r/gigabyte

Hi all,

I’m upgrading my bios from f42a to f66 to change from ryzen 3600 to 5800xt.

The gigabyte website says that before upgrading to b40 you have to update the EC FW update tool. It also gives that warning under f50.

How should I proceed? Should I go from
F42a to f62 then f66? Or should I pit stop at f50 and update the tool? Im past f40 but im worried it will brick my board if i go straight without pit stopping.

Also if the tool resets to f2 like I’ve heard, wouldn’t that brick me since f2 doesn’t support Ryzen 3rd gen?

Some advice please.

After updating my BIOS to the F12b beta version, everything is working fine. However, it takes longer to power on.

Specs:

• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite DDR4 — BIOS F30
• CPU: Intel i5-13600K (13th Gen)
• RAM: 2x Kingston Fury 16GB DDR4
• Storage: WD Black 2TB NVMe
• GPU: MSI RTX 3070 Ti
• Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock TF2 Top Flow

Problem:

I did a fresh W11 installation formatting my existing Windows SSD. The installation went fine but after the required reboot to finish setup, the PC will not boot into anything. Every boot lands in the BIOS or F12 boot menu.

What happens:

Selecting Windows Boot Manager (SSD) from the boot menu returns to the same menu. Selecting the W11 USB throws a "bootmgr encountered a security validation or internal error" message.

Secure Boot situation:

Secure Boot is enabled and greyed out in the BIOS. Mode shows Standard, System Mode shows User. Reset to Setup Mode and Restore Factory Keys are also greyed out. Setting an Administrator password did not unlock any of these options.

What I have already tried:

• RAM reseat
• CMOS battery removal
• Rufus USB with Secure Boot and TPM bypass options enabled
• Multiple USB drives including different sizes
• Manually selecting boot entries via F12

Nothing has worked. Still stuck at BIOS and boot menu, cannot boot from any device.

Any help appreciated.

My new build parts are almost in order, but I have a question:

I was looking at my GPU today (Gigabyte Aorus), and noticed it came with an adaptor (1x 12V-2x6 to 4x PCIe 8pin adapter). I'm planning to use a Corsair PSU, which comes with a 12V-2x6 pin cable.

Which cable is recommended to power the GPU, the Gigabyte one or the Corsair one?

Thank you for the help, it's been about 8 years since I built my last desktop and these adaptors weren't around back then.

Hi all,

Recently my Aorus 3080ti Master has been going super hot, so I was looking into thermal pads + paste replacement. However, couldn’t really find definite answers on how much and how big of thermal pads I should buy? Looking for some answers!

Specs:

CPU - amd ryzen 7 7800X3D

Gpu- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Ram - 64gb 6000mhz Corsair vengeance

As the title says I’ve been trying to update the bios on my motherboard to fix some GPU pcie bus issues. But whenever I go through the q-flash process, on the restart it doesn’t post and only alternates the CPU and Dram lights on the motherboard, any help would be much appreciated

I installed my new RTX 5080 AORUS and started playing Battlefield 6. At first there was no coil whine at all, even with uncapped FPS. I was getting around 150 FPS at overkill settings and up to 250 FPS with frame generation 2x, and the card was completely quiet.

Then I ran FurMark for about 1 minute. During the stress test I suddenly noticed some coil whine. It wasn’t extremely loud, but after that, the same coil whine also started happening in Battlefield, where previously there was none.

Now I’m wondering if this is normal or if FurMark somehow triggered it permanently.

I have a gigabyte gaming A16 that ive been using for a while and I used to be able to change the fan controls between modes like silent and turbo etc. So I could adjust it if they laptop was getting too hot. But now that control is just entirely gone.

The only way I can control the fan speed somewhat is changing the system performance between silent, balance and performance but thats not exactly the same. My laptop gets hot way too fast with the dGPU enabled and I dont want to keep it in eco mode all the time since I of course want the graphics on for when I game and work in larger creator apps like Maya. But it gets hot way too fast even when i dont even have large apps open just by being in auto mode to have the dGPU on.

Ive messed about with it being in different modes and the system performance options too but this keeps happening and I just dont know how to solve it. Is this just normal? I dont really care for fan noise too much, I just dont want to cause damage from the heat

Going to build a PC using the Aorus Pro X3D ice

What is this I’m reading about their implementation of EZ quick release GPU slot mechanism damaging graphics cards?

A google search doesn’t really pull up anything specific or I’m using the wrong words.

Ho guys!

I'm building my PC after 12 years with my old one.

I'm going for this build:

- Aorus x970e elite x3d

- Ryzen 7 7800x3d

- 32GB of Corsair vengeance cl30

- sapphire nitro+ 9070XT

And a couple of SSDs.

Now, when I boot up the PC i get the VGA Red light on the motherboard with code "08" on the display, even tho the PC boots fine into windows, and I can even get signal to the monitor if I connect the cable to the MOBO's HDMI port.

I worked on the issue for 4 hours straight: tried different cables, tried a different GPU, updated the bios, ecc. Ecc.

Part of the troubleshooting was using my old 1070Ti to test whether it was a gpu or motherboard issue, maybe concerning the first PCIe slot closest to the CPU. Same error.

The only time I got the old GPU to work was when plugging it in on another PCIe slot, because the 9070XT can't go there and I could only test that option this way.

Now, I need some help/reassurance/reality check:

- could it be that the first PCIe slot is damaged?

- might it have to do with the Memory training process?

- tried looking online, found some info about the fact that the first PCIe slot is directly connected to CPU and that if you screw the fan too tight on the CPU it might block the communication, or it might even be that one of the CPUs pins is tilted and needs to be straightened. Can it even be this option?

I want to try everything before going with MOBO'S warranty and have it changed....

Thanks for anyone who reads and tries to help!

Hi there,

I’m currently encountering an issue with my GPU which is still under warranty until december 13th 2027.

Gigabyte told me to see with the retailer

The thing is that this gpu has been gifted to me by an employee of my brother-in-law.

He’s unable to find the website where he bought the gpu so i cannot even see with them for my gpu to be replaced

can someone help me please?

So as the title says my ram suddenly does not show up anymore in GCC and rgb control went away. I have the B850 AURUS elite 7 WIFI ice and corsair RAM. I have never had any issues with it showing up. Now after i saw the issue i did all the updates of drivers and bios and it does not make a difference.

I did not install icue, I do have Lian li software and nzxt for my fans and aio.

What could be going on?

Guys based on your own experience i just to choose between those builds

A) RTX 5070 + RYZEN 7 7 7700
B) RX 9070XT + RYZEN 7 7700 OR A) RXT 5070 + RYZEN 7 7700X B ) RTX 5070 + RYZEN 7 7700X

I would use the pc for playing games and streaming it has 32G rams DDR5 . I play only call of duty only and all the other games are offline story mode AAA . Please don't hesitate to share your opinion with me . I'll run 1440 i guess to the extreme LMAO

Hi, I have a Gigabyte Aero 5 KE with a recently broken screen. Connected the notebook to an external screen with Windows working and I had video output. Then I disassembled the notebook to check if the screen had any label with it's model to search it.

When I started to disassembly it, the first thing that I did was disconnecting the battery and the CMOS battery. Disconnected the display cable, the screen and assembled it again. Then I turned it on without the screen cable connected and with an external monitor (HDMI), and I have no image. Tried again connecting the cable and nothing. The notebooks powers on, the keyboard lights and cooler turns on

So, I don't if I made a mistake and it isn't tuning on, or there is a BIOS screen saying "press random key to recover the BIOS" that I can't skip.

I also tried rebooting it with ctrl + alt + del or forcing it to power off, but I have no idea if it rebooted.

Is there a way to get out this deadlock? I don't want to buy a new screen without knowing if I killed it or not.

Bom, galera, venho compartilhar esse problema que talvez muita gente sofra e não saiba. Se você tem a Aorus Master Ice e usa o software para controlar ali o painel LCD e, principalmente, as informações de GPU, temperatura, etc., ele está conflitando nos jogos. Passei meses buscando o que travava no meu PC e descobri esse serviço. Já tentei de tudo e, infelizmente, não consegui resolver. Basta desinstalar esse software que o PC roda liso. Minha configuração é RTX 5080 Aorus Master Ice, processador Ryzen 9800x3d, placa-mãe x870 Aorus Master Ice. Vou anexar um resumo do que acontece quando ele está ativo, vídeo anexado no Google Drive. Alguém consegue usar ele e está funcionando de boa?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gm8popd9yQg_BPc6yJPOXuyQPUKRzysJ/view?usp=drive_link