[OFFER] Gigabyte GA-AX370-Aorus Gaming 5 BIOS mod

[Gigawits]

Slap Gigabite with a trout at http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/1542/ori…1&scrollTo=8340

this might be another bug in the long standing bugsoap , but dont think its gonna be resolved GB rarely does
They are the inventers of introducing new bugs by solving 1

[c2h5oh]

@ket

I have, I’m trying to keep what I do as feature rich as possible while not exposing or bringing forward options from AMDs blob of code that won’t be of any real benefit and also making sure there are no duplicate entries. I like to keep everything neat and tidy thats why a lot of options I renamed for clarity and so the item descriptions fit in to popup dialogs properly and added much better descriptions for a lot of options. All of this means that development is slower and pretty much means I do things when I have the time and will as GBs firmware is a complete mess. I’m also trying to avoid fixing every single thing with GBs firmware as that just provides them with an excuse to not do the work themselves.

Some of the AMD stuff is not and will not be exposed by GB, unless by mistake. Let me give you an example:

Vanilla F22 bios (and only F22 - not present in F22b or any of F23) for X370 K7 has AMD CBS -> NBIO common options -> XFR2.0, which if enabled exposes PPT, TDC and EDC settings. That XFR2.0 toggle carries the same warning text as PBO toggle on X470 boards. F22 also has "Precision Boost Overdrive Scalar" under a similar, but not exactly the same name.
All that is effectively Precision Boost Overdrive (X470 feature) on X370 and are fully functional (I have tested with a 2700 non-X), except for one issue: PPT, TDC and EDC have unit wrong by 3 orders of magnitude - if you set them all to 10 000 you’ll see your CPU try it’s hardest to run on <10W - mine does that by downclocking to Pentium 3 levels

You’d think you can just set a higher value - like 180 000 and have PBO humming nicely - but no: while you can enter higher values, anything over 2^16 (~65k) is ignored.


I don’t know about you, but I’d love to have working PBO without having to buy a new X470 mobo…

[POE_UK]

Please dont waste your time and effort on any of gigabytes x370 boards, just sell and buy an x470, my gaming7 wifi x470 board has been bloody brilliant so far, id give it a 9.5/10

[Benman2785]

i have a "GA-AX370-Gaming 5"

nice bios

[ket]

@StrongestAvengr2

Hi all I just joined the forums and wanted to say thank you for all of the information provided as well as the Modded BIOS for the Gaming k7. I am having a very strange issue with the f23fD-M modded bios. As soon as I enable SATA RAID the DRAM voltage reverts to exactly 1.2V no matter what. If I switch the BIOS back to AHCI mode the issue goes away. Has anyone else had this issue? I was able to get things stable at 4GHz easy with 2933 loose timings since my boot drive is 2 1TB SSDs in RAID 0 I was hoping someone here may have a working solution. It has also been a LONG time since Gigabyte released an official bios and this issue also happens on the official f23f BIOS from Gigabyte so I assume it is a bug. Any insight would be appreciated.

Try completely erasing and flashing the ROM chip. I have instructions on how to do that in the first post. The issue you describe I haven’t encountered on X370 although I have had something very similar happen on early revision X470 firmware.

[Floyd]

Hello, i just register on this forum for few question about the mod bios.
I actually with a gigabyte K7, ryzen 1700x and 2x8Go DDR4 Gskill F4-3200C14D-16GTZKO.
I’m using bios f7b from gigabyte.

2 months ago, I test all bios from F10 to F23f and I’ve big problem with this.
my ram was unable to run correctly @3200. I’ve all the time cold boot or boot loop
I was able to boot only with ram @ 2933

so I re-flah my board with gigabyte bios F7b and all is fine now with ram @3200 (and more…3230 actually).

I think the agesa in the bios F10 to F23f aren’t compatible with my rig.

I’d like to know if with your bios mod F22b, F23d or F23f, I’ll have the same problem that I had with the gigabyte bios.

thanks a lot for your answer.

[ket]

@Floyd

Hello, i just register on this forum for few question about the mod bios.
I actually with a gigabyte K7, ryzen 1700x and 2x8Go DDR4 Gskill F4-3200C14D-16GTZKO.
I’m using bios f7b from gigabyte.

2 months ago, I test all bios from F10 to F23f and I’ve big problem with this.
my ram was unable to run correctly @3200. I’ve all the time cold boot or boot loop
I was able to boot only with ram @ 2933

so I re-flah my board with gigabyte bios F7b and all is fine now with ram @3200 (and more…3230 actually).

I think the agesa in the bios F10 to F23f aren’t compatible with my rig.

I’d like to know if with your bios mod F22b, F23d or F23f, I’ll have the same problem that I had with the gigabyte bios.

thanks a lot for your answer.

While I can’t say for certain I can offer a general tip; with newer firmware releases I found swapping DIMM banks vastly improved memory compatibility with some kits. Extensive work was done for memory compatibility by AMD so newer AGESA code should bring improvements one way or another.

[Floyd]

so, how explain that with the bios > F10, my ram deny to boot @3200 ?
and, will it be the same with your mod bios ?
thanks

[ket]

@Floyd

so, how explain that with the bios > F10, my ram deny to boot @3200 ?
and, will it be the same with your mod bios ?
thanks

I gave you your answer on what to try with newer firmware in my last reply. Without much more detail theres no specific advice that can really be offered and even then no piece of silicon is created equal and will differ.

[Floyd]

"swapping"
sorry, I haven’t “see” (understand) this word.
strange
beetween your three last bios for k7, which is the “better” for compatibility ?
thanks

[mrinc_cro]

Guys, hello…I see there are some experts here and I need your advice…

Long story short, I bought X370 gaming 5 with flashed bios for gaming K5.
Due to unsuccessful win 7 install where I’m stuck (m.2 drivers fail to be found even though they are on usb stick) I wanted to flash bios to actual gaming 5 (latest F23f). But flashing won’t even start due to some error;

"BIOS ID check error"

Please advise what to do.

Thank you so much!

[Gigawits]

Seems like that the forum.gigabyte.us is gone just a few days after the promise for the latest agesa introduction in a ‘new’ bios
Julish was the comment by matt
And now its august so the hole forum went into a blackhole

[Lost_N_BIOS]

@mrinc_cro - this can be temporarily fixed by editing the correct board BIOS with the messed up BIOS ID. But, then to flash in the future you would need to continue to do the same each update. If you want this done, let me know and I will make special BIOS for you.
This can be overcome by purchasing a CH341A flash programmer, then you can program any BIOS without having to edit it, so quickly program in the correct BIOS and then not have to worry about using the programmer or editing a BIOS.

Here’s what you need, they’re cheap usually only $2.50-$4
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263458010112 - Choose “Blue” model, if you get from another seller be sure to get green or blue, don’t get black/gold it has issues sometimes and you might need to modify.

Since your BIOS is soldered to the board, you need one of these too
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263708580560

[ket]

@mrinc_cro

Guys, hello…I see there are some experts here and I need your advice…

Long story short, I bought X370 gaming 5 with flashed bios for gaming K5.
Due to unsuccessful win 7 install where I’m stuck (m.2 drivers fail to be found even though they are on usb stick) I wanted to flash bios to actual gaming 5 (latest F23f). But flashing won’t even start due to some error;

"BIOS ID check error"

Please advise what to do.

Thank you so much!

See first post there is instructions on how to erase and flash the ROM chip from a UEFI shell. Its not hard, just requires a little typing.

@Floyd

"swapping"
sorry, I haven’t "see" (understand) this word.
strange
beetween your three last bios for k7, which is the "better" for compatibility ?
thanks

In theory the best firmware should always be the newest it depends on your hardware and what changes have potentially been made to the firmware base code. All you can do is start with the latest and experiment, including changing the DIMM banks your memory is in and see what your results are.

[Floyd]

@ket

In theory the best firmware should always be the newest it depends on your hardware and what changes have potentially been made to the firmware base code. All you can do is start with the latest and experiment, including changing the DIMM banks your memory is in and see what your results are.

ok

will test that.

[Benman2785]

thank you for your GA-AX370-Gaming-5 “F23fM-D” mod - runs VERY FINE

https://twitter.com/Benius_Hope/status/1026802199983214592
Ryzen 5 2600X 4GHz at 1.169V prime stable

yet it would be great if you can complete your mod for GA-AX370-Gaming-3

[orondf343]

Anyone know what’s up with Gigabyte’s US forum? I’m getting an Error 1001 DNS resolution error from CloudFlare for several days now

[Floyd]

try this : http://gigabyteforum.freeforums.net/

[ket]

Intended more as a cautionary tale more than anything I think its important to highlight that GB still haven’t released any firmware for their X370 boards updating the AGESA code where Asrock have and I can say that PinnaclePI AGESA 1.0.0.4 (its new, not the 1.0.0.4 you might be thinking of) is very solid fixing a whole hoard of bugs 1st gen Zen CPUs had. The lesson here; Asrock are awesome with firmware updates, GB, as ever, are absolutely horrendous.

[Gigawits]

Doesnt matter wich site Gigashit brings his ‘announcement’ they tend to lure u with promises but cant follow suit
I use my 370 K7 ~ 1700@3500 low voltage 1.25v for simple www and so on
Bought a Asrock little tinkering and fiddeling with bios and no lockups or whatsoever

And Ket still i ow u my gratidute , your patched/slapped bios works lightyears beyond that bogus Gb crap