Thank you Serg008, you are a boss. I have since discovered a tool that allowed me to go back to bios/uefi version F8 - which is apparently also safer for my chip as the new firmware sends a higher default voltage to account for the newer Kaby Lake chips. Would it be possible to get a SLIC enabled F8 firmware revision? I assume since you linked to the newer update I wont need to submit an RW report. ttp://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-z170x-gaming7_f8.zip If not possible, no worries and thanks for your work!
ok I created a ms-dos bootable usb...put the files on there...I tried running marker.exe and it said I had an invalid region...so I don't think it worked