Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[radier]

Did you set SATA Controller in to AHCI Mode?

[godsfist]

Jep, one of my cables didn't work for me..

No worries, just fixed it by taking the DVD drive out then connecting the hard drive and putting the DVD back in

Bit quirky, it just wanted them connected in a certain order, both running on SATA3 now, thanks for the help.

[Cy4n1d3]

Ah great

Had a similar problem, swapping around cables did the trick for me, might be about the order you're talking about!

[Ket]

FYI guys I had some movement from Asrock today, they are going to report my findings to the engineers to check out. Hopefully we will have a real nice polished UEFI for the Extreme4 soon

[Cy4n1d3]

That would be -SO- awesome!

[Poohead]

One issue that nobody seems to have mentioned yet: Sleep mode doesn't work when Internal PLL Overvoltage is enabled. You will wake to a black screen.

Most P67 boards had this issue, but they have since been addressed by the other manufacturers through UEFI updates. The issue is still present on this board as of 1.50.

[Ket]

Thats probably because nobody on XS uses the sleep function lol I'll mention it to Asrock.

[dnottis]

Think Pro 3 users will get an update too? I can't imagine the bios is much different between the Pro 3 and extreme 4.

[mean6]

One issue that nobody seems to have mentioned yet: Sleep mode doesn't work when Internal PLL Overvoltage is enabled. You will wake to a black screen.

Most P67 boards had this issue, but they have since been addressed by the other manufacturers through UEFI updates. The issue is still present on this board as of 1.50.

It works fine for me. I am running an i5 2500k @ 4.8, (with PLL enabled) and it goes in and out of sleep mode fine. I have always found that if an overclock is not stable, the pc will wake to a black screen. Just my experience.

[Martin.v.r]

I7 2600K asrock Xtreame 6 bios 1.33a
losing performance Vantage 3Dmark in the CPU test ´5.1GHZ 32XXX 5.2GHZ 29XXX 5.3GHZ 28XXX 5.4GHZ 27XXX
everything is tried in the BIOS, can not fix it up, others who have tried the same thing?

bios 1.4 have the same error

[radier]

Yours CPU is throttling. Set power limits to 255/255/300.

[Poohead]

It works fine for me. I am running an i5 2500k @ 4.8, (with PLL enabled) and it goes in and out of sleep mode fine. I have always found that if an overclock is not stable, the pc will wake to a black screen. Just my experience.

Hmm my OC is perfectly stable (Linx using AVX instructions on Win7 SP1 runs for hours, no issues with memtest, and gaming for hours never crashes either). I assumed the sleep issue was due to PLL enabled since the board sleeps fine at stock speed, but not when I overclock to 4.9 GHz (only requiring enabling PLL and bumping the CPU voltage in the UEFI). Perhaps a higher multiplier is the cause then.

[Martin.v.r]

big thanks to radier

[Martin.v.r]

Ojck I use watercooling
here is the bios set

[beast200]

Hi Martin
what are the 2 voltages VCCSA & DDR
are you running @ 1.565 24/7 or just benching
which bios are you using the beta or 1.4
is it the same about the max 0.5 v rule between VVT & DDR volt as the i7 920 x58

[Ket]

Ojck I use watercooling
here is the bios set

Runing level1 LLC is a bad idea. It will most probably cause random 101 BSODs, the CPU simply doesn't like it. Water or not, your CPU probably won't live very long with almost 1.6v either.

[radier]

Check out my voltages:


Use offset voltage instead of fixed.

[radier]

BTW use XMP Profiles for memory.

[gurneyhck]

@Radier, nice dude! Impressive to say the least. Can you show me a cpu-z screenshot under full load?

[ClockZ]

Can anyone exsplain how the offset core voltage deal works? Been running fixed on mine but maybe this offset control is a better way And for me level 2 LLC seems to be best, running anything lower LLC than 2 and you get big v core drop under load.....how would that work for anyone? I guess I need to spend more time with these new bios, too much old school in me

[Mysterfix]

Has anybody done any stress testing using the offset vcore? I can't get any stability using the offset vcore, I've tried multiple configurations to no avail. My vcore drops too much and causes stress testing to fail. I need about 1.376v @ 4.8ghz but using the offset will have my vcore jumping around from 1.288v to 1.384v.

[Elloquin]

Has anybody done any stress testing using the offset vcore? I can't get any stability using the offset vcore, I've tried multiple configurations to no avail. My vcore drops too much and causes stress testing to fail. I need about 1.376v @ 4.8ghz but using the offset will have my vcore jumping around from 1.288v to 1.384v.

Here is what I have so far...

[Cy4n1d3]

I'm using Offset Voltage at the moment. 1.376 under heavy load, using LinX / Prime, also gaming works - and no BSOD during idle phases

[ClockZ]

Elloquin, your G-flops are low for 5ghz if im seeing right,should be around 70. I'll bet you have some core throttling going on. Mine was doing that aswell and needed more core voltage, I could see a core drop out and downclock by using T-monitor.
Edit, I see you have a 2600K and running HT,does that change the G-flops in linX? Maybe you are fine?

[Mysterfix]

Sweet, thanks for the response guys. Elloquin, maybe the setting "additonal turbo voltage" is the key. I haven't tried that yet.

Edit: Ok guys I figured it out, bios 1.42a was the problem. I switched to 1.51 and now stress testing is running without a problem. 2 loops of LinX 20 runs each passed with flying colors. I still need to test with prime and games but it's looking good so far.