How does the new setup compare to your Mac Studio, after you've dialed the power limit back to 105W?
Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
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Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#12I updated my x399 board a few weeks ago using the built-in updater from the BIOS screen... all I had to do was plug a network cable in and select online update.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#13Interesting non-BIOS observations:
> So I popped everything together, made sure it benchmarked as expected, tested an Intel Arc A750 in preparation for testing on a Raspberry Pi, and then decided the 7900x's egregious power consumption wasn't to my liking the thing idled over 90W, and would eat up over 285W while compiling Linux!
> I wanted to enable AMD's 'Eco' mode, which limits the TDP from the stock 170W to either 105W or 65W. And in my own benchmarking (which happened later on, but I'm including the data here because it's kinda insane), the CPU got about 96% of its 170W performance when I limited it to 105W. And at that level, it idled at 45W and maxed out at 206W. Much better.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#14I updated my Z390 ASUS board through the BIOS. I didn’t use the online updater because for some reason it pulled the 2nd newest version. So instead I just downloaded it off the website to a USB stick, booted into the BIOS, picked it, and done.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#15I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates. The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to…
Similarly, I broke idrac on a Dell sever because I did not follow the proper upgrade path.
I just assumed that the latest bios was good and the server happily bricked itsefl
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#16Interesting non-BIOS observations: > So I popped everything together, made sure it benchmarked as expected, tested an Intel Arc A750 in preparation for testing on a Raspberry Pi, and then decided the 7900x's egregious power consumption wasn't to my liking the thing idled over 90W, and would eat up over 285W while compiling Linux! > I wanted to enable AMD's 'Eco' mode, which limits the TDP from the stock 170W to eithe…
Yes, we're unfortunately back to an unhinged race for the performance crown at any cost.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can actually use `fwupdtool install-blob` to update the UEFI if the board supports and uses UEFI capsule update. I did that with my Asus B550-I and it just worked, it reboots to ASUS EZ-Flash and does the update automatically. All Asus would need to do is publish updates on LVFS.
How do you know if the board supports it? Asking because I want to update my firmware for my lenovo legion
I would just try it, honestly. Knowing the huge amount of SKUs Lenovo has, it might be a grid of models & “factory BIOS version” that support it.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#18Guess I was lucky then, I flashed a very similar new asus motherboard from this same generation for AMD ryzen 7000 cpu's, I used the first random usb stick lying around, wrote the bios update to it from linux, possibly had to rename the file to something specific (manually. Who needs a tool for that? Also why doesn't asus just give it the correct name in the zip file?), and flashing worked first try. May have been a…
I recently updated an MSI Z690-A to the latest BIOS in preparation for installing a 13th generation Intel. I downloaded the updated BIOS file, put it on a thumb drive, renamed it to "MSI.ROM," put the thumb drive into the "Flash BIOS" port, had the motherboard connected to ATX and CPU1 power only, no CPU, or RAM, or any other hardware installed, flipped on power, pressed the "Flash BIOS" button and everything worked fine. This board "learned" the RAM sticks very quickly, maybe because the board never had RAM to begin with. It took seconds.
I was originally going to pick up an Asus Strix Z690-A but read about a variety of problems with that board, especially with regards to RAM. Many anecdotes I had seen online had similar complaints about need to really press hard to get the RAM sticks properly installed. I had no issues with the MSI. My previous build had an Asus mobo and it had strange issues, too.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#19Guess I was lucky then, I flashed a very similar new asus motherboard from this same generation for AMD ryzen 7000 cpu's, I used the first random usb stick lying around, wrote the bios update to it from linux, possibly had to rename the file to something specific (manually. Who needs a tool for that? Also why doesn't asus just give it the correct name in the zip file?), and flashing worked first try. May have been a…
Is using flashrom(1) in-situ not an option?
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#20Guess I was lucky then, I flashed a very similar new asus motherboard from this same generation for AMD ryzen 7000 cpu's, I used the first random usb stick lying around, wrote the bios update to it from linux, possibly had to rename the file to something specific (manually. Who needs a tool for that? Also why doesn't asus just give it the correct name in the zip file?), and flashing worked first try. May have been a…
I recently updated an MSI Z690-A to the latest BIOS in preparation for installing a 13th generation Intel. I downloaded the updated BIOS file, put it on a thumb drive, renamed it to "MSI.ROM," put the thumb drive into the "Flash BIOS" port, had the motherboard connected to ATX and CPU1 power only, no CPU, or RAM, or any other hardware installed, flipped on power, pressed the "Flash BIOS" button and everything worked…
Yeah I’ll give a +1 to MSI, their BIOS firmware updates have been nothing but smooth for me and I haven’t had to think much about which USB sticks I’ve used. I’m about 80% sure I’ve used a USB 3 stick at one point but can’t be certain