ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

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Ok, I flashed to 1602 beta and I'm experiencing some strange issues.
First of all it wiped out all my OC profiles. I should mention that I loaded the "Setup defaults" before updating from 1456.
After that I put all my proved-to-work OC settings in the bios, tweaked other options, turned off all things I don't use, saved and restarted.
It booted up, checked all harddrives and stopped on "Checking NVRAM...". I went back to the bios, trying to figure out what happened. After 3 or 4 tries I found it - "Update microcode" option was causing the problems. Is it normal?

Well, I managed to load Windows 7 x64 and...here's the screen. I don't know what to believe in . C'n'Q and C1E are disabled. Haven't tested if these settings are Prime stable yet (with the new bios).




Note the min and max cpu voltage in HWMonitor. The current one in CPU-z is the normal which should be showing, but it was going all the way down to 1.28.

If you need any other info, I would be glad to help.

Hi this is normal! The new BETA uses a new version of AGESA (which is the AMD written part of the bios). This likely explains the need to clear out your OC profiles as core settings have been altered. The new version of AGESA likely includes a new microcode that needs updating on the CPU to work so this is also normal.

This bios has had a lot of recalibrating from what I gather along with fundamental changes. Your best bet is to test again to confirm where a stable overclock is.