A note on Zen 2 Ryzen 3900x with Gigabyte x470 Aorus Gaming 7 Wifi

Kevin Parsons · 10 Jul 2019 at 19:50

Just popping this up in case anyone runs into it.

Moved my rig onto a 3900x today and got a BSOD on first boot. BUGCODE_NDIS_DRIVER.

Thankfully a nice easy one, boot to safe mode, disable the wifi card temporarily.

Issue was chipset drivers. Just make sure you have updated them before installing the new CPU or bad things will happen. After you install them, update the wifi driver and good to go.

I should probably have done this prior to the event to save myself an hour arsing around, but hopefully this leaves a search engine trail for the next person to do this

Kev

Rab · 10 Jul 2019 at 19:58

was just looking at that board.
does it work out of the box with the new ryzen or in need of a bios update?

Kevin Parsons · 10 Jul 2019 at 20:49

Needs the F40 bios Rab, released in May. Just got the 3900x in and ticking along nicely at 32 degrees and 59 under prime 95 torture. It is not boosting past 4.2ghz yet for some reason.

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:47

@Kevin Parsons, What Revision of the X470 Gaming 7 wifi you have ? 1.0 or 1.1?
it show on the bottom edge of the motherboard.

Kevin Parsons · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:50

1.0 I think Darren.

orbitalwalsh · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:53

@GIGA-Man , not sure if gigabyte has come across this ?

Kevin Parsons said:
Just popping this up in case anyone runs into it.

Moved my rig onto a 3900x today and got a BSOD on first boot. BUGCODE_NDIS_DRIVER.

Thankfully a nice easy one, boot to safe mode, disable the wifi card temporarily.

Issue was chipset drivers. Just make sure you have updated them before installing the new CPU or bad things will happen. After you install them, update the wifi driver and good to go.

I should probably have done this prior to the event to save myself an hour arsing around, but hopefully this leaves a search engine trail for the next person to do this

Kev

nice one! needing 3600x to replace my god aweful 2700 non X that should have never left the production line ! haha

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-GAMING-7-WIFI-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

heads up, BEFORE F30 BIOS UPDATE

Update AMD Chipset Driver 18.50.16.01 or later version before update this BIOS

BEFORE F40

Before update BIOS to F40, you have to install EC FW Update Tool (B19.0517.1 or later version) to avoid 4DIMM DDR compatibility on 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:53

Ah, thanks for the quick Response,
I am after the REV1.1
OCUK should have stock of Gigabyte X470 Gaming 7 wifi rev 1.1 going live soon

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:57

Gigabyte did say something on the Motherboard bios page to update the firmware/chipset driver before updating to the latest bios ?

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:00

BIOS F40

Update AGESA 1.0.0.2 for 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU full support

Note:
1. If you are using Q-Flash Utility to update BIOS, make sure you have updated BIOS to F31 before F40
2. Before update BIOS to F40, you have to install EC FW Update Tool (B19.0517.1 or later version) to avoid 4DIMM DDR compatibility on 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-GAMING-7-WIFI-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

Kevin Parsons · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:09

Yep just to clarify I did all that good stuff. It doesn't mention installing new chipset drivers though. Probably a no brainer for most but caught me out and I've been in IT for a decade ha.

Edit: balls- looks like I got caught as I hadn't gone through the F30 update process previously

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12

Chipset latest driver https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x470

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14

So Apart that as the Gaming 7 WIFI rev 1.0 been a great board, KEV ?
I may go for the revision 1.0 myself

Kevin Parsons · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:16

Fantastic board so far mate, great stable WiFi too if you care for that. 1.1 apparently fixes some misreadings with temps so you might want to grab that unless the price diff is significant.

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:20

Kevin Parsons said:
Fantastic board so far mate, great stable WiFi too if you care for that. 1.1 apparently fixes some misreadings with temps so you might want to grab that unless the price diff is significant.

Yep I been following the threads on the Gigabyte x470 gaming 7 WIFI on the gigabyte USA Forum, Rev 1.1

ya
miss readings with temps of the vcore that's off by 1
updated the Audio DACs in some way & few other things they tweaked

Kevin Parsons · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:22

Yep that's about right. Not substantial for me as I am down the external soundcard route!

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:23

Well OCUK should have stock still of the Rev 1.1, but yet to make it go live
otherwise I go for the 1.0 or Buy any , I am a prime member so if it comes to it

Kevin Parsons · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:25

Goodo! It won't disappoint. People have said the bios is a bit more limited than others (maybe the earlier ones) but there's more than enough to fry my brain now

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:26

external soundcard route! one of them Creative high end?
like x7

orbitalwalsh · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:39

Darren_uk said:
Well OCUK should have stock still of the Rev 1.1, but yet to make it go live
otherwise I go for the 1.0 or Buy any , I am a prime member so if it comes to it

Kevin Parsons said:
Goodo! It won't disappoint. People have said the bios is a bit more limited than others (maybe the earlier ones) but there's more than enough to fry my brain now

new bios look of x570 will come to x470 after X570 has been sorted out i think . Hopefully lessons learnt will be applied to B550

Darren_uk · 12 Jul 2019 at 10:45

After some 16gb DDR4 3600MHZ RGB Kit, Any leads @orbitalwalsh
That b die page is most outdated now on links ,stocks changes in ics.

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