Crosshair VI Hero: UEFI build update thread

[Raja]

Directly from Elmor:

Beta BIOS 3008 for C6H/C6HWIFI/C6E:

AGESA 1.0.7.1, temperature offset fixed after S3 resume, GPU Post function fixed, 0d with some GPUs fixed

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f95motjmh211e7h/CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-ASUS-3008.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ntn6i3jiub610ai/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-WIFI-AC-ASUS-3008.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yj22ld2rmmedp01/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-EXTREME-ASUS-3008.zip





C6H Test BIOS 0020 with AGESA 1007 (405200c4e299c1eed9a0044edec9aba51f37cee1d70caabe40b9485b0604521a)

In order to get back to an older version after flashing, you have to use USB BIOS Flashback.

Let me know how it works for you, especially regarding cold boot issues. Any confirmed bugs in the bug report form please




Beta BIOS 1501

* Workaround for some CPUs stuck at 22x ratio if using override voltage
* Fixes PCIEX4 bandwidth setting getting lost after power is removed
* Same DRAM boot behavior as 1403 (no cold boot fix)
* Same DRAM profiles as in 9920
* Still has the Vcore value issue when booting with Offset Mode and switching to Manual Mode

Crosshair VI Hero 1501 SHA256 EDE223DC6897B7199C93D9985E28B7A2CD1B8A8DB2DCBF3D3555A521DB4F045D
Crosshair VI Hero Wifi AC 1501 SHA256 0D9F51F43AA3A56A4AC984B11A52F58451B76F8A7CCB9A04E1C3194231C9D4DA






UEFI build 9920 for the C6H:

* Improved DRAM cold boot, results in slightly longer POST time
* Fix for CPU Ratio stuck at 22x on some CPUs when using Vcore override/offset
* SenseMi Skew is now Disabled by default. If you want to return to previous behavior set SenseMi Skew = Enabled and Offset = 272.
* Added DRAM profiles for Samsung B-based DIMMs with tuned subtimings, including The Stilt's settings



C6H beta UEFI 1403

* Fixed W_PUMP and AIO_PUMP speeds during POST
* Fixed Fan tuning sometimes failing
* Fixed a few issues with AMD USB3.1 ports
* Some tuning on DRAM settings, let us know how they work for you. tRDRD_Sc is still at 5 above 3500 MHz as it helps with stability. For performance you want to force this to 1. We'll consider changing this in future releases as the performance impact can be quite noticeable in certain applications.

An update on DRAM Boot Voltage, currently it should be 1.35V by default if the DRAM Voltage is changed. So if you're setting DRAM Voltage to above 1.35V, you might want to sync this setting. Additionally there might be scenarios where you will have better luck by syncing DRAM Boot Voltage to DRAM Voltage even at lower values.




AGESA 1006 RC4 official UEFI 1401

Just tested quickly 3600 memory and cold booting, seems good but you guys are going to have to help me test this before we have a judgement. Seems CPU temp reading from SIO now has -20*C offset for XFR enabled CPUs.





UEFI build 1107





Older test builds:


Test BIOS 0079

Test BIOS with new AGESA 1004a, with a couple of bugfixes. Up to 5% performance increases in specific applications. Also has P-state overclocking working with BCLK increase. If you want to keep C-states, make sure to set Advanced\AMD CBS\Zen Common Options\Global C-state Control = Enabled. There are two new settings under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DDR4 Common Options\ you might want to take a look at, Fail_CNT and ProcODT. Fail_CNT decides how many times to retry when DRAM training fails (F9 -> 0d), default is now 1. ProcODT can help improve your DRAM overclocking. There's a setting available also on previous BIOSes under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DRAM Memory Mapping named BankGroupSwap. If you have 2x Single-Rank modules you can try setting this to Disabled and you might see some performance boost in certain applications.

Test BIOS 0081

Same as 0079 but has ProcODT default = 53.3 ohm

Test BIOS 0082

Same as 0081 but with a DRAM compability patch for the below part numbers

CMK16GX4M4A2133C13
AHU08GGB13CGT7G
PV416G240C5QK
F4-2400C15Q-32GRR
TCD44G2400C14BK
F4-2666C16Q2-64GRB
AVD4UZ126661504G
BLT8G4D26AFTA.16FAD
IMA41GU6MFR8N-C F0
MD16GK4D4266615AXR
HX430C15PB2K4/16
HX430C15PBK4/32
AX4U3333W4G16-QGZ
GAM4DBLBM2133D15IE041C
TC48G24S817
SP004GBLFU213N02
78.C1GM3.AF10B
F4-3200C16D-8GVKB

MTA4ATF51264AZ-2G6B1
MTA8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1
MTA16ATF2G64AZ-2G6B1
HMA41GU7AFR8N-TF T0
HMA451U7AFR8N-TF T0
HMA41GU6AFR8N-UH N0
M378A2K43BB1-CTD
M378A1K43BB1-CRC
M378A1G43EB1-CRC

Test BIOS 0083

Same as 0081 but with "2T" DRAM Mode when using above 2666 DRAM Ratio.

[Create585]

Saikamaldoss wrote:
Looking at all the numbers I should be very happy I got in hell of a CPU.. it runs all day 4.25Ghz at 1.33 to 1.35v but man I wan to OC my Ram a bit. I have no luck running anything above 3200Mhz 13C �� but I shouldn’t be complaining as I have 64GB 2 x 32... but I wish I can run 3333 or 3466 some day.*

did you validate with IBT AVX ? I thought my 4GHz was 100% stable at 1.3875v (it had zero issue with everything until I ran Intel Burn Test with AVX intructions) and forced me to go down to 3.9GHz before I could pass a single loop. No vcore under 1.41875v (highest I attempted) made 4GHz stable in that test.

I have noticed, despite lowering CPU clocks 100MHz, my system feels snappier. It's almost too subtle to notice..

[Saikamaldoss]

Create585 wrote:
did you validate with IBT AVX ? I thought my 4GHz was 100% stable at 1.3875v (it had zero issue with everything until I ran Intel Burn Test with AVX intructions) and forced me to go down to 3.9GHz before I could pass a single loop. No vcore under 1.41875v (highest I attempted) made 4GHz stable in that test.

I have noticed, despite lowering CPU clocks 100MHz, my system feels snappier. It's almost too subtle to notice..

yup I have run every test possible as I need a stable system for my VM’s - I don’t want servers crashing when I do my labs as i have esxi host and sccm servers all running with 10 windows 7 clients.*
*At 4.25 my temps won’t even cross 58c thanks to EK waterblock and 360mm radiators. I have 3 Coolermaster 2800RPM fans running at 1000rpm idle.*

And hey mine runs 4.2ghz but I don’t want to push it as It takes 1.46v for 4.2ghz. *

[Maximusst]

The 1701 Bios turned out to be stable for me, but still not clocking my memory at it's proposed stock speed (3200mhz). It only runs at 2100mhz with this bios version (did all the tweaking with ProcODT @ 96-120 ohm), voltage, memory profiles, and some more). Reverted back to 1403 which does allows me to clock my memory at higher speeds with the beforementioned tweaks (2933mhz).

System details:

Ryzen R7 1700 @ 3.88 Ghz
Asus Crosshair VI Hero (BIOS: 1403)
G.Skill F4-3200C16D-32GTZKY (2x 16GB) @ 1.35v D.O.C.P.5 Profile enabled (timings 16/18/18/38) @ 2933Mhz. ProcODT @ 96ohm

[oxidation868]

Cpu voltage goes up to v1.5-1.6 im running bios 1701 on 1800x. This is at stock settings. AMD recommends nothing higher than 1.425. Should I rma this board and cpu?

[Chudik]

oxidation868 wrote:
Cpu voltage goes up to v1.5-1.6 im running bios 1701 on 1800x. This is at stock settings. AMD recommends nothing higher than 1.425. Should I rma this board and cpu?

Not yet, you can go and set you voltage manualy to 1.3 or based on your OC , i'm running 1800X at 4.0Ghz with P state setings at 1.375v

you also can set Ofset with - 0.200 same as before will get you to 1.3 v +-

Try that 🙂 and GL

[purecain]

use the stilts safe ram settings for 3466... I have 32gb running at 3466mhz although I have the intermittent booting issue even at stock...wtf... please amd can you sort this bios booting issue out.

[Clouseau]

purecain wrote:
use the stilts safe ram settings for 3466... I have 32gb running at 3466mhz although I have the intermittent booting issue even at stock...wtf... please amd can you sort this bios booting issue out.

For me the cold boot issue boiled down to a combination of CLDO_VDDP and the dram bus settings. Ever since set CDLO to 875 and the ram driver strengths to 40-20-40-40, the cold boot issue vanished. Am currently running the driver strengths at 40-20-24-30 and the cold boot issue is still not to be seen. Good luck.

[Mysterie]

So I'm still a bit confused, I see everyone here using "normal" Voltages and it seems like everyone can set them correctly, but not me obviously.
In fact, i do have problems with my dram voltages.
On my z170 i never had any problems so far and 1.35v worked just fine, but on our ch6, as soon as I apply "XMP" it jumps up to 1.41v. And it doesn't change, if I set it automatically.
I also played arround in extreme tweaker and tried to reset everything, but once i select a higher frequence for my memory it goes above 1.35v.

Am I doing something wrong or does that happen to a few people? Haven't found anyone facing the same problem, so I try to ask here.
Btw. I also can't set my soc voltage. Either it is stuck on 0.9-1.0v or once I modify it slightly it goes up to 1.99v and stays there, which just works fine and all but it still confuses me since everyone else uses fairly normal voltages there.

[Syaoran]

Mysterie wrote:
So I'm still a bit confused, I see everyone here using "normal" Voltages and it seems like everyone can set them correctly, but not me obviously.
In fact, i do have problems with my dram voltages.
On my z170 i never had any problems so far and 1.35v worked just fine, but on our ch6, as soon as I apply "XMP" it jumps up to 1.41v. And it doesn't change, if I set it automatically.
I also played arround in extreme tweaker and tried to reset everything, but once i select a higher frequence for my memory it goes above 1.35v.

Am I doing something wrong or does that happen to a few people? Haven't found anyone facing the same problem, so I try to ask here.
Btw. I also can't set my soc voltage. Either it is stuck on 0.9-1.0v or once I modify it slightly it goes up to 1.99v and stays there, which just works fine and all but it still confuses me since everyone else uses fairly normal voltages there.

My RAM voltage is at 1.417 and fluctuates up to 1.439. I am still on 1602 though because I have managed to get my 4 sticks of 8GB 3600C15 RAM stable at 3,560MHz at C15-15-15-15-35-50-2T. My CPU multiplier is at 38, RAM is at 3,466MHz, and the FSB is at 102.8MHz (102.77 according to CPU-Z).

[Culley40]

i think i am gonna sell my 1800x and board and go back to intel, asus has done a terrible job with support for these boards, there are updated driver's such as ethernet, amd chipset, usb drivers and most of the drivers on the asus website are from release date. i think i am gonna go and buy the 8700k when it's in stock and buy msi again. i used asus for 10 years, but this is bullsh@t. it's like they quit supporting hardware thats only 6 months old. this is a sad day for me to come to this decision.