Question Intel13th gen and Z690 problems?

[BoomerD]

Saw this earlier:

Intel 13th Gen CPUs Buggy on Gigabyte Z690 Motherboards as Well: Memory and Storage Incompatibilities | Hardware Times

We’ve heard multiple reports of Intel’s 13th Gen CPUs failing to boot on older Z690 motherboards. Till now, all the incidents involved ASUS Z690 boards wherein the Core i9-13900K was up to 48% slower than usual. Furthermore, some users have been facing problems getting the Z690 to POST with...

www.hardwaretimes.com

Since one of the builds I'm looking at includes the i5-13600K and either an ASUS or Gigabyte board, it really caught my attention.
I notice the article really doesn't mention "BIOS updates," but it does say the problems "can be reproduced using the latest firmware."
(edit:fixed typos)

 

[coercitiv]

I can tell you there was a major issue with 13th gen CPUs that came up after an Intel Management Engine update, the fix was to update the ME firmware as well.

See the following 2 posts:

PSA: Some Intel BIOS updates are nasty, bricking the NVME slot attached to the CPU.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583812650537930752

I was merely passing along the bit of info that I stumbled upon. Ah, dug a bit more and found your exact issue, it appears you need to update the Intel ME firmware & driver.

Here's a thread on the issue - https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthre...103-from-with-13900k-no-nvme-drivers-detected
Here's the resource page you need for firmware/driver - https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?131027-RaptorLake-Resources

Take it slow, read the threads. Good luck!

In your place I would still consider a Z690 from any of the major brands but with the ability to flash BIOS without a CPU is a MUST in this case (BIOS flashback, Q-Flash Plus, has various names). This article contains a list, though I would manually check the final board of choice.

If you encounter issues with the NVME slot connected to the CPU, then look into the links above and perform that Intel ME firmware update. (haven't checked but I believe that update eventually comes through Windows anyway)