X570 Aorus Pro reverted back to F3 Bios

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So I've been running on F11 for a while now and last night I shut down as usual and this evening it took a while to get into Windows. Once in I check to see if everything was set up to 3600MHz and it wasn't so I restarted and selected the profile I created. Again start up took a while and noticed the Aorus screen was like it was before.

Back in windows I check the clocks and restarted and it's back to F3.

Now I understand the Dual BIOS but does this mean the one that I installed F11 on is borked? I did nothing last night that should havet caused any issues.

Do I just flash the bios again or will this flash the second bios chip. Does this mean I have to RMA the board?

Thanks
 
There's a clear cmos jumper, that's about it. The manual has the location for B_BIOS and M_BIOS but I can't see anything specific to see which one is active.

The closest thing I have is the CPU/DRAM/VGA/BOOT (Status LEDs) but now that it has done whatever and I'm in the system they're not active.
 
furthest i got with mine was could make it boot
from the backup bios
but next boot it switched itself back to the older main bios again
bit peculiar i expected the backup bios to be the older one
but i got fed up with it and just left it in the end
 
After reading that thread it was slightly different. It was more to do with the bios not saving an xmp but was still worth reading.

Mcnumpty2323 said:
furthest i got with mine was could make it boot
from the backup bios
but next boot it switched itself back to the older main bios again
bit peculiar i expected the backup bios to be the older one
but i got fed up with it and just left it in the end
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This seems exactly like I have.

I can't tell what BIOS chip is running, unless it says somewhere inside it but I'm afraid to back in there.

The board was shipped with F3 but needed to flash it to F11 for the added memory support. I couldn't get the XMP stable so just used the Ryzen calculator and entered the timings manually in the advanced section.

Been perfect since then but now it's gone back to F3 I'm not sure if the Motherboard has switched chips or has re-flashed the original back to F3 or has fully died and I'm on the other.

The worst thing is I don't know why it did it.
 
dr4g0nf1y said:
After reading that thread it was slightly different. It was more to do with the bios not saving an xmp but was still worth reading.



This seems exactly like I have.

I can't tell what BIOS chip is running, unless it says somewhere inside it but I'm afraid to back in there.

The board was shipped with F3 but needed to flash it to F11 for the added memory support. I couldn't get the XMP stable so just used the Ryzen calculator and entered the timings manually in the advanced section.

Been perfect since then but now it's gone back to F3 I'm not sure if the Motherboard has switched chips or has re-flashed the original back to F3 or has fully died and I'm on the other.

The worst thing is I don't know why it did it.
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Luckily xmp worked for me
As taiphyoon burner says my ram is
Unidentified
Found the bios very frustrating
To be honest I didn't read the bios
Section of user manual but never ever
Needed to before
In Windows it tells me f11 bios
But go into bios it tells me f3
Tried a few things but pc ended up
Unbootable
So had to force backup bios by
Turning on then holding down power button until it switches off
Then releasing power button and pressing it again
Perhaps I will read the whole bios section and try again
But got to the point where I was just happy the ******* thing posted to
Windows so just left it after that
 
dr4g0nf1y said:
What in Windows tells you that?

In Gigabyte SIV it tells me it's F3 and so does Bios but didn't see anything there teling me what chip. The first time I loaded it up after this issues it had to optimise all fans again.
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Think it was in siv or one of the other
Gigabyte softwares
And in cpuz too possibly
Not at pc to double check right now
I know years ago gigabyte had a hidden bios section
Accessed by certain key press
Hope its not something that stupid again
A simple copy bios A to B and vice versa option is what I expected to find
In the bios sadly not
 
ok just found this
if i can get the syntax right should flash both bios

Usage :
efiflash [Input or Output File Name] [Command]..

Switch options for Efiflash.exe:
/C - Clear DMI data. (default: Keep DMI data)
/S - Save Original BIOS Image to Disk
/R - Reboot System after BIOS Update
/DB- Update both main & backup BIOS
 
SUCCESS:D:D:D:D:D:D
dont think this is risky
but do it at your own risk lol
i may have used extra steps that werent strictly needed
but they worked anyway

download f11 bios and extract it to a folder
will be 4 files
x570AUL.F11 rename it to gigabyte.bin dont delete the other files
download rufus usb software
forgot exact options in rufus but use dropdowns
select fat32
select freedos
select mbr
make the usb drive with rufus
copy gigabyte.bin to usb drive
copy the other 3 files though read me wont matter
when asked about autoexec file tell it to put it on there
with 1 added to end-as already a different autoexec file on there and
you need both i think
boot from usb you made
type efiflash
should get the options for it
sorry this sounds long winded

now hopefully for the magic :):)
type in
efiflash gigabyte.bin /db

wait for it to finish and restart you get a % counter for it all
so will know its doing it

once it restarts you should have f11 on both bios chips :D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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