Recently I updated my Gigabyte X670E from BIOS F6 to F12 attempting to troubleshoot a different issue involving switching out the GPU from an RXT 3060 Ti to an RX 6900XT. Ever since then the front IO has been acting very strange. There are a couple things that happen:
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Sometimes transferring files ~(25GB or so) from an external drive to the computer will disable bluetooth. The only way to fix this is with a cold reboot. I have never experienced this prior to the BIOS update.
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Sometimes the front IO does not work at all. (reboot fixes this sometimes.)
Transferring files via the back IO seems to not have this issue, but having to crawl under my desk every time I need to plug in a drive is not ideal.
I also notice that a couple of files on my main drive seem to be corrupted as they can no longer be read. I cannot confirm whether or not this happened before or after the BIOS update. I am running y-cruncher to test memory stability to make sure memory errors are not responsible for this. Unfortunately BIOS F6 seems to no longer be available from Gigabyte’s website, so I cannot switch back. Is this just a bad BIOS? Is there some BIOS setting that needs tweaking? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
System:
motherboard: GIGABYTE 670E Aorus Master
CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X
RAM: 4x 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws S5
GPU: RX 7900XT
Main drive: Samsung 980 pro 2TB
Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL
Power supply: Corsair HX1000i
OS: Fedora 38 (issue also happens on openSUSE Tumbleweed)