Gigabyte Bios Issue

[mitchelfarris97]

Hello fellow enthusiasts. I have run into a problem with my bios for my Gigabyte R5 KD Gaming laptop. I hadnt updated it in a little over a year and when I did after doing maintenance on the internals, I.E. cleaning and repasting, I figured I would go ahead and do so. well I went from having a great laptop, to now a laptop that I can't tune(overclock), control the fans and can no longer configure my RGB. The gigabyte control center also no longer recognizes that its a gigabyte product. Please help. I cant even find the old bios file to roll it back. My old bios was from 2022 and it was amazing. The old bios looked like the red picture and the new one is the garbage insyde one.

[Middcore]

...where did you download this BIOS update from?

[mitchelfarris97]

Gigabytes website. Here- https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/G5--Intel-11th-Gen/support#support-childModelsMenu

[Godlygamer23]

Do you remember what version you had previously? Why did you decide to update your BIOS?

[mitchelfarris97]

Sadly I dont recall the last bios i had. I noticed my laptop was getting warmer then usual since i moved and was going to reduce the clocks a bit and figured I would update it beforehand. Dumb on my pat

 

[Godlygamer23]

26 minutes ago, mitchelfarris97 said:

Sadly I dont recall the last bios i had. I noticed my laptop was getting warmer then usual since i moved and was going to reduce the clocks a bit and figured I would update it beforehand. Dumb on my pat

What version are you on now?

[mitchelfarris97]

Current bios is FB05 If I can find the old bios name I will definitely post it

 

Update- I had a bios similar to a desktop motherboard from gigabyte. Should i try installing one compatible with my chipset?

[Godlygamer23]

10 minutes ago, mitchelfarris97 said:

FB05 If I can find the old bios name I will definitely post it

Can you post a screenshot from CPU-Z of the Mainboard tab?

[mitchelfarris97]

Sure one sec

[mitchelfarris97]

[Godlygamer23]

13 minutes ago, mitchelfarris97 said:

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I suspect the BIOS change may be causing your issues. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you could get the old BIOS back - there might be a repository somewhere, or maybe Gigabyte could send you the BIOS that originally shipped with your laptop.

[mitchelfarris97]

I just reached out to Gigabyte support. I will wait and see what they do then come back to update the thread. Appreciate all the help and support 

[mitchelfarris97]

So I found a temporary work around for now to help keep my temps down. Gigabyte has an app that allows you to control the fans but i had to really dig to find it. The application is called Gigabyte easytune. It works well for what I need now, but im definetly not going with a gigabyte laptop next time I upgrade. This is a bigger headache then its worth. Any suggestions for a good tunable laptop. Sadly I dont have the space where I live to build a new desktop yet, so I need a laptop. I have heard good things about Asus TUF gaming laptops, my brother even had one and never had any issues, but im definetly open for suggestions.

[mitchelfarris97]

So I reinstalled the bios cleanly and was able to get the laptop to work correctly again. I guess it was a bad install or something like that. All the gigabyte software works now too. Thanks for the help everyone.