Hey ket. Great work on the BIOSs. I swear I'll eventually install yours... ;)

Does yours get rid of the illuminated red power button at the top right corner of the Gaming 5? Also the orange LED that indicates which BIOS is being used? They're annoying when not using fully red or fully orange LED setups respectively.

Happy New Year!!

Hey Ket. Awesome work on bios'es. Is it possible now to directly flash these bios with Qflash? im on gaming 3 and we aint got no Switch to just change Bioses on the go, so need to be more careful with it. Thanks

Also, if possible, please make different threads for different boards, this will make it a lot lot easier to sift through comments and get the useful stuff going for the specific use case scenarios for us. Not at all nitpicking, whatever you are going is great and one of a kind. Thanks a lot.

Im going to rma this board and go for an ASrock ax370 instead, this board has now decided to brick itself for no good reason, both bios chips look to be corrupted and it will not boot past code 54. anyone here who has this board i highly recommend you get rid of it, it is crap.

Zitat von TiVoGlObE im Beitrag #317

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Hey Ket. Awesome work on bios'es. Is it possible now to directly flash these bios with Qflash? im on gaming 3 and we aint got no Switch to just change Bioses on the go, so need to be more careful with it. Thanks

Also, if possible, please make different threads for different boards, this will make it a lot lot easier to sift through comments and get the useful stuff going for the specific use case scenarios for us. Not at all nitpicking, whatever you are going is great and one of a kind. Thanks a lot.

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Zitat von jackoboy9 im Beitrag #316

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Hey ket. Great work on the BIOSs. I swear I'll eventually install yours... ;)

Does yours get rid of the illuminated red power button at the top right corner of the Gaming 5? Also the orange LED that indicates which BIOS is being used? They're annoying when not using fully red or fully orange LED setups respectively.

Happy New Year!!

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That doesn work fine. As they said before, the pstate 2 crash the pc And dont wake Up (you need to use the backup and reinstall the bios). But that problem is on the reverse too.
You have a idea about what can be te problem and a posible solution? Sorry for my bad english and the corrector xD

if someone needs me to test with this mother I am available (GA-AX-370 Gaming 5)

Fixed some options not showing when they should have for the X370 Gaming, Gaming 5 and Gaming K3.

Updated experimental UEFIs for the Gaming 5 with F10 versions

Gabohack

Mate the motherboard is piss poor, get rid of it and get the board i have, the MSI XPOWER Titanium, its a real nice board, no issues whatsoever, and so much faster., also the UEFI on gigabyte boards is an absolute joke.

the gaming5 will not boot p-state 2 unless the core is 0.85v and 1500mhz, yet none of these problems exist on the MSI, its just a very poor board, also the MSI has BIOS flashback which means even if the bios gets corrupted you can completely wipe the corrupted bios chip from USB even with no cpu or ram installed!

gigabyte are considering taking the gaming5 off the shelves, it has hardware faults.

whats the point of having dual bios if they dont work properly, mine just randomly bricked itself even with gigabytes official bioses installed, a terrible terrible motherboard thats made me lose more hair.

this is the reason gigabyte havent included p-states in their bioses, its because the motherboard has a fault in the circuitry, there are two resistors on the board that are the wrong value which allows the board to get bricked.

this problem applies the the gaming5 k5 and k7, you wouldnt think the msi xpower was the same price! it freaking flies on an r7 1700 all in all same clocks im getting an extra 3.7Gflops with intel burn test AVX and my g.skill tridentZ runs stable at 3600.

Zitat von Gabohack im Beitrag #320

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That doesn work fine. As they said before, the pstate 2 crash the pc And dont wake Up (you need to use the backup and reinstall the bios). But that problem is on the reverse too.
You have a idea about what can be te problem and a posible solution? Sorry for my bad english and the corrector xD

if someone needs me to test with this mother I am available (GA-AX-370 Gaming 5)

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Zitat von POE_UK im Beitrag #323

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Gabohack

Mate the motherboard is piss poor, get rid of it and get the board i have, the MSI XPOWER Titanium, its a real nice board, no issues whatsoever, and so much faster., also the UEFI on gigabyte boards is an absolute joke.

the gaming5 will not boot p-state 2 unless the core is 0.85v and 1500mhz, yet none of these problems exist on the MSI, its just a very poor board, also the MSI has BIOS flashback which means even if the bios gets corrupted you can completely wipe the corrupted bios chip from USB even with no cpu or ram installed!

gigabyte are considering taking the gaming5 off the shelves, it has hardware faults.

whats the point of having dual bios if they dont work properly, mine just randomly bricked itself even with gigabytes official bioses installed, a terrible terrible motherboard thats made me lose more hair.

this is the reason gigabyte havent included p-states in their bioses, its because the motherboard has a fault in the circuitry, there are two resistors on the board that are the wrong value which allows the board to get bricked.

this problem applies the the gaming5 k5 and k7, you wouldnt think the msi xpower was the same price! it freaking flies on an r7 1700 all in all same clocks im getting an extra 3.7Gflops with intel burn test AVX and my g.skill tridentZ runs stable at 3600.

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And thanks for the work in the bios mod! <3

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Zitat von POE_UK im Beitrag #323

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Gabohack

Mate the motherboard is piss poor, get rid of it and get the board i have, the MSI XPOWER Titanium, its a real nice board, no issues whatsoever, and so much faster., also the UEFI on gigabyte boards is an absolute joke.

the gaming5 will not boot p-state 2 unless the core is 0.85v and 1500mhz, yet none of these problems exist on the MSI, its just a very poor board, also the MSI has BIOS flashback which means even if the bios gets corrupted you can completely wipe the corrupted bios chip from USB even with no cpu or ram installed!

gigabyte are considering taking the gaming5 off the shelves, it has hardware faults.

whats the point of having dual bios if they dont work properly, mine just randomly bricked itself even with gigabytes official bioses installed, a terrible terrible motherboard thats made me lose more hair.

this is the reason gigabyte havent included p-states in their bioses, its because the motherboard has a fault in the circuitry, there are two resistors on the board that are the wrong value which allows the board to get bricked.

this problem applies the the gaming5 k5 and k7, you wouldnt think the msi xpower was the same price! it freaking flies on an r7 1700 all in all same clocks im getting an extra 3.7Gflops with intel burn test AVX and my g.skill tridentZ runs stable at 3600.

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Thanks, but the problem is i already have it and i cant buy another. And i buyed this mother for the two ethernet and the lot of usb that have. And you have right. This is my last Gigabyte purchase. i can maked work my Ryzen 7 1700 in 3.8 with 1.22500v but i cant make work my ram in 2400 or something. i dont know if is this problem of gigabyte or what but i cant xD My mother is fine, i flashed the stock bios with the backup bios and my mother is safe. But yes. Gigabyte is a bullshit with am4 motherboards.
Thanks for the reply.

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Got any links confirming all the hardware issues with the Gigabyte AM4 boards? I'd definitely be interested in having a read. Aside from awful firmware with generic bugs no other manufacturer suffers with (those bugs might now finally be fixed with F10, haven't used the board in a while just threw it in its box and thats where its stayed) and vcore voltage stability which I would consider very questionable the Gaming 5 I have works ok, but boy, did it take a lot of nagging and inciting the crowd as it were to get Gigabyte to even acknowledge let alone fix ANYTHING. No manufacturer like that deserves to stay in business.

Yea i have somewhere the links saved ill dig them out, but my personal experience with failing parts was under a USB microscope, there are 2 wrong value resistors around the center of the board also a capacitor actually fell off! so its down to bad soldering that part anyway. take note, this board is easily capable of destroying a cpu due to its very poor voltage management, i dont know where to begin here, the onboard sound is the worst ive ever heard on ANY motherboard regardless of price, how they managed such terrible sound from a chip capable of over 120db SNR is beyond me, the uefi is a mess, the bios DIP chips themselves are faulty on 5/10 boards, the rgb functionality only works when it wants to, the vcore fluctuates so much because the boards electronics are all fucked up, its supposed to be an overclockers board and doesnt even have stable p-states, on newegg you ought to see all the complaints about the gaming5 its disgusting really.

In fact i will re word what i said above, its not just capable of destrying cpu's it already has! it took gigabyte a whole 3 weeks to take a bios file down after it did countless amounts of damage to peoples r7 cpu's worldwide, then theres the fact that out of all the am4 AND intel boards, gigabyte are the slowest to release fixes, by a mile as well. they do not care about the end user so why should we care in return? this is the last time i EVER buy anything gigabyte, and as you say this company deserves to go bankrupt.

Remember ABIT? if that company was still around gigabyte would have gone under years ago, ABIT, MSI and Biostar are actually the best boards i have ever used! asus are a PITA lately as well. i dont have time to go into all the gaming 5's faults but at last count it was about 10, and thats just not on at all. mine from brand new lasted 2 weeks, it had nothing but problems from day one it should be taken off the shelves really.

Any motherboard that randomly bricks its own factory bios is useless, and of course on these boards they are soldered down in the crappiest of places, gigabyte used to be bloody brilliant around 2000/2001 and i only bought the gaming5 because i thought it would be as good as the old boards, lol how wrong was i. anyway just have a look here at the complaints and the amount of people having the same issues, its fucking unbelievable.

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as...N82E16813128992

I've read some of the reviews on newegg, great how Gigabyte give the same two canned responses to each review they reply to just with a different case number in the case of one of the two responses they give. I wouldn't be surprised if its some kind of bot making those replies for Gigabyte. You would think Gigabyte would make fixing the firmware on their AM4 boards their only and top priority for a couple months at least. Doing so would surely resolve most complaints and problems people have. I can also confirm with early firmware revisions the board did like to brick itself, happen to me once but the board did still POST I just couldn't boot to Windows (reboot loop) and the UEFI was blank just displaying an error message which I've since forgotten. After that I flipped the DIP switch so only one ROM chip is active at any given time, reflashed the corrupt ROM chip and have never had a problem since in that regard. I will also add I don't think this issue is any fault of Gigabyte the Biostar board I have also did the same thing with an early firmware revision.

The firmware revision that was killing peoples CPUs on Gigabyte boards was F7 as well. Pretty sure the revision was F7 for all of their boards so not sure why some people say it was F5/6 that killed CPUs, it wasn't.

I also tend to think the people commenting about RAM issues may not have been aware that with some firmware revisions compatibility changes were very extensive I had to swap DIMM banks a couple times with different firmware revisions where the compatibility changes made simply meant you needed to swap DIMM banks. Its worth noting as well that some of those issues people talk about might of been resolved with the changes I made to the modified firmware I release the settings are pretty messed up in the vanilla firmware so it could quite easily be the firmware confusing itself due to default and optimised default settings being different. Forcing a 1T command rate certainly isn't a smart thing to do, neither is forcing high impedence. For memory all you should need is somewhere between 60-80ohms. Also, if 1T command rate and high impedence is going to be forced it should be under the optimised default parameters, not the default parameters. I bet thats caused quite a few issues for people with less cooperative memory kits.

In Abits final days they were every bit as bad as Gigabyte. Take that for what you will, I'll take it as a warning sign to steer as many people as possible away from Gigabyte.