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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

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Post by justinclift »

mardifoufs wrote: post #23
iforgotpassword wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we're unfortunately back to an unhinged race for the performance crown at any cost.

Higher idle power consumption is more common on AMD CPUs (I think it's inherent to their design). I don't think intel CPUs consume nearly as much power when idle. Oddly enough, AMD GPUs also have the same problem under certain conditions (multiple monitors, or high refresh rates can result in 100w idle GPU power ) But I agree that the power consumption figures under load are a bit nuts, and intel/amd now seem to be e…

> Higher idle power consumption is more common on ...

On that note, the new-ish ATX12VO standard Intel has been pushing apparently allows for motherboards with much lower idle power consumption:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX#ATX12VO

https://hackaday.com/2021/06/07/intels-atx12vo-standard-a-st...

Sounds like a win if it becomes reasonably widely used.

Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

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Post by b7we5b7a »

The BIOSRenamer.exe tool included with ASUS BIOSes is only to be run if you need to use USB Flashback feature (USB Flashback expects a certain filename).

I just flashed the BIOS today on my ASUS board by simply unzipping and copying the file to the USB stick, then selecting the ROG-CROSSHAIR-VIII-HERO-ASUS-4402.CAP in EZ Update from the BIOS menu. All went well as usual.

Perhaps with the B650 board EZ Update doesn't like reading a BIOS file with the USB Flashback name?

Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

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Post by iforgotpassword »

Panzer04 wrote: post #70
iforgotpassword wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we're unfortunately back to an unhinged race for the performance crown at any cost.

I’m not sure why I’d care. An extra 100w amounts to a couple cents an hour for most people. Not relevant most of the time, and will shave time off almost any CPU task (as this is increasing the single-threaded speed, which applies to almost everything - sans memory or storage bottlenecks). Sounds like a worthwhile trade off for most people to me, and more so if you do anything remotely CPU-intensive.

Sure, if you enjoy running a space heater in the summer that doubles as a jet engine regarding the sound scape for 4% more performance then more power to you. ;-)

Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

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Post by Aardwolf »

Aardwolf wrote: post #10

Guess 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…

(typo, I meant DDR 5 instead of DDR 4)

Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #73
Panzer04 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure why I’d care. An extra 100w amounts to a couple cents an hour for most people. Not relevant most of the time, and will shave time off almost any CPU task (as this is increasing the single-threaded speed, which applies to almost everything - sans memory or storage bottlenecks). Sounds like a worthwhile trade off for most people to me, and more so if you do anything remotely CPU-intensive.

Sure, if you enjoy running a space heater in the summer that doubles as a jet engine regarding the sound scape for 4% more performance then more power to you. ;-)

This is of course, hyperbole. And geez, don't place your PC case with the vents blowing at you. Even at 100% CPU, noise should not be noticeably different if you’re using anything besides the stock cooler. Stock coolers are of course notorious for being bargain-basement tier in noise/performance.

Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS

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Post by zbrozek »

noman-land wrote: post #32
zbrozek wrote: post #21

I once bricked a motherboard with a bad flash, probably around 2012. I ended up desoldering the SPI flash and reprogramming it from another computer. Worked. In hindsight, it was quicker to do that than to go through the "front door" with the manufacturer-provided utilities.

This is hilariously cavalier. I love it.

What was extra-cavalier about it was that I didn't even bother disassembling the computer to get the motherboard out of the case. Did it in-situ at awkward angles with the tower in my lap. I did take out the graphics card to give myself some space to work though.
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