Remember the drama of GIGABYTE motherboards randomly “killing” DDR5 RAM by messing with SPD info? It appears now there’s a fix for it, at least from GIGABYTE’s side.
Although it is true to an extent that certain DDR5 modules (especially those that were sold under random brand names) could have been manufactured without following specifications, GIGABYTE also has its fair share of problems when it comes to its in-house Control Center app seemingly able to access Serial Presence Detect (SPD) where information of memory details like timings are stored.
But first of all, modern compliant RAM should come with the SPD Write Protection feature that blocks any sort of data writing calls. However, software shouldn’t be able to perform that kind of command from the get-go since one can mess up the logical configuration of the memory and cause it to malfunction.
Luckily, those problems only affect the latency timing and not the voltage which would otherwise cause actual physical damage to the sticks.
Therefore, GIGABYTE has done its share of the job by adding and toggling on SPD Write Protection from the motherboard side to prevent such an issue from happening again.
Several retrieval processes of SPD info and the associated protection have been revamped and curated for better assurance to users.
Gigabyte is lying. I have a video with evidence. Before the recent SPD protection option was created, I have strong evidence that updating the BIOS always damaged the memory module.