Bios problems Ideas/help/thoughts

[mckenna3002]

So long story short, everytime I've updated my bios I've lost something. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or updating the bios is just a bad idea...thoughts?

 

Gigabyte AB350M Gaming 3

Ryzen 1600

4 x 4GB Patriot Viper 4 Ram (XMP has never worked)

1x NVME

3x SSD

 

Bios F25

I have a O/C of 3.8Ghz and I run my ram @3000mhz and everything works fine.

 

Bios F30/31

I lost the ability to O/C the CPU, it just boot cycles and loads defaults. I tried a range of different voltages and multiplier steps, but couldn't under or overclock.

Ram was fine

 

Bios F40

No Cpu O/C and my system is unstable with the ram set @3000Mhz, windows either just gets to desktop or crashes before, ran memtest and it was basically all errors

Ram is fine @2933Mhz

 

Bios F41a

No change on ram or CPU, but unable to automatically boot from SSD, went into Bios and the only boot option was the NVME drive and (BBS?) boot priorities list has vanished. All the drives are correctly showing up in Bios, but arent available as boot drives. I tried a bunch of different settings, but nothing else would show up. At boot up, if i hammered F12 i could get the boot menu and manually select the correct boot drive, but this is obviously not the right way of doing things

 

I'm pretty certain the motherboard/ram/cpu is fine, if I roll back to F25, then everything works fine. I've usually always kept bios update and O/C'ed other computers i've had and never had any problems like this before. It feels like I'm losing too much performance with each new Bios, which makes future upgrades basically pointless.

 

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

 

[Master Disaster]

If it isn't broken then don't try to fix it. In other words, if there's no reason to update then don't, stick with the version you know works.

[mckenna3002]

Thats the mentality I've tried to stick with and it works, i've just got a bitter taste in my mouth that I'm potentially locked out of Ryzen 3000/4000(?) on this board.  

 

It just feels like planned obsolescence.

 

Thanks dude