BIOS 2801 feedback thread

[Wesley1]

Did anyone tried already the new BIOS 2801?

Does the "Disable C1E state" setting really work?

I saw some mixed feedback on overclockers forums.

[Bloodjkee]

My hero gimme change microcode in bios, maybe its solution?

[theroc44]

The new bios is tuurible. Lower clock speeds and my 8400ddr5 wont run at 8400. Thats a no-no for me. 2503 was much better, microcode  0x129  for my 14900ks.

[Oiram]

Hi everyone,
I did the update the day before yesterday and spent all time since then to find what happened: my PC freezes randomly after the upgrade.
Intel i7 13700K, Asus Proart z790 Creator WiFi, Kingston Fury DDR5 5600 64 Gb,Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Ti.
I came from Bios 2505, so Intel ME was updated too. Rolling back to 2505 doesn't fix it.
Any clue?
Thanks!!!

[ek312]

I am having an absurd amount of issues with 2801 on z790 pro art. i9 13900k, scoring 32k on r23. Every time I change bios settings, it gets stuck at red cpu light unless I unplug and plug back in. Sleep won’t work, red cpu light when trying to wake up. Currently disabled sleep in Windows, running asus OC everything on auto to get back up to 36-38k scores stable (some thermal throttling)

[David86796]

Hello, it also happened to me after updating the new version of BIOS 2801 that the computer randomly switches off the image to sleep mode, the cpu and gpu fans start humming and the only thing that helps is a restart. I wrote to support and they will contact Asus, saying that the only solution is to issue a new BIOS update, but it depends when Asus will do it, I think that this problem is not only for a few people, but there will be many people with this problem. I hope it will be resolved as soon as possible. at asus support they told me that the ASUS BIOS 2801 upgrade is also part of INTEL ME 16.1.32.2473, the question was sent on and if this is the problem of more individuals there will probably be a new update but report this problem directly to ASUS SUPPORT. have nice day i hope that problem will soon solved by ASUS 🙂 

[Wesley1]

I'm observing some weird VR VCC Voltage (SVID VOUT) spikes on BIOS 2801. Does anyone else see those?

Or is it rather sensor reading error in HWInfo64?

I also use the latest HWInfo 8.17-5615 Beta version.

[Silent_Scone]

That’s clearly a polling error 👍

[Wesley1]

IMHO something is wrong with Intel SpeedShift Technology.

ThrottleStop 9.7 now shows it's not enabled by Default, although it is Enabled in BIOS.

And when I try to adjust value of it to 0 (max CPU clock) and then to 128 in ThrottleStop 9.7 the CPU frequency gets stuck at around 2,0 or 2,5 GHz.

On BIOS 2503 it didn't work like that.
On BIOS 2503 setting value 0 pushed clock to maximum, and setting it back to 128 switched back to balanced clock / profile.

[KSMerg]

Hi. If you select 0x10E in the BIOS settings EXTRIME TWEAKERS\TWEAKER`S PARADISE\SWITCH MICROCODE, the problem of frequency non-compliance disappears.

[Wesley1]

Thank you for suggestion, but old microcode before 0x129 is known to cause voltage spikes and could lead to CPU / silicon degradation at faster pace.