Can't access BIOS after upgrading

[fvaldivial]

Hello

I bought a X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming for use with a Ryzen 3600 processor. As it is not compatible out of the box, I put a 2600 and updated the BIOS via Q-Flash, started in F6, F30, F31, F40 (this one is the first one compatible with 3rd gen Ryzen). When I got to F40, Q-Flash exited and the computer booted directly to Windows, and I couldn't access the bios. I reset the bios pressing reset and power buttons for 10 seconds and tried again, but I got the same result, after flashing F40 bios is no longer accessible. Now the Ryzen 5 3600 processor works and I can boot to Windows, but I can't enter the bios and couln't flash the backup bios, and won't be trying again as I don't have the 2600 processor at hand. What should I do? Maybe flash F41 with efiflash?
Thanks in advance

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, fvaldivial said:

What should I do?

Press Windows+X, then select "Power Shell (Administrator)" and in the window that pops up, type shutdown /r /fw , press enter and wait about a minute for it to reboot into BIOS automatically. If that doesn't work, try disconnecting all your SSDs and HDDs and seeing if it allows you into BIOS then.

[fvaldivial]

Thanks, I'll try that. But when I try to access from here, I just get a blank screen and nothing happens until I reboot again. Also I've tried booting with no drive at all and same, blank screen. If I disconnect all drives and put a usb drive with ubuntu it boots to it but still no bios

 

 

[Mathieu9836]

Once into BIOS disable Ultra Fast Boot or Fast Boot i dont remember how it's named. You can try to clear CMOS, it may get you into BIOS

[fvaldivial]

19 minutes ago, Mathieu9836 said:

Once into BIOS disable Ultra Fast Boot or Fast Boot i dont remember how it's named. You can try to clear CMOS, it may get you into BIOS

I've already cleared CMOS and still can't get into bios

[Mathieu9836]

You can try flashing BIOS with Gigabyte'S flashing software but its a bit more risky.

[fvaldivial]

18 hours ago, Mathieu9836 said:

You can try flashing BIOS with Gigabyte'S flashing software but its a bit more risky.

I've read everywhere using @bios is very dangerous so I'm not using it even if Gigabyte itself is telling me to do it.

 

Gigabyte support answered me and they basically said send it, install a newer bios. I'll try that tonight.

 

[Mathieu9836]

Gigabyte's bios update around F40 and F41 was junk, had a lot of issue on the DS3H at the time, installed F4 back and everything was running just fine, but you can't do that since you need F40 and higher. I would try @BIOS before sending the board for RMA, what do you have to loose, they will probably end up trying that anyway.

[fvaldivial]

Now it won't work at all, the fan makes a noise and the cpu light is on

https://youtu.be/WCbGW-_Ptf8

Edited September 13, 2019 by fvaldivial
now it works

[fvaldivial]

I think I found the problem but I still need a solution.

The bios is showing, but not in my main screen. When I try to access the BIOS I get a blank screen, either pressing delete, via windows recovery options or aorus app. It will stay blank until I disconnect the computer from the wall... OR, I press Esc and then enter, Windows starts booting, that means the options are there I just can't see them. It might be that I'm using an old GeForce 7200 via DVI converted to HDMI in the PCIe 4x port for video in the meanwhile my 5700 XT arrives. Or not.

Do any of you has this motherboard and can send me key by key instructions to disable the integrated graphics?

[asand1]

You don't have an igpu, so internal graphics shouldn't be the issue.

[Mathieu9836]

Might be sending Display through onboard graphics by default until Windows kick in, when i built my first pc with a 2400G the DS3H was set on GPU display by default, how amazing that is...... next BIOS update had display output set to ''AUTO''....

[fvaldivial]

I'm suspecting the problem is my video card, as it is very old. I'll wait for my 5700 xt to arrive and try again. If it still fails I'll ask for a RMA

[fvaldivial]

I took screenshots of the bios menu, so the problem is not the mb itself but the video output

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[Mathieu9836]

Thats what i thought.... the DS3H did the opposite when i built my 2400G PC back in december last year, the Display Output was set to GPU by default and not to Auto like the next BIOS update did, so i had to borrow a friend's GPU to change settings.