GA-MA785GM-US2H (rev. 1.3) BIOS F12a and ET6 problem

[kallsop]

With BIOS F11, everything in ET6 was working. After updating to BIOS F12a, the CPU1 fan monitor is glitchy and sometimes reads out 0 rpm for a few seconds. The fan is running fine, it's a BIOS or ET6 problem. ET6 installed is the current version on the web site (May 28th).

[absic]

As a matter of interest, if everything was fine while using the F11 BIOS why did you flash? You shouldn't need to flash BIOS unless there is a problem that a newer version resolves and I would be very wary of flashing with a BIOS version such as F12A as this could well be a beta version although it doesn't say it.

Don't forget, you can always re-flash with the F11 BIOS and go back to where you were before.

[kallsop]

One time ET6 reported the bus multiplier had changed from 11 to 4. The Prime95 stats showed that 3 of the 4 cores had slowed down, only core 4 was running at full speed. So I updated the BIOS because I know that, in theory, bugs get fixed and that might have been a BIOS bug.

So, anyone got anything constructive to add? With BIOS F12a and ET6 I see glitches in the CPU1 fan speed measurement, that I didn't see with F11. With F12a the multiplier has been at 11 and hasn't changed.