Is updating BIOS to beta versions a good idea if you have the most recent version installed but still face issues?

[chopinanopolis]

So I've been having issues since day one that I built my PC in February. I've had specifically Apex Legends reboot my PC randomly, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I've tried literally everything. I've RMA'd every component except my Mobo and CPU, but today I played Hell Let Loose, and the game rebooted my PC as well, the only other game that did besides Apex. Coincidentally, HLL also uses Easy Anti Cheat, so I looked into it, and apparently other people have the same issue as me, which is caused by EAC. The fix for them was updating BIOs, now, my Mobo is a AsRock B450M Pro4 R2.0 and I'm on bios version P5.70, which released in 2022 and on the ASRock website there's two newer versions, 8.01 and 10.08, but both say [Beta] underneath. I don't know what that means tbh when it comes to Bios versions. P5.70 is the most recent no Beta BIOS version

 

[Shrek]

What power supply are you using?

Are you overclocking?

Did you test the RAM?

 

[chopinanopolis]

PSU: 700 Watt be quiet! System Power 9

Nope, Not overclocking Anything, undervolting the GPU didn't make a difference either.

And yes, I did test the ram, ran memtest for about 9 hours and nothing came up, tried to RMA it as well, but it was sent back because they couldn't find anything wrong with it

 

[Athlonite]

So I've been having issues since day one that I built my PC in February. I've had specifically Apex Legends reboot my PC randomly, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I've tried literally everything. I've RMA'd every component except my Mobo and CPU, but today I played Hell Let Loose, and the game rebooted my PC as well, the only other game that did besides Apex. Coincidentally, HLL also uses Easy Anti Cheat, so I looked into it, and apparently other people have the same issue as me, which is caused by EAC. The fix for them was updating BIOs, now, my Mobo is a AsRock B450M Pro4 R2.0 and I'm on bios version P5.70, which released in 2022 and on the ASRock website there's two newer versions, 8.01 and 10.08, but both say [Beta] underneath. I don't know what that means tbh when it comes to Bios versions. P5.70 is the most recent no Beta BIOS version

I've never had any problem with a BETA BIOS and even if you do you can alway reflash it back to P5.70 I would just go ahead and flash the latest 10.08 and see how you go

 

[chrcoluk]

I will update to a BETA if it fixes a specific issue I have, otherwise not.

My general rule of thumb with BIOS is actually never update unless you have a reason to.

 

[RootinTootinPootin]

its a mixed bag of beans, if you have dual BIOS board, you can simply try flashing it and see for yourself if it was worth it, else if your board doesn't feature a dual BIOS option, then better "don't fix it, if it ain't broken" kind of a thing.

 

[Ruru]

Meh. I prefer the stable ones unless it's a retro mobo where a beta bios has better OC capabilities.

 

[Assimilator]

"Beta" just means that BIOS hasn't been through all the formal verifications that are required to make it non-beta; it doesn't mean it will destroy your PC. I'd suggest trying the latest beta BIOS and seeing if it solves the issue, if not you can either leave your system running the beta BIOS or - if it gives you problems - you can flash back to the latest official BIOS.

 

[chopinanopolis]

I've never had any problem with a BETA BIOS and even if you do you can alway reflash it back to P5.70 I would just go ahead and flash the latest 10.08 and see how you go

Welp, updated the bios and it ran fine for a few hours, but again while playing Apex Legends it crashed, same Machine check exception, cache Hierarchy Error as before, so it wasn't the BIOs

 

[Shrek]

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[chopinanopolis]

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God damnit, time to get another PSU I guess. It's weird though, every single stress test I've run, I've had zero issues. I've been running Prime95 for two hours, and have had zero issues. Max temps of 78° and zero failures. In the post they said that their PC restarted after only 30 minutes, obviously it's a different CPU, but still, if it's really the sensitive cores it should've crashed already, no?

 

[Shrek]

I think the problem might be transients rather than straight load.

What video card are you running?

 

[chopinanopolis]

I think the problem might be transients rather than straight load.

What video card are you running?

A Radeon 6650XT