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New 3402 Bios for Rampage V Extreme.

TeddyRaspin
Level 9
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Improve system stability....


Never seen them pull that one out the hat before!

hmmm couldent start any program in windows after installing this bios, and had to manually reboot 3x times and still same.. and then i mean no program at all

back to 2101 and working all fine again..

all other 3xxx befoire this 3402 ive had USB issues

No issues upgrading from 3301 with same 4.4 CPU OC and memory OC @ 3200.

raceitchris
Level 7
flashed to 3402, from a rock solid stable 2101. system will not boot now at all. switched over to other bios, same thing - will not boot. tried renaming at least 10 different biose's versions to "R5E.CAP" and biosflashbacked them to both bios tons of times and system won't boot. removed all usb devices except mouse and KB, tried every pcie slot with video card, wont boot, removed CMOS for an hour.

tried every stick of ram in every possible slot , no other options left. 7 hours of tireless troubleshooting. board has been bricked - absolutely nothing will post on monitor. im all out of options. anyone got any miracle solutions? I have done 150-200 or so flashes over the past 2 years, maybe i just killed the bios chips?

raceitchris@yahoo.com wrote:
flashed to 3402, from a rock solid stable 2101. system will not boot now at all. switched over to other bios, same thing - will not boot. tried renaming at least 10 different biose's versions to "R5E.CAP" and biosflashbacked them to both bios tons of times and system won't boot. removed all usb devices except mouse and KB, tried every pcie slot with video card, wont boot, removed CMOS for an hour.

tried every stick of ram in every possible slot , no other options left. 7 hours of tireless troubleshooting. board has been bricked - absolutely nothing will post on monitor. im all out of options. anyone got any miracle solutions? I have done 150-200 or so flashes over the past 2 years, maybe i just killed the bios chips?


Because of that I afraid to update BIOS and I will not update at all until become necessary.
But I can't use SATA III SSD because I afraid to update BIOS with NVMe support. But I will go on 2xxx versions.
Looks like they were better for most people.
But usually when new device show up as Samsung 950 PRO and 960 PRO people should use BIOS version after them.
Such important hardware upgrades get better support with newer version of BIOS.

raceitchris@yahoo.com wrote:
flashed to 3402, from a rock solid stable 2101. system will not boot now at all. switched over to other bios, same thing - will not boot. tried renaming at least 10 different biose's versions to "R5E.CAP" and biosflashbacked them to both bios tons of times and system won't boot. removed all usb devices except mouse and KB, tried every pcie slot with video card, wont boot, removed CMOS for an hour.

tried every stick of ram in every possible slot , no other options left. 7 hours of tireless troubleshooting. board has been bricked - absolutely nothing will post on monitor. im all out of options. anyone got any miracle solutions? I have done 150-200 or so flashes over the past 2 years, maybe i just killed the bios chips?


You have to reprogram your bios chip with an external Eeprom programmer like EZP2010 in order to fix your issues.

TeddyRaspin wrote:
You have to reprogram your bios chip with an external Eeprom programmer like EZP2010 in order to fix your issues.


Just purchased an EZP2010 and a new chip with latest bios pre installed from E-bay

$18 for the EZP2010
$12 for the single chip

Just in case I cant get the EZ to work, the pre installed chip will be the backup plan. as to not wait another 3 weeks for another E-Packet.

I had a strange problem i suspect might be related to this bios version:

flashed it some weeks ago, but yesterday morning my audiocard wouldn't initialize so i turned the computer of and disconnected mains for 10 minutes or so while investigating the soundcard,

upon poweron the "bios is updating " screen appeared out of nowhere and the computer rebooted several times, so i loaded the DVD and flashed the supplied bios which worked, then in windows again i flashed 3402 again (granted perhaps i should have put it on a stick and flashed it that way but anyhow)

this worked out, but after flashing my machine always entered bios upon reboot, even thou correct boot disk marked in boot, but i could boot os using f8 menu, but OS was not stable, went in to bios an found that it had entered some very strange settings here and there, loaded defaults, could now boot ok but still having to use f8, but os crashed after a while, ran a memtest and computer did still shutoff,

now i started to suspect something either have gone broken or there was still a bios issue so i loaded 3301 on a usb and flashed, now i can get my machine to boot os, and it has been stable running stresstest all night. One thing i did notice is that whne i flashed 3402 i never got the post message asking me to enter bios upon completion, but got this screen now when flashing 3301

What could be the RCA here? Virus that tried to do something to bios or maybe the bios flash did not complete for some reason? or some kind of incompatibility, i do not run overclocked at this time as i wait for a new fan to my h110i (running on one fan works ok but i dont want to push it )

mahava wrote:
I had a strange problem i suspect might be related to this bios version:

flashed it some weeks ago, but yesterday morning my audiocard wouldn't initialize so i turned the computer of and disconnected mains for 10 minutes or so while investigating the soundcard,

upon poweron the "bios is updating " screen appeared out of nowhere and the computer rebooted several times, so i loaded the DVD and flashed the supplied bios which worked, then in windows again i flashed 3402 again (granted perhaps i should have put it on a stick and flashed it that way but anyhow)

this worked out, but after flashing my machine always entered bios upon reboot, even thou correct boot disk marked in boot, but i could boot os using f8 menu, but OS was not stable, went in to bios an found that it had entered some very strange settings here and there, loaded defaults, could now boot ok but still having to use f8, but os crashed after a while, ran a memtest and computer did still shutoff,

now i started to suspect something either have gone broken or there was still a bios issue so i loaded 3301 on a usb and flashed, now i can get my machine to boot os, and it has been stable running stresstest all night. One thing i did notice is that whne i flashed 3402 i never got the post message asking me to enter bios upon completion, but got this screen now when flashing 3301

What could be the RCA here? Virus that tried to do something to bios or maybe the bios flash did not complete for some reason? or some kind of incompatibility, i do not run overclocked at this time as i wait for a new fan to my h110i (running on one fan works ok but i dont want to push it )


I would try reflashing it with 3402, or maybe switch to BIOS 2 and flash that one with 3402 and see if you get the same issue. If so, switch back to BIOS 1 for further troubleshooting/research.

sparcengine wrote:
I would try reflashing it with 3402, or maybe switch to BIOS 2 and flash that one with 3402 and see if you get the same issue. If so, switch back to BIOS 1 for further troubleshooting/research.


Hmm ok this gets even stranger, i did not do anything more so i keept the older bios for now, but disconnected mains again for 10 minutes, upon reconnection and boot it started updating again, but not bios only ME (whatever that is) and then started the old bios re-entry crap again, agian i noticed some of my settings were gone, so i applied defaults, rebooted, windows boots ok, so i later turn off the computer again and disconnects mains starting to think if i should change the cmos battery while checking the calendar verifying we do write 2016 and that i only had the thing for litle over a year, then replugging it expecting same story, but now it boots ok! no noncense, no update and my settings in bios is preserved, had it disconnected this time also for about 10 minutes, everything seems stable also, must say this is one of the stranger problems i encountered i recent years. Perhaps changing cmos battery wouldent be so dumb?