***Gigabyte Z68 Hybrid-EFI to UEFI Flashing***

My z68 ud3p motherboard has always POST'd quite slow & even with the UEFI bios it still posts slowly. Takes roughly 35-40 seconds to boot to login screen on Windows 8.

Turned off extra devices that I can find & unused bios stuff so not sure if it's either one of my drives or something else causing the slowness.

timmothy said:
I have bought the Z68AP-D3 Rev. 1.0. I need to flash the bios so that I can overclock my shiny new 3570k. I have downloaded the bios but i cant find where the included flash utility is. Could someone please help me through the process. Wish I had done some more research on motherboards now :(
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There's some guides in the links in the 1st post.
 
Hi this is just a heads up for anybody like me that has been waiting since last july/august for a UEFI beta bios for Z68X-UD5-B3 that is it now available over on tweaktown forums.
 
Just updated my board with this bios. It's awful for overclocking I'm unable to run anything other than stock settings on my 2500k. Was running 4.6ghz happily before on the F7 bios.

Time to flash back although tbh I might get a new board as this one has been nothing but hassle.
 
It seems anything I set in the bios is ignored and it runs stock settings. I have set the bios to 4.5Ghz with 1.36v but when it loads windows the max is 3.7.

This bios is broken badly.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Just updated my board with this bios. It's awful for overclocking I'm unable to run anything other than stock settings on my 2500k. Was running 4.6ghz happily before on the F7 bios.

Time to flash back although tbh I might get a new board as this one has been nothing but hassle.
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Why are you flashing it to a UEFI when you are running a Sandybridge CPU? this is for Ivybridge CPU's.
 
stulid said:
Why are you flashing it to a UEFI when you are running a Sandybridge CPU? this is for Ivybridge CPU's.
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It works a lot better apart from overclocking which does not work at all. Boot time into win 8 is far better.

UEFI should work fine with sandy chips as far as I'm aware...?
 
MOOGLEYS said:
It works a lot better apart from overclocking which does not work at all. Boot time into win 8 is far better.

UEFI should work fine with sandy chips as far as I'm aware...?
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Not this one as the overclocking options are limited as stated in the opening post.

It's still work in progress so theres a few options unavailable yet (LLC+Vcore control for example)
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Don't think they will ever be added.

If you have a Sandybridge then flash back unless you dont mind being limited.
 
Just used easytune 6 to overclock the CPU and after a restart I'm now running 4.6ghz with 1.37v on the UEFI bios.

Not sure this is the ideal way but it seems to be working ok.
 
Im using the UEFI stuff with an i7 2600 and the boot time into Win8 is incredible :D

Its stable and works very nicely

(i havent tried any overclocking considering the chip)
 
Flashed back to f7 bios and now as soon as it shows the "loading operating system" it resets itself. Can access the bios ok and select boot devices etc but nothing more.

Tbh I have had enough of the boot locks and loops with this board so have ordered an MSI GD65 to replace it.

No idea why it resets when booting and re flashing the bios with q flash does not help...

Stupid gigabyte... :)
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Flashed back to f7 bios and now as soon as it shows the "loading operating system" it resets itself. Can access the bios ok and select boot devices etc but nothing more.

Tbh I have had enough of the boot locks and loops with this board so have ordered an MSI GD65 to replace it.

No idea why it resets when booting and re flashing the bios with q flash does not help...

Stupid gigabyte... :)
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SATA controller set correctly? (AHCI/IDE etc)
 
GA-Z68 - Previous BetaBIOS

G1.Sniper 2 - U1c
GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 - F11a
GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 - F10
GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 - U1e
GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 - U1f
GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 - U1l
GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 - U1f
GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3 - U1f
GA-Z68XP-UD5 - U1a
GA-Z68XP-UD4 - U1l
GA-Z68XP-UD3 - U1j
GA-Z68XP-UD3-issd - U1c
GA-Z68XP-UD3P - U1g
GA-Z68XP-UD3R - U1e

all those are newer
 
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