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▲ 124 r/aorus+4 crossposts

Should I replace my ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi?

I built my new PC on July 14 with the following specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Motherboard: ASRock X870 Steel Legend WiFi
GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend
RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) G.Skill DDR5-6000 CL30

Until a fellow Redditor recently pointed me to the reports about ASRock X870 boards allegedly killing 9800X3D CPUs, I had absolutely no idea this issue existed.

I had been running the system on the factory BIOS 3.16 since I built it. After finding out about the reports, I updated to BIOS 4.43 yesterday.

The PC has been completely stable so far:
No crashes or BSODs
No boot issues
No random restarts
0 WHEA-Logger errors
EXPO enabled at 6000 MT/s
SoC voltage is around 1.19V in HWiNFO

I’ve played multiple games and even built shaders in The Last of Us Part I and Hogwarts Legacy without any issues..Even though everything appears to be working perfectly should I replace the motherboard while it’s still new, or would you continue using it now that it’s on BIOS 4.43?

Update: Unfortunately, something happened. maybe sooner than expected. The system suddenly refused to boot. All fans and RGB turn on, but there’s no display and the motherboard gets stuck on the CPU debug LED. I tried power cycling, checking connections and the usual basic troubleshooting, but no luck. The system was completely stable until this happened. I’m taking the motherboard and CPU to the retailer for testing. What a MESS! My complete setup is merely 20 days old. Recent BIOS update might have done something?

u/VinciVisionary — 6 hours ago

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My 270k Build

So I love the Aorus Theme !

P1000W Aorus Platinum PSU

Z890 Aorus Elite wifi7 Ice

5070Ti Aorus Master

Had the Aorus Waterforce 2 but when running CPU at 300+W , 420mm gives more Headroom !

Love the LCD on GPU , Chibi got my Heart 😄.

u/Designer-Skill3158 — 3 days ago

▲ 412 r/aorus+2 crossposts

A Long Overdue Upgrade

After several years with my previous build, based around a Ryzen 7 3700X and RTX 3070 Ti, I decided it was finally time for a major upgrade.

u/FiddleGreatSticks — 12 days ago

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Did anyone found the secret code from the ig post ??

I think.. It is "AORUS". If you found any other secret code from this post pls lemme know !

u/freaky_sid__47 — 8 days ago

▲ 4 r/aorus+1 crossposts

Aorus 16X 9SG (2024) – Rolled back to BIOS F9, how did you get CA2023 keys working?

Rolled back from FF2 to F9 on my Aorus 16X 9SG (2024) because FF2 is unstable (constant CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, VMD issues) and removes undervolt/OC options.

Now I’m stuck: Windows 11 bootloader is signed with CA2023, but BIOS F9 only has CA2011.
Trying to boot with Secure Boot enabled gives signature violation.

The only options in BIOS are “Delete keys” (Setup Mode) or “Enroll factory default keys” (which just puts the old CA2011 keys back).

How did you guys manage to get CA2023 certificates into F9?
Any working method without staying on the broken FF2?

Currently forced to run Windows 11 with Secure Boot disabled.

Update:

Got a reply from GIGABYTE eSupport (#2051503).
They completely ignored everything I wrote and just sent me the link to BIOS FF2 again.

Bravo GIGABYTE, excellent support work.

So, conclusion for everyone:

It is not possible to properly update CA2023 certificates on BIOS F9 on the Aorus 16X.
The only way to enable Secure Boot is “Enroll factory default keys”, which always overwrites everything with the old CA2011 keys.

BIOS FF2 is unstable on my system (and probably not only on mine). Common issues many of us are seeing:

Frequent CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (0xEF)
Severe performance drop caused by Intel VMD (poor throughput + high latency)
Frequent INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

If Secure Boot is not critical for you — just roll back to F9.
It is significantly more stable than FF2 and still has the advanced undervolt/OC menu that was removed in FF2.

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u/somatick — 12 days ago