07-22-2018
09:06 PM
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03-06-2024
08:26 PM
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ROGBot
07-23-2018 12:00 PM
virgil990 wrote:
Hello Everyone, long time listener, first time caller. My love/hate relationship with my R6E has entered a new phase as of late. Most things were working quite well, no ram issues, OC issues or any of the others a lot of people seem to struggle with, so in a way I feel truly blessed;)
My issues, or at least any of the major one’s, started with the Win 10 April 1803 Update, I know, I know. They kind of sneak these in on you and I guess I should have done more research on how major this update was (very similar to a Win 8.1 update.) The upgrade process itself was kind of a mess, would fail over and over through Windows Update. Had to use the “Upgrade Assistant” tool and after successfully installing found that I had a second boot manager partition created which I somehow assumed was at the root of my problems.
The first thing I noticed was that my IRST OptionROM splash during POST was missing. Not a major deal but seems intimately connected to the other issues. I started noticing performance issues while testing my new Vive Pro so I decided to go back to one of my pre-1803 True Image backups and found I couldn’t boot into the WinPE USB environment I use to restore. Boot Override seems to be completely broken, unable to boot into any of my USB environments and will even show an entirely empty list requiring a CMOS clear. This prevents me from accessing the Linux GRUB and booting into my Ubuntu Server dual boot. I did flash 1401 at the same time as the 1803 upgrade but I’m not sure which is the real culprit. I was able to finally get back to a previous backup but the issues seem to remain and now I’m completely unable to restore at all as Boot Override seems to be completely broken and even the USB BIOS Flashback is not working.
I’m a HUGE fan of backups, I have numerous sequential backups of my many complex environments and any time I run into trouble I’m less than 15 min away from a prestine environment. I guess that’s why I feel so lost now. I’ve never been locked in like this and it is completely unnerving. At this point it seems to me that I have some sort of a hardware or microcode issue but I’m completely unable to solve it. Thought I would reach out to you guys before starting the RMA process which I’ve heard can be a bit of a nightmare. This has to be the 6th Asus build I’ve done and I’ve never had a single RMA. Any help is infinitely appreciated.
TLDR Upgraded to 1401 and Win 10 1803 now I’m locked in a persistently decaying BIOS/OS environment I can’t seem to escape from.
07-23-2018 02:37 PM
tipes wrote:
Hi,
Just a thought - have you tried using the other bios, and see if that resolves your issues? Switch, and see how you go. I feel your pain though.
Mark
07-23-2018 01:59 PM
07-23-2018 03:10 PM
G75rog wrote:
Revert back to 1201 or 1301 for the bios issues and build 1703 to get rid of the 1803 mess.
Bios 1401 did mess up the Flashback utility on my Apex but, I can live with it.
My Win7 upgrade to Win 10 1703 has a quirk that makes the update to 1803 fail every time so I have a permanent 1703 that runs fine for now.