GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[stasio]

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^,^^ Only CPU-Z 1.63......1.64.0 works in proper way with GB BIOS (and Z87....boards).......

[wsarahan]

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^,^^ Only CPU-Z 1.63......1.64 works in proper way with GB BIOS (and Z87....boards).......

Using the latest one here 1.67

the strange is at Aida 64 happens the same Stasio

Thanks

[stasio]

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AIDA64 and HWiNFO is OK.......

[wsarahan]

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AIDA64 and HWiNFO is OK.......

But what should i do? Let 100.03 at bios? Will it make some difference?

And the new feature called Spread Spectrum that everyone says that fpr OC is meant to be desabled and it`s not possible, just leave as auto what should i do?

Sorry for so many questions, just wanna know if i`m doing everything ok with my rig :)

Thanks again man

[stasio]

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^Please,see my post #8645.......
and don't worry about Spread Spectrum....if you don't have any problem....

[zerowing]

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On Gigabyte website:

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 2011 - GA-X79-UP4 (rev. 1.1)

Final BIOS F5 available for Rev.1.1 X79-UP4 board only.

Why is Gigabyte not adding the new BIOSes to Rev.1.0 X79 boards anymore on the official website ?

[Amurtigress]

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On Gigabyte website:

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 2011 - GA-X79-UP4 (rev. 1.1)

Final BIOS F5 available for Rev.1.1 X79-UP4 board only.

Why is Gigabyte not adding the new BIOSes to Rev.1.0 X79 boards anymore on the official website ?

I can only offer a bit of speculation here. Most of them were discontinued a year ago and did not see any BIOS updates, not even betas, from january through june when the IVB-E CPUs were about due. I suspect Gigabyte does not test biosses for discontinued boards throroughly enough anymore to justify a release status. Currently AFAIK only the UD3, UP4 and UP5 are made and sold so those see release versions of BIOSses. The betas seen on Gigabyte's download pages for the discontinued ones (UD5, UD7, G1.Assassin 2) could be considered "almost release", and the ones appearing here on TT are actual betas.

Just my observations that also match my experiences with the X58A-UD7, no insider infos, but maybe Stasio can help us with that?

[zerowing]

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I can only offer a bit of speculation here. Most of them were discontinued a year ago and did not see any BIOS updates, not even betas, from january through june when the IVB-E CPUs were about due. I suspect Gigabyte does not test biosses for discontinued boards throroughly enough anymore to justify a release status. Currently AFAIK only the UD3, UP4 and UP5 are made and sold so those see release versions of BIOSses. The betas seen on Gigabyte's download pages for the discontinued ones (UD5, UD7, G1.Assassin 2) could be considered "almost release", and the ones appearing here on TT are actual betas.

Just my observations that also match my experiences with the X58A-UD7, no insider infos, but maybe Stasio can help us with that?

If that is the case then Gigabyte surely deserves a class action lawsuit. Someone should contact consumers associations.

[c2DDragon]

[Amurtigress]

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If that is the case then Gigabyte surely deserves a class action lawsuit. Someone should contact consumers associations.

I can give a few facts. I bought my X79-UD5 with BIOS F8 in February of 2012. In the coming 6-8 months release BIOSses came out every other month or so until F12. During that time I saw quite a few improvements, mostly concerning the onboard LAN. Starting with F12 there were tons of betas and no release BIOS anymore. F13 saw literally all letters of a-z. During these betas ever since I have seen quite a few changes in the "feel" of the BIOS' stability and some long term issues vanishing and appearing. Starting in november of 2012 F13p and later biosses started throwing 2-4 "ME Engine has been reset" bubbles in the event viewer one ach and every boot. No effect on the system but a weirdo. That vanished after F13t when they put microcode 0710 into their own BIOSses. Until september 2013 Gigabyte did not BOTHER and stuck with 070B which was released in march of 2012. Most other makers changed to 070C pretty quickly (Released in may 2012)...Gogabyte as OEM (!) took 15 more months despite my brushed off complaint on bluescreens with iRSTe enabled.

The IVB-E BIOSses F13u-F14a were real game changers with every release and made stabilizing my processor seriously annoying! Try figuring out what it is THIS TIME over and over again, and overall higher core voltage than the last SB-E BIOS F13t. Well, come to think of it.
Those betas and such a number noticable repeated changes since the last release would have justified just as many releases as we saw in 2012!

So we have a phase of frequent release BIOSses until the end of 2012. Then AFAIK the board was discontinued and the looong series of betas came.

Good news tho. F14b appears to be more stable again at lower vcore.

[andyc999]

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Hi

I'm running win 7 x64 on a GA-Z77XUD3H. I was using the F18 bios but was getting Windows event 12 HAL errors; The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition. Please check for updated firmware for your system.

I updated the bios to F20D hoping it would cure this problem but the problem got worse and I got a beep from the pc speaker whenever I resumed Windows from sleep and the sound recording feature stopped working on the on-board Via audio.There seems to be an issue with the Via audio as there are instructions for Windows 8.1 users to update the audio driver but nothing regarding Windows 7.

I reverted back to the F18 bios and all is well again with the Via audio; I'll have to see if i keep getting the event 12 errors.

There are obviously 'problems' with the F20D bios and Win7 and/or via audio.

It's been well over a year now since there was a stable bios update for this board; way too long in my opinion.

Happy new year, everyone.

Andy

[muellmaa]

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Hi

I'm still waiting for a UEFI Bios for my GA-P67A-UD5-B3 mobo. As the GA-P67A-UD3 already got an UEFI Bios i'm asking myself wether the ud5 version will get one also?

best regards

[ViRuS2k]

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GA-Z87X-OC BIOS F7f mod
Modified with :
Intel RAID for SATA 12.7.0.1936
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.5.0.1815 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel Boot Agent PXE 1.5.04 to 1.5.48
Intel GigabitLan X64 5.1.00 to 6.0.24
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA PC 2179
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1035
Intel EFI VBIOS 1215 to 6767
CPU Microcode Pack (with 06C317)
ME firmware 9.0.30.1482
Modified splash logo 2

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Tested this bios and its great no issues ;)
even ACPI is fixed IRQ`s are correctly allocated, very stable..... and there has been memory tweaking added as some settings have changed within memory.

cant wait to see how much better our bios`s can get for the OC board.

[Oh Jeung Eun]

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I have a gigabyte assassin 2 f12y ,memory f3 2400 gskill 8*4, cpu intel 3930K. This spec is not problem, but I recently bought IBE cpu intel 4930K. The problem is that I have installed ram 32giga(f3 2400 G.skill) but total mem is shown 32giga on setup menu. However, My system is shown 24giga and window7 reported total mem is 24giga. so I changed cpu 3930k at this time, on gigabyte assassin 2 Board Setup screen total mem 32giga and windows 7 reported total mem is 32giga.
I think that next bios soon will be released. If anyone knows this problem and help me , many thanks in advance.

This problem is solved.

[boe323]

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Pooh memory controller in new intel cpus... just kidding, need to wait for newer bios, ive got same motherboard. cant overclock my memory as it just crashes. have to stay at at rated 1866mhz... im sure all will be fixed in newer bios I hope.