[SOLVED] Should upgrade bios ?

[Rui Neves]

Sould upgrade my motherboard bios to upgrade to windows 11 ??

PC specs :
AOC monitor with 21" and freesync , 75hz
Gigabyte b450 gaming X
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Kingston HyperX FURY DDR4 (with RGB) at 3200mhz with XMP profile 1 enabled
XFX RX 580 GTS XXX 4gb
Bitfenix formula gold 550w
3 hdd´s from WD , 1 wd green , 1wd black ,1 wd blue
1 ssd ( kingston a400 120gb)

For my understanding about latest bios update they didin´t made any relative changes since I know how to activate TPM but I wanna make sure so that´s why I am asking .

I am using a bios that have been removed from gigabyte website , is the f62b I think , the fix that was on the notes at the time was to fix memory compatibility andsince My ram was not detected on rgb fusion I tried to update the bios to see if could change anything , but didin´t change and have to still use rgb software from kingston .

 

[Colif]

According to the notes on bios it

1. Update AGESA ComboV2 1.2.0.4 A
2. Change default status of AMD PSP fTPM to Enabled for addressing basic Windows 11 requirements (https://support.microsoft.com/windows/1fd5a332-360d-4f46-a1e7-ae6b0c90645c)

AGESA combo

According to MSI, the major changes that the new AMD AGESA 1.2.0.4 BIOS firmware adds is first of all the update to the new firmware which also updates the SMU firmware for AMD's Ryzen CPUs including Vermeer (Ryzen 5000), Cezanne (Ryzen 5000G) and Picasso (Ryzen 3000G). Additionally, it also enables TPM by default on the listed motherboards which means that users will be able to get Windows 11 installed and running on their systems through the fTPM functionality on MSI B550 & B450 motherboards.

What's new:

1. Update to COMBOAM4v2PI 1.2.0.4
2. SMU firmware updated for AMD Vermeer, Cezanne and Picasso
3. TPM enabled by default

MSI Rolls Out AMD AGESA 1.2.0.4 BIOS Firmware To Even More X570, B550, X470, B450 & A520 Motherboards

MSI has rolled out its AMD AGESA 1.2.0.4 BIOS Firmware to even more motherboards including X570, X470, B550, B450 & A520 series.

wccftech.com

So if you don't have those CPU and have enable ftpm yourself, the update may not help a lot

I have an X570 from Gigabyte, I expect there is a new update for it as well, but if you changed ftpm already, you may not need it as much. All update does is makes it defaults.

Gernerally not a good idea to update bios just cause one exists. Only update if it fixes something.

 

[Rui Neves]

According to the notes on bios it

1. Update AGESA ComboV2 1.2.0.4 A
2. Change default status of AMD PSP fTPM to Enabled for addressing basic Windows 11 requirements (https://support.microsoft.com/windows/1fd5a332-360d-4f46-a1e7-ae6b0c90645c)

AGESA combo

MSI Rolls Out AMD AGESA 1.2.0.4 BIOS Firmware To Even More X570, B550, X470, B450 & A520 Motherboards

MSI has rolled out its AMD AGESA 1.2.0.4 BIOS Firmware to even more motherboards including X570, X470, B550, B450 & A520 series.

wccftech.com

So if you don't have those CPU and have enable ftpm yourself, the update may not help a lot

I have an X570 from Gigabyte, I expect there is a new update for it as well, but if you changed ftpm already, you may not need it as much. All update does is makes it defaults.

Gernerally not a good idea to update bios just cause one exists. Only update if it fixes something.

Thank you, seems that my cpu is from matisse family , so seems to be a worthless update in my case then

 

[Colif]

Yeah, 3600 is matisse.

gigabyte rgb not the greatest. I only used it long enough to change rgb strip color on my board to blue. I can't really see it from where I sit and I made resst of rgb sort of blend with it.

You could use something like https://openrgb.org/ if you want to make them all the same.

 

[Rui Neves]

Yeah, 3600 is matisse.

gigabyte rgb not the greatest. I only used it long enough to change rgb strip color on my board to blue. I can't really see it from where I sit and I made resst of rgb sort of blend with it.

You could use something like https://openrgb.org/ if you want to make them all the same.

The software can change my cpu cooler fan but for some reason the ram is not detected by the software , Kingston says that only can help with their software and gigabyte does not know how to help, if even gigabyte could not help I dont know why the software even exist ...
To use that software that you have said I will have to open 2 softwares on boot anyway ? Or I can just use that alone ?

 

[Colif]

The aim of the software I linked is to let you run them all from one app. There is also this https://rgbsync.com/ but it doesn't seem to list Gigabyte

 

[Rui Neves]

The aim of the software I linked is to let you run them all from one app. There is also this https://rgbsync.com/ but it doesn't seem to list Gigabyte

Yeah does not seem to support gigabyte Motherboard's , I think I've already tried once and not worked .
I have to wait for that someday that software support gigabyte or gigabyte improves their software

 

[Colif]

i had more corsair rgb than gigabyte so I just use it mostly. the rgb strip on my GPU is not changeable - Only option I have with it is unplug it.

I wouldn't rely on gigabyte to change. Better to hope for one app to run them all. Most of the MB apps use the same drivers. ene.sys is used by Gigabyte and Asus in their software. So why not.

 

[Rui Neves]

Yeah does not seem to support gigabyte Motherboard's , I think I've already tried once and not worked .
I have to wait for someday that software support gigabyte or gigabyte improves their software

i had more corsair rgb than gigabyte so I just use it mostly. the rgb strip on my GPU is not changeable - Only option I have with it is unplug it.

I wouldn't rely on gigabyte to change. Better to hope for one app to run them all. Most of the MB apps use the same drivers. ene.sys is used by Gigabyte and Asus in their software. So why not.

I have to rely on them for now because the cpu cooler , I don't have another option for now .

 

[Rui Neves]

For some reason when installed the Windows 11 today the rgb fusion finally detects my ram , like never detected before ...
The rgb fusion had a new update too ,. So dont know if the installation of Windows fixed it or the update xD

 

[Colif]

likely rgb fusion fixed it.

 

[Rui Neves]

Probably , after I talked to gigabyte support I was not confident that would happen! I was wrong after all😝