Latest C7H BIOS

[MattTheTech]

I know about his bios too, waiting a bit with using it as i just got my system

However, it feels pretty bad that he can do something asus refuses to do, in a few hours no less.

Dudes a literal boss.

Yeah he is! I am looking into the UEFI Modding methods myself now. I used to Mod old School BIOSes back in the day, and once you figured it out, it wasn't that hard. UEFI's look to be a tad more touchy, but definitely doable. I can already bring back to life a Bricked board due to a borked UEFI Flash, turns out thats actually pretty easy once you have an EPROM Reader that can read your CMOS Chip. Even ones soldered to the board, you can get these little connectors that you can very carefully stick onto the CMOS' Pins, and then Read and Write to the EPROM with it still in the board. I have added this service to my Business here in Vegas and have now succesfully fixed over 2 Dozen boards in a little over a year, its always an awesome feeling. So now being able to add UEFI modding to that would be even more awesome.

Anyways, I have to 100 Percent agree, Mtrai is a fricking Boss, and an inspiration to myself, for being able to fix an issue quickly, giving Enthusiasts back the control over their own boards, and I love it!

[Squall Leonhart]

1.0.0.3AB is the "launch bios", which can't boot most Linux distributions and can't run Destiny 2 with Ryzen 3000. With a Ryzen 2000 it's probably better than the current bios based on 1.0.0.2. In example PBO limits not being locked down.

1.0.0.3ABA was supposed to fix Linux and Destiny 2 by patching the RANDR functionality to something useful, but instead it borked PCIE.

Both bioses are broken with Ryzen 3000, and if you run a Ryzen 2000 and wants the best experience I suppose the last bios based on PinnaclePi 1.0.0.6 would be the best bios.

So, in conclusion, there is no real meaning in releasing a new bios until 1.0.0.3ABA is fixed by AMD. No word about that as of yet. There's no reason Asus would be worse than any other vendor when those fixed bioses finally arrives.

If any comfort so is X570 broken with Linux/Destiny 2 as well, but I suppose PCIE 4.0 works better.

I would say this is a very dodgy launch from AMD, not really Asus fault as all the other vendors are struggling as well.

Icing on the cake was when Robert Hallock promised 4.75GHz boost in a video, not a single reviewer has been close and that is with the most expensive X570 boards. Why AMD, why do you have to over do marketing? Promise less, deliver more is better.

It is a dodgy launch, but people care for working pc's over an obscure game or some linux kernels working (the linux kernel already has a workaround patch available)

300 and 400 board owners on 1.0.0.2 have had their existing ryzen 1 and 2k cpu's become unstable too, Asus are the only vendor that haven't got AB bios's available at this point and its only to chase a Gen 4 unicorn.

As for Robert Hallock, he reminds me of the Bulldozer marketting dude thats no longer with AMD.....

[xeizo]

It is a dodgy launch, but people care for working pc's over an obscure game or some linux kernels working (the linux kernel already has a workaround patch available)

300 and 400 board owners on 1.0.0.2 have had their existing ryzen 1 and 2k cpu's become unstable too, Asus are the only vendor that haven't got AB bios's available at this point and its only to chase a Gen 4 unicorn.

As for Robert Hallock, he reminds me of the Bulldozer marketting dude thats no longer with AMD.....

I've seen on other forums that some are migrating back to 1.0.0.2 because of boost working much better, boost seems kinda borked too in 1.0.0.3AB.

[xeizo]

MSI have faith in 1.0.0.3AB:

[MSI] AM4 BIOS Update (7/23/2019).
X470 GAMING PRO CARBON/AC BIOS-7B78v19/29.
X470 GAMING PLUS BIOS-7B79vAB.
B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC BIOS-7B85v17.
B450 GAMING PLUS BIOS-7B86v19.
B450I GAMING PLUS AC BIOS-7A40vA7.
1.Update AMD ComboAM4 PI 1.0.0.3AB.
2.Fix RAID issue.

B450 TOMAHAWK BIOS-7C02v19.
B450M MORTAR TITANIUM BIOS-7B89vA7.
B450M MORTAR BIOS-7B89v18.
B450M BAZOOKA PLUS BIOS-7B90v17.
1.Update AMD ComboAM4 PI 1.0.0.3AB.
2.Fix RAID issue.

[thedotlair]

MSI have faith in 1.0.0.3AB:

[MSI] AM4 BIOS Update (7/23/2019).
X470 GAMING PRO CARBON/AC BIOS-7B78v19/29.
X470 GAMING PLUS BIOS-7B79vAB.
B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC BIOS-7B85v17.
B450 GAMING PLUS BIOS-7B86v19.
B450I GAMING PLUS AC BIOS-7A40vA7.
1.Update AMD ComboAM4 PI 1.0.0.3AB.
2.Fix RAID issue.

B450 TOMAHAWK BIOS-7C02v19.
B450M MORTAR TITANIUM BIOS-7B89vA7.
B450M MORTAR BIOS-7B89v18.
B450M BAZOOKA PLUS BIOS-7B90v17.
1.Update AMD ComboAM4 PI 1.0.0.3AB.
2.Fix RAID issue.

Not just MSI but Gigabyte and also ASRock seem to have no issues with it. Typical ASUS bringing up the rear on their firmware releases - almost like we have to wait for the next release of AGESA to get the one before

[TaijRai]

[Thanks for all the kind comments on my modded bios. Yeah I know a bit confusing but here my forum name is TaijRai over on OCN it just MTRai.

[Squall Leonhart]

I've seen on other forums that some are migrating back to 1.0.0.2 because of boost working much better, boost seems kinda borked too in 1.0.0.3AB.

boost might work better, but you're losing out on performance overall because your nvme's and graphics cards are having to resend data due to the pci-e errors logged by kernel-whea

[MattTheTech]

[Thanks for all the kind comments on my modded bios. Yeah I know a bit confusing but here my forum name is TaijRai over on OCN it just MTRai.

You deserve it @TaijRai !

Still trying to wrap my head about how to go about modding these myself, would appreciate any pointers or links to research material you could give me. There is information overload out there, and I can sift through it all just haven't had much time yet, I know you don't have much time either, but if you had links to some crash course reading to get me started, that would be awesome! Obviously, your a busy man, so I will still sing your praises if you don't have time! I appreciate you regardless!

[gupsterg]

@Shamino

VTTDDR when left on [Auto] does not become 1/2 of VDIMM, another has also noted this. I noticed this today when I set it as [Auto], this was on UEFI 2501. I'm pretty sure UEFI 2406 would also exhibit this behaviour as they are so similar. I had not noted this usually set my own value manually.

Also I believe ASUS WMI is broken on UEFI 2501. I had no other apps accessing SIO except HWINFO open for last night's of HCI and PWM was lost on headers. Organise files by date in this ZIP. I did a RAM Test run from POST from shutdown, then on same POST, then on restart from OS, then HCI on restart from OS.

[xeizo]

I gave up on 3900X since nowhere to be found, but I have a 3700X waiting for being picked up. A new bios right now would be very appropriate for me