Has anyone RMA'd their X870E Godlike for the M2_1 issue?

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Just wondering if anyone has actually RMA'd their board yet and can post the results if it fixed the problem, or did not fix the problem with the random M2_1 speed issue.

This question is for X870E Godlike boards ONLY please. Already aware of the BIOS fix for the X870E Tomahawks.
 
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Nope, too much of a ball-ache and downtime if I dismantle the PC
Not to mention I had a PC build expert assemble it at a cost of £350

Unless the hardware has been changed in the last couple of months an RMA won't fix it anyway
Even the supposed fixed Tomahawks still have the problem sometimes, so it's not 100% fixed

I'm using 1A34 BIOS, can't check if the slot is fixed as I don't have an NVMe drive in there
This BIOS does fix the M2_2 drive showing as Removable so that's something I guess!
 
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Some motherboard vendors show hardware revisions publicly. My last Gigabyte board, for example, would show on their website when they iterated the hardware so you could tell when something was physically changed on the board, it would say hardware version 1 or hardware version 2 or something like that. Do we know if MSI does something similar? I cant find anything to indicate when there has been a physical change or revision on MSI boards, but I might just not know where to look. I would want to know i will actually get something different before I try getting a new one again since I already tried with three different Godlike boards and all had the same problem. We can decode a manufacture date out of the serial number, so if they keep revisions private but someone gets a working board we can probably piece the clues together on when they made a change based on the manufacture dates. But I am hoping they are a little more transparent than that.
 
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MclarenF1Fan108 said:
I just bought this board. Looks like I'll be only using two of the 7 M.2 for now. I'll probably avoid putting any M.2 in 2_2 and 2_4 slots then.
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You can use M2_2 without problems, but you must disable the USB4 ports to get x4 speed from the NVme drive
M2_1 slot will give you problems with it running at gen 1 x4 or gen 3 x4 sometimes (never gen 2 though which is strange)
M2_4 is gen 4 x2 by design
If you're thinking of using the gen 5 riser card you'll only have 8 lanes for the GPU - this is a PCIe lane limitation and not an MSI issue
 
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b933930151502d6 said:
You can use M2_2 without problems, but you must disable the USB4 ports to get x4 speed from the NVme drive
M2_1 slot will give you problems with it running at gen 1 x4 or gen 3 x4 sometimes (never gen 2 though which is strange)
M2_4 is gen 4 x2 by design
If you're thinking of using the gen 5 riser card you'll only have 8 lanes for the GPU - this is a PCIe lane limitation and not an MSI issue
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Ok. Cheers for that information.
 
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b933930151502d6 said:
I'm using 1A34 BIOS, can't check if the slot is fixed as I don't have an NVMe drive in there
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I'm on Bios v130, and nope, not fixed it's as random as all hell and will be 1x4 or 3x4 or 4x4 at boot.
 
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b933930151502d6 said:
If you're thinking of using the gen 5 riser card you'll only have 8 lanes for the GPU - this is a PCIe lane limitation and not an MSI issue
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I have found it makes almost no real performance hit using a 4090 at PCIE 4.0x8
 
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1160b02f1 said:
Do we know if MSI does something similar? I cant find anything to indicate when there has been a physical change or revision on MSI boards,
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Can normally be found near the first PCIE Slot
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Alan J T said:
I have found it makes almost no real performance hit using a 4090 at PCIE 4.0x8
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My 4090 also runs at 4x8 and only performance "hit" I observed was few points in benchmarks.. 1fps one way or another makes no real difference.

If still having M.2 issues I'd RMA the board, who knows what changes they might have made.
 
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Alan J T said:
Can normally be found near the first PCIE Slot
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My board has a production date of March this year, I couldn't find the revision version by the PCIE slots but found something similar in the upper left corner:
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I haven't put my rig together yet, I'll probably finish it this week.

P.S. This review from 2024 has a board (production date is unknown) with the same markings:
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b933930151502d6 said:
New Godlike BIOS 1A36 released, has anyone used/tested it yet?
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I installed it and didn't notice any new problems or issues with it on my system (unlike what some people were saying with the equivalent update on other boards) so I think its safe to try. But verdict is still out on if it made a difference or not to the rate of the m.2_1 issue occurrence. Need more people engaged and trying things.
 
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1160b02f1 said:
I installed it and didn't notice any new problems or issues with it on my system (unlike what some people were saying with the equivalent update on other boards) so I think its safe to try. But verdict is still out on if it made a difference or not to the rate of the m.2_1 issue occurrence. Need more people engaged and trying things.
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I've not got a drive in that slot now so can't test it
 
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crai151502d0 said:
LOL! Now that's reassuring since I have already installed it. What the hell is wrong with this company? Obviously their QC sucks.
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Installed here too, haven't had any issues. Maybe they're just getting it ready to be final release 1A40?

One thing I did notice - during POST the text used to be really big but now it's tiny and unreadable (Fullscrreen logo OFF)
 
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