Z87X-OC Bios F5 issue.

[Svarog]

There is something wrong with the F5 Bios, i been using F5q before and suffered from the same. And the issue seems to be in the Final version of F5 aswell.

What happens can be compared to a "Driver has stopped responding" issue. Screen goes black then comes back on, but the Framerates are completely screwed up (10-15).

When it happend when i used F5q i first thought it was a TDR issue, but after rebooting the PC the Framerates in Games were still between 10-15. The only way to fix it was to flash the Bios back to F4. I used that for like 4 weeks without a problem. Today i saw the final of F5 was out and thought id try that again, but just 5 minutes ago the same happend and once again rebooting doesn't solve the problem.

No idea what the issue is, but i'm going back to F4.

[Svarog]

Just found out more people are having the same issue with F5 and NVIDIA cards.

[Maou]

Semi-related: I have the Z87x-UD5H and have had this issue with the F6j beta bios, trying the F5...

I have a Nvidia 680 card using the latest drivers, whql and beta and keep getting driver stop responding and needing to reboot to get performance back, seemingly at random very frustrating.

[Svarog]

Well in my case rebooting doesn't fix the problem. The card does go to 100% clock speeds but ingame the Framerates are below 20's.

The other guy who has the same problem with F5 on the Z87X-OC tried older NVIDIA drivers but that didn't matter.

The only way to fix is to flash to an older Bios.

[Svarog]

I gave F5 another try and set the PCI-E to Gen2, so far i havn't had a Black Screen issue anymore.

 So whatever changed between F4 and F5 it doesn't allow me to run Gen3 with my current Videocard.

 Atleast it works.

[irfa]

There is something wrong with the F5 Bios, i been using F5q before and suffered from the same. And the issue seems to be in the Final version of F5 aswell.

What happens can be compared to a "Driver has stopped responding" issue. Screen goes black then comes back on, but the Framerates are completely screwed up (10-15).

When it happend when i used F5q i first thought it was a TDR issue, but after rebooting the PC the Framerates in Games were still between 10-15. The only way to fix it was to flash the Bios back to F4. I used that for like 4 weeks without a problem. Today i saw the final of F5 was out and thought id try that again, but just 5 minutes ago the same happend and once again rebooting doesn't solve the problem.