I need Crosshair VIII EXTREME advice on drivers and bios?

[AQUASTEVAE]

Hey guys,
It's been a long time since I've been in here. I switched to an Aorus X570 Master mobo for a while, and never was happy with it. I was all set to buy a Dark Hero board, when this EXTREME board monster fell into my lap for way cheaper than retail. So I decided to pull the ripcord and take the plunge back to Asus. As I was downloading all the latest drivers and applying them in the software, I started thinking about past experiences and stopped dead in my tracks. My system is running perfectly on older drivers right now. Coming back to this forum I noticed so many people having problems with different drivers and downloads.
So, I thought I'd reach out to the community, and just ask which drivers have performed well, and which should I avoid???? I am currently on an older bios, which is 0211, and everything is working very well. No problems with bootups, and smooth sailing on everything else. The problem is I want to OC this beast, and I'm thinking that might not go so well on an older bios. So I wanted to ask you guys as well, how the latest bios (0801) is working, and how stable is it?
Thanks for any help, and good to be back.

[Baio73]

I'm on the latest BIOS and drivers and have no issue.

Baio

[AQUASTEVAE]

Baio73 wrote:
I'm on the latest BIOS and drivers and have no issue.

Baio

Thanks for the reply.

So I updated to the latest bios (0801), because of your positive answer and those of others on different forums, but then ran into a problem.
When I tried to post after the the bios update said it finished, I found my system in a boot loop. The sys would start checking codes as usual, but I noticed two particular codes it would get stuck on for several seconds. First it would stop on 58 vga and ramp the fans up on high, then a few more codes and then 94 would stay on there for a while, then back to 58 and the reading on the Oled would then switch to "Loading VGA Bios". This didn't make sense to me, as when I looked up the codes, 58 was a cpu code, but on the board oled, it was reading VGA. ???
At first I left it, thinking the new bios just needed to run through some things, but when I came back a good while later it was still doing the same loop. So I first tried safe boot, and nothing changed, the exact same thing would happen. It would not even post into bios. Then I tried the clear CMOS button, and still nothing changed, just the same boot loop. Finally I remembered reading about some people having trouble with some of the m.2 drives on this bios, so I took out the Dimm.2 drives, and got it to post. So I'm wondering if you, or anyone else with this EXTREME board have gone through that, or maybe have read about any fixes I haven't seen yet??? Also, are you using drivers from Asus's site, or AMD's site? Thanks for any help.

[Baio73]

AQUASTEVAE wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

So I updated to the latest bios (0801), because of your positive answer and those of others on different forums, but then ran into a problem.
When I tried to post after the the bios update said it finished, I found my system in a boot loop. The sys would start checking codes as usual, but I noticed two particular codes it would get stuck on for several seconds. First it would stop on 58 vga and ramp the fans up on high, then a few more codes and then 94 would stay on there for a while, then back to 58 and the reading on the Oled would then switch to "Loading VGA Bios". This didn't make sense to me, as when I looked up the codes, 58 was a cpu code, but on the board oled, it was reading VGA. ???
At first I left it, thinking the new bios just needed to run through some things, but when I came back a good while later it was still doing the same loop. So I first tried safe boot, and nothing changed, the exact same thing would happen. It would not even post into bios. Then I tried the clear CMOS button, and still nothing changed, just the same boot loop. Finally I remembered reading about some people having trouble with some of the m.2 drives on this bios, so I took out the Dimm.2 drives, and got it to post. So I'm wondering if you, or anyone else with this EXTREME board have gone through that, or maybe have read about any fixes I haven't seen yet??? Also, are you using drivers from Asus's site, or AMD's site? Thanks for any help.

Hi man,
Sorry you encountered problems with this BIOS release.
I use 3 NVMe SSDs, 1 in the main slot and 2 in the DIMM.2 expansion card and have no issue at all. Drivers downloaded from AMD website.
Did you set something in the appropriate BIOS section forn PCIex distribution? I can't remember the exact location (I'm at work ATM), but there should be an option to distribute the PCIEx lines among the slots... maybe it can help.

Baio

[AQUASTEVAE]

Baio73 wrote:
Hi man,
Sorry you encountered problems with this BIOS release.
I use 3 NVMe SSDs, 1 in the main slot and 2 in the DIMM.2 expansion card and have no issue at all. Drivers downloaded from AMD website.
Did you set something in the appropriate BIOS section forn PCIex distribution? I can't remember the exact location (I'm at work ATM), but there should be an option to distribute the PCIEx lines among the slots... maybe it can help.

Baio

Hey, thanks for the reply. Yes, I learned about the bios settings well before I even received the board. Lol. I went through some trouble shooting with ASUS second tier tech support, and it's working right now. Fingers crossed...

[AQUASTEVAE]

AQUASTEVAE wrote:
Hey, thanks for the reply. Yes, I learned about the bios settings well before I even received the board. Lol. I went through some trouble shooting with ASUS second tier tech support, and it's working right now. Fingers crossed...

UPDATE: I ended up sending that board back for full refund, as I still had some problems. I then bought a Ryzen 7950X, 2x32 6400 GSkill C32 DDR5 and a ROG Strix X670E-E motherboard. I figured if I'm going to go with expensive parts, I might as well have the latest gen stuff. Everything working well, with no problems. I've had it setup for just over a week now. And I have Black Friday deal insurance incase the deals I got, are better on BF. Happy with the switch.