Comment 769 for bug 1690085

I see. But that is assuming that the 1.0.0.4 version “fixes” this issue. At this point it’s only a guess but it seems likely given the previous replies I’ve seen.
My god what a nightmare this has been. :-)

Best,

Ashesh Ambasta

> On 1 Jun 2020, at 17:59, <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683
>
> --- Comment #683 from Paul Menzel (<email address hidden>)
> ---
> (In reply to Ashesh Ambasta from comment #680)
>> I've been facing the same issue since I've bought this machine and setting
>> my BIOS power settings to "Typical current idle" has only partially fixed
>> things (the system still crashes every 1-2 weeks during idle: I leave my
>> desk, screensaver fires up, then screens go to sleep, and by the time I get
>> back to my desk, the system no longer responds to any input and the only
>> option is a hard reset.).
>>
>> At the time of writing, I can't tell if the AGESA version has made it into
>> my motherboard: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X399M%20Taichi/index.asp#BIOS
>
> [I have an MSI board, but checked the firmware update files for you.]
>
> The description for version 3.60 includes:
>
>> Update AMD AGESA ThreadRipperPI-SP3r2 1.1.0.2
>
> Reading the ASRock forum thread *What happened to Fatality X399 Bios 1.60?*
> [1], it’s enough to run the firmware update file through a hexeditor. I
> searched for *GES* and was lucky for version 3.80.
>
> $ hexdump -C X399MT3.80 | less
> […]
> 00e34ce0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 be 2c 63 17
> |.............,c.|
> 00e34cf0 80 6c b6 49 82 07 12 b5 3d 9b 25 70 41 47 45 53
> |.l.I....=.%pAGES|
> 00e34d00 41 21 56 39 00 54 68 72 65 61 64 52 69 70 70 65
> |A!V9.ThreadRippe|
> 00e34d10 72 50 49 2d 53 50 33 72 32 2d 31 2e 31 2e 30 2e
> |rPI-SP3r2-1.1.0.|
> 00e34d20 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> |2...............|
> […]
> ```
>
> So, it still has AGESA version 1.1.0.2.
>
> […]
>
>
> [1]:
>
> http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6165&PN=4&title=what-happened-to-fatality-x399-bios-160
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