Gigabyte Z68 UEFI Problems

[brucecrossan]

I have a GA-Z68XP-UD3 (rev. 1.3) motherboard. I updated it with the new UEFI BIOS. I use it because I love the easier UI and hardrive support, and specifically faster boot time.

The first version I installed was version U1g. Everything worked perfectly, except Dolby Home Theatre stopped functioning. I tried everything to get it working, but failed. I then contacted Gigabyte and all they could suggest was going back to Award BIOS. I thought I could sacrifice Dolby for a while until they released an update.

They then release version U1j, and I flashed my motherboard to that. Finally, they fixed Dolby, and I was happy. Then I noticed, that my RAM was clocked to 1333MHz. I had my XMP profile activated to get me 1600MHz, but the BIOS would not seem to change it. I even tried manually overclocking the memory to 1600MHz and even further, but, the system would not read a change. Then when I booted into Windows, my available physical memory read as 7.69GB instead of 8GB. I even made sure that internal graphics was disabled. Contacted Gigabyte again, and all they could say again, was to revert back.

Now I am back on U1g. Really annoying. Wish they were faster at release updates, and checked them before release. Is anyone else having these same issues? And have you been able to fix them?

[dmdilks]

I'm sorry that you are having problems. But you do know these are beta bios and you might have problems.

Yes you have to wait some time for the next one to come out. These boards were not really design to run these bios.

The people that are updating from the old bios to the UEFI. A lot of them are having problems.

I have some boards that I can update. But I'll wait till it really becomes a official bios and not a beta.

Once they have all the bugs work out. I'll still might not update the board to that bios too.

Plus yes I know that these are official beta bios from gigabyte too. The thing the scares me is the word beta.   

[DrNomis_44]

I've got a desktop PC I built myself, that uses a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 Rev. 1.3 motherboard, it is currently on Bios version F10, and I've been trying to update it to a UEFI Bios without success, I tried downloading the U1J beta, and used QFlash in my motherboard's Bios to update the Bios, well I got an error message saying something about a checksum error, so I went online and tried downloading a more recent UEFI Bios update for my motherboard.

For some unknown reason, my motherboard doesn't seem to want to update to a UEFI Bios, how do I go about doing it so that it successfully updates, and where can I find the most recent UEFI Bios update that will work?

The reason why I want to update the motherboard's Bios to UEFI is because I am planning on installing Windows 11 on my desktop PC, and Microsoft made it a requirement that the PC has to have a UEFI Bios, plus TPM.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
You can review the posts from others regarding this topic. 

Will your machine support W11...  hard to say at this point.  Right now, its a maybe. 

If I were you, I'd have a back up plan and start saving in the event its not supported. 

In regards to upgrading, we hope you are using Q-Flash and attempting to upgrade from USB.  Please do not try with @BIOS.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
If MS does require TPM 2.0, you'll need a chip for your board.  Still too early to tell.