Aurora R13, BIOS 1.5.0 released

Question

Aurora R13 BIOS 1.5.0 released today. Release notes state:

"Firmware updates to address security vulnerabilities including (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - CVE) such as CVE-2022-0778 and CVE-2022-32484"

CVE-2022-0778 is here

CVE-2022-32484 does not exist CVE2021-32484 is here not sure if it's a typo on Dell's part.

Don't know what else might or might not be in this BIOS. Anyone install yet?

tynaoned · Answer

Works perfectly

F34R · Answer

Nothing that I've seen.  No XMP options.  Still EXTREMELY limited.

Wardski1974 · Answer

Must be some critical flaws/instabilities in this R13 motherboard to not be able to run XMP...   Its just so strange.  Isn't Asetek the board manufacturer?  Surely its not complete junk??

F34R · Answer

I mean, they had a live video saying XMP was coming, but alas, that has seemed to follow through.  No mention on twitter when asked, nor here.  /shurgs

Tesla1856 · Answer

@Wardski1974 wrote:

Isn't Asetek the board manufacturer? Surely its not complete junk??

Asetek might still supply the Liquid-Coolers, but I think the motherboard is made by Pegatron (to Dell/Alienware's specs). AFAIK, they make a similar motherboard for HP (at least they used to, back in the Aurora R6 days).

My Dell Nvidia GTX-1070 was made my MSI (actually a clone of their GTX-1070 card back then). A standard, Reference-Design back-blower (with a firmware edited to be named Dell/Alienware).

All my stuff still works fine. Heck, even my Aurora-R1 still works (Running Windows-10 these days and even still has original Asetek cooler).

Vanadiel · Answer

I doubt it will happen with this board. Maybe with the R15/R16. That will be the next generation and likely the most upgradable system they ever made...

Vanadiel · Answer

It is not necessarily a flaw. It's likely the design specifications.

The higher the frequency the better the board traces have to be isolated to avoid cross talk and other issues. This costs money. Hence why retail boards pricing goes up as soon as the features and overclocking abilities go up.

That is why I highly doubt they will ever enable higher frequency support, because the board is likely not designed to handle the higher frequencies.

EdCo64 · Answer

AnClar? Are you talking about the Windows Insider 1.5.0 firmware? its not from us, because the latest bios i got from our website is a 2,2 blabla...

EdCo64 · Answer

If you guys wanna talk about Bios in this forum, please known what your talk about^^ We all do know the latest Bios info and as a Windows Insider firmware 1.5.0, so its definitally not from us.

F34R · Answer

huh?

EdCo64 · Answer

look... Take of that Cmos battery for 45 seconds. Pull back, and take off dram and pull back and wait another 5 seconds..my Bios says another thing then what you ventilate here...

EdCo64 · Answer

Huh what, are yo utalk about the same bios Flash? im using a R 13 as wll and my speck told me antoher story ^^

EdCo64 · Answer

There aint no R16...

Vanadiel · Answer

Yes, that is why I said next generation. It's also possible they will change the naming scheme.

AnClar · Answer

Read my and F34R's screenshots. I have no idea what you're going on about. Your posts are pretty much incoherent and not particularly helpful to the community.

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