 3 SSD 120GB
Gigabyte GTX680 OC - Benq 120hz LED Monitor
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