Gigabyte B450 Elite Bios Rollback/Downgrade

[Voicetek]

Hey guys,

I recently updated my BIOS on my Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite from F32 to F51. Immediately after, I started having system stability issues mainly with my RAM. With BIOS F32, I was able to run my RAM at 3000Mhz, however, when trying that under the new BIOS version, my system becomes highly unstable. If I run my RAM at anything over 2400Mhz, it fails to post, boot, or becomes unstable within Windows.

My question is this, since BIOS version F32 was the last stable version that worked on my system, is there a safe way to rollback or reflash to version F32? If so, what's the best way to do that?

I know if everything is running correctly, you should leave your BIOS alone, but my RAM wasn't running at the full memory speeds and I'd read that updating my BIOS to the current version could help solve that problem. Unfortunately, I've created an all-new worse problem for myself. I've tried contacting Gigabyte's customer support, but for whatever reason their server is down and keeps timing out whenever I submit my question.

 

I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x on a Gigabyte B450 Elite motherboard. I've got 32Gb (16x2) of DDR4-3200 Ballistix Sport LT RAM.

Any info or advice would be appreciated.

[Whiro]

2 hours ago, Voicetek said:

My question is this, since BIOS version F32 was the last stable version that worked on my system, is there a safe way to rollback or reflash to version F32? If so, what's the best way to do that?

Just download the f32 bios from gigabyte website and flash it with this version with bios if you have problems with current one.

[Voicetek]

21 hours ago, Whiro said:

Just download the f32 bios from gigabyte website and flash it with this version with bios if you have problems with current one.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I had originally thought to do this, but upon further research, people were saying that flashing to an older BIOS could brick your board.  Obviously I didn't want to do that until I got some more advice about it.  The more I look, the more I'm finding split opinions on it.  Some say it's perfectly fine (supposedly some boards have interchangeable BIOS), and some will swear up and down that it'll brick your board.  I submitted a question about it to Gigabyte just to be absolutely certain that it'll work on their boards, but I haven't heard anything back yet.  Have you had any experience doing something like this?

[Whiro]

1 hour ago, Voicetek said:

Thanks for the suggestion.  I had originally thought to do this, but upon further research, people were saying that flashing to an older BIOS could brick your board.  Obviously I didn't want to do that until I got some more advice about it.  The more I look, the more I'm finding split opinions on it.  Some say it's perfectly fine (supposedly some boards have interchangeable BIOS), and some will swear up and down that it'll brick your board.  I submitted a question about it to Gigabyte just to be absolutely certain that it'll work on their boards, but I haven't heard anything back yet.  Have you had any experience doing something like this?

I done it once, few yrs back on z97 board and it worked without any issues for me, that’s why I mentioned that. 

[Voicetek]

6 minutes ago, Whiro said:

I done it once, few yrs back on z97 board and it worked without any issues for me, that’s why I mentioned that. 

Thanks.  I appreciate the advice and will probably give it a try.

[LuisS]

I have the same problem. could you rolling back bios to your motherboard? in a safe way.