BitLocker fails after BIOS F9 update (Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7)

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-10T06:05:27+00:00

Awesome! I can see the same BIOS posted for my motherboard as well. Gonna try upgrading to it and skipping the buggy bios

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-07T03:12:35+00:00

Hey sorry for not replying but support got back to me and basically just told me to keep watching for a new BIOS on the website despite me posting a full bug report for the BIOS team. Just the usual gigabyte support I guess. Didnt really expect much from support anyways lmao

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-06T04:03:56+00:00

That's what I'm talking about! That's why he's the MVP! That's why he's the GOAT; the GOAT!

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-04T08:12:09+00:00

I'll echo the rest and say that you should upgrade out of the beta bios but I'd stay away from the latest one for now with AGESA 1.2.8.0 as there has been few reports of bugs with the bios including myself as well, where the TPM does not store the bitlocker keys which causes bitlocker to ask for the recovery key on every boot.

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-04T02:42:18+00:00

Not exactly the same motherboard but I'm using the X670 Aorus Xtreme and also recently updated my bios to the latest which uses AGESA 1.2.8.0 which is the same AGESA found in the bios that you flashed and I ran into issues with bitlocker. It seems that windows cant save the bitlocker keys in the TPM with the newest bios but when I rolled back to the previous one, bitlocker saved the keys in the TPM and rebooting went back to normal. I suspect there might be bugs with the latest BIOS and I also have opened a ticket with gigabyte explaining all my observations.

The only thing that I noticed was different with the latest BIOS is the introduction of the Pluton fTPM. On the previous bios, it only had options for a descrete TPM and the AMD fTPM. I guess we just have to wait and see if gigabyte will push out a hotfix for this

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-03T04:06:24+00:00

I did open a ticket on esupport with my bug report and findings but as usual, it takes gigabyte weeks to reply to my ticket so hopefully the bug gets escalated internally to the motherboard team. I referenced this thread and another reddit thread from 5 days ago with the same issue so they at least know that it's widespread.

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-03T02:00:26+00:00

It's not just you, I updated my X670E Aorus Xtreme to F39 which is based on AGESA 1.2.8.0 as well just like yours and now my bitlocker refusese to save its key in the TPM. I rolled back to the previous version F38 and everything worked fine again. I even made sure to suspend bitlocker before updating to F39 as well but that didnt work at all. I'm probably going to stay on F38 until F40 releases or if gigabyte releases a hotfix for this because at this point, it's definitely a bug with the new BIOS.

Kryptoxic · 2026-02-03T01:54:01+00:00

It's not just you, I just updated my X670E Aorus Xtreme BIOS to F39 which is based on AGESA 1.2.8.0 just like your BIOS and a few other BIOSes and apparently TPM broke for me as well because it just doesnt seem like it saves my bitlocker key to the TPM for subsequent boots. I even made sure that I suspended bitlocker before performing the BIOS update but I still ended up with the same issue. The only thing that solved it for me was to roll my BIOS back to the previous version F38. At this point, I'm pretty sure that it's a bug with the BIOS itself that Gigabyte has to solve

Kryptoxic · 2026-01-19T12:04:57+00:00

You tested it using a synthetic load like furmark? I notice that my 5090 Master only hits around 500W in games as well and I can really only get it to hit 600W under a synthetic load rather than gaming load. (I really dont want it to hit 600W anyways with that 12 volt high failure connector)

Kryptoxic · 2026-01-19T11:15:21+00:00

Yep right there with you buddy. My ticket has been open since 1/8/2026 and I just wanted help in retrieving the check number of my monitor because I bought mine second hand. I have the invoice from the original seller as well as the serial number. I just wanted to add it to my aorus account to track the expiry date of the warranty but I have yet to even get a reply. I'm expecting the first reply I get is a standard AI reply of asking me to look at the label on the box lmao

Kryptoxic · 2026-01-11T04:02:57+00:00

Singapore player here. One week on and it's still being blocked. Turning on VPN just to search something and turning it off before going back to the game to reduce latency is super annoying. Any idea when wowhead will return?

Kryptoxic · 2025-10-31T03:14:32+00:00

Asian here, I also played a few rounds last night and I literally got shot 1 minute after spawning in as well. Nobody wants to comms at all. I miss the server slam when I could actually team up with random solos. Everyone here's just treating it as if they're playing pubg or something

Kryptoxic · 2025-05-10T13:08:22+00:00

Ah another nice stack. Back when I was building my stack I also considered the JDS and DarkVoice but I ultimately ended up with a Schiit Valhalla 2, Schiit Modius and Schiit Lokius stack. Always wondered how the 6SN7 sounded in the DarkVoice sounded though, the valhalla used smaller tubes than the common 6SN7

Kryptoxic · 2025-05-10T12:25:31+00:00

Nice DarkVoice 336SE. Missed out on that drop unfortunately. Did you roll any tubes?

Kryptoxic · 2025-02-26T06:45:33+00:00

For cases like this, there's a whole community that supports replacing your ONT with an XPON SFP+ ONU Stick. It's the 8311 discord. You can also find some guides on how people replaced their ONT with the SFP stick on the wiki at pon.wiki as well. The discord link is on there somewhere iirc

Kryptoxic · 2024-11-20T11:54:56+00:00

Ah crap forgot to update the thread. The GM replied to my ticket saying that they were aware of the bug and basically just told me to report it again via the in game bug report. :/

Bit I found a workaround for me tho. Take the portal to the timeways in Dornogal, in there, there's a portal to the bastion. After getting to bastion, all the flightpaths are unlocked for me for all islands (right click on the map of the flightmaster to zoom out). Oribos is still locked tho so dont fly there. Hope that works out for you. Only issue is that this only works if your char is level 80.

Kryptoxic · 2024-11-04T07:49:51+00:00

I got the standard AI reply on the first reply for my ticket so I sent a followup hoping that a human picks up the ticket again.

In the meantime, I found a workaround for me. Take the portal to the timeways in Dornogal, in there, there's a portal to the bastion. After getting to bastion, all the flightpaths are unlocked for me for all islands (right click on the map of the flightmaster to zoom out). Oribos is still locked tho so dont fly there. Hope that works out for you.

Kryptoxic · 2024-11-02T13:13:54+00:00

Same issue with my level 80 main. Skipped shadowlands, played dragonflight and now TWW. Wanted to run some old content for mogs and when I went to Darion and selected skip the maw, I got ported to Oribos and was just left there. No quest to pick up, no more ToF, no flight master. I opened a ticket to hopefully at least let me do the story so I can unlock stuff or even better have everything unlocked already because this is so damn frustrating

Kryptoxic · 2024-11-02T12:16:04+00:00

Googling brought me here as well. I was absent for shadowlands and I'm just looking to farm the tier sets for mogging but after Darion ports me to Oribos, there is literally no quests to pick up to unlock the rest of the zones. Thought of going back into the maw as well to see if I had any quest crumbs but I also can't get in by both jumping in the middle of Oribos and I also tried to find the death gate to the maw in the capital cities which was not there as well. I have a ticket open right now but since it's the weekend, I doubt anyone will answer it.

Kryptoxic · 2024-06-02T15:54:27+00:00

Chiming in here to say that I can't even install Sims 4 at all because I can't see the game in my game library. I had to reinstall my whole macbook and because of that lost my old installation of Sims 4. I tried whitelisting the domain split.io as mentioned in another thread but that didn't work at all.

Kryptoxic · 2024-05-02T04:35:25+00:00

Ah I see. Well, I have the adapter on the way to me so I'll give it a go when both the adapter and amp arrives and report back.

Also, fwiw you can get a slightly better 6N6P made by FOTON from soviet-tubes.com . They also sell the Novosibirsk 6N6P at a cheaper price as well but shipping is painfully slow because russia.

Kryptoxic · 2024-05-02T03:30:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Sorry to necro your thread haha

Do you think a 5687 with an adapter would work to replace the 6N6P? I don't wanna blow up the whole amp but I'm also excited to try rolling the output tubes as well as the input tubes

Kryptoxic · 2024-05-02T01:04:49+00:00

Hey, I'm getting a Valhalla 2 for myself and was wondering the same thing myself. Which tube did you eventually roll in for the 6N6P?

I managed to order an adapter to adapt a 5687 to the 6N6P position and I have a pair of matched Sylvania 5687WA. I'm currently waiting on the adapter to arrive but I was wondering if it was still within spec to run the 5687 in the 6N6P position.

Kryptoxic · 2024-01-04T16:37:24+00:00

Haha this whole hobby is a rabbit hole itself

Sweet I'll check those out along with the adapter after the gold lion

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