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

[Ket]

Depending on the OC higher VCCSA may help, but you are probably going to have the chip deteriorate on you as a result.

[Dr.Leary]

Found this on Asrock beta area: http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Model=P67%20Extreme4

[radier]

O rly?

[BranFB]

Old news!

[Ket]

Sitting with 1.6A here and I have no intention on moving from it until Asrock sort out the OC stability issue thats cropped up since 1.61. No UEFI past 1.6A is stable when the system is OCd. You will get random application crashes with settings that were 100% stable with 1.6A. In my case I'd get random crashes with oblivion and mass effect @ 4.6GHz, flashed back to UEFI 1.6A, no problem.

[BranFB]

So 1.6c 1.61 1.62 1.64a All unstable ?

[radier]

I don't confirm that.

[Poohead]

I disagree as well. Take what he says with a grain of salt. My OC is 100% stable on UEFI 1.62 at 4.7 GHz.

[BranFB]

Mine too
2600k 4.7 @1.36v Stable
but at 4.8 it needs 1.408v. when it falls to 1.392 it gets 101BSOD and some times it's making 3h LinX and sometimes it crashes down. No matter what voltage I'm pumping it's not there. I think the temps are the problem here - around 85!
5GHz @1.44 - but i need to cool it with water soon!

[Ket]

So 1.6c 1.61 1.62 1.64a All unstable ?

Never used 1.6C, 1.61 is good for a bug it fixes but stability seems to be worse, same can be said for 1.62 when I tested it, haven't tested 1.64A.

[Martin.v.r]

best bios to Xtreme6 ? to xtreme overclock ??
my old I7 2600k CPU could x54 blck stable in all 3Dmark
I been lucky enough to find someone who can x57 blck, but when I go over x54blck
is my motherboard very unstable
I use watercooling

whit bios 1.33 I could reach 1.575vcore, but virtually every bios since I've had to raise Vcore to 1.635v to reach the same score whit x54
can it may be the motherboard will not play with, or is it bios???

idel temp is 29/31c an load max62c whit x54blck

[mean6]

I came home from work, and turned on pc which was in sleep mode, and now it won't turn on. The led codes flash between different numbers, then powers off and repeats infinity times. I have tried a proper cmos clear, and disconnected all hardware with no luck? Is the mobo screwed??? I am using the P67 Extreme4, 4 gig 2133 RipJaws, and an OCZ SSD. Please help.

[BranFB]

Yeah same every day....
Just turn it off
Unplug Clear CMOS
plug and start

f2>Default>f10>f2>clock or start defaults

[banwell]

Why sleep mode if you have an ssd? You're maybe saving what 10secs??

What you should be doing is logging out and letting trim tidy up the SSD.

Sleep mode is notoriously bad with overclocks past 4.6 on SandyB and also on SSDs without latest firmware RAID/ACHI drivers.

[mean6]

I finally got it to boot, but I had to move my ram from the white slots to the blue slots. EDIT* Put ram back in white slots, now running ok. Not sure what happened.

[Ket]

As already said sleep mode doesn't work good with high OCs, and this is a problem intel are aware of and still working on a fix AFAIK. Personally I don't use sleep just turn the PC off. Only takes about 8 seconds to boot to windows anyway for me.

[Nw0rb]

As already said sleep mode doesn't work good with high OCs, and this is a problem intel are aware of and still working on a fix AFAIK. Personally I don't use sleep just turn the PC off. Only takes about 8 seconds to boot to windows anyway for me.

Couldnt have said it better myself.. the only thing thats bothering me is that double boot when i turn on pll overvoltage and i agree same goes for the extreme 6 has been unstable at higher OC's with last couple bios havnt tried the newest tho as well ket

[pythonse]

i didnt mess with pll i just upped the cpu ratio to 47...no voltage mod needed anywhere and im as stable as can be with 1.61

[Nw0rb]

BTW that new beta bios atleast for extreme 6 is garbage i installed it set my oc settings like normal and it was giving me 0d error which from what i read in manual is cpu initialization error which cant be healthy lol so i changed back to 1.52 for extreme 6 and everything is perfect sooo somthing tells me theres somthing wrong with the new beta bios Also it wasnt letting me change values for power limits n such i would go to type in 250 and it would auto type 60 dunno was kinda worried for a min till i installed 1.52 and everything works as it should really strange

[pythonse]

if ur system is running smooth why update the bios? its always been my belief that if its not broke dont "fix" it...leave it alone. lets say a new bios came out that enabled ur board to accept a better cpu or resolved stability issues u are having then i can see updating. dont update because theres a new one and especially a bios that in a beta stage.

[Nw0rb]

if ur system is running smooth why update the bios? its always been my belief that if its not broke dont "fix" it...leave it alone. lets say a new bios came out that enabled ur board to accept a better cpu or resolved stability issues u are having then i can see updating. dont update because theres a new one and especially a bios that in a beta stage.

Your opin honestly I do it so i can see if they changed what they changed if it works so on so forth... im not an idiot and unless my power goes out and even then it might not mess up the firmware updating.. so i ask you why not use new bios even if yours is stable what if there is somthing wrong with that bios that needs to be updated to work prop your telling me you arnt gonna update cause everything is working..... give me a break

[Ket]

I think the more valid argument is if everything is working fine for you.. no need to update. Sometimes a firmware update is just worth doing though to avoid potential compatibility problems such as if you plan on dumping in a new CPU, or in the case of the Extreme4 simply updating to fix outstanding bugs. Theres nothing wrong with beta UEFIs from Asrock either, they tend to be very good and in most cases better than whats offered as a final release.

[pythonse]

Your opin honestly I do it so i can see if they changed what they changed if it works so on so forth... im not an idiot and unless my power goes out and even then it might not mess up the firmware updating.. so i ask you why not use new bios even if yours is stable what if there is somthing wrong with that bios that needs to be updated to work prop your telling me you arnt gonna update cause everything is working..... give me a break

first of all i apologize if u took offense to what i said...didnt mean it like that and u took it out of context. did i even insinuate u being an idiot,in fact i was only giving u sound advice...how long have u been building systems? ive been doing it over 10 years...so im going to reiterate...if ur system is running smooth there is no need to update the bios,if u r having issues and the new bios addresses the very issue u r having then by all means...please dont get an attitude with me i didnt have one with u.

[swampy]

Yesterday I attempted to update my SSD firmware, which at first failed due to not having SMART enabled. I've never been able to boot with any OC greater than 4.4 on my Extreme4, however, after enabling SMART, I was able to boot straight to 4.5, which is where I'll stay, with only stock cooling. Does that make sense (re SMART)?

[Nw0rb]

first of all i apologize if u took offense to what i said...didnt mean it like that and u took it out of context. did i even insinuate u being an idiot,in fact i was only giving u sound advice...how long have u been building systems? ive been doing it over 10 years...so im going to reiterate...if ur system is running smooth there is no need to update the bios,if u r having issues and the new bios addresses the very issue u r having then by all means...please dont get an attitude with me i didnt have one with u.

My bad had a really bad day yesterday...And I dont think i read your post correctly so im sorry for not reading it. I have been workin and building computers for 10 yrs as well. But honestly 10 yrs isnt that long andi am not claiming to know all. And your right if everything is workin then why update but i always like to see what they have been working on and so on... Honestly asrock as done poorly with the extreme 6 in my exp with it