So running with a ASUS ROG RTX 2080Ti would not be recommended from what I understand ? I can't utilize both @ full speed ?

Either way, hats off to all those that had a hand in this MOD, very nice work ! That's about the only thing this board lacked many years later. I'm running 2 X 250Gb Samsung Pro SATA SSD's in RAID0 (Yes I perform image based backups daily) and it runs well Read 850's / Writes low 400's, but nothing like those NVMe speeds.

@Cire3

Your board has two PCIe 3.0 slots. You could easily populate the first slot with your preferred graphics card; while using the second slot to hold the NVMe adapter and NVMe SSD drive.

You could easily run the Asus ROG RTX 2080Ti in slot one; but at this point I'd wait till the RTX 3090 comes out in the Aug-Oct timeframe if you are a hard core gamer.

Remember, the majority of CURRENT games don't take advantage of upwards of 10 cores etc. so you could probably skate by without doing a massive upgrade for a few years yet.

Enjoy the BIOS/UEFI from all the folks at "Win-RAIDers" and yours truly!

Cheers

Good point, and thanks for the response. Yea, I already have the 2080Ti, so it's hard to justify replacing this rig when I'm really only missing the NVMe. Not to mention the days of software installed with all my servers, etc..

Perfect upgrade and it would make the wife way happy as my normal builds are hard to hide $$$ :)

Again thanks !

Hi guys,

I'm new to this modding. Is the bios in the first post the latest one without RAM issues or should I install the one in post #39? Do you suggest using USB flashback as flashing method? Thanks

Edit: I managed to flash the latest July bios and everything seems to work fine! How can I check if everything is updated (microcode, etc.)?

@carlese


You can run a program like HWINFO or AIDA64

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

https://www.aida64.com/

Both programs show which microcode is being used at UEFI/BIOS level.
As you've discovered I updated the beginning post #1; so that is the corrected file for future readers.


Cheers

Zitat von hancor im Beitrag #65

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@carlese


You can run a program like HWINFO or AIDA64

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

https://www.aida64.com/

Both programs show which microcode is being used at UEFI/BIOS level.
As you've discovered I updated the beginning post #1; so that is the corrected file for future readers.


Cheers

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@carlese

when you open a program like HWINFO you will see the CPU on the left hand side of the splash page.
3 lines down you will see "Codename" and immediately to the right you will see "µCU" or microcode.

Hope that helps...see sample picture below of my still running, 12.5 years later, Asus P6T.

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I can't find the options to show microcode in both programs unfortunately..

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Ok I checked and bios is update, thanks! Now I bought a NVME and adapter and will place it in the red PCI slot, but what about the SSD I already have? I want to transfer everything from there and only after I want to install Windows on the NVME, but I read some posts saying that I need to unplug all the drives and leave only the NVME with CSM disabled to boot.. Thanks for your patience!

@carlese

You can hook up your other drives AFTER doing the install on the NVMe drive; with the proviso that you convert any MBR(Master Boot Record) drives to GPT (Gui Partition Table) before you install your secondary drives. The reason for this is MBR drives will not be "seen" or play nicely in a UEFI environment.

Cheers

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@carlese

You can hook up your other drives AFTER doing the install on the NVMe drive; with the proviso that you convert any MBR(Master Boot Record) drives to GPT (Gui Partition Table) before you install your secondary drives. The reason for this is MBR drives will not be "seen" or play nicely in a UEFI environment.

Cheers

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@carlese

Given you've just done a BIOS update; your standard procedure best bet, is to do a "clean install" on the NVMe drive, and the copy over the files programs from your existing SSD.

This avoids a host of potential glitches.

Cheers

Since I flashed the modded bios something strange is happening to my PC.. After some time, maybe a few days maybe a week, my monitor turns on only when windows starts and I cannot go in the bios settings nor choose the boot options. The only way to fix it is to remove the battery and reset CMOS, after that and a lot of struggle (my Logitech G502 doesn't click, I have to reboot a lot of times) everything goes back to normal. This has never happened in 5 years, only after flashing the modded bios. What can I do?

If weird things happening simply revert to original 1603. hancor's(first post) and mine(>>here<<) modded bios are same I think. For the last shot you can try one of them which you haven't tried yet. I'm still on this rock solid z87 board but it is time to upgrade.

So my best suggestion can be upgrading your system. For now I still can't decide to go with amd or intel. AMD 5000 series have WHEA errors now, random hard reboots, ram compatibility issues etc. In old times there were a good silicon and regular silicon. If you have a good silicon you can go high OC. If you don't have a good silicon there were no problem, It was working rock solid. Now If you have a bad/regular silicon your AMD 5000 processor is not working stable.

For AMD, motherboard side is also problematic. All brands have unstable bioses currently. They are erasing published bioses like deleting tweet :) Slow boot times, USB connectivity issues, LAN issues etc. There are lots of complaints on official forums.

I feel I'm more close to Intel again. So consider your upgrading path carefully.
~Best