Weird bios

[Kenjo]

Hey boys n gals, 

As the topic states its a weird one, i just received my replacement board for the Defective Msi z390 gaming pro carbon , a Aorus Pro Z390... went to gigabyte´s website to find a newer bios and it tells me that the earliest bios is called F5... my board has an F4 bios from 2018 go figure ,) 

 

[JamesTheGreat]

Did you check the revision version of your board, vs the one on Gigabyte's site?  I had something identical, or so I thought, happen to me.  After checking and checking I realized I had an older version board than the Gigabyte page I came to.  They don't do a great job of showing which page your on.  The only way I know to tell, is to look at the top of the page, near where the board name is, and directly to the right of the name, is a tiny little "1.0" or "1.1, 1.2, 2.0" etc...

 

If you truly do have a unique bios version, Be sure to copy it before updating and post it someone so others can have access to it...  I've found the need for old bios versions in the past, especially ones that manufactures tend to take down and say "didn't exist" as there may have been a feature that was disabled in later versions..

 

One example is back around the Intel Gen 4 era... Did you know that some motherboard manufactures made a bios that allowed overclocking of NON-K CPU's??? This was of course soon removed and those bios versions over written with newer versions that they added features to... Go figure right... "Over clocking non-K, or new board features" YOU CHOOSE!!!!   Well, I found that old bios version online (Thanks to the person who saved and posted it) then found the feature I wanted in the newer bios version and made my own custom bios version..  So I got my added features plus still had Overclocking enabled on my I7-4790...

(I would like to add that I couldn't seem to make it work on any newer Gen Intel Chip, but I didn't have starting code to go from either.. Perhaps someone else could give it a whirl and make ALL 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th gen chips overclockable LIKE THEY SHOULDVE BEEN) lol

[Kenjo]

On 9/28/2019 at 4:16 PM, JamesTheGreat said:

Did you check the revision version of your board, vs the one on Gigabyte's site?  I had something identical, or so I thought, happen to me.  After checking and checking I realized I had an older version board than the Gigabyte page I came to.  They don't do a great job of showing which page your on.  The only way I know to tell, is to look at the top of the page, near where the board name is, and directly to the right of the name, is a tiny little "1.0" or "1.1, 1.2, 2.0" etc...

 

If you truly do have a unique bios version, Be sure to copy it before updating and post it someone so others can have access to it...  I've found the need for old bios versions in the past, especially ones that manufactures tend to take down and say "didn't exist" as there may have been a feature that was disabled in later versions..

 

One example is back around the Intel Gen 4 era... Did you know that some motherboard manufactures made a bios that allowed overclocking of NON-K CPU's??? This was of course soon removed and those bios versions over written with newer versions that they added features to... Go figure right... "Over clocking non-K, or new board features" YOU CHOOSE!!!!   Well, I found that old bios version online (Thanks to the person who saved and posted it) then found the feature I wanted in the newer bios version and made my own custom bios version..  So I got my added features plus still had Overclocking enabled on my I7-4790...

(I would like to add that I couldn't seem to make it work on any newer Gen Intel Chip, but I didn't have starting code to go from either.. Perhaps someone else could give it a whirl and make ALL 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th gen chips overclockable LIKE THEY SHOULDVE BEEN) lol

Sorry for late respons.. Gigabyte answered me saying "we removed the F4 as notified on the website and now F5 is 1st release" ... basically they referred to the Subject to change and said it was just a mere flash and voila