A question about various the BIOS mentioned in this thread -
First, let me say my setup is working fine. My motherboard came with BIOS F8 when I received it around July 1st. I followed the instructions in this thread with great success and was able to get my Mojave install to boot on the new hardware.
Last month I decided I should upgrade to Catalina. I wanted to do it while it was still current and Big Sur had not yet been released. The upgrade went well by once again following the instructions in this thread. I was reminded about the MSR 0xE2 register and saw the discussion of a new BIOS in beta, F9.
While I'm normally very detail oriented, I did not notice that the post mentioned BIOS F9g, not F9(something else, like F9a or F9b or F9[whatever] ).
I went to the gigabyte website and downloaded the newest BIOS I could find there, it was F9b dated Dec 18, 2019. I let QFlash install it, restarted, fixed all the BIOS settings and I'm still ok - the machine boots fine. But this BIOS, F9b, does not have the ability to edit the CFG-Lock (MSR 0xE2). Since I can boot either it was left off from before or the BIOS update made sure it was set to the new default, OFF.
Anyway (finally), my question is:
Why could I not find the BIOS F9g in the support area of the gigabyte website? Did gigabyte remove it? Where did you guys get it?
I did find a link to it on a few posts by CaseySJ (thanks, Casey) so I have downloaded it.
I have F9b installed. Should I install F9g? Is there a BIOS F9h with other fixes/improvements? Or is it best to follow the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" theory and leave everything exactly the way it is now?
Thanks,
David