Re: Gigabyte latest bios
The question is, will Gigabyte ever support Broadwell properly with any of their boards? The bios support in common is horrible at Gigabyte, nothing but hot air, but no solutions, only delaying tactics. The Gigabyte support knows since 2 months the problems, i told them, they answered they will forward it to taiwan since then till now we are no longer on speaking terms.
Gigabyte has slackened massively over the last three years.
The Z97 SOC has even without Broadwell bugs, the heaviest one is the cold boot bug, where suddenly the mainboard won't start like there is no current or your power supply is gone.
It happens to me too, only one time and from nowhere.
Only clearing the CMOS will help. Then it has regular problems with rebooting when it was completely shut down with some USB devices attached. You have to wait about 1 minute before you can reboot or you will be lost in a continous bootloop. Only enabling fast boot with partial usb initialization will help.
The development in taiwan has no clues nor enough ressources or competence. It seems some business people are ruining this company with bad allocation of financial ressources. My Z97 SOC Mainboard will be the last one of Gigabyte, if there is no full supporting bios till the end of this year. PCIe won't work either correctly, it hangs always in energy save mode which means 1.1 instead of 2.0 oder 3.0.
You should keep broadwell and send the ****ty Gigabyte mainboard back. You can reason it with that on website of Gigabyte Broadwell Support is advertised, also PCIe 3.0. Because it won't work with both beta bios and you need the beta bios, because with the latest official bios version on their website claiming for Broadwell support the mainboard won't even boot when a discrete graphics is in the system
This says everything about status of Gigabyte at the moment, in Austria we call this "Sauladen".
Go instead for a Asus like the MAXIMUS VII HERO with bios 2015/07/31, sad but true.
*Rant off*
Originally posted by Rojer64
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Gigabyte has slackened massively over the last three years.
The Z97 SOC has even without Broadwell bugs, the heaviest one is the cold boot bug, where suddenly the mainboard won't start like there is no current or your power supply is gone.
It happens to me too, only one time and from nowhere.
Only clearing the CMOS will help. Then it has regular problems with rebooting when it was completely shut down with some USB devices attached. You have to wait about 1 minute before you can reboot or you will be lost in a continous bootloop. Only enabling fast boot with partial usb initialization will help.
The development in taiwan has no clues nor enough ressources or competence. It seems some business people are ruining this company with bad allocation of financial ressources. My Z97 SOC Mainboard will be the last one of Gigabyte, if there is no full supporting bios till the end of this year. PCIe won't work either correctly, it hangs always in energy save mode which means 1.1 instead of 2.0 oder 3.0.
You should keep broadwell and send the ****ty Gigabyte mainboard back. You can reason it with that on website of Gigabyte Broadwell Support is advertised, also PCIe 3.0. Because it won't work with both beta bios and you need the beta bios, because with the latest official bios version on their website claiming for Broadwell support the mainboard won't even boot when a discrete graphics is in the system
This says everything about status of Gigabyte at the moment, in Austria we call this "Sauladen".
Go instead for a Asus like the MAXIMUS VII HERO with bios 2015/07/31, sad but true.
*Rant off*
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