ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[bingo13]

Update -
Crosshair Formula IV - Should have a revised BIOS late this week based on the new code with proper LLC ranges under load, provided you disable Turbo Core mode on the Thuban when overclocking. The current beta would have caused a few problems.

[Movieman]

[DR G frag]

I hope the new C4F bios will be better in my case.
It can be stable occt for 1h with 13x315mhz @ 1.45v but can crash on Internet or Word after a few minutes.
Bios will come before thursday?

[FlanK3r]

PRAZ: so, i say, upgrade to 0905 is good choice? Better OC potencial? Im still at 0707...

[diddi35]

No news about the M4A79 or any of the other 790FX boards?
I guess because of the delay for the C4F there won't be anything new this week, right?

[Praz]

PRAZ: so, i say, upgrade to 0905 is good choice? Better OC potencial? Im still at 0707...

0905 has been solid for me. But with 1003 right around the corner you may want to wait for it. With the exception of the issue Bingo13 has stated is being addressed I have not found any other problems with it. I'm running the board fully stable with C n' Q/C1E enabled at 4100MHz and 8GB of memory. Also, with v1003 SSD performance no longer seems to go down because of C n' Q/C1E being enabled. Once released and out in the wild for a bit if no major issues pop up it seems the version to move to.

[GMScribe]

For now any overclock would be great but would like to see turbo-core in future revisions.

[Daveburt714]

For now any overclock would be great but would like to see turbo-core in future revisions.

3.2 Ghz is the best you can get?...
If thats the case, I'd have to guess it's because your trying to run 16Gb of Ram.
If it were me, I'd pull two sticks and try again....
Have you tried running 2T? That might help if you really need the 16 gigs.

I have to agree with Praz, 0905 actually runs pretty darn good!
I'm using a 1055T so "Turbo Core" comes in quite handy! Thats really the only place where I've seen the LLC overvolt problem come into play on the CPU (IMC is a different story)...

I am a little dissapointed that the TurboCore/LLC problem won't be fixed on this new bois, but as long as it isn't any worse the 0905 I can deal with it...

Hopefully, they calmed it down a little on the IMC though...

[FlanK3r]

someone, do u have a problem with integrated sound at Cross IV? Example yesterday i stressed CPU and listen to music and past about 5 minutes i heard a crackle and than was my sound off (after restart PC was sound OK). WTF?

[GMScribe]

3.2 Ghz is the best you can get?...
If thats the case, I'd have to guess it's because your trying to run 16Gb of Ram.
If it were me, I'd pull two sticks and try again....
Have you tried running 2T? That might help if you really need the 16 gigs.

I have to agree with Praz, 0905 actually runs pretty darn good!
I'm using a 1055T so "Turbo Core" comes in quite handy! Thats really the only place where I've seen the LLC overvolt problem come into play on the CPU (IMC is a different story)...

I am a little dissapointed that the TurboCore/LLC problem won't be fixed on this new bois, but as long as it isn't any worse the 0905 I can deal with it...

Hopefully, they calmed it down a little on the IMC though...

It is my ram, 8GB works fine! Sadly I'm under-timing my memory as it is. The extra 8GB is worth £300 I'd rather not remove it =(

[Forsaken1]

someone, do u have a problem with integrated sound at Cross IV? Example yesterday i stressed CPU and listen to music and past about 5 minutes i heard a crackle and than was my sound off (after restart PC was sound OK). WTF?

Crooshair iv all official and a few beta bios.mem test for hours on end.Vantage pass not a issue.Fur mark no issues.Prime no issue.

My system randomly crash's while gaming often.No oc.BFBC2,LFD2,CODMW does not matter the game.I have a audio looping sound,then ctd or freeze.If i alt tab quick enough when this happens,i can often alt tab back in and continue.Tryed fresh installs.No via audio and with via driver.Put 5850 and issue is gone.

Not sure if this is a mobo issue.With either a sapphire 5970 oc or pc 5970 lcs. It(motherboard?) reports master and slave bios reversed.Makess a headache to flash.Could this be a issue?

Confirmed reversal with powercolor tech support.

[theoldtimer]

I’ve been using bios 801 or 905 for several weeks now and had planned to wait on the new bios rather than post these problems I have encountered. More than anything else I’m asking if any of you have had any of the problems listed below?
At cold boot both 801 and 905 bios (more often the not) boot with these settings shown in the photo below. I doesn’t matter what the saved bios settings were at the last shutdown. It’s as if these settings have become the new default. I would think when I flash from one bios to another that any corruption would be corrected but maybe not in this case? All bios photos are of bios 905.




In this photo (bios 905) the voltages are set to auto but as shown the Dram voltage indicates 1.872v.



If I am the only one having these problems and the new bios doesn’t correct them I’ll be leaning toward the MB being broken.

[crazydiamond]

does anyone know if the gd70 has proper working turbocore? think i might try my luck with that

[GMScribe]

C4F firmware??????? =P

[Dolk]

FYI CNQ stays on always with LLC on the M4A89GTD Pro.

[FlanK3r]

I update BIOS Cross IV at 0905 (from 0707). Strange its, i cant run Cinebench R11.5 :-). With stable clocks give me error at begin run. Second, for higher max stability doesnt changed it, cant broken 4300+ MHz :-/ (why can run 4300MHz stable and only next 10MHz up dont :-( ???)

[bingo13]

Update -
Crosshair IV Formula - Solved the VCore voltage jump with CnQ and LLC both enabled (not recommended for high OC) it appears. As soon as I have the fixed code I will release it, which should be this week.
M3N Series - We will have another beta shortly with a few core code changes but the board just is not going to clock as well as the 890FX boards, there is only so much you can do with a chipset designed before Thuban was a twinkle in somebody's eye.

[diddi35]

So that "very soon" for the M4A79 became "nothing at all" (same for the other 790FX boards)

[CrimInalA]

Update -
Crosshair IV Formula - Solved the VCore voltage jump with CnQ and LLC both enabled (not recommended for high OC) it appears.

what do you mean by that "not recommended for high oc" ? high oc on cpu-nb ? memory ? cpu ? are those LN2 benches ? 4000 mhz ? 3500 ?
What problems can one see when enabling both LLC and CnQ on -for example- my OC of 4200mhz ?

[Daveburt714]

Update -
Crosshair Formula IV - Should have a revised BIOS late this week based on the new code with proper LLC ranges under load, provided you disable Turbo Core mode on the Thuban when overclocking.

Crosshair IV Formula - Solved the VCore voltage jump with CnQ and LLC both enabled (not recommended for high OC) it appears.

Man.... I may recind my willingness to be the Guinea pig!

I'm finally figuring out how to get the most out of 0905...
After your crews month+ of work it sounds like the new bios may actually be worse than 0905!
Then theres the fact that you can't flash back after the update.

I hope I'm wrong, but this new bios isn't sounding like an improvement Bingo....

Hope I'm wrong.

[mngdew]

Which CF4 bios supports the new X6 1055T 95W?

[chew*]

Guys take it easy. I gave asus a list of stuff to work on + I'm sure others have.

They have put out more bioses already for this one board than "others" have

When it's done it's done.

[OC Maximus]

Bingo13,

MB: Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
Current Bios: 1602

I've had a PCIE lane problem since I updated to bios 1456. I was running 2 5770s in crossfire at x8 and x16 on a single card for a while. After bios 1456 update my pcie speed downgraded to x1 and x8. I can no longer run x16 with a single card or x8 in both lanes in crossfire. Crossfire isn't even an option now since I can't get both lanes to run at the same speed. I'm now down to one card running at x8 which is no good. Both cards have been tested on a different board and work fine. I've also reloaded windows a few times and have the tested 10.3-10.7 ATI Catalyst drivers to no avail. Lower pcie is stuck at x8 and upper at x1 no matter what I try. Everything else on the board works fine. Only problems I have are the pcie lanes and the inablility to go into crossfire.

The following links are my current threads on this problem/bug:

Xtreme Systems

AMD Forums

ASUS Support

Could it be a Bios problem or is it time for a new MB?

[skill123]

any newes about M3A79T-Deluxe ? bingo13

[I.nfraR.ed]

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.