GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[sardelkin]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

did you try disabling it and only enabling VT-x? If you are not using VT-d, which was not working on C1 steppings (I know you have C2, but just in case), you could disable it and give it a try.

Thanx for screenshots!
I tried to change virtualisation settings and i think it's broken for i7-3930k. When I changed Intel Virtualisation Technology to Disabled VT-x again appeared in CPU-Z! But in Windows 8 Task Manager's Performance tab string "Virtualisation" now is disabled too and Virtualbox still not working with different warning message http://goo.gl/THLak
I will hope Gigabyte fix this bug

[Andres Gonzalez Biront]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Thanx for screenshots!
I tried to change virtualisation settings and i think it's broken for i7-3930k. When I changed Intel Virtualisation Technology to Disabled VT-x again appeared in CPU-Z! But in Windows 8 Task Manager's Performance tab string "Virtualisation" now is disabled too and Virtualbox still not working with different warning message http://goo.gl/THLak
I will hope Gigabyte fix this bug

[XRay205]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Have anybody the last Bios for Z77x-UP7 ??

PLEASE

[sardelkin]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Nothing has changed :(

[virtualfred]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Have anybody the last Bios for Z77x-UP7 ??

PLEASE

Hi,
Beta Bios is in first page, and same BIOS with new RAID ROM.

[gbbios]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

What is going on with the Z77-UD4H AND Z77-HD4 boards? There have been many beta bios postings since the board has come out, but not one updated, stable version yet?

I am having shutdown problems that come in intermittently (namely on the UD4H board). Sometimes it appears the board will emulate the 60/64 port upon shutdown causing the computer to remain on for about 10-15 seconds, other times it shuts off flawlessly, and quickly. (Or a possible erp problem? -Yes I have that option turned on)

Still no idea if Gigabyte is going to bother with even 1 stable post release bios for these boards?

[XRay205]

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Thanks man!!!

Hi,
Beta Bios is in first page, and same BIOS with new RAID ROM.

[stasio]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-X79-UD3 - F12

- Add iRST v11.6 with Smart Response support
- 27.Jun 13

[zerowing]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-X79-UD3 - F12

- Add iRST v11.6 with Smart Response support
- 27.Jun 13

What a joke there at Gigabyte.. really.
So they are going to release just current Beta BIOSes without upgrading anything ?
It doesn't matter to Gigabyte that Intel gives OEM updated modules.. that iRST version is really old and Gigabyte didn't bother testing and adding the latest one either.
So no new Microcode updates will be included too, no new Intel Management Engine Firmware.
Gigabyte seems the only OEM that doesn't give a damn about its customers, now they are upgrading the just released Z87 motherboard but in a few months those too will remain with no support just
like the far from old Z77 and X79 boards.
Also with Intel not releasing any new X89 chipset on revised roadmaps it's even worse the fact that Gigabyte is not giving proper support to X79 customers.

[EvgeniX]

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When CSM Support set to Always firewire ROM looks like this

[FONT=Helvetica]04 04 a3 ad 31 33 39 34 f8 00 a2 42 00 [COLOR=#ff0000]34 2b 90 cf 31 3b 00[/COLOR] 00 09 27 04 38 00 00 04 03 00 0a 27 81 00 00 07 17 00 00 0a 81 00 00 0d 0c 00 83 c0 8d 00 00 11 d1 00 00 13 d1 00 00 15 00 07 ac 75 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 70 70 6c 65 20 43 6f 6d 70 75 74 65 72 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 05 dd de 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 61 63 69 6e 74 6f 73 68 00 00 00 00 02 04 db 00 34 2b 90 cf 31 3b 00 00 02 f8 d2 12 00 00 5e 13 00 00 01 00 02 c8 b1 12 00 00 5e 13 00 00 02[/FONT]

And i see FW GUID in system is 342b90cf313b00
When CSM Support set to Never firewire ROM looks like this

[FONT=Verdana]04 04 6c 09 31 33 39 34 e0 00 80 42 00 [COLOR=#ff0000]00 00 00 00 00 00 00[/COLOR] 00 09 27 04 38 00 00 04 03 00 0a 27 81 00 00 07 17 00 00 0a 81 00 00 0d 0c 00 83 c0 8d 00 00 11 d1 00 00 13 d1 00 00 15 00 07 ac 75 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 70 70 6c 65 20 43 6f 6d 70 75 74 65 72 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 05 dd de 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 61 63 69 6e 74 6f 73 68 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 f8 d2 12 00 00 5e 13 00 00 01 00 02 c8 b1 12 00 00 5e 13 00 00 02[/FONT]

FW GUID in system is 00000000000000
This is omission or Firewire OpRom initialization bug

stasio still no news/update? we need it to fix for our hackintosh!!

[gbbios]

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What a joke there at Gigabyte.. really.
So they are going to release just current Beta BIOSes without upgrading anything ?
It doesn't matter to Gigabyte that Intel gives OEM updated modules.. that iRST version is really old and Gigabyte didn't bother testing and adding the latest one either.
So no new Microcode updates will be included too, no new Intel Management Engine Firmware.
Gigabyte seems the only OEM that doesn't give a damn about its customers, now they are upgrading the just released Z87 motherboard but in a few months those too will remain with no support just
like the far from old Z77 and X79 boards.
Also with Intel not releasing any new X89 chipset on revised roadmaps it's even worse the fact that Gigabyte is not giving proper support to X79 customers.

Just like the Z77 boards that got released with 10+ beta bios updates but not one single stable release to fix any bugs, huh?

Unfortunately, I'm almost beginning to kick myself for emptying (XXX) boards out of my cart 2 months ago and spending my hundreds on GIGABYTE board upgrades, instead. I was under the assumption that with so many beta bios revisions and "fixes" listed, an official release would be out imminently. But the UD4H & HD4's just get stuck with a dated release version from last year.

[xendrome]

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So after WEEKS of being stable on the GA-Z87X-UD3H with F5 bios.. I figured I would give the latest Beta BIOS a try, all the others were failures.

I went with the F6l as on the first post of this thread. This produced the same results as every other F6 bios, the System Interrupt process (DPC) in Windows 8 begins to use a large amount of memory and CPU usage, until the system finally hard-freezes. This seems to happen faster if you are in a 3D app or Game, like Battlefield 3.

So F5 bios = Can't use 4 sticks of memory, BSOD's and F6 bios = not stable at all, hard-freeze after undetermined amount of time.

So I sit with my 2x sticks of RAM on the F5 bios 100% stable.

Anyone else seeing these types of issues?

[stasio]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-Z87X-OC Force - F6l
GA-Z87X-OC - F5v
G1.Sniper 5 - F6j
G1.Sniper M5 - F6h
GA-Z87X-UD5H - F6n
GA-Z87X-UD4H - F6j
GA-Z87X-UD3H - F6q
GA-Z87X-D3H - F6g
GA-Z87MX-D3H - F4g
GA-Z87M-D3H - F7f
GA-Z87-D3HP - F5d
GA-Z87-HD3 - F5g
GA-Z87M-HD3 - F6f
GA-Z87P-D3 - F5g

- Improve memory performance
- 10-12.Jul 13

[zerowing]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

So after WEEKS of being stable on the GA-Z87X-UD3H with F5 bios.. I figured I would give the latest Beta BIOS a try, all the others were failures.

I went with the F6l as on the first post of this thread. This produced the same results as every other F6 bios, the System Interrupt process (DPC) in Windows 8 begins to use a large amount of memory and CPU usage, until the system finally hard-freezes. This seems to happen faster if you are in a 3D app or Game, like Battlefield 3.

So F5 bios = Can't use 4 sticks of memory, BSOD's and F6 bios = not stable at all, hard-freeze after undetermined amount of time.

So I sit with my 2x sticks of RAM on the F5 bios 100% stable.

Anyone else seeing these types of issues?

My X79-UP4 freezes either in idle or with heavy CPU usage at random since it arrived with the F2 BIOS installed, under Windows7 x64 SP1. It was freezing every 3-5 hours uptime on average. The F3p and F3t Beta BIOSes didn't fix a damn thing either, the system uptime is 9 to 13 hours on average, although sometimes for unknown reasons it happened that for a whole day it kept freezing every 3-4 hours just like F2 BIOS.
When the system uptime is in the 9-13hours range the only viable workaround is that of shutting down and re-powering up the system to work with the PC for a whole day, unless it's one of those random days in which it regresses to F2 BIOS behaviour.

[xendrome]

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GA-Z87X-UD3H - F6q

Installed, started playing Battlefield 3, got about 35 minutes worth of gameplay in, then the System Interrupt fun started, the CPU usage on System Interrupt process went to a steady 8-10%, system video and sound started freezing every 5 seconds then catching up, then after about 30 seconds of that, hard freeze with sound stuck.

back to F5 bios... 100% stable.