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Thanks. I had much less difficulty with the Asus BIOS than the Gigabyte BIOS, especially when it came to boot loops. I was able to achieve the same 4.5 GHz CPU & cache OC on the Asus that I had on the Gigabyte board. I narrowed down the issue with the Firewire to a problem with the RAM OC...

For those who care, the XMP issue was due to me not RTFM - my 2 DIMMs were in slots A1 and B1 rather than A2 and B2 where they should have been according to the manual. When they were moved, XMP worked just fine with no soft reboot problem. However, I have discovered one annoying issue - the...

Happy for you ! I wish the BIOS that Gigabyte support sent me had worked as well for me as the one you got. There were so many times I had to clear CMOS with my Z170XP-SLI . This sounds like a case where Gigabyte went to market too early, with an unfinished product. I have yet to reset CMOS...

So, I found the setting in the Z170-AR BIOS, and it works just fine - no boot loop. However, doing this doesn't appear to be the way to go for OC . The CPU clock remained at the base 3.5 GHz regardless of the other clock settings I had set for 4.5 GHz. So, it looks like I actually need to...

It seems the process for BIOS updating on the Z170 is much longer and different than on any other boards I owned. Even on my new mobo, the Asus Z170-AR, when I flashed the latest BIOS version from the UEFI BIOS, it was an affair where the machine powered itself off and back on about 5 times...

How long exactly was "a while". I shorted the pins for over 30s, both without the PSU connected to the wall (per instructions) and with. I also took out every add-on card and left just the USB keyboard and one monitor connected to the iGPU. I had no luck reviving it. Well, for what it's...

I had actually had gone back and forth between BIOS versions on this mobo, from F3 to F5, and back, several times, always flashing from Windows. I didn't have any issues. I'm not sure if Gigabyte sent me a bad BIOS file or if the flashing went bad due to the OC. It was certainly very strange...

Gigabyte sent me the F6D BIOS for my GA-Z170XP-SLI . I used the Gigabyte AtBIOS to flash it from Windows. And ... Lo and behold, the entire machine shut down in the middle of the flash process, and immediately went into a loop where it powers up for 4 seconds, then powers off, and so on. I...

I opened a ticket on Wednesday, but have yet to receive a reply from them. The ticket is still in the support queue, being processed. It looks like HWMonitor was last updated in July, whereas CPU-Z was updated much more recently. I hope the fix will make it in HWMonitor soon.

Thanks, but I couldn't find any beta BIOS there for the Z170XP-SLI . FYI, here are some screenshots on my system with current 4.5 GHz OC and 1.39 Vcore set in BIOS. First EasyTune (correct) : Next, CPU-Z 1.74 (also correct) : Next, Hwmonitor (incorrect) : Finally, XTU...

Where could I find the beta BIOS for my board ? It is not posted on the Gigabyte web site support pages. I have checked, and HWMonitor 1.28 is the latest version. I have the Gigabyte edition of Intel XTU, and it is up to date according to the update check, but it is showing yet another vcore...

I'm running the latest BIOS F5 for my GA-Z170XP-SLI, which was released on October 13 : http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5496#bios I just opened a support ticket with Gigabyte for this issue on my board. It looks like BIOS F4beta for your Z170N-Gaming 5 is not public...

Hi, I'm still within the first 30 days - bought my Gigabyte mobo on Black friday. It's a pain to rebuild everything with a new mobo. Fry's has an Asus Z170-AR board which is about $35 more than what I paid - and only one legacy PCI slot vs 2 on the Gigabyte. But when I google "Asus...

I joined the forum specifically to comment on this. I have a similar - but not identical - Gigabyte Z170 motherboard . Mine is a GA-Z170XP-SLI . Whenever I disable "Turbo Boost" in the BIOS, it immediately goes into a boot loop, where the power actually shuts down, then it comes on for 4...