ASUS 3007 BIOS/UEFI Update

Scrotus · Dec 21, 2016

Downloaded and flashed the new update on my Maximus VIII Hero board and everything is working as far as I can tell. However the 3007 update has been removed from the board page and is no longer showing. Any idea why it was taken down?

smorizio · Dec 21, 2016

if it was for the newer intel kurby lake cpu's it may have had a bug or issue and was pulled. your better off email asus tech suport and posting on the rog forum for more help.

emsir · Dec 22, 2016

smorizio :

The description for BIOS 3007 said nothing about the new intel CPU. Only that it improved system stability.
Please let us know how and where you have your information from. If you can't do that, please stop posting something like this.

ASUS doesn't answer email about removing the BIOS. No statement or reason to remove it. Very strange.
We just have to wairt and seee what happens. I did update BIOS with 3007. So far no problems.

vpoko · Dec 23, 2016

Not sure if this is why, but I've got a story about update 3007. I installed it on my ASUS Z170-A mobo, and after getting a message that it was successfully installed, my system is now bricked. It starts up, stays on for 5-6 seconds, and then powers down, I can't even get into the BIOS screen. Resetting it by taking out the battery and shorting the CLRTC pins doesn't help. And unfortunately, this board doesn't have USB flashback capability, despite the manual saying it does (rather than being via USB, there are headers for a special flashback card, but ASUS never released it). However, when you search under Z170-A, this update is still shown on the ASUS support site.

As for me, I received an RMA from ASUS and will be shipping the board to them.

emsir · Dec 23, 2016

Scrotus :

I will advise you to go back to 2202. (Use Flashback)
There are settings missing in the 3307

No PCIE (Primary Boot display) Important if you have disabled CSM UEFI)
No Virtual mouse keyboard (primary for Windows 7)
Just came across these settings, and I think there are other settings which have been removed by a mistake. ASUS removed the BIOS as soon there were reports of broken boards. Som with Maximus Rampage and Z170- A got their boards broken when updated to BIOS 3007 (Toms Hardware) and did RMA.

vpoko · Dec 24, 2016

Funny conclusion to my issue. When I started taking my PC apart, I decided to try booting one more time with the video card and wifi card removed. The system booted with the 3007 update successfully applied. I then configured the BIOS (I'd reset it via the battery & jumper), turned off the computer, put the video and wifi cards back in, booted, and it's working great. I'd checked the seating of all the cards before, so I'm very sure it wasn't that, but for some reason it needed to start once without the video card (I presume, though could be the wifi card) after updating. I can confirm there are some settings missing in 3007, but they don't affect me and unless I hear of specific bugs with it, I'm not risking re-flashing the old BIOS. I'm still very annoyed with ASUS for advertising a BIOS flashback capability that doesn't exist, and I think I've bought my last product from them, but at least I don't have to deal with an RMA anymore.

emsir · Dec 25, 2016

vpoko :

BIOS flashback works just fine. Read the manual for your board and follow instructions.
Be aware that ASUS removed BIOS 3307 for a reason.. I will recommend to do the flashback end reverse to BIOS 2202.- Just to be safe, and wait for some kind of info from ASUS on why the BIOS was removed.

vpoko · Dec 25, 2016

emsir :

The manual for the Z170-A motherboard explains that an ASUS flashback card hooked up to a header on the board is needed; this is unlike their higher-end mobos. The header exists, but the card is vaporware. Now that I can boot into the BIOS I could downgrade to 2202, but I don't see a need (and I'd rather minimize BIOS flashes, knowing that if one fails I might have to RMA the board). 3007 is still listed on the ASUS support site for the Z170-A, it hasn't been removed: http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170-A/HelpDesk_Download/

emsir · Dec 25, 2016

vpoko :

Yes I can see the BIOS is on the ASUS page for your board. The problem with this BIOS could be that it has been uploaded for Hero and Rampage by a mistake and taken down when ASUS noticed it was uploaded to these boards. I don't see why ASUS should keep the BIOS for ASUS Z170-A and not for Hero and Rampage. If your board worlks fine after updating, just keep it. Let's wait and see if ASUS comes up with some info.

pfreiling · Jan 1, 2017

Last month I did a stupid thing and upgraded my Asus Z170-A bios from a stable 2202 to the recently released 3303. IT was a disaster from the beginning... starting with the windows based Asus ezflash when went into a loop of uninstalling... I uploaded the bios to a usb stick and ezflashed from the BIOS. Since then my system has been acting weird, flaky, frequently hanging on cold reboots before BIOS even... requiring 4 second POWER downs.

Now i just want to get back to 2202. I uploaded from the ASUS site my 2202 BIOS for my z170-A but when i get in to the bios and EZFlash... it cannot read the 2202 bios file. Says its invalid. The only bios it can read is the 3007 bios.

What is the trick to DOWNGRADING my bios back to 2002???

vpoko · Jan 3, 2017

pfreiling :

Can you go back further and then re-upgrade to 2202?

Also, I've had the invalid BIOS file message before. Usually I extract the CAP file from the ZIP file using 7-Zip, and again using Windows Explorer, place the two CAP files into separate locations, and one of them sometimes works. I would try re-extracting it.

PhaseShifter · Jan 14, 2017

Drats! I fell down a similar folly to vpoko. I had a new Z170-A, updated to 2202 using the BIOS Network download utility. Everything fine. But I saw the 3007 on the Asus Z170 site. It should have been a big clear warning that the BIOS net utility automatically pulled down 2202, but the website had 3007. So when I flashed 3007 from a USB stick... poof. Board bricked just like vpoko. That is, from cold boot it doesn't even get to BIOS before powering off.

I'm backwards from vpoko as I never had a PCIe GPU in to begin with. Maybe adding one will get be to BIOS far enough so that I can flash 2202 from USB or net. Any other ideas if that doesn't work short of an RMA? I do have anther Z170 running 2202 just fine. Both system are i7-6700k and no plugged PCIe devuces.

update: GTX1050 GPU arrived. Tried all combinations of GPU vs 6700K, reset params, etc. Still: Ever since the BIOS flashing to 3307, system runs for a few seconds, then powers down before any video GPU or GPP. At least ASUS was quick to issue the RMA; still, the pain in the butt of pulling the mobo, cpu, etc. Uggh.

vpoko · Jan 18, 2017

PhaseShifter :

Not sure if you've already sent the board back (and you might have well tried this, too), but it might be worth resetting the BIOS settings by taking out the battery and shorting out CLRTC on the board.

PhaseShifter · Jan 18, 2017

vpoko :

Yes, thanks. I tried all six possible sequences of going from GPU / NO_GPU and CLTRC_BAT_CLEAR / NO_CLTRC_BAT_CLEAR . I was hopeful since you had the case where pulling the GPU got you in. Anyhow, going to pull the board in a day or two. Still crazy that the 3307 BIOS is on the web page. Maybe new users are using Kaby 7700K in that socket now and it's not an issue to them? I don't know. Thanks again.

2Kul4Skul · Jan 18, 2017

Similar thing happened to me, though i got lucky.
Was updating a z170-a from 1802 to 3007. Ran the EZ Flash 3 from usb, said it instaled succesfully, then failed to boot two times after restart. Third time it told me i need to do a BIOS recovery so i took the usb out to put the old drivers on it and to triplecheck i had the right one on it (restarted it after pulling out). Went to the laptop to get the drivers and when i got back it was up and running with 3007. Not sure why but i won't complain.

Unrelated:

when i set up windows backup does the drive i put it on need to be clear? Never done it and would preffer not transfering the whole 0.5 TB of used partition.

vpoko · Jan 18, 2017

2Kul4Skul :

No, neither Windows backup (the method introduced in Windows 7) nor File History (introduced in Windows 10) require the target drive to be clean, they both just create a folder in the existing filesystem.

Jay_67 · Jan 18, 2017

I updated from 2202 to 3007 this morning with the EZ update utility. It installed fine then it restarted went into bios and applied the update successfully. Then it failed to boot twice after restart on the third time it loaded up to an American Megatrends bios recovery screen. one option was to press F1 and run setup. Pressed that and it took me back into my ASUS bios and said I was running 3007. All has been good since then.

2Kul4Skul · Jan 21, 2017

Thanks @vpoko

John_622 · Jan 28, 2017

Well I'm in the same boat , Updated to 3007 on my Z170-A and it completely trashed my system! I guess since my board is out of warranty I'm out of luck! No more Asus motherboards for my after this expensive nightmare. No way via EZ Flash to get back to 2202 , what a crime!

vpoko · Jan 30, 2017

John_622 :

Are you sure you're out of warranty? ASUS seems to give 3 years, and the Z170 boards are all younger than that since the chipset hasn't been around that long.

I would open a support ticket with ASUS and see what they say (have the serial# handy).

John_622 · Jan 30, 2017

vpoko :

John_622 :

Are you sure you're out of warranty? ASUS seems to give 3 years, and the Z170 boards are all younger than that since the chipset hasn't been around that long.

I would open a support ticket with ASUS and see what they say (have the serial# handy).

John_622 · Jan 30, 2017

vpoko :

John_622 :

Are you sure you're out of warranty? ASUS seems to give 3 years, and the Z170 boards are all younger than that since the chipset hasn't been around that long.

I would open a support ticket with ASUS and see what they say (have the serial# handy).

John_622 · Jan 30, 2017

Well I suppose since the board is only 3 months old it's covered but Asus doesn't make it easy. First they wouldn't allow me even to send a support request because I didn't have the box anymore with the serial number on it. Second, realisticly this is my primary system I can't wait a couple of months to get the board back. The problem in my mind was caused Asus. They offer even encourage firmware upgrades implying increased stability improvements and when the results are the opposite their software will not allow downgrading using their own firmware!! I can load 3007 over and over but not anything before that. I'm just done with this motherboard and Asus, this board has been the worst motherboard I've installed in 20 years and Asus's customer support just plain stinks. I've already ordered a new board and I'm done permanently with Asus products.

vpoko · Jan 30, 2017

John_622 :

I don't blame you. Mine miraculously started working again, and ASUS did offer me an RMA (they said it would be a 7 business day turnaround from when they received it to when they sent ti back), but this board was the first and last ASUS product I'll ever buy. Which is a shame, because I was eyeing an ASUS laptop.

MinaRottert · Feb 11, 2017

emsir :

Yeh, I've been looking for this version as well. I saw a youtube clip with successful o/c of an i7 7700k on his asus z170 board. The latest. The 3007 is missing and the onlyBIOS supporting 7th gen it seems is version 3016 - that does NOT let o/c via multiplier with this cpu

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