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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus x670E Master and Bios Hell!

« Last post by Bobins on February 22, 2024, 10:05:04 am »

I didn't want to update my bios and GCC decided it was going to do it when GCC got updated.

After extensive testing I ended up in a situation where the motherboard would not even boot. This necessitated a complete CMOS reset.
I have discovered that the instability is related to memory and that if Fast Boot is selected and there is a memory issue, instead of the bios reporting the error, it hangs. The only way to get out of this situation is the CMOS reset.

My memory is Corsair Vengeance DDR5 7000. When I bought the memory, I knew I would not get a speed of 7000 using XMP as this was an AMD platform not Intel.
With bios v13d, a memory test would run 24hrs stable at 6800 (XMP) with memory voltage/timing settings on Auto.
With bios v13 the system seemed generally stable but with occasional BSODs.
With bios v21 the system was totally unstable and almost unbootable.
With bios v22b it boots but regularly BSODs. In all cases the BSOD error changed every time.

I have gone back to testing and discovered that the bios versions after 13d will not run my memory at 6800. Indeed, it won’t run at 6600 either. I’ve had to drop the speed to 6400 to get stability.
This means the bios versions after v13d have all reduce my system performance and caused system instability. ☹

Also, any setting of a manual fan profile in the bios or using GCC causes a buzzing noise and video stuttering at about 5 second intervals in playback of any video file. If the fan profile is set at default, this doesn’t happen.
If bios is set to a standard fan profile and GCC set to manual start, the buzzing doesn't occur but as soon as you start GCC and it loads the Performance file, buzzing problem occurs.

I need to use a manual fan profile to adjust my water pump speed by water temperature.

Gigabyte say I should be able to revert back to bios v13d but I'm nervous. Can't risk bricking the system. Has anyone here experience of reverting their bios?

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by Kamui on February 21, 2024, 08:22:48 am »

Of course the store did not have another Sapphire RX 6700 Pulse to test and why should they. 6700 seems to be stopped producing as I found almost no stock in any shop.
But If they had it will work good probably. Do not forget that my initial card was a same model sapphire rx6700 pulse again and after using it for 1,5 year the fan got burned they replaced it with that buggy one.

Yesterday I went again to the store and returned the GPU with the excuse that it does not work specifically on any Gigabyte Aorus Elite V2 B550, hopefully to force them test on that motherboard. Before that I asked the guy to do a testing and put the card to a "recent" system. He had a system with an ASUS mobo and an Intel i5-115XX. The GPU booted flawlessly to this system (so another motherboard to count).
The check was to see in CPU-Z if the card is identified as x16 or x8 on a "working system". Of course the test passed successfully.

The card seems to work on any MB except that specific Gigabyte model. I didn't have any other Gigabyte MOBO to test if this is a generic problem with all Gigabytes.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by dmdilks on February 20, 2024, 06:15:52 pm »

I understand what your saying. Did the store try another sapphire card to see if it is the card. The same card as yours? RX-6700. If it isn't working on 3 different MB then the issue is the card. I think what you said the card work on they MB's but not yours or your friends.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by Kamui on February 19, 2024, 02:06:10 pm »

Hi dmdilks and thanks for the answer.

1st let me update that today I got the mobo replacement. Now it's the same Aorus Elite V2 but rev1.2 (I had rev 1.1)
Plugged the card but...again 4 beeps. This is the 3rd Aorus Elite V2 that this GPU card doesn't like to cooperate.

I understand your story but in my case I had a Sapphire AMD Radeon RX6700 10GB Pulse on my Gigabyte Aorus Elite V2 from 1 and a half year now and working perfectly fine. Store exchanged it with a new one after the fan got burned and....now it does not work....the same GPU card!

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by dmdilks on February 18, 2024, 05:45:33 pm »

The thing is this is a user to user forum. This isn't official support forum. Yes it is a Gigabyte forum. But isn't support from Gigabyte. There are only few US that do check here and there to see if there is any new topics.

I had something like this just happen to me. I had Gigabyte RTX-2070 on a board a ASRock B550M Pro SE. I had a EVGA RTX-2070 card I took forum a working Intel board. I put it on the AsRock board. The computer won't boot to the Bios screen. I had change the memory from 16gb to 32gb at the same time. Play around with the memory. I went back to 16gb of memory. The computer booted fine into windows.

But the computer acting funny. Mouse was freezing up and things didn't seam right. I put back the Gigabyte card and everything was fine. Put the EVGA card back into the intel computer everything was fine. Swap around the cards again and the same thing happen. The board just doesn't like the EVGA card.

There are times things just don't match up.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by Kamui on February 18, 2024, 05:18:41 pm »

1 more update. A friend of mine has exactly the same mobo Aorus Elite B550 V2.

And it's not working at his PC either! The monitor stays black with no signal output. This situation going to make me crazy. He has an RX6600 which works perfectly fine, but this specific RX 6700 seems that it doesn't work on Aorus Elite B550 V2 like it's blacklisted.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus Elite B550 V2 Rev1.1 and Sapphire AMD RX6700 Pulse 4 beeps

« Last post by Kamui on February 18, 2024, 10:40:59 am »

1st of all it's really fun that we are on official Gigabyte forums and all these days there is no official representative to suggest or help with the issue. This is really fun (NOT).

So I send the mobo as RMA to the store I bought it. The guy helped out and tested with 3 GPUs that he had available. The mobo works perfectly fine.

3 service centers, and they have tried 5 or 6 GPUs (2 service centers from the store I bought the GPU and 1 from where I bought the mobo). Some GPUs that have been tried are
nvidia 1080
nvidia 4070
nvidia 3060
AMD 6500...
I don't know their brands. All of them are working PERFECTLY fine with my mobo.

It's now obvious now that the mobo has NO HW issue BUT there is something that makes the current mobo with the replacement GPU Incompatible! Of course in such case you are the unlucky guy out of a 1.000.000 people and gigabyte won't even try to help. That is a lesson to be learned for my next mobo after 6-7 systems using gigabyte.

I am lucky because the service guy from the mobo store had just received an B550 Elite V2 as a replacement for another customer and he exchanged the 2 mobo. I am waiting for the "new one" (not really new) to check.

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: Aorus x670E Master and Bios Hell!

« Last post by shadowsports on February 16, 2024, 11:57:40 pm »

Sorry to hear of your issues.  I'm not one to upgrade if I'm stable.  I use default fan control in BIOS.  Love how quiet my system is.  The fans on my GPU rev up a little when I'm rendering photos or video, but that's about it.  I have a small radiator and low RPM case fans that are very quiet. 

I don't think you can downgrade without risk of bricking.  Its not worth it.   Open a ticket with eSupport.  Hopefully the problems will get addressed.     

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Aorus x670E Master and Bios Hell!

« Last post by Bobins on February 16, 2024, 06:59:41 pm »

Was running B13d bios without problems. System ABSOLUTELY stable. Latest GCC seems to have fixed the persistent GCC crash when it was started.
GCC updated Bios to B13. Started getting random BSODs (different message every time). GCC then updated bios to B21.
NIGHTMARE!!!
Motherboard won't boot to BIOS then might boot but then when Windows 11 loads network not available. The next boot might get to Windows but disk drives other than boot drive not showing. 3 out of 4 boots show an AMD GPIO driver problem in Device Manager.
Reset Bios to Optimised defaults. Configured again.
Still no change. Motherboard randomly wont boot and has to have power completely removed before it will respond.
Most successful boots to Windows have some hardware non functional.
Managed to update bios to B22b.
System will now boot but still occasionally BSODs with random errors. (System is not overclocked).
The stuttering sound problem has returned again though as soon as GCC loads the performance library.
So I either don't have non-default fan control or fan control and stuttering sound.
For a premium motherboard...this bios stability is CR@P.
Want to go back to F13d bios but can't 

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Motherboards with AMD processors / Re: ax370 gaming 5 upgrade processor problem

« Last post by MrRicciolo on February 08, 2024, 11:34:44 am »

Sorry but I would like to make some clarifications.
- the mobo already had the latest bios (f51m) and everything worked (with 1600x) . Replacing the cpu ( to 3600x) made the pc not working.
- the latest version (F51m) reports among other things "Fix AMD processor vulnerabilities security" and "Addresses potential UEFI vulnerabilities". You might therefore think that it would be useful to update
- given that the 3600x is supported from F40 version and upper (and I personally tested the F51d and it works), one might wonder what's wrong/or what they forgot in the F51m.

I can only put myself in the shoes of those who have only one processor available (let's say the 3600x), see a security update on the gigabyte site, update and find themselves with a non-working PC.

Luckily in my case I solved it. But how can you trust the quality of Gigabyte in testing before releasing a potentially "fatal" update?

ps. I don't remember the details now but in the past, a year after the release of this mobo, I had a similar problem. Since I too have been "tinkering" for many years I decided to give it a try: I bought the cheapest compatible processor (40 Euros or something like that. I still have it ...AMD A6  ) and thanks to this I managed to start and restore the bios.

I wrote that just for chit-chat and share for those who find themselves unable to start their PC after an update, that this attempt (of putting a basic CPU) could grant them access to the bios again and then operate from there to put things back in order.
... and yes. Do not upgrade your bios if you are not ready to (maybe) have  some headaches