Asus Z490 stuff

[martine-dee]

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Nice. I also missed it, was watching only this topic.

Folks, new BIOS:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...-feature-OCTVB

[BloodBaron]

new 0804 Official BIOS is out on Asus site (well it is for Z490-E gaming):

Version 0804
2020/11/17 6.36 MBytes
ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING BIOS 0804
"1.Update ME firmware to 14.0.45
2.Improve system stability and performance
3.Improve DRAM compatibility
4.Improve Intel thunderbolt device compatibility.

Before running the USB BIOS Flashback tool, please rename the BIOS file (SZ490E.CAP) using BIOSRenamer."

[neo2006a]

And another...


Version 0901
2020/11/18 6.37 MBytes

ROG STRIX Z490-F GAMING BIOS 0901
"1. Update Intel Microcode
2. Improve system performance
3. Update AURA Firmware

[BloodBaron]

And another...


Version 0901
2020/11/18 6.37 MBytes

ROG STRIX Z490-F GAMING BIOS 0901
"1. Update Intel Microcode
2. Improve system performance
3. Update AURA Firmware

weird why isnt that one showing up on the z490-E page yet? that was the one i was originally expecting

[geneo]

Well 901 is officially out for the Hero XII as well.

[neo2006a]

weird why isnt that one showing up on the z490-E page yet? that was the one i was originally expecting

This is exactly the same bios as at this page:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...-feature-OCTVB

- There is still "F6 Key crash" bug
- I don't see any memory improvements :/

[geneo]

This is exactly the same bios as at this page:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...-feature-OCTVB

- There is still "F6 Key crash" bug
- I don't see any memory improvements :/

Yes of course it is, they are both 901 after all

memory improvements: PPD and TXP support at least, even though the notes say "system" not memory performance improvements.

[Ezveedub]

I see they finally loaded two bios files for the Hero XXII today, 0804 AND 0901, but I notice 0804 has "Update ME firmware to 14.0.45" & "Improve Intel thunderbolt device compatibility". Is this also included in 0901? Went from 0704 to 0901 last night night as 0804 was never showing on the Asus site up till now.

[BloodBaron]

I see they finally loaded two bios files for the Hero XXII today, 0804 AND 0901, but I notice 0804 has "Update ME firmware to 14.0.45" & "Improve Intel thunderbolt device compatibility". Is this also included in 0901? Went from 0704 to 0901 last night night as 0804 was never showing on the Asus site up till now.

i Always thought they were cumulative unless it said otherwise, but i'm no expert, and i'm now on 0901

[viper2440880]

Hey guys, just trying my luck here before I return my desktop pc. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.


I recently built my PC 6 weeks ago. Everything was initially fine; no crashes, no memtest errors, no blue screens. Not until I upgraded my bios version to 0707(latest version that time). This is when I start getting blue screens, game crashes, random computer freezing that happens quite frequently while gaming. I did memtest86 multiple times, it all show errors when I seat a ram stick on either slot A1 or B1. However when both slot A1 and B1 is empty, my pc works perfectly fine - no errors on memtest, no crashes and no freezing. I have to downgrade my bios version to the first version which is 0403 - This is when everything start working perfectly fine again. I wouldn't mind using this BIOS version, however I have to utilize iGPU multi monitor setting(for rendering purposes) which is not available on this bios version. I tried updating my bios to the latest 0804 - the problem became worse, my computer wouldn't even boot up if using all ram slots. I tried all other available bios versions - same results: no boot up. One work around I found was to only use 2 ram sticks on slot A2 and B2 - however I want to fully utilize all my ram sticks for performance and aesthetic purposes.

To sum it up:
Bios version 0403 - everything works fine
Bios version 0707 - blue screens, freezing and game crashes when using ram slot A1 and B1
Bios version 0607 and 0804(latest) - no boot up when using ram slot A1 and B1

Mobo: ASUS ROG STRIX z490-A Gaming
RAM: Gskill Trident Z Royal Silver 8gb x 4 pcs 3600mhz


I have already told the store where I bought this I'm going to return my whole ASUS ROG pc set next week because of this problem. He told me he's gonna lose a lot of money. But I have to do what I have to do.. Am planning to buy from another brand..