I got the Rev.1 F5f bios from Janus Yeh (Gigabyte Support) last night. I am not sure if the the "f" in F5f stand for final but it must be the same on Gary got because it is the latest one. If you really can't wait until Gary posts his, I can send it to you. Just pm me. I haven't tried the bios yet. I might just wait for Gary's version because I trust him more than Gigabyte support.
I got the Rev.1 F5f bios from Janus Yeh (Gigabyte Support) last night. Just loaded this bios havn't tried any overclocking yet but seems to work fine so far. Thanks, Justinburton.
UPDATE ON FINAL F5 BIOS i like a copy of that bios hope it fix the some overcloking prob i have
Okay... where is this final bios update? Is this for the rev 1 or rev 2 boards?
Has anyone had a chance to REALLY test it out yet?
Can Gary or someone give us an idea of what is being updated with this bios?
Thoughts?
Thank you!
Smitty
Has anyone had a chance to REALLY test it out yet?
Can Gary or someone give us an idea of what is being updated with this bios?
Thoughts?
Thank you!
Smitty
F5Final rev1 board
This is tagged as F5 final, not through QA yet, but should be shortly, if it changes we will let you know. Working on a rev 2 board update now.
This is tagged as F5 final, not through QA yet, but should be shortly, if it changes we will let you know. Working on a rev 2 board update now.
Fallen Kell
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Well, it definitely helped. That and the version of the graphics drivers I have. Not sure which they are off hand since I am at work. I do know that they are not the current or the last couple releases. I want to say something like 115... but as I said, I am not on that computer.
Fallen Kell
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Fallen Kell
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Well, the drivers I use acording to the device manager are 7.15.11.5824, but I have no idea what exactly they translate into in terms of what to download from Nvidia... actually I just found that out, 158.24
As for me, there are ga-N680i-DQ6 and striker(asus) and both carrier.
I decided to sell straiker thanks to this (F5f)^^
I decided to sell straiker thanks to this (F5f)^^
Why?
I had been using the F45 bios from Gigabyte's site and then switched to the F5b from here and all works ok.
But I cannot update to the F5e or to the latest F5f. I do the same F8 update procedure and both update correctly but upon restart it reverts back to F5b and states that the bios has a checksum error.
I am at a loss as to why the F5b works ok but the other newer versions don't.
I had been using the F45 bios from Gigabyte's site and then switched to the F5b from here and all works ok.
But I cannot update to the F5e or to the latest F5f. I do the same F8 update procedure and both update correctly but upon restart it reverts back to F5b and states that the bios has a checksum error.
I am at a loss as to why the F5b works ok but the other newer versions don't.
Make sure you flash the main bios and the backup bios with the new F5f.
As for the new bios. Yes it is working great. I haven't really noticed a difference yet except the fact that it update my CPU microcode or something.
As for the new bios. Yes it is working great. I haven't really noticed a difference yet except the fact that it update my CPU microcode or something.
Well after about the 23rd extraction of the F5f bios and the 98th different floppy try it finally works. I have F5f as main bios and F4 as backup. Now to try and up my memory settings to what they were set at in the F5b version. Hope it works. And I still have that nagging double window about sata-ide raid no drives found window popping up. No amount of cmos resetting and battery pulling fixed it.............
Blazer7
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After a traumatic experience with my super fast mems in which I had to RMA 1 set, I've ended up with 2 sets with different chip ICs. That was a bummer but there was nothing I could do about it. As a result I had to start fine-tuning my mem again. After a couple of hours of testing I was already able to run @1066 5-4-4-5-2T@2.3V without the slightest problem but this was where my luck ended.
By that time the new F5f BIOS was ?released? (Thanks Gary), so I've decided to stop tuning my mem, upgrade to the latest BIOS and tune my mem afterwards. Unfortunately after flashing my main BIOS my system started to give me hangs for no apparent reason. After a thorough check it turned out to be my mems ! I couldn't run stable @1066 even when maxing out the voltage to 2.4V and setting the timings to 5-5-5-15-2T !!! (my mem's specs are for 1066MHz @4-4-4-5@2.4V for 1 pair).
That's like my mems became incompatible with the board after updating to the F5f !!! I've now reverted back to the F5b and everything is working fine. I will try again with the F5f probably tomorrow or the day after but that's weird. I've never experienced this kind of problems with any board in the past !
Anybody else experiencing problems with the new BIOS ?
By that time the new F5f BIOS was ?released? (Thanks Gary), so I've decided to stop tuning my mem, upgrade to the latest BIOS and tune my mem afterwards. Unfortunately after flashing my main BIOS my system started to give me hangs for no apparent reason. After a thorough check it turned out to be my mems ! I couldn't run stable @1066 even when maxing out the voltage to 2.4V and setting the timings to 5-5-5-15-2T !!! (my mem's specs are for 1066MHz @4-4-4-5@2.4V for 1 pair).
That's like my mems became incompatible with the board after updating to the F5f !!! I've now reverted back to the F5b and everything is working fine. I will try again with the F5f probably tomorrow or the day after but that's weird. I've never experienced this kind of problems with any board in the past !
Anybody else experiencing problems with the new BIOS ?
Blazer7-
Me too, if I apply the .3 overvolt to my memory to get it to 2.1 ,it wont even post. Right now I am at all stock settings and going to see what happens tomorrow when I creep up on it. With the F5b I could get it to 2.1 volts 1066 and 5-5-5-15-5 timings. But running 4 sticks I can't get to the 1146 my mem is rated for. Corsair dom 9136 4 gig. So far I aint impressed. It also was a frigging hassle to get F5f flashed but if I want to go back to F5b it goes like a charm and no hassles. Beats me.........
isgust;
Me too, if I apply the .3 overvolt to my memory to get it to 2.1 ,it wont even post. Right now I am at all stock settings and going to see what happens tomorrow when I creep up on it. With the F5b I could get it to 2.1 volts 1066 and 5-5-5-15-5 timings. But running 4 sticks I can't get to the 1146 my mem is rated for. Corsair dom 9136 4 gig. So far I aint impressed. It also was a frigging hassle to get F5f flashed but if I want to go back to F5b it goes like a charm and no hassles. Beats me.........
isgust;well I don't understand this but- one self induced issue is the following, using the F5b bios I had to manually up the voltage to get my dimm volts to 2.1. I use Everest to check on this. Now with F5f bios in use when I manually set the same voltage over to get the 2.1 volts it wouldn't post. So I go back to all voltages in the AUTO setting instead of manual. Now when I check with Everest I got 2.1 volts in AUTO! WOW. So I was really zapping my dimms-it seems. As of now I am at 1000 speed with 5-5-5-15-5 timings and so far so good. I gonna let it cook at this level for a while and test then try for more.........:shocked:
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Good Sunday Afternoon Everyone.
Well, with the upcoming Halloween festivities, STRANGE things appear to be happening with the latest BIOS revisions that are flowing out of the Gigabyte workshops. As we all know, most first-line memory manufacturers embed SPD timing chips into their memory sticks. However, we also learned some time ago that there were actually two (2) separate SPD levels in those sticks, one for lower voltage (usually 1.8V) and one for higher voltage (usually 2.2 to 2.3V). Therefore, in order to avail oneself of the higher level memory settings, a bump of approximately +.40V to +.50V (depending on the manufacturer) was necessary to reach the higher level.
It now appears that the memory voltage bump may be unnecessary, indeed possibly dangerous, when utilizing these latest BIOS revisions. Although I have not totally confirmed it, it seems that when you manually set the latency values for your memory sticks, i.e. 5-5-5-15, using these latest BIOS revisions, the CMOS is then set to the higher memory voltage, AUTOMATICALLY.
I just encountered this situation with my GA-X38-DQ6 board, and the latest F5h BIOS revision. On that X38 board, I was having a helluva time trying to obtain stability, getting repeated BSODs, and lockups when the Q6600 was set at a modest 334 x 9 = 3.0GHz, and the memory manually set at 5-5-5-15, but with the heretofore usual voltage bump of +.40V. Out of curiosity, I then set the memory voltage to Auto, and retained the manual memory settings. The damn thing booted up just fine, and has been stable for more than an hour. Using CPU-Z (ver. 1.41), it shows the memory running just fine at 534.6MHz, thus indicating that it is being feed 2.20V automatically by the CMOS.
Obviously, if what I am seeing with the X38 board BIOS revision is indicative of what may also be happening to the N680i boards using the F5f BIOS, then the memory sticks are getting "cooked" if you add the usual bump of +.40V, etc, IF you are also setting the memory latency values manually. We need to check this out further, so that it can be confirmed or not.
I don't have my N680i rig up and running right now so I can't try it myself, but maybe some of the Thread members can check it out and let us know if they find the same thing.
Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle :beer:
Well, with the upcoming Halloween festivities, STRANGE things appear to be happening with the latest BIOS revisions that are flowing out of the Gigabyte workshops. As we all know, most first-line memory manufacturers embed SPD timing chips into their memory sticks. However, we also learned some time ago that there were actually two (2) separate SPD levels in those sticks, one for lower voltage (usually 1.8V) and one for higher voltage (usually 2.2 to 2.3V). Therefore, in order to avail oneself of the higher level memory settings, a bump of approximately +.40V to +.50V (depending on the manufacturer) was necessary to reach the higher level.
It now appears that the memory voltage bump may be unnecessary, indeed possibly dangerous, when utilizing these latest BIOS revisions. Although I have not totally confirmed it, it seems that when you manually set the latency values for your memory sticks, i.e. 5-5-5-15, using these latest BIOS revisions, the CMOS is then set to the higher memory voltage, AUTOMATICALLY.
I just encountered this situation with my GA-X38-DQ6 board, and the latest F5h BIOS revision. On that X38 board, I was having a helluva time trying to obtain stability, getting repeated BSODs, and lockups when the Q6600 was set at a modest 334 x 9 = 3.0GHz, and the memory manually set at 5-5-5-15, but with the heretofore usual voltage bump of +.40V. Out of curiosity, I then set the memory voltage to Auto, and retained the manual memory settings. The damn thing booted up just fine, and has been stable for more than an hour. Using CPU-Z (ver. 1.41), it shows the memory running just fine at 534.6MHz, thus indicating that it is being feed 2.20V automatically by the CMOS.
Obviously, if what I am seeing with the X38 board BIOS revision is indicative of what may also be happening to the N680i boards using the F5f BIOS, then the memory sticks are getting "cooked" if you add the usual bump of +.40V, etc, IF you are also setting the memory latency values manually. We need to check this out further, so that it can be confirmed or not.
I don't have my N680i rig up and running right now so I can't try it myself, but maybe some of the Thread members can check it out and let us know if they find the same thing.
Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle
:beer:Good afternoon Mr.Beagle,
If you read a few posts back you will find that I noticed the same thing with my 680 rev 1 board using the F5f bios. The voltage is automatically set to what is for mine the correct voltage.(2.1 volts).
The only thing that I am oc'ing at the moment is my memory. Corsair 9136 dominator 4 gigs worth. With the F5b I could get 1066 at 5-5-5-15-5 now the max is 1001 with F5f set anything greater and upon reboot it automatically goes back to 800. It never did this with the F5b,it would become unstable or unbootable but I could take it higher. Not so now. I am still out as if this is a better bios...........
If you read a few posts back you will find that I noticed the same thing with my 680 rev 1 board using the F5f bios. The voltage is automatically set to what is for mine the correct voltage.(2.1 volts).
The only thing that I am oc'ing at the moment is my memory. Corsair 9136 dominator 4 gigs worth. With the F5b I could get 1066 at 5-5-5-15-5 now the max is 1001 with F5f set anything greater and upon reboot it automatically goes back to 800. It never did this with the F5b,it would become unstable or unbootable but I could take it higher. Not so now. I am still out as if this is a better bios...........
Blazer7
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Well there's definitely something wrong with this puppy. The best I could do so far with my mem is 868 with 2.275V at horrible timings the likes I don't wanna mention. I believe that I can hit 900-920 with 2.35/2.4V but I'm not sure if I can do better than that.
So far whenever I've tried anything beyond 1000 my rig would freeze nomatter what the timings and voltage are. Another thing I've noticed is that if I modify any value in the BIOS such as mem voltage, timings, linked/unlinked options etc, there is a very good chance that I will get the following message at the next boot :
Warning : New CPU detected and ROMSIP table has been updated accordingly. A system reset is needed for the new setting taking effect.
At this point the only thing I can do is reset. I've even tried the same settings I had with the F5b but to no avail.
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Mr Beagle & Mr raisinjack,
So far I'm not in a position to verify whether this BIOS automatically sets the mem voltage as my 2 pairs have different SPD timings and this includes voltage settings too. Tomorrow I will do some additional testing with one pair at a time. Hopefully as my mem is rated for 2.4V and is adequately cooled, I may be able to check this automatic voltage theory without cooking my mems it the process.
PS
If this is the F5 final god help us.
So far whenever I've tried anything beyond 1000 my rig would freeze nomatter what the timings and voltage are. Another thing I've noticed is that if I modify any value in the BIOS such as mem voltage, timings, linked/unlinked options etc, there is a very good chance that I will get the following message at the next boot :
Warning : New CPU detected and ROMSIP table has been updated accordingly. A system reset is needed for the new setting taking effect.
At this point the only thing I can do is reset. I've even tried the same settings I had with the F5b but to no avail.
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Mr Beagle & Mr raisinjack,
So far I'm not in a position to verify whether this BIOS automatically sets the mem voltage as my 2 pairs have different SPD timings and this includes voltage settings too. Tomorrow I will do some additional testing with one pair at a time. Hopefully as my mem is rated for 2.4V and is adequately cooled, I may be able to check this automatic voltage theory without cooking my mems it the process.
PS
If this is the F5 final god help us.
Mr. Blazer7:
luckily my memory is cooled and I caught the voltage increase quite by accident but I can assure you my voltage settings are all set to auto and it is reporting 2.1 instead of the usual 1.8.
and yes I have had the same message as you on boot up and I just hit the little reset button and went on:roll:
I kept a spare floppy with F5b on it and I may go back to it
Or I may give up on this board altogether and get um maybe an x38 jobber
luckily my memory is cooled and I caught the voltage increase quite by accident but I can assure you my voltage settings are all set to auto and it is reporting 2.1 instead of the usual 1.8.
and yes I have had the same message as you on boot up and I just hit the little reset button and went on:roll:
I kept a spare floppy with F5b on it and I may go back to it
Or I may give up on this board altogether and get um maybe an x38 jobber
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Good Evening Messrs RaisinMan and Blazer.
It is truly a sad situation that we are facing. The brain dead Gigabyte folks in their little workshops in Taiwan must be playing with themselves. This is NO improvement in the BIOS Department!
This whole fiasco brings to mind a famous quote from an old Amish Farmer. The Amish gentleman was once quoted as saying," the farther I go, the behinder I get!"
When it comes to BIOS revisions for our N680i board, no truer words were ever spoken!!
God help us all! TheBeagleisgust; :beer:
It is truly a sad situation that we are facing. The brain dead Gigabyte folks in their little workshops in Taiwan must be playing with themselves. This is NO improvement in the BIOS Department!
This whole fiasco brings to mind a famous quote from an old Amish Farmer. The Amish gentleman was once quoted as saying," the farther I go, the behinder I get!"
When it comes to BIOS revisions for our N680i board, no truer words were ever spoken!!
God help us all! TheBeagle
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