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Rampage V E 10 Bios question

Feklar
Level 8
So there are 2 bios chips on the board. Both had 0502 on them. Using the button on the board I switched to bios 2 and updated it to 0801. I then booted in to Win 7 Pro nor!mally. Once in windows I get a on screen notice that my windows serial number was invalid and and windows needs to be reactivated. Of course I did not because it has been activated for a week or two already. A right click on their my computer icon showed I had 3 days until windows automatically activates. I shut the computer down and switched back to bios 1 chip, booted back in to windows and it showed windows was activated again. Looks like switching to bios 2 chip prompted the Windows activation request. If this is the case it's an issue. Anyone else experienced this? Also wonder why there is no capability to copy bios 1 to bios 2 or even switch to bios 2 without physically having to remove the case cover and pressing a button.

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Hopper64
Level 15
Feklar wrote:
So there are 2 bios chips on the board. Both had 0502 on them. Using the button on the board I switched to bios 2 and updated it to 0801. I then booted in to Win 7 Pro nor!mally. Once in windows I get a on screen notice that my windows serial number was invalid and and windows needs to be reactivated. Of course I did not because it has been activated for a week or two already. A right click on their my computer icon showed I had 3 days until windows automatically activates. I shut the computer down and switched back to bios 1 chip, booted back in to windows and it showed windows was activated again. Looks like switching to bios 2 chip prompted the Windows activation request. If this is the case it's an issue. Anyone else experienced this? Also wonder why there is no capability to copy bios 1 to bios 2 or even switch to bios 2 without physically having to remove the case cover and pressing a button.


Yes, I have seen this before too. Don't have a fix at this time, and don't know why it's an issue.
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FireRx
Level 11
I'll mention that to the team in the Windows insiders program. So that tells me it refers to the bios chip for activation in windows.


Edit: submitted to Microsoft for bug fix. :cool:
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Feklar
Level 8
Thanks guys.

i9 12900k + Asus Maximus Z690 Apex + EVGA RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 ULTRA
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000l XMP 3.0 Desktop Memory Model F5-6000U4040E16GX2-TZ5RK+ Samsung 870 Pro SSD, EVO 1TB, EVO 2TB
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 T2 Power Supply + Fractal Meshify 2 XL case
Ek Velocity 2 CPU block, Ek GPU block
Koolance Fittings and QDC's + Mo-Ra 3 Pro 4x180 Radiator
LG 38GL950G Monitor +
Windows 10 Pro

Onimax
Level 8
If you are using the EFI version of windows with secure boot to start your system it could be due to both chips not having the same secure boot keys.