[Diablo85]

I'll be receiving my Aorus Xtreme later today, though I won't be able to review it for a while since Best Buy is still screwing me over on getting my 3900X to me.

If you guys want to see anything specific, I will work on that once it's up and running!

Oh hey! Same boat! All this lovely hardware, with no cpu to put in it.

 

[Diablo85]

Should we make our own thread about it? I also purchased the Extreme a few days ago. Should arrive Tuesday July 16th, 2019

I think I'm going to wait for the 3950X. That'll be perfect to gather up some money to off-set the balance due.

I've got my xtreme already, just find it really, really dumb that when I purchased the 3900x, it was listed as in stock. Never changed from that status until it went to unavailable. Shipping status never updates past "we'll let you know when it ships!", so I call BB support Wednesday and they're like "!?!?!? whatchu mean you're upset it hasn't shipped yet, it's a pre-order and we're working on getting more stock!"

I'm actively looking at other sites for when they restock.

 

[Diablo85]

That sucks.

I have a Micro Center nearby with 10+ 3900X in stock. In-store pickup only.

And you haven't cancelled your BB order on the 3900x yet?

 

[Diablo85]

Wait, what? I said I have a Gigabyte X570 Extreme in transit arriving on July 16th, 2019, and that I'm waiting for the 3950x to come out in Sept. I have no CPU for the system yet, nor have I ordered one online. The CPU will be the last thing I pick up for it. I'm piecing together a new platform (MB, CPU, RAM) and I'm also going to include a PCIe 4.0 NVME drive. I'm upgrading from X58

What's a "BB order" ?

Oh hell, i misread the name, though you were this guy below, and BB is Best Buy.

I'll be receiving my Aorus Xtreme later today, though I won't be able to review it for a while since Best Buy is still screwing me over on getting my 3900X to me.

If you guys want to see anything specific, I will work on that once it's up and running!

 

[Diablo85]

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Anyway, Nighthog I am very interested in your endeavor with the Micron E-die kit.

I'm really having a hard time finding an E-die or B-die kit that is 2x16gb, since these boards are Daisy Chained, it'll be easier to overclock memory with 2 populated dimms rather than 4.

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I had the same issue even using the B-Die finder tool. I wound up finding a G.Skill 3200 14-14-14 B-die kit. I think I paid ~$260 w/ shipping.

 

[Diablo85]

Ran into a bit of trouble building the system but kind of have a workaround? I'm not able to use the B1/B2 slots for my RAM, as the motherboard gets stuck on a C5 debug code. I tested each stick of RAM in each of my boards memory slots, and either stick causes the board to get stuck on C5 loop in the B1/B2 slots. Both sticks of RAM work fine in the A1/A2 slots, both individually, and as a pair.

Is there something I can test to get past this C5 loop or do I just have a bad board?

I'm running an Aorus Xtreme, 3900x, G.Skill B-Die 14-14-14 3200mhz ram.

 

[Diablo85]

@GBT-MatthewH any chance you could weigh in on this?

Ran into a bit of trouble building the system but kind of have a workaround? I'm not able to use the B1/B2 slots for my RAM, as the motherboard gets stuck on a C5 debug code. I tested each stick of RAM in each of my boards memory slots, and either stick causes the board to get stuck on C5 loop in the B1/B2 slots. Both sticks of RAM work fine in the A1/A2 slots, both individually, and as a pair.

Is there something I can test to get past this C5 loop or do I just have a bad board?

I'm running an Aorus Xtreme, 3900x, G.Skill B-Die 14-14-14 3200mhz ram.

 

[Diablo85]

Memory controller is on the CPU, so either board issue or CPU issue (including mounting). Can try remounting CPU and/or testing the board outside the case.

Thanks. I'll give it a shot this weekend then. By mounting, are we talking like...maybe too much mounting pressure on the IHS from the cooler? I'm 100% certain the pins on the cpu line up with the socket correctly and that none of them were bent prior to insertion into the socket.

 

[Diablo85]

Memory controller is on the CPU, so either board issue or CPU issue (including mounting). Can try remounting CPU and/or testing the board outside the case.

Remounting the CPU wound up working. Weird af issue that I didn't even think was a possibility. Thanks!

 

[Diablo85]

Updated BIOS on front page: https://www.overclock.net/forum/28023210-post4.html

No change log, just the latest files from the server. This has nothing to do with AMD's announcement today. They should be releasing more details on the 10th from their end. From our end we don't have an ETA as we don't have the new code yet.

On a side note I will be away on a business trip (Dreamhack) until next Tuesday. I won't have much time to pop in until I get back.

Hopefully excellent news. Maybe I can get my Xtreme to boot with a bios update past F3i. Even the official F3 updated on the 26th wouldn't boot.

GLHF with Dreamhack!

 

[Diablo85]

Hopefully excellent news. Maybe I can get my Xtreme to boot with a bios update past F3i. Even the official F3 updated on the 26th wouldn't boot.

GLHF with Dreamhack!

....aaaaand I'm back! This time on an even older bios than F3i because the board flashed both bioses to F4a even though i had the switches in bios 1, single bios mode.

stock bios in anything over F3i so far has resulted in nothing but the Windows circle spinning on attempted startups just after POST, haven't been able to get into the OS login screen at all.

Disabling CSM/Enabling fast boot in bios nets same result. Windows never finishes loading.

Wound up flashing back to bios F2 to recover after seemingly misplacing my F3i bios file.

Edit: found the F3i download link in my browser history. Successfully flashed F3i to both bioses.

 

[Diablo85]

GPT partition, yes...UEFI yes...attempted with sata disabled, NVMe raid on/off, pcie gen3 selected, secure boot disabled, CSM disabled/enabled, no change...only fix is to go back to F4j and it boots right up. Side note, I also attempted to just do a clean win10 install on F4, and in both attempts the installation blue screened, first at 9%, second time at 14%. Revert to F4j, clean install goes just fine.

Pretty similar behavior for me as well, on a Xtreme. my lucky bios is F3i beta, anything past that, even official, just results in the spinning wheel of death and no startup.

 

[Diablo85]

Are you also using a NVMe ssd?

yep. 500 GB 970 Evo Plus SSD as my boot drive.

 

[Diablo85]

@GBT-MatthewH Got any suggestions for this? there's a few of us with varying degrees of working motherboards and bioses.


https://www.overclock.net/forum/11-...570-aorus-owners-thread-205.html#post28121026

GPT partition, yes...UEFI yes...attempted with sata disabled, NVMe raid on/off, pcie gen3 selected, secure boot disabled, CSM disabled/enabled, no change...only fix is to go back to F4j and it boots right up. Side note, I also attempted to just do a clean win10 install on F4, and in both attempts the installation blue screened, first at 9%, second time at 14%. Revert to F4j, clean install goes just fine.

Pretty similar behavior for me as well, on a Xtreme. my lucky bios is F3i beta, anything past that, even official, just results in the spinning wheel of death and no startup.

 

[Diablo85]

Latest BETA BIOS with AGESA 1003 ABBA (9/19)


Change log:

• We have a temporary work around for slow response when disabling CSM - hit CTRL-F6 in BIOS and select "VGA First". This will lower resolution, but should fix the lag.
• Disappearing SSD/HDD in boot priority should be fixed, let me know.

X570 AORUS Xtreme - F5B
X570 AORUS Master - F7B
X570 AORUS Ultra- F6B
X570 AORUS Pro Wifi - F6B
X570 AORUS Pro - F6B
X570 I AORUS Pro (ITX)- F6B
X570 AORUS Elite - F5B
X570 AORUS Elite Wifi - F3B
X570 Gaming X - F5B

As always if I messed up a link just let me know.

Any chance you can add that bold part to the post on the first page as well?

 

[Diablo85]

Has anyone else that has had trouble with Gigabyte BIOS updates (beta or otherwise) that resulted in Windows not load after bios update that has had the latest beta bios fix this issue for them - either from updating the bios and windows just worked (doesn't work for me, tried 3 different times, can't get to safe mode), or has had to do a clean install of Windows and was successful with the beta bios this way?

Gigabyte support is wanting me to do a clean install with the latest beta Xtreme bios and I'm just super reluctant to do so blindly.

 

[Diablo85]

Try disabling CSM in bios, not the optimal solution, i know, but at least it works.

Yep. Did/tried that many times on many of the bioses that I would try and update to. After I posted that, I wound up partitioning my ssd to set up dual booting 2x windows 10, 1 being my main install that works on the bios all the way up to F3i, and the other being the clean install of Windows 10 1903 that I would put on it after updating the bios to F5b bios.

After updating to F5b beta bios and loading up windows on the separate partition, I was able to boot into it 10/10 times with no obnoxious spinning circle of death like I was encountering on my main windows install. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me this weekend now.

 

[Diablo85]

I'm over the moon enthusiastic about my 2 non-nvme storage drives disappearing after a cold boot and needing re-initialization in disk manager to show up again as empty drives.

i'm -happy- with the performance of the pc, but can these bugs stop crawling out of nowhere? it's been working fine since a windows re-install (wouldn't take bios updates past a certain version) and i've shut this pc down hundreds of times before last night. what gives?

x570 xtreme, 3900x, 32gb 3200mhz 14-14-14 ram.

 

[Diablo85]

So...is there anything i can do to mitigate the sata drives disappearing and needing reinitialized after a cold boot or restart? Any info on when this bug is gonna get fixed?
WD red 3tb and a 1TB Sandisk SSD.

 

[Diablo85]

Glad I'm not alone. I was wondering why my MX300 SSD's kept disappearing and having to be re-initialized. In my haste to get my data back, I bought EaseUS Partition Master so that I could restore the partitions. Perhaps there's free ways of doing it, but it was the quickest solution I found. I also uninstalled RGB Fusion since it was the only different app I had on my PC compared to my old ASUS/Intel setup since I'm trying to rule out all variables.

I'm running a X570 Aorus Xtreme, BIOS F5b and F10a both have done it now. However, my Aorus PCIe 4.0 SSD, Corsair MP500 PCIe SSD, and Seagate Barracuda Pro don't seem impacted. It's just the 2x MX300 SSDs.

I'm trying to figure out the combination of settings that causes it though. So far I've left most things at defaults in the BIOS now - so CSM is enabled, secure boot is off/hidden, fast boot is disabled. I've powered off and rebooted a few times and haven't lost my drives yet.

Typically my go-to settings are CSM disabled, secure boot enabled, fast boot enabled, but this is my first time with a Gigabyte board. I'm a long time ASUS user, but I don't see why that mix of settings wouldn't work properly here, and why they would cause it to corrupt/delete the partition table of certain drives.

Maybe it's related to the SATA port number as well? My MX300's are in 1 & 2, and the Seagate HDD is in 4.

Assuming my drives don't disappear tomorrow, I'll try disabling CSM and test that for a day. Then I'll move onto the next setting...

I also have mix of nvme and sata install on master. Lucky nothing bad happen with csm off. My partitions are all in gpt

Perhaps if you disable sata hot swap in bios? At least i have mine disabled and no issue. Im not comfortable seeing remove drive icon my desktop, since my os is on the sata drive

My settings are CSM disabled, SATA hot plug disabled, secure boot off, fast boot off, just started happening for me with F5c - just once (after many cold boots and basically every bios that's been available for it), and now a little more frequent with F5E, F5F, or F10A on an Xtreme board (these bioses introduced the disappearing sata drives on restarts for me).

My sata drives are in ports 0 and 1.