Awesome! Thanks. What does the modded version have compared to the stock BIOS?
Merry christmas folks.
Awesome! Thanks. What does the modded version have compared to the stock BIOS?
Click the "spoiler" on the firsrt post, most of the changes are contained in there with the exception of a few relatively small changes that I now make as they might prove useful to someone. New modified firmware should be up by the end of this week just waiting on my testers to check a few things for me where Iām not using the Aorus board I have atm.
STILL no firmware fix from gigabyte for this damn front panel audio issue, it crackles like hell. however realtek ASIO is now working beautiful in FL studio.
Simple as it is, have you cleaned the audio jack you are plugging in? Sometimes even if they donāt look dirty a clean can sort those problems out.
Is there a secure bios option in the new bios? I am looking in the gigabyte f10 but I cant find it.
Possibly with the back engineered Gaming 5 firmware but I havenāt done that one yet. You need to hassle Gigabyte about that the more people that do the more gigabyte will be forced to provide the option. Gigabyte just arenāt catering to their own demographic of users who are buying the AM4 Aorus boards. As a last ditched attempt people could also directly complain to AMD about Gigabyte not providing options required of its user base and how requests are falling on deaf ears can they (AMD) mandate to Gigabyte and all other manufacturers a set of mandatory minimal options they must expose in the firmware order to get the maximum user functionality out of the B350 and X370 chipsets.
Nah its going strange after a few minutes of use, loses its SNR and hisses.
back panel is perfect though
Does that happen with the generic MS driver? If it doesnāt try my updated 8224 driver.
Got to be something to do with windows itself or the motherboards firmware, the generic MS driver does the same, my bet is the boards bios has a hex bug.
Once i change the headphone amp from off to on the problem goes away for about half an hour, then comes back randomly, hiss goes very high and SNR drops because of it, then starts to crackle, switching the headphone amp off and on again temporarily fixes it, unfortunately you cannot do this with MS generic driver, as you know gigabyte are extremely lazy in fixing any problems, cant even get the boards L.E.Dās to run properly, its hit or miss 80% of the time.
And as i mentioned before gigabyte are willing to push new CPU updates but no fixes for their current ones, which i find ridiculous.
Iām also beginning to realise that M.2 SSD drives are an expensive gimmick, games dont load any faster, the system doesnt boot any faster and i cant tell any difference using windows 10 from a corsair 60GB LS sata ssd, in fact embarrassingly my HTPC with an AM1 5350 cpu boots windows10 a lot faster than this m.2
Another thing thats grinding my gears about this board, it supposed to have regional led lighting, but it doesnt, all the lights do the same thing, they havent even fixed that!
As the generic MS driver does the same its unlikely the problem is with the drivers. Might be an issue with Windows but that would be my last suspect it sounds more like something is shorting or possibly the wire plugged in for FP audio is damaged in some way only way to diagnose that would be to use FP audio in a different case then see if it does the same. It is possible the crackling is an issue with the firmware for the onboard codec fixing it would likely require Gigabyte to tell Realtek about it then for Realtek to investigate and issue an updated firmware then Gigabyte would need to inject it into the main firmware. If theres one thing I didnāt find anything wrong with its the SSD performance on the Gaming 5 the WD Green M.2 drive I used performed well and the SL301 on the SATA port also performed well. I didnāt mess around much with the lighting but the few times I did the LEDs seemed to work as they should. If you can returning the board from where you bought it for a replacement would be a good idea as while I canāt be certain there is a reasonable chance the board itself may have a fault.
If I can find the time Iāll dig the G5 out again and see what its like with my modified F10 firmware but from what Iāve seen it looks like the board with all the exposed options is fairly competent. Still a mile behind Asrock or Asus, but not completely awful anymore either although most of that not sucking anymore does come from the options I expose soā¦ I guess you could also still say the firmware for the board is crap. Swings and roundabouts depends on the individuals perspective.
@ket hey mate, prob it is not for you to check for this but, is it possible to check performance on the F10 vs F9a on the gaming 5? as i tested both and the F9a gives better performance than the F10 even tho with the F10 i do get the ram to go up to 3200mhz the F9a performs wayyyy better on Cinebench and games also. Do you know anything regarding to that?
thanks for your nice work mate.
Switch Gear Down from "Auto" to "Enabled". Also open Task Manager and check any CPU overclock you have is running properly. Manually setting timings might be necessary as well. Sometimes when timings are left on "Auto" some of them can be set very very loose.
Ket, seems once again a gigabyte lazy issue, numerous people here are complaining about this issue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/60ā¦o_you_have_any/
Based on that Iād say its a case of poor isolation causing the crackling, happens when engineers cut corners typically. Try sticking a copper or aluminium heatsink on the ALC1200 chip itāll help reduce the electromagnetic interference and SNR crosstalk.
Something to do with the auto impedance headphone amp software, it only seems to work with a small amount of headphone types properly. On building the pc i made sure ferite coils were installed under the hood of my tower900 case 3 turns around the front panel header wire.
A lot of asus boards have the issue as well, worst one being the strixx, also headphones with a 4 pin TRS plug are a big no-no, they dont make correct contact with the socket ( i hate sony for this) mine have a built in phone mic (bloody stupid idea)
seems the crackling and snr degradation is an impedance mismatch problem with certain headphones, im going to try my 3 pin TRS jack HD 205 headphones in a min and see if the problem persists.
Disabling "turn on front jack detection" would be a good place to start.
If its just the headphone amp software changing the smart amp to level 3 should solve the issue.
Updated first post with links for modded versions of firmware F10.
Wish everyone here a wonderful Christmas. and thanks for this ket ill give it a try right now.
EDIT:
Just tried it, cant find the p-states option though. no way to set it.
Its the regular modded Gaming 5 firmware thats up, havenāt done the back engineered one yet.