Hello Ket,

Firstly: Thank you for your efforts in helping those of us unfortunate enough to have purchased a (trash) Gigabyte AM4 motherboard.

Second: Last night I decided to flash your F23d bios for the X370-Gaming-K7.

To start, I flashed your version of F7a over the gigabyte F23d. Next, I flashed your F23 modded bios over the Gigabyte version. This posted and booted into windows.

Then, I loaded up bios, and "loaded optimized defaults". After this point, the PC began boot looping with post code 54.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to fix it? I tried all possible combinations of the bios_sw and the dual_bios sw but nothing I do can get the board past POST code 54 (memory initialization error).

I've tried all my memory slots, I've tried different memory KITS, i've disconnected everything but GPU , keyboard, and memory, yet it won't get past POST 54.

Anyways, I'm quite concerned now, because if I can't fix this myself, I'll be sending a motherboard for RMA that has modded BIOSes. What are the chances Gigabyte charges me / refuses repairs?

Since I can't even get into bios, will they even read what's currently on the chips when they repair them, or just replace them with pre-flashed bioses? Not sure on the procedure for RMA repairs at gigabyte.


ANYWAYS: In the meantime I'm washing my hands of the K7 and I'm looking at buying a Crosshair VI (if any are in stock in my city) or a Strix X370. Opinions?

Thanks,

Hereric

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Hello Ket,

Firstly: Thank you for your efforts in helping those of us unfortunate enough to have purchased a (trash) Gigabyte AM4 motherboard.

Second: Last night I decided to flash your F23d bios for the X370-Gaming-K7.

To start, I flashed your version of F7a over the gigabyte F23d. Next, I flashed your F23 modded bios over the Gigabyte version. This posted and booted into windows.

Then, I loaded up bios, and "loaded optimized defaults". After this point, the PC began boot looping with post code 54.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to fix it? I tried all possible combinations of the bios_sw and the dual_bios sw but nothing I do can get the board past POST code 54 (memory initialization error).

I've tried all my memory slots, I've tried different memory KITS, i've disconnected everything but GPU , keyboard, and memory, yet it won't get past POST 54.

Anyways, I'm quite concerned now, because if I can't fix this myself, I'll be sending a motherboard for RMA that has modded BIOSes. What are the chances Gigabyte charges me / refuses repairs?

Since I can't even get into bios, will they even read what's currently on the chips when they repair them, or just replace them with pre-flashed bioses? Not sure on the procedure for RMA repairs at gigabyte.


ANYWAYS: In the meantime I'm washing my hands of the K7 and I'm looking at buying a Crosshair VI (if any are in stock in my city) or a Strix X370. Opinions?

Thanks,

Hereric

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It's unlikely to be a damaged memory stick, as I tried to boot with each stick from my 2x16gb hynix kit as well as my 2x8gb team dark pros. I left the system unplugged with the CMOS battery out for over 30 minutes at one point last night, still same 54 code.

The strix seems to be the only (NON GIGABYTE) x370 motherboard available in my city currently, and a whole 2 days without my PC is too much for me, so the strix or POTENTIALLY the crosshair are my only options - it seems like every retailer stopped stocking AM4 boards in anticipation of X4xx series boards which is rather frustrating.

The Asus x370 Prime Pro is also available, waiting on the retailers to open up for me to inquire about crosshairs/taichis/gaming x.

Do you know of any method to flash these bios chips via JTAG or serial?

What's wrong with the Strix's heatsinks? Do the VRM's get hot? What modifications are you suggesting? I have a Noctua D15 cooler.

hi ket use ur mod f23m-d at K5 (Q-Flash)

the problem i have is
my keyboard corsair k70 LUX didnt detect at all in BIOS menu ( to press Del, End , f12)
and booting take much longer than before(use f22 from GB)

not yet try use f22 , i will use it later

thanks btw

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It's unlikely to be a damaged memory stick, as I tried to boot with each stick from my 2x16gb hynix kit as well as my 2x8gb team dark pros. I left the system unplugged with the CMOS battery out for over 30 minutes at one point last night, still same 54 code.

The strix seems to be the only (NON GIGABYTE x370) motherboard available in my city currently, and a whole 2 days without my PC is too much for me, so the strix or POTENTIALLY the crosshair are my only options - it seems like every retailer stopped stocking AM4 boards in anticipation of X4xx series boards which is rather frustrating.

The Asus x370 Prime Pro is also available, waiting on the retailers to open up for me to inquire about crosshairs/taichis/gaming x.

Do you know of any method to flash these bios chips via JTAG or serial?

What's wrong with the Strix's heatsinks? Do the VRM's get hot? What modifications are you suggesting? I have a Noctua D15 cooler.

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hi ket use ur mod f23m-d at K5 (Q-Flash)

the problem i have is
my keyboard corsair k70 LUX didnt detect at all in BIOS menu ( to press Del, End , f12)
and booting take much longer than before(use f22 from GB)

not yet try use f22 , i will use it later

thanks btw

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Yeah I tried just about every combination of the two bios switches possible. Same error code unfortunately.

Will get started on the RMA process this weekend - If the new mobo won't work with my 1700 i might have to get a 2700x for troubleshooting (the horror :P), hopefully the shitbox gigabyte board didn't fry my 1700's SOC.

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Yeah I tried just about every combination of the two bios switches possible. Same error code unfortunately.

Will get started on the RMA process this weekend - If the new mobo won't work with my 1700 i might have to get a 2700x for troubleshooting (the horror :P), hopefully the shitbox gigabyte board didn't fry my 1700's SOC.

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Whenever I'd get a new bios flashed I'd set my voltages manually due to the issues you mentioned - I was defaulting to SOC at 1.1 because it seemed to help get my memory running at 3200MT C14. 1.4V on DRAM isn't particularly high, so hopefully my RAM is okay.

The only times the SOC or any voltage was on auto is right after flashing a BIOS.

If you need 1.1v SoC just for 3200 CL14 I'd be willing to say your CPU has a bum IMC and that could be whats now giving you the POST 54 error. Certainly not a definitive thing, but definitely a possibility.

Its dead jim, code54 is what i had the board is toast

Yeah that's what i figured - fuck gigabyte motherboards lol

My 1080Ti from gigabyte is also questionable, might be RMAing that at the same time.

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Yeah that's what i figured - fuck gigabyte motherboards lol

My 1080Ti from gigabyte is also questionable, might be RMAing that at the same time.

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Yeah that's what i figured - fuck gigabyte motherboards lol

My 1080Ti from gigabyte is also questionable, might be RMAing that at the same time.

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Fucking awful arent they, asrock are now making graphics cards btw and ive heard real good things about them. this will be my next gfx card https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD...ex.asp#Download

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Yeah that's what i figured - fuck gigabyte motherboards lol

My 1080Ti from gigabyte is also questionable, might be RMAing that at the same time.

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Fucking awful arent they, asrock are now making graphics cards btw and ive heard real good things about them. this will be my next gfx card https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD...ex.asp#Download

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I won't be getting an ASRock unfortunately, as they're out of stock everywhere in my city and I can't wait for amazon/newegg to ship me a new mobo... downtime is the worst!

I'm able to pick up a Crosshair VI tomorrow though, so at least I'll have one of the two mobos that are universally considered the "best"! (taichi and crosshair)

RE: the GPU, 580 is a pretty sweet card if you're playing at 1080p. Above that it starts to lag behind a bit.
I tried one before i ended up getting the 1080ti, and the FPS on my 1440p monitor didn't satisfy.

ASRock are pretty sweet though, personally I hope that XFX gets into the motherboard game so there's more competition!

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