Comment 771 for bug 1690085

(In reply to Paul Menzel from comment #683)
> (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

Hi,
Agesa for TR is not the same than for AM4 in versioning.