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

[zoomee]

Some users have the same brand as me (Sapphire 7970) , and it works fine for them. Hence why i'm after a BIOS update which will sort this.....

Just a shame it looks like asrock has pulled the latest 2.03 beta bios from its website aswell now!!

[apatch]

Some users have the same brand as me (Sapphire 7970) , and it works fine for them. Hence why i'm after a BIOS update which will sort this.....

Just a shame it looks like asrock has pulled the latest 2.03 beta bios from its website aswell now!!

If are using dual-link DVI and only 1 display then maybe your model (specimen) is in some way different, this panels/monitors are known as some post-production worse products, maybe this one got this flaw.
I was reading few days ago about this monitors and was ready to buy 2 but after some reading gived up so far, if you ever find some solution please inform me. Once had similar problem with Ati cards in bios, I was struggling with EDID, powerstrip, etc but just give up, problem was solved after gfx card and monitor change but no my displayport connector is still unused because of similar problems.

[Ket]

Try using old skool VGA or DVI connection, sounds more a monitor issue than anything else.

[apatch]

Seems that 2.03 was a buggy bios, that's why was removed from sites, maybe it was problem with XMP Ram Profile or something else (just realised I do not see my 2 optical drives DVD/BD on Marvell controller maybe this either).

2.04 was released, I will try to mod it and upload it today.

[Ket]

You need to set the Marvell controller to be bootable if you want to see/boot from your optical drives on that controller AFAIK.

[apatch]

Thanx but I don't want to boot from this controller, it interferes with my raid card when enabled, I will check later cuase of my problem is new UEFI or marvell drivers/software.

edit:
Seems that disapperaring drives on Marvell controller only happen to me in IDE mode, in AHCI all is ok

And about no option to get back to old UEFI read for yourself and judge - link

Z68E4G3 2.04 with Intel OROM 11.1.0.141

[ckoons1]

i have an ASUS WS REVOLUTION motherboard and am thinking about switching to the ASROCK EXTREME 7. What do you guys think? yea or nea?

no one?

well i picked up an ASROCK EXTREME 7 for a tremendous price and going to sell my ASUS WS REVOLUTION :]

[bigmac11]

I have the Ext7 Gen3 board and love it. Once setup properly it's very stable and a good ocer. Good luck with your new board

[Ket]

i have an ASUS WS REVOLUTION motherboard and am thinking about switching to the ASROCK EXTREME 7. What do you guys think? yea or nea?

no one?

well i picked up an ASROCK EXTREME 7 for a tremendous price and going to sell my ASUS WS REVOLUTION :]

At this point in time I would of opted for a Z77 Extreme4 or 6, but its about whichever board suits your needs best

[Ket]

Thanx but I don't want to boot from this controller, it interferes with my raid card when enabled, I will check later cuase of my problem is new UEFI or marvell drivers/software.

edit:
Seems that disapperaring drives on Marvell controller only happen to me in IDE mode, in AHCI all is ok

And about no option to get back to old UEFI read for yourself and judge - link

Z68E4G3 2.04 with Intel OROM 11.1.0.141

In that case unless you have devices on the other SATA ports, use the intel ones or swap some devices round for ones you don't need to boot from.

[apatch]

The point is that I have all Intel ports occupied with 4 HDD(SATA2) & 2 SDD (SATA3), only some LSI ports (SATA3) are free, If I'll ever want to boot from BD/DVD then will enable marvel boot option + IDE, it will work in dos. Form my luck got almost all bootable isos on my multiboot usb pendrive.

[radier]

New beta UEFI L2.05 for Z68 Extreme4 Gen3:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Mo...xtreme4%20Gen3

and official L2.10 for Z68 Extreme3 Gen3:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...%20Gen3&o=BIOS

[apatch]

New beta UEFI L2.05 for Z68 Extreme4 Gen3:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Mo...xtreme4%20Gen3

and official L2.10 for Z68 Extreme3 Gen3:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...%20Gen3&o=BIOS

Changelog for Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 2.05 is the same as for 2.04, so what REALLY was wrong with 2.04 beside damaging MBR on win7 for few people ?

[Avathar77]

so these new bios is for the 3rd gen CPUs?
If I have a i5 2500k I wouldn't have any advantages would I?

[xixou]

The beta bios 3.02 for the p67 profesional fatal1ty board is messy,
do not use it if you have an old i5 2500k cpu,
I lost the sli, 2 rams and the ability to overclock above 37x.

[reaver_shado]

I sincerely apologizes if I've ruffled any feathers in the past.

I'm stuck in a serious corner and i crying out for help!!!

Was having issue with my crossfire, after system resume from sleep, I would get BSOD within an hour (bios 1.3). Landed up removing second card for 3 months just for a stable system. Updated to beta L1.34 and it didn't fix issue. Decided to swap my AMD 6970 crossfire to an Nvidia 580 and 460 (for physx), then system wouldn't POST. system would POST fine with either one nvidia card but not both. This was about 3 weeks ago, with IB coming out i checked and here was a new beta bios L2.04. Put in second GFX and voila POST no problem, went straight into BIOS to reset OC. Unfortunately the bios wouldn't recognize my ram's XMP and even manually wouldn't POST. After some trial and error with timing and voltages i found a stable ram setting, with no CPU OC.

Unfortunately, when i then proceeded to windows I got a windows boot error ( something like 0xc00000e), figured the MBR got screwed up with all the failed posts. Tried to repair MBR but not go. I wipe the drives and tried to reinstall but windows refused, and gave an error, " make sure this drive is bootable in bios" something along those lines.
After some time , i risked downgrading BIOS all the way to 1.0, however even there i had an issue installing windows. I reloaded L2.04 and still same problem. I found that if i disabled or ran intel sata at anything but with a RAID array setup (i.e RAID mode with no array), I was fine. installed windows and tried to setup my array again, but after reboot, same problem. I also get a message after post stating "insert boot media .... press enter" if i just press enter it goes.

I have a feeling that the ME firmware flash the first time i updated to IB L2.04 was a bad flash, but system still runs (just without my Intel RAID). I've only seen my system update ME once even though i've flashed {L2.04 over L2.04, 1.3, 1.1, L2.04} Not sure if this is a general beta issue or my system specific, is there a way to re-flash the ME firmware?

Any other suggestions?

I use Revodrive3 for OS & 4x WD6400AKS RAID 10 vertex 2 50Gb SRT accelerated for programs/storage (the former is currently disabled)

[MacClipper]

These P2.10 versions are being hosted but not yet officially listed so no release notes. Maybe you can take the cue from the Extreme3 Gen3 release notes and driver download list instead, that model has been officially listed.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...%20Gen3&o=BIOS


Z68 Extreme7 Gen3
http://download.asrock.com/bios/1155...3(2.10)ROM.zip

Z68 Extreme4 Gen3
http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsit...3(2.10)ROM.zip

Z68 Professional Gen3
http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsit...3(2.10)ROM.zip

Enjoy!

[Un-Nefer]

Hi,

For those who have flashed their Z68E4G3 with P2.10, can you tell me if it added support for DDR3-2400?

Thx.

[Un-Nefer]

dbl post - sorry.

[MacClipper]

You get to see this range ff you use an Ivy, options opened all the way to DDR3-2800 actually

[Un-Nefer]

You get to see this range ff you use an Ivy, options opened all the way to DDR3-2800 actually

That's awesome - cheers for that.

Do you know if DDR3-2400 is an option for the 2600K in P2.10? I only ask because the intel datasheets for the 2600K say it supports upto DDR3-2400, and the previous beta bios L2.05 only went as high as DDR3-2133. it would be great if the new P2.10 went all the way to DDR3-2400 for us SB owners :P

[MacClipper]

Only for Ivy cos when I put back the Sandy 2500K, the range went back to 2133 max again.

[zoomee]

Anyone using 2.10 with a SB cpu? Curious if its worthwhile upgrading from 1.15b.....

[vulture_g7]

Well, if I knew for sure that I could revert back to 1.x, I would definitely try it, but I won't risk it while the situation isn't cleared yet. Maybe someone here can tell for sure if the BIOS can be downgraded or not?

Anyone using 2.10 with a SB cpu? Curious if its worthwhile upgrading from 1.15b.....

[Un-Nefer]

Anyone using 2.10 with a SB cpu? Curious if its worthwhile upgrading from 1.15b.....

I flashed P2.10 on my Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 and I am using an i7 2600K and all seems ok to me.

I have noticed that you can use slightly lower vcore with P2.10 then L2.05, however I'm confident that it is only because LLC 1 is more aggressive then earlier and vcore seems to jump a fair bit over your set vcore when under extreme load (ie. Prime95, OCCT:LINPACK, etc).

Still, it seems to run a little cooler at idle and under general use, and doesn't look to run any hotter when under extreme load - so it's kind of a welcomed bug, if you could call it a bug.

There is still no support for DDR3-2400 with SB though, DDR3-2133 is the max you can set in the bios, and anything above that can only be achieved by raising your BLCK. But that is no different to all previous bios releases, so it isn't a negative.

Maybe someone here can tell for sure if the BIOS can be downgraded or not?

I have not checked, but tbh I don't feel there is a need to downgrade from P2.10. It is as more stable then the early 1.XX bios releases, and is as good as L2.05, with the addition of what I mentioned above.