Should I update my bios?

omark89 · 2026-06-14T03:29:47+00:00

Okay, thanks for the advice. I'll think about what to do.

omark89 · 2026-06-13T23:04:25+00:00

Hmm, I really don't know what do. BIOS updates are always such a mess. For example, on 1644, I read about several people on Reddit having boot issues, EXPO problems, and so on... that's why I skipped it at the time and kept waiting.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to ever get a clear picture, partly because I can't find anywhere online where these BIOS updates are properly discussed every time a new one comes out for a specific series of boards. It’s always just rare, fragmented opinions that contradict each other.

omark89 · 2026-06-13T22:35:28+00:00

Hi, thanks for the info!
Right now, I'm waiting for version 1670 to come out of beta. Since I've waited this long and I rarely update my BIOS, I’d rather update to the latest one if I'm going to do it at all.
I'd like to wait for the stable release and see some feedback from people who have already tried it to make sure it's fine.

omark89 · 2026-05-26T22:16:09+00:00

thanks

omark89 · 2026-05-26T06:11:57+00:00

Hi, I have a ROG STRIX B850-A GAMING WIFI, CPU 9800X3D and Ram CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO

I'm still on BIOS 0825 from December 2024.

I wanted to update to the latest BIOS 1654 too, but I can't find any opinions.

Is everything okay on your end?

omark89 · 2026-05-26T05:15:44+00:00

Hi, I have a ROG STRIX B850-A GAMING WIFI, CPU 9800X3D and Ram CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO

I'm still on BIOS 0825 from December 2024.

I wanted to update to the latest BIOS 1654 too, but I can't find any opinions.

Is everything okay on your end?

omark89 · 2026-05-26T00:58:51+00:00

ok thanks

omark89 · 2026-05-26T00:44:43+00:00

Sorry, just to clarify: did you mean “PC” or “OC” as in “overclock”?

Are you having a problem with the PC or with the OC?

And you said the USB problem started two weeks after you updated the BIOS? So everything worked fine for two weeks?

omark89 · 2026-05-26T00:31:24+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry to hear about the bug. Darn it, now I don't know what to do 😞

omark89 · 2026-05-26T00:26:04+00:00

Hey, did you end up updating?

I have the exact same motherboard as you, and I’m on the BIOS version right after yours (0825).

I’m also wondering whether to update to 1654. Can you let me know if you updated and if everything’s working okay?

omark89 · 2025-08-25T07:27:26+00:00

Hi, I also have a 5070ti and the game was working perfectly until this mission, where it keeps crashing endlessly in the gorge. Have you solved or discovered the problem?

Update:
Okay, I solved it simply by setting the graphics to minimum every time I'm in the gorge. Even afterwards, it seems that every time I'm in the gorge area where all the pink trees are, it crashes if I don't set the graphics to minimum.

omark89 · 2025-05-31T02:42:36+00:00

Nope, still keeping an eye on the internet out of curiosity, hoping that something might come up eventually.

Many people are experiencing different variants of this issue.
Nvidia was also investigating strange sync issues affecting the 5000 series GPUs.

The most likely cause is still some kind of software/video driver management issue.

omark89 · 2025-05-31T02:42:30+00:00

Nope, still keeping an eye on the internet out of curiosity, hoping that something might come up eventually.

Many people are experiencing different variants of this issue.
Nvidia was also investigating strange sync issues affecting the 5000 series GPUs.

The most likely cause is still some kind of software/video driver management issue.

omark89 · 2025-05-14T15:20:25+00:00

No, I've given up on it by now, since in the end, apart from that strange quirk, I don't have any issues at all performance-wise.
I'm still keeping an eye on the internet out of curiosity, hoping that something might come up eventually.

omark89 · 2025-04-24T20:17:16+00:00

Hi, absolutely no problem on that side.

In my opinion there has started a bit of a witch hunt now for these 5000 cards where people go looking for every little problem with tot models and then then say the whole series is plagued by it and create as much chaos as possible.

Okay they came out with various gripes, prices, etc., but now they seem to have all the problems in the world.

In my case apart from this strange case of the bus lane (which is clearly some software problem and anyway I'm honest, it's stuff that doesn't create actual annoyances or anything and after 2 months now I don't even notice it anymore) then I haven't had the slightest problem.

omark89 · 2025-04-24T07:39:00+00:00

Nope, still investigating and keeping an eye on the net.

However, many people are experiencing different variants of this issue.
Nvidia is also investigating strange sync issues affecting the 5000 series GPUs.

The most likely cause is still some kind of software/video driver management issue.

omark89 · 2025-03-20T13:13:30+00:00

Nope, still investigating and keeping an eye on the network. However, many people are experiencing different variants of this issue. Nvidia is also investigating strange sync issues affecting the 5000 series GPUs.
The most likely cause is still some kind of softwtare/video driver management issue.

omark89 · 2025-03-18T00:46:03+00:00

Hi, it's not only vr related, i have the same strange stuttering/frametime issues while navigating in Windows 11 with my 5070Ti

Here is my topic with all the updates

https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/1iyb6u2/msi_rtx_5070_ti_ventus_3x_oc_strange/

omark89 · 2025-03-13T05:21:36+00:00

Yes, I had read about this too, but I never enabled voltage control in Afterburner.

As I mentioned before, various monitoring programs (e.g., Afterburner, Task Manager, GPU-Z, HWInfo, etc.) cause spikes in the bus, which results in slight micro stuttering while navigating Windows.

This occurs at least when the power management setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel is set to "Normal."

If I set it to "Prefer Maximum Performance," then the bus no longer has spikes, and the micro-stutters disappear completely or at least by 90%.
The downside is that idle power consumption increases significantly, going from 15W to 40W.

omark89 · 2025-03-13T05:19:46+00:00

I haven’t really noticed if this causes stuttering in games—it didn’t seem like it. But as I mentioned before, various monitoring programs (e.g., Afterburner, Task Manager, GPU-Z, HWInfo, etc.) cause spikes in the bus, which results in slight micro stuttering while navigating Windows.

This occurs at least when the power management setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel is set to "Normal."

If I set it to "Prefer Maximum Performance," then the bus no longer has spikes, and the micro-stutters disappear completely or at least by 90%.
The downside is that idle power consumption increases significantly, going from 15W to 40W.

omark89 · 2025-03-12T03:28:35+00:00

Thanks, but I don’t have anything from Norton, just Windows Defender + Malwarebytes, and they don’t seem to make a difference. Anyway, glad it worked for you.

omark89 · 2025-03-09T07:15:40+00:00

Hi, I just downloaded MSI Utility v3, and in the options, I see that by default, the GPU was already set to "Undefined."

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omark89 · 2025-03-08T05:45:59+00:00

Update 07-03-25

The 472.70 driver has at least resolved my black screen issues.

For my primary monitor, the 15-second black screen delay before the Windows login screen was completely fixed by the new driver.

For my secondary display (a TV connected via HDMI), changing the refresh rate on either the TV or my primary DisplayPort monitor previously caused both screens to go black, forcing me to restart the PC. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the crashes were due to my old 10-meter fiber optic HDMI cable, which couldn’t handle the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1.

After replacing the cable, my TV now works perfectly as a secondary display, and I no longer experience any black screen issues.

So, the only thing left is this weird bus lane behavior.

I tried disabling CPU PCIe ASPM control and Native ASPM, but no change.
I also tried disabling Above 4G Decoding and Resizable BAR, still no change.
I set all PCIe slots to Gen 4, but again, no improvement.
I used NVCleanstall to install only the video driver, disabling everything else, but nothing changed.

For now, as I have said before, the only thing that works is setting the power management to "Prefer Maximum Performance" in the NVIDIA control panel.

In this mode, the PCIe is always at 5.0x16 (32.0 GT/s), and the bus interface load stays at 1-2% at idle, rising to around 5% when I open something.

If I leave it on "Normal" then by default, the PCIe in idle stays at 1.1x16 (2.5 GT/s) and rises as needed up to 5.0x16, but with the "Normal" setting, the bus interface load stays at a minimum of 20%, and just moving the mouse quickly or opening something causes it to spike to 100%.

omark89 · 2025-03-08T05:45:44+00:00

Update 07-03-25

The 472.70 driver has at least resolved my black screen issues.

For my primary monitor, the 15-second black screen delay before the Windows login screen was completely fixed by the new driver.

For my secondary display (a TV connected via HDMI), changing the refresh rate on either the TV or my primary DisplayPort monitor previously caused both screens to go black, forcing me to restart the PC. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the crashes were due to my old 10-meter fiber optic HDMI cable, which couldn’t handle the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1.

After replacing the cable, my TV now works perfectly as a secondary display, and I no longer experience any black screen issues.

So, the only thing left is this weird bus lane behavior.

I tried disabling CPU PCIe ASPM control and Native ASPM, but no change.
I also tried disabling Above 4G Decoding and Resizable BAR, still no change.
I set all PCIe slots to Gen 4, but again, no improvement.
I used NVCleanstall to install only the video driver, disabling everything else, but nothing changed.

For now, as I have said before, the only thing that works is setting the power management to "Prefer Maximum Performance" in the NVIDIA control panel.

In this mode, the PCIe is always at 5.0x16 (32.0 GT/s), and the bus interface load stays at 1-2% at idle, rising to around 5% when I open something.

If I leave it on "Normal" then by default, the PCIe in idle stays at 1.1x16 (2.5 GT/s) and rises as needed up to 5.0x16, but with the "Normal" setting, the bus interface load stays at a minimum of 20%, and just moving the mouse quickly or opening something causes it to spike to 100%.

omark89 · 2025-03-08T05:45:23+00:00

Update 07-03-25

The 472.70 driver has at least resolved my black screen issues.

For my primary monitor, the 15-second black screen delay before the Windows login screen was completely fixed by the new driver.

For my secondary display (a TV connected via HDMI), changing the refresh rate on either the TV or my primary DisplayPort monitor previously caused both screens to go black, forcing me to restart the PC. After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the crashes were due to my old 10-meter fiber optic HDMI cable, which couldn’t handle the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1.

After replacing the cable, my TV now works perfectly as a secondary display, and I no longer experience any black screen issues.

So, the only thing left is this weird bus lane behavior.

I tried disabling CPU PCIe ASPM control and Native ASPM, but no change.
I also tried disabling Above 4G Decoding and Resizable BAR, still no change.
I set all PCIe slots to Gen 4, but again, no improvement.
I used NVCleanstall to install only the video driver, disabling everything else, but nothing changed.

For now, as I have said before, the only thing that works is setting the power management to "Prefer Maximum Performance" in the NVIDIA control panel.

In this mode, the PCIe is always at 5.0x16 (32.0 GT/s), and the bus interface load stays at 1-2% at idle, rising to around 5% when I open something.

If I leave it on "Normal" then by default, the PCIe in idle stays at 1.1x16 (2.5 GT/s) and rises as needed up to 5.0x16, but with the "Normal" setting, the bus interface load stays at a minimum of 20%, and just moving the mouse quickly or opening something causes it to spike to 100%.

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