**Official** Asrock Z68 Extreme4 thread. Share your experiences, OCs & tech issues!

[Ket]

Hi Ket,

Thanks for answering! Asrock should hire you mate, at least I can get an answer from you.

Regarding the eSATA issue, I have now given up and I am selling the caddy and putting the HD in my PC so can't really check it anymore. But you say you tried it... did you reproduce the issue? It would be interesting to hear your results.

Thanks

I did indeed get the same problem, and my educated response on the issue is the issue is with the chip itself, either on the caddy or on the board. One of them just doesn't want to play nice with the other. Sadly, such issues are impossible to avoid entirely because theres so many different bits of hardware out there. Could this issue be resolved? I'm unsure. The UEFI wizzards at R&D would need to look at the problem but they can't get your particular caddy to test the problem and I do know they have tried hard to get your caddy but just can't get one.

sorry to disrupt the flow, but is there news about ivybridge support on this mobo?

AFAIK, Ivy will be supported with a UEFI update as intel have already said Z68 (possibly P67 too, can't remember for that chipset) will get support. I will check to be certain with my contacts.

Ket are you aware of the BSODs you get on this board when running off the iGPU?
The BSOD says something like, "Failed to receive the clock interrupt from the second processor."
Apparently, a lot of people are getting this with this motherboard. Same people say it is not there with the Asus's Z68.
I am getting the same thing because I sold my graphics card so that I could upgrade, and am currently running off the iGPU. The more I use this board, I feel like I've made a mistake by not going with Asus

I am aware the issue DID exist, but I haven't encountered it for many months with the new UEFIs. If you can get me a list of hardware 3-4 people have in their system when getting this error I can try to look into the issue further.