Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 F7E Beta Bios

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Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 F7E Beta Bios BSOD

Anyone here updated yet?

Not sure what the following changes mean though?

1.Beta BIOS
2.Improve power on issue
3.Update ME / CPU code
 
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Flashed it.

Cant get into my system.

Seems to BSOD, as soon as the starting windows bit of the boot appears!

Cant get into safe mode either!

Arghhhhhhh!

Havent changed anything else. Tried installing the latest version of

Intel Management Engine (Intel P67/Z68/X79) Version 8.0.0.1351.

Which didn't work. Dont think that caused it. tried, then rebooted, then tried again. Wouldn't install.

Win 7 is currently 'Attempting Repairs' using the setup repair thing.

Guessing the bios flash has killed it? I've also tried resseting the defaults in Bios.
 
2.Improve power on issue = Cold Boot Issue

3.Update ME / CPU code= Updates the firmware for the Intel Management

Basically improves issues with the cold boot problems affecting many of the gigabyte boards. Fixed mine!
 
Intel Management.

This related to the software at all?

I cant seem to install the latest version of Intel Management Engine (Version 8.0.0.1351 (35Mo) (20/01/12))


What where the cold boot issues?
 
Solution;

Extract the Files. In the root of the directory you will see setup.if2. Open with notepad. find the section which shows the following;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Visual C++ redist files ;; ; Visual C + + redist files;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Process] [Process]
operation=runonly operation = runonly
bin=%source%\DAL\vcredist_x86.exe bin =% source% \ DAL \ vcredist_x86.exe
commandline=/q Commandline = / q
wait=yes wait = yes
condition=IsOS(WINXP,MAXOS) condition = ISOS (WinXP, MacOS)
sequence=2039 sequence = 2039
group=VC2010 group = VC2010

[Process] [Process]
operation=runonly operation = runonly
bin=%source%\DAL\vcredist_x64.exe bin =% source% \ DAL \ vcredist_x64.exe
commandline=/q Commandline = / q
wait=yes wait = yes
condition=Is64 AND IsOS(WINXP,MAXOS) condition = Is64 AND ISOS (WinXP, MacOS)
sequence=2039 sequence = 2039
group=VC2010 group = VC2010

Delete inbetween the dotted lines and save.

Run setup.exe ;)
 
Upgraded to these beta bio’s today and had loads of system issues, bsod a couple of times with my 43x overclock which ran perfect with F6 bio’s, also had at least 6 lockups in windows at normal cpu speeds. I’ve now downgraded back to F6 bio’s and all is running well again, even with the cpu overclocked.
 
FiXiT said:
Upgraded to these beta bio’s today and had loads of system issues, bsod a couple of times with my 43x overclock which ran perfect with F6 bio’s, also had at least 6 lockups in windows at normal cpu speeds. I’ve now downgraded back to F6 bio’s and all is running well again, even with the cpu overclocked.
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remember to hold alt and f12 at splash screen to flash the back up bios chip with the main bios chip,so both chips have same bios version,and each bios will be slightly different in needing more or less voltages to be stable,so you will need to tweak settings again
 
not risking this update with my 2 week old rig, but just curious what was the cold boot problems? is it when your windows takes an aweful long time to boot/load up ?
 
wazza300 said:
remember to hold alt and f12 at splash screen to flash the back up bios chip with the main bios chip,so both chips have same bios version,and each bios will be slightly different in needing more or less voltages to be stable,so you will need to tweak settings again
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Thanks for reminding me forgot to do that. Tried giving the cpu some more volts with this new bio's and it seemed to run stable for a while, but tonight it locked-up in windows quite a number of times even with standard settings, which doesn't give me much confidence in this being a stable release.
 
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