ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[stangracin3]

ok im doing a little bit of probing now at ASUS (azoooz) looking for a bios for the M4A79 Deluxe bios with better support for x6 cpu.

i have it on good understanding, **cough**** that a bios 3702 is going to be released soon.

meanwhile my thoughts to bingo of course who is having personal troubles at the moment

ask about the M4A79T also IT NEEDS SOME LOVING.

[NEOAethyr]

I'm getting a corsair tx 650w psu to replace my modded enermax 350w.
I'm gonna put the money in paypal in an hour or so for the psu.
I've read it might have ac ripple probs, but all psu's usually have some ac ripple.

A new raid rom would be nice (or a new driver.., amd raid driver is least 1, or 2 years old).
Vga card or pcie fixes, as long as they don't break anything, would be cool too.

Edit:
Oh and the cpu level up thing for the 1090t's to I think it was 1095t ???
Funny I don't see that cpu on newegg, I thaught it was gonna be selling a month ago.
It's not like I'll really use the feature but still.

[Sunfire]

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A new raid rom would be nice (or a new driver.., amd raid driver is least 1, or 2 years old).
Vga card or pcie fixes, as long as they don't break anything, would be cool too.

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ahcix64s.INF
Copyright 2010 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
DriverVer=06/22/2010, 3.2.1540.75

[NEOAethyr]

; ahcix86s.INF
; Copyright Tue 10/04/2005 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
;
[Version]
signature="$Windows NT$"
Class=SCSIAdapter
ClassGUID={4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
CatalogFile=ahcix86s.cat
Provider=%ATI%
DriverVer=09/22/2008, 3.100.1540.86
;

The driver is "over" 2 years old now, been the same driver since the 790-sb600 combo...
That's what I was talking about.
I don't know why yours says it's newer.

I've been checking once in a great while on amd's site and getting the latest but that part of it never gets updated.

Edit:
Oh, your's says 3.2.x...
Hmm, 6/22 eh, I'de better get that then lol.

[Sunfire]

I found it here: Link

[NEOAethyr]

This is the latest one I had:
DriverVer=10/21/2009, 3.2.1540.24
I believe I got it from the ch4's install disk.

I tried an hour ago to dl the latest, and what i got was:
DriverVer=07/01/2009, 3.1.1540.151

This was from the stand alone raid 10-10 package.

...
Thanks alot for that link, I bookmarked it.
Found the new driver under the sb800 section.
http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF.nsf/85a5bd877288a89c87256f330051687b/436236e7fbf316ba8725771f005e302e/$FILE/WHQL_SB8xx_RAID_VistaW7_3.2.1540.75.zip

Small too, looks like I don't have to dl a vga driver "pack" to get what I'm looking for anymore .

[Dazog]

I wonder if the Header USB issue will ever be fixed

Annoying to have slow usb 1 speeds instead of 2.0 via the headers.

[doctorwizz]

CHIV EOL now? No more BIOS's?

[Oliverda]

CHIV EOL now? No more BIOS's?

Probably. I won't buy any high end ASUS mobo in the future. I've never seen such a poor support for a $200+ priced mobo.

[Leeghoofd]

Focus is prolly on SandyBridge boards now, but no doubt that the CH IV and co will get future updates... even old X48 still get updates , but maybe not on the pace you guys want ... I'm running the latest official CH IV bios at home with 250HTT and 2000mhz rams at C7 daily... I can even reach it at lower volts than with older biosses... very small HT swing...

[CrimInalA]

Probably. I won't buy any high end ASUS mobo in the future. I've never seen such a poor support for a $200+ priced mobo.

I said that with my last Asus board already , so this is their final chance with me

Focus is prolly on SandyBridge boards now, but no doubt that the CH IV and co will get future updates... even old X48 still get updates , but maybe not on the pace you guys want ... I'm running the latest official CH IV bios at home with 250HTT and 2000mhz rams at C7 daily... I can even reach it at lower volts than with older biosses... very small HT swing...

Speculation . Besides , your board is running stable according to you . Good . But that doesn't necessarily mean others people boards are running stable .

[Panther_Seraphi]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

[Leeghoofd]

Speculation . Besides , your board is running stable according to you . Good . But that doesn't necessarily mean others people boards are running stable .

Dunno bout speculation, debugging is in full progress. Lots of boards already at or on the way. Our samples should arrive next week somewhere. The companies want to be 100% ready at launch date, believe me the focus is there... a late arrival means loss in sales...

Won't it be a good idea to dedicate a Formula IV thread with just the issues peopel are still having. Also state how to replicate the issue, things you tried to resolve it etc. I had loads of users in the RE III thread having the Bclock/drop in 3D performance issue (Error bits). Sadly only two contributed in a dedicated thread, while in the RE III thread at a certain time almost everybody had it (snowball effect). I can't defend the end user with only two people having an issue. Although believe me we (me and Massman) had a good discussion at the Asus Frankfurt Tech conference on the RE III/Designed for overclocking issues...
I would happily be the liason between the bios engineers and the end user. But I need solid proof of how, why and what ?

For this board : Most HT/Vcore swings are due to incorrect CPU-Z readouts (think we posted the THG proggie zillions time already and Bingo13 told us to use either a DMM or the ASUS soft to readout voltages) , enabling the Turbo makes it all worse (it's an AMD thing ) and speù issues due to bad/corrupt/incorrect executed bios flashes.

Also don't always believe what you read. Some users aren't as apt as they tend to show... it's not always the board or bios too blame... As always there are flawed boards, no discussion bout that... but never forget the human factor !! Secondly the perfect board/bios doesn't exist. Every board got it's own little quirks (not working divider, CL7 bug,etc...)

I'm just an end user like you, that does a lot of testing for reviews/ companies and open to any suggestions. But I have to remain sceptical to some reports...

My CH IV board is a pre retail sample ( which isn't an as good overclocker as the retail I had for the review (340 vs 355HT Clocks ) But till now rock solid at home, folds with 6 cores at 4Ghz/2000Mhz/2750Nb speed, Cooled by Corsair H70. Plays Bad Company 2 for hours and it allows me to do my daily stuff...

[beta]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

MSI 790FX-GD70 last bios release date: November 1.

[LowRun]

For this board : Most HT/Vcore swings are due to incorrect CPU-Z readouts (think we posted the THG proggie zillions time already and Bingo13 told us to use either a DMM or the ASUS soft to readout voltages) and due to bad/corrupt/incorrect executed bios flashes.

I can testify that DMM in hand, CPU-Z is doing WAY better than Asus software as far as voltages readouts here on my CH IV F.

[Leeghoofd]

Possible to log ya bios voltage settings and all the voltage readouts idle and load Lowrun. I only trust my DMM, I just use the turboV soft as a recap (age is killing me :p) as what is set.

[dyeager]

Be patient as Asus seem to support their board for a lot longer than the competition.

How many people are still supporting the 790FX?
And if they do is it TWO generations old?

There will be updates it just may take a few weeks but i bet its worth the wait.

I got new bios updates from gigabyte this summer for the GA-M57SLI-S4 and GA-M61P-S3. These are at least 5 generations old

I am willing to wait, but some communication would be nice

[diddi35]

I guess ASUS/bingo13 cares more about bios support for Intel boards for now.
I never imagined that "very soon" could be that long (for the new M4A79 beta bios)

[hokiealumnus]

Or possibly bingo13 has more important things to care about than updating this thread for the time being. See this post:

Update-
1. Apologize about the lack of updates but between constant travel and my daughter's cancer coming out of remission it has been a hetic three weeks.

I'd recommend those with issues contact ASUS support and see if they have anything they can pass along, or any comments on the availability of BIOSes. bingo may be understandably indisposed. It may be a good idea to try another avenue rather than continuing to complain in this thread.

[CrimInalA]

Or possibly bingo13 has more important things to care about than updating this thread for the time being. See this post:

I'd recommend those with issues contact ASUS support and see if they have anything they can pass along, or any comments on the availability of BIOSes. bingo may be understandably indisposed. It may be a good idea to try another avenue rather than continuing to complain in this thread.

you're quoting a very old post there . hist last post was on 29/9 saying he would be back on a consistent basis .

[Tonyb]

They managed to do a BIOS for the Crosshair IV Extreme on the 9th of this month.

[hokiealumnus]

you're quoting a very old post there . hist last post was on 29/9 saying he would be back on a consistent basis .

Yes, I'm aware it's an old post (16/9), but things like that can change quickly. I hope all is well and that he's just too busy to post here right now, which would preferable from the standpoint of a parent. However the possibility of bad problems is real and I'm trying to help people having problems with their boards help themselves.

Obviously this thread isn't being watched / replied to right now, whatever the reason. Those complaining are just preaching to the choir. Try another avenue and you may (hopefully) get somewhere.

EDIT - Saw the other post that got in while I was typing. I'm sure bingo is not the only member of their BIOS team. He's just the only one paying attention to this thread. That's why I'm saying to try ASUS directly.

[Walrus74]

I don't know if it was already posted in the thread.
I've searched but didn't found any news about it, so...

In the Asus ftp site today appeared a new bios for the M3N-HT Deluxe mobo:
M3N-HT 3202 BIOS


No changelog by now

Credits to Labview

It seems that there is no turbo control by BIOS.

[Leeghoofd]

I guess ASUS/bingo13 cares more about bios support for Intel boards for now.

Like said before Sandy Bridge is getting all the attention. Question : how much people do you think work on biosses at Asus 4 ? 40 ? 400 ? (hint : it ain't the last suggestion) Eg It took them quite some time to just reproduce some of the main issues we discovered when debugging the CH IV board... Coz it happens on your motherboard, doesn't mean ithappens on all boards and vice versa...

Yes, I'm aware it's an old post (16/9), but things like that can change quickly. I hope all is well and that he's just too busy to post here right now, which would preferable from the standpoint of a parent. However the possibility of bad problems is real and I'm trying to help people having problems with their boards help themselves.

Obviously this thread isn't being watched / replied to right now, whatever the reason. Those complaining are just preaching to the choir. Try another avenue and you may (hopefully) get somewhere.

Bingo13 will be back (got some very positive mails)... At least you are trying to position yourself in his shoes... A very adult thing to do
Seems some are really not capable or not even wanting to so Indeed Hookie bingo13 is just a part of the machine. Trying to give something extra to the community by being present here... think that already should be applauded...but for some it still ain't enough...

[BeepBeep2]

Does anyone remember the five year old M2N32 nforce 5 board? You can put 965BE's in those things and bios support lasted 4 years. Give ASUS some time...