Version 4408

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Anyone privy to what is in it? The notes are very nondescript - "improved system compatibility"

Version 4408

2022/11/22

Improve system compatibility,

lol

not sure I'll update to it, but am still curious about the people who do, what your experience is and what not

I recently just upgraded my gpu from a Gigabyte GeForce 1070 to a NVIDIA GeForce 4080 & my Ryzen 7 3700x to a Ryzen 9 5900x. Per a warning message in PCPartPicker, it made me aware that the ASUS ROG Strix x-570e needed to have updated BIOS to be compatible with my new cpu. I updated my BIOS to version 4408 and now I’m stuck on the BIOS screen. Any idea what I can do to fix this?

Compared to 4021, it has 30 points lower CPU-Z single thread score (630 instead of 660) and multithread went as low as 6300 something (instead of 6600 something) on 5800X. That's pretty dramatic regression. And I'd be somewhat forgiving or look past that change and then CPU got locked to 72°C during Cinebench R20 run even though it did go higher before. With scores so low I don't remember when I've seen that. And I've experienced the same issue with BETA BIOS from few days ago. As if CPU just throttles itself to 72°C and doesn't go past even though it goes to 85°C on all core loads pretty quickly with 4021. Flashed 4021 back and all returned to normal again with high performance numbers. I really don't know what "Improve system performance and stability" they improved, but this is pretty bad.

Anyone else experiencing weird behavior with this new BIOS version?

So I updated to this last night and am experiencing random crashes. The system was 100% stable on the older bios at idle and under load (Prime95 etc).

I lost all my saved bios profiles when the update flashed so I had to redo all the settings (thankfully I had taken pics of the previous bios pages before the update), but I'm left wondering if I am missing something?

Or is this bios just unstable? It's weird. I ran Prime95 blend for 30 mins with no errors and temps were fine/within range. Then an hour later I'm just using the machine on a Zoom meeting with a colleague and boom, it just hard resets.

It's hard reset a few times now and it's doing my head in. What am I missing? Any pointers? I'm pretty confident in bios and with overclocking but I can't for the life of me work out what the issue is here. It doesn't seem to matter what I change - power in DIGI VRM, PBO, AMD Overclocking, RAM timings etc - nothing seems to make a difference, it just hard resets seemingly at random.

First off, let me start by saying this is my first post and I consider myself a newbie with computers.

(This computer is used for multi-track audio recording as opposed to gaming)

Here's the spot I'm in.

I have an Asus Rog Strix X570E Gaming with Wifi.

It's running an Ryzen 5 3600 without any noticeable problems.

I decided to buy a newer Ryzen 7 5700X.

Asus website says this will work with a Bios upgrade.

I tried to update using the latest Bios update for the wifi version of the board. (Yes, I made sure I was downloading the Wifi version).

I got an error message stating "Selected file is not a proper BIOS file".

(I have used a jump drive that is properly formatted fat 32 with the CAB file renamed)

I decided to try some earlier versions. All failed with the same message.

Here's where it gets strange (to me at least). My Bios reports that I'm running Bios version 1408.

1408 is not listed in the history of downloads for the Wifi version of this board, but it is listed for the non-wifi version of this board. I emailed Asus with the issue and the serial number of the board.

Their reply was, that specific serial# is for a non-wifi X570. And in order for my new CPU to work, I should upgrade to BIOS version 4021 (which is a Bios for the non-Wifi board).

I have sent Asus 3 pics.

One showing the retail box for the Wifi version indicating information showing the serial # I sent them.

Another showing the information regarding the Wifi spec's itself. (Which is on the backplate of my MOBO and i have used.)

and the last pic showing my BIOS post of version 1408.

They have not replied to this yet, but it appears I may have a Wifi board that was flashed by them with the wrong bios.

Sorry for the length of this post.

So I'm stuck as to what to do here. I don't think I should attempt an non-Wifi Bios update on my Wifi MOBO in case it really screws it up.

And all the Bios updates I've attempted with various version of the Wifi Bios's are all giving me the "Selected file is not a proper BIOS file".

Note. I have used various thumb drives, all formatted to Fat32, all Cab files renamed with the file renamer, all cab files at the root level on the drive with no other files on the drive.

Any help (from those who have not fallen asleep yet) is welcome.

Thanks, David.

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