Hello to everyone.
on 2019 I've bought a new motherboard,model Gigabyte Z390 / AORUS PRO CF. I don't remember where I bought it.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find some evidence that helped me to find where I bought it. Maybe on Amazon,but I'm not sure,since I didn't find any link within my email address that confirms it.
On 2020 I wanted to make the passthru of my GPU (RTX 2080 ti) from Windows to a Linux VM using the DDA (Direct Driver Assignment) but I was not sure that my motherboard was able to supports it,so I asked to Gigabyte to check if I could do that.
Gigabyte gave to me two customized BIOS files. I've installed the first one and I really seen that it added the SR-IOV options on the BIOS menu.
I never been able to passthru my GPU from Windows to Linux using the DDA,but later I found that I shouldn't have installed the customized BIOS version (G) of Gigabyte because since I did it,I was no longer able to install the official BIOS versions that come after the G version.
Actually every OS that I ran on my PC (equipped with an Intel CPU model 9900K and two memory banks,model HyperX Predator 32GB 3000MHz (but configured at 2400 mhz) CL15 DIMM XMP (HX430C15PB3K2/32) is experiencing a problem,like the corruption of the ZFS file systems when I run FreeBSD and the crash of some applications (like caja and thunar and Firefox) while I use Linux and FreeBSD.
I made a test of the memory with memtest86 and I found that both the banks are corrupted. Everytime I repeat the test it fails.
What caused the corruption of both the memory banks ? I see two causes :
I have this kind of memory.
I tried to upgrade my Bios to version F13,according with this :
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-PRO-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios
but I've got the error message "OemID Mismatch".
I've renamed Z390AORUSPRO.F13 to GIGABYTE.bin and I tried to flash it. Unfortunately I've got the same error.
At this point,I tried to look for a method to force the upgrade and I found this thread :
https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/f...avoiding-invalid-bios-image/31185/241?page=13
titled : Efiflash can bypass “Invalid BIOS image”
Is that a safe procedure ? Do you reccomend it ? I don't want to brick my motherboard. Thanks.
on 2019 I've bought a new motherboard,model Gigabyte Z390 / AORUS PRO CF. I don't remember where I bought it.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find some evidence that helped me to find where I bought it. Maybe on Amazon,but I'm not sure,since I didn't find any link within my email address that confirms it.
On 2020 I wanted to make the passthru of my GPU (RTX 2080 ti) from Windows to a Linux VM using the DDA (Direct Driver Assignment) but I was not sure that my motherboard was able to supports it,so I asked to Gigabyte to check if I could do that.
Gigabyte gave to me two customized BIOS files. I've installed the first one and I really seen that it added the SR-IOV options on the BIOS menu.
I never been able to passthru my GPU from Windows to Linux using the DDA,but later I found that I shouldn't have installed the customized BIOS version (G) of Gigabyte because since I did it,I was no longer able to install the official BIOS versions that come after the G version.
Actually every OS that I ran on my PC (equipped with an Intel CPU model 9900K and two memory banks,model HyperX Predator 32GB 3000MHz (but configured at 2400 mhz) CL15 DIMM XMP (HX430C15PB3K2/32) is experiencing a problem,like the corruption of the ZFS file systems when I run FreeBSD and the crash of some applications (like caja and thunar and Firefox) while I use Linux and FreeBSD.
I made a test of the memory with memtest86 and I found that both the banks are corrupted. Everytime I repeat the test it fails.
What caused the corruption of both the memory banks ? I see two causes :
- one or more of the multiple and close power outages that I got before to buy an UPS
- a bug present in the old BIOS version that I'm running. Old because I haven't been able to upgrade it since 2020,when Gigabyte gave to me their customized version.
I have this kind of memory.
I tried to upgrade my Bios to version F13,according with this :
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-PRO-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios
but I've got the error message "OemID Mismatch".
I've renamed Z390AORUSPRO.F13 to GIGABYTE.bin and I tried to flash it. Unfortunately I've got the same error.
At this point,I tried to look for a method to force the upgrade and I found this thread :
https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/f...avoiding-invalid-bios-image/31185/241?page=13
titled : Efiflash can bypass “Invalid BIOS image”
Is that a safe procedure ? Do you reccomend it ? I don't want to brick my motherboard. Thanks.