GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

[stasio]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-Z97X-SOC Force - F8b
GA-Z97X-SOC - F7a
GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 - F9a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - F8a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - F7a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - F7a
GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - F6a
G1.Sniper Z97 - F8a
GA-Z97X-UD7 TH - F6b
GA-Z97X-UD5H - F10d
GA-Z97X-SLI - F9a

- Improve Intel® 5th Generation Core™ Processor
- 23-26.Jun 15

[FPSNige]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

The F7A BIOS for the Z97X-SOC (non FORCE) has drastically improved stability with Devils Canyon. The cold boot issue I was experiencing seems to have been resolved, having not hard shutdown in three days now.
I have however twice now had D4 (Looks like 04, I assume its actually D4) debug, which seems to be PCI resources Allocation error. Out of resources in the manual. This causes the system to lag and eventually lock up..

I am running 2 HD 7970's in crossfire in slots in 1 & 3 in 8x/8x without the OC PEG connected and a PCIe Creative Titanium X-FI sound card in slot 4.

Hopefully this feedback helps. Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Nige

[PooPooPerson]

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Hello. I made an account just to ask this question. I hope someone can help me!

I have the Gigabyte Z97X-SLI. According to the first post the latest BIOS is F9a. Does this BIOS enable the option to toggle on/off HPET? I found a post in an Overclockers.uk thread from a Gigabyte rep that the a "special F8a BIOS" (see post on this thread: Not sure where to ask this. Need help disabling HPET. - Overclockers UK Forums) can enable the option to toggle on/off HPET. I'd just like to check whether this BIOS can do the same. The option to turn off HPET is something that I'd love to experiment with.

Thank you all

[PieMan]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-Z97X-SOC Force - F8b
GA-Z97X-SOC - F7a
GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 - F9a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - F8a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - F7a
GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - F7a
GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - F6a
G1.Sniper Z97 - F8a
GA-Z97X-UD7 TH - F6b
GA-Z97X-UD5H - F10d
GA-Z97X-SLI - F9a

- Improve Intel® 5th Generation Core™ Processor
- 23-26.Jun 15

Any chance of abit of Z97M-D3H loving too?

[lowmotion]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Any chance of abit of Z97M-D3H loving too?

Contact the support. They are non stop working at new beta bios because broadwell doesnt run very good.

[EarlZ]

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That bios (the T01) runs much better than the F10 version. A lot less mouse lag and overall my entire system feels snappier when clicking on things. With the F10 I could just be moving the mouse around and it will micro stutter or doesn't even seem to notice that I've moved it at all sometimes. I've switched between them (T01 and F10) off and on and I'm surprised they haven't re-released it as F10b or F11 or something by now. The core speed bug is still there, too. It scares me a little because they have so many motherboards that you just don't know if they'll ever get around to releasing a more stable version before you're having to upgrade your PC again. :(

The T01 is awesome! It also gives me correct VRING voltages when in AUTO but manually setting the multi.

[stasio]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

New BIOS:

GA-X99-Gaming 5P - F2e
GA-X99-UD5 WIFI - F10c
GA-X99-UD4 - F13b

GA-Z97X-SOC Force - F8d
GA-Z97X-SOC - F7b
GA-Z97X-Gaming G1 - F9b
GA-Z97X-UD7 TH - F6c
GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK - F8a
GA-Z97N-WIFI - F7b

- Enhance memory capability (X99)
- eDRAM support for Broadwell (Z97)
- 17.Jun - 03.Jul 15

[lowmotion]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Hi,

when can we expect the next wave of broadwell-support-BIOS?

GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK - F8a <--- at the moment i am trying out this version and it seems to be "alpha". "edram" runs strange (lower is faster), overclocking always hits the 65 TDP wall, iGPU crashes sometimes at max memory.

[Boomstick777]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

PC is hanging on boot since GA-X99-UD4 - F13b. Needs multiple reboots to get into Windows. Didn't happen with previous BIOS.

System is. Intel 5820K, 32GB DDR4 G.Skill, GTX 960, 2 X SSD, 2 X 5TB HDD.

[boe323]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

Hello. I made an account just to ask this question. I hope someone can help me!

I have the Gigabyte Z97X-SLI. According to the first post the latest BIOS is F9a. Does this BIOS enable the option to toggle on/off HPET? I found a post in an Overclockers.uk thread from a Gigabyte rep that the a "special F8a BIOS" (see post on this thread: Not sure where to ask this. Need help disabling HPET. - Overclockers UK Forums) can enable the option to toggle on/off HPET. I'd just like to check whether this BIOS can do the same. The option to turn off HPET is something that I'd love to experiment with.

Thank you all

you don't need to toggle it, if enabled by default it still doesn't effect the OS as its not enabled by default in the OS

[screwtech02]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

I know this is a long shot, but is there any chance of getting a X79 UP4 bios that supports a B0 processor? Current F4 bios has some severe issues with 8 core B0 stepping processors. Or at least mine does....

[Nemo11]

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I have problems with onboard audio on GA-Z97-HD3 +F9a.
Sound works only via HDMI. There is no sound coming out of the speakers/headphones.
I tried different OS (Ubuntu 14.04 and Win8).
Is there any way to downgrade bios to default one?

[chris19756]

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I have problems with onboard audio on GA-Z97-HD3 +F9a.
Sound works only via HDMI. There is no sound coming out of the speakers/headphones.
I tried different OS (Ubuntu 14.04 and Win8).
Is there any way to downgrade bios to default one?

yes load the bios file ftp://download.gigabyte.ru/bios/mb_b...z97-hd3_f8.zip from gigabyte a stable copie this is f8 too a usb driver go into bios and click qflash, then go too bios file and say flash! thats it then restart go into bios made your changes save and downgraded

[nicholaswoodhams]

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Not sure where to post this-- but there appears to be a bug affecting all X99 boards.

The problem is caused by the firmware, option ROMs, and the kernel cache. The firmware loads option ROMs fragmented into memory, which then in turn allocate more memory for themselves which fragments it even more. There is then not enough contiguous space for kernel cache to be loaded. This is a firmware bug, it could be present in a whole family of firmwares, or maybe all. It's only starting to happen recently because UEFI option ROMs are loaded all over instead of in a specific spot and you need a couple of devices that require large memory areas to operate like i/o buffers for graphics and disks.

This results in memory allocation errors when loading certain operating systems like Mac OS X (Hackintosh)

Does anyone have more information on this?

Here is a link to the workaround I made for Clover but I'm looking for a final solution.
https://nickwoodhams.com/x99-hackint...ocation-block/

Best,
Nicholas Woodhams

[stasio]

Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS

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I suggest you to inquiry GB Technical support:
GIGABYTE - Support - Technical Support - Motherboard