{"id":326,"date":"2017-06-17T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=326"},"modified":"2017-06-18T03:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:54:39","slug":"bios-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"BIOS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since installing my\u00a0new Ryzen System<\/a>, hadante is acting up a little. Spontaneous reboots or crashes, things like that. During my\u00a0latest debugging session<\/a>\u00a0I thought that maybe a BIOS\/UEFI update would help. Sure enough ASUS provided one for my superduper PRIME X370-PRO board. Changelog: “Improve system stability”. Wow, any more information and my brain would explode! Anyway, worth a try…<\/p>\n

This UEFI-Crap-Thingy said that it could connect to the Internet via DHCP. Since Vodafone does DHCP it shouldn’t be a problem, right? WRONG! After freezing for a minute or two it says that there’s no network connectivity. Silly me, what did I expect?<\/p>\n

OK, there’s an option for USB-devices. FAT32 with a single partition only, but fortunately I have such a beast. So download the new BIOS, copy it to the USB-stick, reboot and… Nothing! Nothing but a black screen after pressing F2 and\/or DEL. Cold sweat, Shit! Did I just brick my board? No, after unplugging the USB-stick I can enter the BIOS again, and it even boots. Phew!<\/p>\n

But I’m adventurous. New idea: The board only has USB3.0 slots, so let’s try an USB3-stick. So reboot, mount everything, copy the BIOS image to the USB3-stick, reboot, and cross fingers.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold: The BIOS has landed! I can select the USB-Stick from the EZ-Update-Tool and see the image file. It gets even better: The UEFI-Crap installs it without complaints!<\/p>\n

All settings are reset to default, but I didn’t change much. Just turn on SVM again, fix the boot order and set all SATA ports except the SSD’s to hotplug. Exit and reset, crossing fingers and… PXE boot. WTF? Another hard reset later we have GRUB!<\/p>\n

Let’s hope the update keeps its promises!<\/p>\n

[UPDATE 2017\/06\/18 4:40AM]:<\/strong> Well, it doesn’t \ud83d\ude41 I was working with libreoffice when suddenly the system lost power. It just turned off, like pressing the power button. The LED-thingy on the motherboard was still on, but nothing more. To turn it on again, I had to flip the switch on the PSU first. Just pushing the ACPI-Power-Button wouldn’t revive the system. Fortunately the RAID survived it. Has to be some BIOS setting. Can’t be the temperature, though. Voltage, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since installing my\u00a0new Ryzen System, hadante is acting up a little. Spontaneous reboots or crashes, things like that. During my\u00a0latest debugging session\u00a0I thought that maybe a BIOS\/UEFI update would help. Sure enough ASUS provided one for my superduper PRIME X370-PRO board. Changelog: “Improve system stability”. Wow, any more information and my brain would explode! Anyway, … Continue reading BIOS Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-bios","tag-uefi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}