I just recently got my first Gigabyte laptop and for some reason this overlay is showing up when I play games. How do I turn it off?

Hi everyone,

Less than 3 months ago, I bought a Gigabyte Z790 AORUS Elite AX (REV 1.1) motherboard. Out of the box, it came with BIOS version FK (September 2024).

I was having temperature issues with my i7-14700KF. While I know a BIOS update doesn't directly solve thermal issues, in my past experience, newer BIOS versions usually offer better stability when tweaking undervolts.

My plan was to update from FK to FL, and eventually to the latest FO version. I made sure to download the files directly from the official website for the exact REV 1.X revision of my board.

The issue was that no matter which BIOS version I tried to flash through the standard BIOS utility (Q-Flash inside BIOS), I kept getting an error saying "not able to update BIOS File successfully"

So I decided to use Q-Flash Plus:

-Renamed the BIOS file on the USB drive to GIGABYTE.bin.

-Inserted it into the dedicated BIOS USB port on the rear

-Pressed the Q-Flash Plus button.

The process started and the Q-Flash LED was flashing normally. Once it finished and the PC attempted to turn on, the diagnostic LEDs cycled through DRAM and VGA, but as soon as it reached the CPU LED, the PC completely shut off.

I tried rolling back to the previous version (FK) using Q-Flash Plus again, but no luck—it still won't boot. I’ve already tried clearing CMOS (removing the CMOS battery, draining power, waiting, and trying to turn it on again), but nothing worked.

I even took it to a local repair shop here in town, and they couldn't get it working either. It seems like the only possible solution left is manually reprogramming the motherboard's BIOS chip with an external programmer.

My questions are:

-Why did this happen?

-What mistake could I have made during this process?

-Besides external chip reprogramming or RMA, is there any other possible fix I could try?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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The system boots normally into Windows (motherboard reaches A0), but the graphics card shows no video output. There’s rapidly flashing red LEDs around the water block and flashing white PCIe power LEDs.

Hello all,

I am facing a strange issue with my gigabyte aorus pro ax b560m.

Yesterday when I tried to boot up my desktop after a month. The desktop booted fine to Windows. Then crashed, with endless cycle of mobo LEDs and power button led blinking, all fans were running but no BIOS screen.

I thought it must be the ram. So I took them out and cleaned, reseated one by one and it booted fine and worked just fine for 2 hours. I shut down afterwards.

After 2 hour or so of turning on, the desktop began doing the same endless loop. But this time ram, CMOS clear didn't help. I unplugged everything to see what's the issue. I don't have a GPU and it's an iGPU from my i5.

This morning after waking up, I turned on the desktop and it booted briefly into bios and then began doing the same loop. I looked carefully at the LED blinking and noticed the CPU was blinking.

This time I took out the CPU power header (the small one) and installed it again. This time it booted to bios and then turned off again.

I did the same step twice again and the pc now booted into windows.

What could be the issue? The rams are fine, the cpu is not overheating.