**Official** Asrock Z68 Gen3 Extreme7 & Extreme4 thread

[OfficerDibble]

Naos will only go up and down when moved left to right on 1.15a, moving the mouse up and down results in no movement from the cursor at all

[Mechromancer]

Hey guys! i recently bought my extreme 4 and it's truely excellent, one of the best boards i've ever had.

However i have a small problem, i'm unable to create a RAID 0 array with my two ssds.

I've tried setting SATA to RAID and pressing ctrl + i on post but the system just boots as per normal.

Anyone have any advice?

What is your Bios Version? if there's a newer one i would update and try again. Also please provides so Computer Specs, so we can better help

Has this RAID-0 problem been resolved. This is very big for me. I'm about to pull the trigger on Newegg, but I'm making a RAID-0+1 with 4 SSDs. What do we know so far?

[nik58]

New bios 1.20 for asrock extreme 4 gen.3

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...%20Gen3&o=BIOS

[apatch]

Just wow, they includded 10.8.0.1303 OROM in new 1.20 bios, claiming "3. Update RAID ROM." - i'm impressed

So once again, here's my modified UEFI for Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 P 1.20I , it's just P 1.20 with newest Intel OROM 11.0.0.1339, use it on your own risk or just make it yourself.

[p4spooky]

Here is another flavor of the Mod

Modified ASRock Extreme 4 Gen 3 1.20

Changes Made:

1. Updated Intel Option ROM 11.0.0.1339
2. Intel MEI Firmware 7.1.20.1119
3. VGA Bios Build 2120

Note: Once the Bios is updated, upon reboot, the board will power down, startup and update the MEI Firmware, shutdown and reboot normally. Be patient through this process!

Running with no issues on my machine

[chippy]

Updated to 1.20 bios and did fresh install of win7 64bit but while writing some dvds kept getting buffer under run so have gone back to 1.15A which has sorted the problem no more buffer under runs.

[vulture_g7]

Just flashed it with your modded version, excellent work, thx!

Here is another flavor of the Mod

Modified ASRock Extreme 4 Gen 3 1.20

Changes Made:

1. Updated Intel Option ROM 11.0.0.1339
2. Intel MEI Firmware 7.1.20.1119
3. VGA Bios Build 2120

Note: Once the Bios is updated, upon reboot, the board will power down, startup and update the MEI Firmware, shutdown and reboot normally. Be patient through this process!

Running with no issues on my machine

[apatch]

Thanx a lot p4spooky, I will flash it, did you tried to find and integrate newest lan and marvell firmware ?

@chippy

Are you using your DVD burners on Intel sata ports ? Cause I don't have such a problems on Marvell ports. So this could be related to ODD function - link

[chippy]

Thanx a lot p4spooky, I will flash it, did you tried to find and integrate newest lan and marvell firmware ?

@chippy

Are you using your DVD burners on Intel sata ports ? Cause I don't have such a problems on Marvell ports. So this could be related to ODD function - link

On Marvel ports.

[p4spooky]

@vulture_g7: Thanks for the feedback on the modified bios.

@chippy: Did you flash the modified bios or the vanilla version? - Did not notice any slowdowns on the Marvell ports that I use for optical drive. Looking forward to feedback from @apatch

[apatch]

So far so good update without any problems. I was little cautious because my raid card 9211-8i is very fastidious with what UEFI/bios/orom it cooperates.

Thinking about integrating 11.5.0.1111 orom but it's still alpha, so will not risk borking 4Raid0 and 2 SDDs.

I don't have any DVDs to burn so will not check how it works now. But earlier got some problems when writting DVD/BD even on my previous AMD system, but still didn't found a cause, maybe Daemon Tool SPTD driver or something else.

Still struggling with some high DPC latency peaks which are result of working Utorrent + MSE (maybe netlimiter and Broadcom lan drivers), soon I will found out when I try some cheap Intel lan card soon.

[p4spooky]

So far so good update without any problems. I was little cautious because my raid card 9211-8i is very fastidious with what UEFI/bios/orom it cooperates.

Thinking about integrating 11.5.0.1111 orom but it's still alpha, so will not risk borking 4Raid0 and 2 SDDs.

I don't have any DVDs to burn so will not check how it works now. But earlier got some problems when writting DVD/BD even on my previous AMD system, but still didn't found a cause, maybe Daemon Tool SPTD driver or something else.

Still struggling with some high DPC latency peaks which are result of working Utorrent + MSE (maybe netlimiter and Broadcom lan drivers), soon I will found out when I try some cheap Intel lan card soon.

Glad to hear. If you come across a newer ROM for Boardcom please update the thread. I will have to look at the Bios for the Marvell firmware if it is embedded. If so, then it is very difficult to update.

[chippy]

vanilla version its been ok since going back to 1.15a.

[lysyn123]

What is OROM? and what can upgrade to version 11.0.0.1339

[Scoty]

Just wow, they includded 10.8.0.1303 OROM in new 1.20 bios, claiming "3. Update RAID ROM." - i'm impressed

So once again, here's my modified UEFI for Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 P 1.20I , it's just P 1.20 with newest Intel OROM 11.0.0.1339, use it on your own risk or just make it yourself.

I have install your Bios and working but where can i see the Intel OROM Version?

[apatch]

Boot your PC and you will see some Intel info with OROM version at the top of a screen, press CTRL+I which gives you Intel Raid configuration utility.

Here's my old info screen.



Then under windows install right Intel RST version, for 11.0.0.1339 OROM install RST 11.1.0.1006 or 11.0.0.1025, in RST software you will also find actual info of RST and OROM versions (Help/system report).

[vulture_g7]

New Etron drivers (0.111) here:

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/etron.htm

work fine so far for me.

[Scoty]

I have install Intel RST but i see the Version 11.0.0.1032 ??

[vulture_g7]

try this direct link: http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

I have install Intel RST but i see the Version 11.0.0.1032 ??

[chubbyfatazn]

Just got this board as a replacement for my boot-looping Gigabyte. Love it so far, only one thing.

I'm testing at 5GHz, 1.45v, and whenever I start LinX the multi just jumps around. It'll boot into Windows at 5GHz, but as soon as I launch LinX the multi drops to 38, 39, 41, or 47. It just jumps around from there.

bleachigo had a similar issue a few pages back, but I didn't see a resolution. I've disabled all C-states, along with temp throttling and Speedstep. Core current is at 200, from 150. Any suggestions?

[davefran]

Just got this board as a replacement for my boot-looping Gigabyte. Love it so far, only one thing.

I'm testing at 5GHz, 1.45v, and whenever I start LinX the multi just jumps around. It'll boot into Windows at 5GHz, but as soon as I launch LinX the multi drops to 38, 39, 41, or 47. It just jumps around from there.

bleachigo had a similar issue a few pages back, but I didn't see a resolution. I've disabled all C-states, along with temp throttling and Speedstep. Core current is at 200, from 150. Any suggestions?

Don't disable Speedstep, and set both Power Limits and Current Limit to 250.

[chubbyfatazn]

Perhaps I'm being daft, but where is the Power Limits setting in the uefi?

[vulture_g7]

In the overclock tab, you set turbo to manual and you should input 250 in both values. A few lines lower there's a current limit setting which must be set to 200 (or higher).

[nigeleyeit]

anyone running extreme 3 gen 3 with crossfire? Working ok? What cards? What Bios? I can't get my 6850's to play at all.

[acebmxer]

Anyone running Extreme 3 Gen3 having issues with LLC? A couple users over at TT having issues with LLC see here http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...eme3-gen3.html