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

[pythonse]

is there a asrock fatality section on this forum?

[pythonse]

btw i took both sticks out and replaced one at a time in different slots...still no power....no led screen...nothing. bad memory would have to at least power on with the led screen indicating something

[Ket]

Probably a DOA board or duff PSU.

[pythonse]

asrock is taking care of it....no fatality board support on this site ket?

[radier]

All these boards are pretty much like the same.

[Ket]

asrock is taking care of it....no fatality board support on this site ket?

You can ask about any problems you are having with the Fatality boards in this thread, but people haven't opted for those boards for a reason. I'm sure all those people have their reasons, but its testimony to people holding the Extreme boards in much higher regard.

[papatsonis]

You can ask about any problems you are having with the Fatality boards in this thread, but people haven't opted for those boards for a reason. I'm sure all those people have their reasons, but its testimony to people holding the Extreme boards in much higher regard.

"Negative.." people DO "ditch" this board(p67 prof) mainly for one reason.. it was essentially identical to the Extreme6 (not extreme4) , and the added cost for that extra IDE port was too hard to justify.., same pros/same cons/same bugs with Extreme6 (buggy Etron drivers :S for example) and a bit better in CPU Vregulation(Prof & Extr6 in favor of Extr4), useful only in really high o/c i think, as SB is a really low power consumption cpu even at high clock speeds.
As for the "Thermal Issues" you insisting (on the other thread about gen3).. you must be kidding right? P67 consumes only 6.1watt according to Intel's datasheets... the Heatsinks on all line-up models, are more than adequate for the job, plus.. you don't need to stress them as you cant increase bclock, and VChip has negligible gains if any.
To sum up.. i use the P67 Prof for 7 months, in a case with max fan speed (the back end fans) 1150rpm... and even in the hot Greek summer i had no problem(no problem i mean, no bsod/instability/etc)

[Ket]

How much energy the chipset uses has nothing to do with the simple fact the cooling solution on the Fatality board is not as good as the cooling on the Extreme boards. Why would you want unessessary heat through inefficient HS design? The 65nm process intel are still using on their chipsets will also not help in the slightest when it comes to keeping any generated heat to a minimum. Then theres the MOSFETs to consider, by nature they generate quite a bit of heat, the HS design for the MOSFETs on the Extreme boards is just better as well. Eitherway thats not why I'm here. As I stated, what the user chooses to buy is entirely up to them but from the standpoint of which board offers superior thermal efficiency through HS design, its the Extreme boards.

[bat4]

It says the latest drivers were used, but does not specify which driver version. If claims like that are going to be made it makes sence to actually say which driver version was used. As it doesn't, I can only assume old drivers were used as the drivers on the asrock site are quite a way behind the newest Etron drivers available.

The users are having problems with all versions of the drivers.
See this Australian forum: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...?t=1785632&p=2
They are starting to RMA the Asrock mainboard and exchange it for Asus.

Over here in Hungary there is a forum "Which type of PC should I buy", at beginning Asrock was favorite, but when the problems with the Etron USB 3.0 host controller have appeared they are not recommending anymore anything which is containing Etron.

I hope Asrock knows how serious this issue is.

[Ket]

With the newest beta driver the Etron issue isn't all that bad, the controller works with all devices I have, transfer rates to 3 different USB pen drives I have are good (even better with xfast), and any issues you do have problems with, particularly USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices, just stick them in the USB2 ports.

[bat4]

With the newest beta driver the Etron issue isn't all that bad, the controller works with all devices I have, transfer rates to 3 different USB pen drives I have are good (even better with xfast), and any issues you do have problems with, particularly USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices, just stick them in the USB2 ports.

Thanks Ket, but I have resolved my problems by buying an Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3 motherboard.
No issues with USB 3.0. It just works. No BSOD, no beta drivers, no long shutdowns, no ignored support requests.

In fact my new motherboard is boring, I don't have anything to fix or experiment with drivers. It has only one BIOS release, but that one is working flawlessly.
The P67 Extreme4 was my first and last Asrock branded product.

[radier]

New driver for Etron USB 3.0 1.00.0000.0107
http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

[pythonse]

ok so my motherboard wiped my cpu out..both had to be warrantied..intel sent me another i2500k and asrock sent me another board..the problem is this....i dont have a cpu ratio adjustment in the bios,only turbo to 4.8 ghz. asrock installed the latest 2.1 bios and my mouse movement in bios is twacked out..can i go back to a previous version?

[GripS]

ok so my motherboard wiped my cpu out..both had to be warrantied..intel sent me another i2500k and asrock sent me another board..the problem is this....i dont have a cpu ratio adjustment in the bios,only turbo to 4.8 ghz. asrock installed the latest 2.1 bios and my mouse movement in bios is twacked out..can i go back to a previous version?

Yes you can go back to a previous version. It's pretty odd that you are having that issue though. I've been running 2.1 without issue for quite some time now. Is your mouse plugged into a USB 3.0 port or 2.0? Try using the 2.0 ports.

Are you able to adjust the multiplier from within windows using the ASRock Extreme Tuner application?

[bat4]

New driver for Etron USB 3.0 1.00.0000.0107

New drivers, but the chip on the motherboards remains the same. Look at this thread:
http://forum.mediasonic.ca/viewtopic...2&t=704&p=2969

I tend to believe that the chip has some flaws which can't be entirely corrected by new drivers.

At least Intel had the decency to admit the flaw in the Sandy Bridge chipset (the famous SATA2 issue). I think Etron should do the same, but maybe this will never happen.

[pythonse]

well if they go straight to 2.1 that only fixes whatever issue it was supposed to fix...doesnt mean it resolves all previous bios fixes..so i probably need to revert back and then move forward...but im also confused why i dont have the cpu ratio option in the bios..i can adjust but not sure how far within windows asrock tuner

[GripS]

well if they go straight to 2.1 that only fixes whatever issue it was supposed to fix...doesnt mean it resolves all previous bios fixes..so i probably need to revert back and then move forward...but im also confused why i dont have the cpu ratio option in the bios..i can adjust but not sure how far within windows asrock tuner

2.1 includes all previous fixes...so no... you won't have to revert back and move forward.

The CPU ratio shows up in the bios when you switch the multiplier from 'auto' to 'manual'.

[pythonse]

i reverted back to a previous version that fixed the mouse movement..thanks for the reply but, thats not a true statement about 2.1 includes all fixes. also i got the ratio to show up..thank you

[GripS]

i reverted back to a previous version that fixed the mouse movement..thanks for the reply but, thats not a true statement about 2.1 includes all fixes. also i got the ratio to show up..thank you

In general... when a bios update is developed YES it does contain fixes from previous bios updates. It would be risky and stupid to require users to flash each version to get all the fixes.

[pythonse]

then why was my mouse movement all wonky with 2.1 and as soon i flashed 1.7 it was resolved? why isnt each newer bios a bigger file than the previous ones? why is 1.7 a bigger file than 2.1? so youre telling me all the fixes are in 2.1 even though its a smaller file? the reason u update to a bios is to fix a certain issue..not resolve all issues previously

[GregoryDonner]

Then why was my mouse movement all wonky with 2.1 and as soon I flashed 1.7 it was resolved? Why isn't each newer bios a bigger file than the previous ones? Why is 1.7 a bigger file than 2.1? So you're telling me all the fixes are in 2.1 even though its a smaller file? the reason you update to a bios is to fix a certain issue..not resolve all issues previously

That's because new bugs are often introduced with new features, and there are ways of optimizing code in later releases, meaning smaller file sizes.

[miguecasla]

Hi guys, i'm having a couples of errors on windows and i think it's because of one driver device what isn't install property, anyone can help me?

[Olivon]

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-...dor-device-id/

[burebista]

P67 Extreme4 BIOS P2.10E.

Improve keyboard and mouse compatibility under BIOS.

[Aladdin]

Hi guys.

Just got my new SSD and want to do RAID 0 with my same old Intel X25-m (both are x25-m G2). However, I have some strange problem here.

1: First, went to BIOS and set SATA mode to RAID ( Both of my ssd are on SATA3_0 and SATA3_1). Marvel sata 3 boot = disable

2: Boot up, CTRL + I to enter the raid configuration, create a RAID 0 with strip size = 64kbs -- > success.

3: Insert my Win 7 - 64 bit installation USB stick, win 7 ask for RAID driver, browse to this asrock RAID driver (http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...reme4&o=Win764) but got the error windows ( can not find new device etc..) thus I cant select my RAID driver to install windows to. Tried both 32bit and 64 bit driver but doesnt help.

My BIOS version is P1.50

Few notes : After RAID was created and working fine ( RAID driver working status = normal in RAID creation process CTRL+I) , so my data on one of my SSD ( Bootable Win 7 ) should be gone, however for some reason all the date are still remains and I'm posting this thread on my "should be gone" windows !!

Should update my BIOS ?

Anybody can helps ? Thanks


Edit 1 : Updated to 2.0 BIOS, download nest RAID driver from Intel themself and recheck Asrock RAID driver but still does not help. What to do now