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

[zoomee]

Blimey - very quiet in here - has everybody gone to sleep as well as Asrock.Lol.

Mark

More like given up tryin to get above 4.6 till some new bios

That n bf3 is too distractin lol

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[tipes]

More like given up tryin to get above 4.6 till some new bios

That n bf3 is too distractin lol

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Lol. Must admit bios love seems a bit lacking from Asrock - still I am happy at the moment at 4.6.

Mark

[pgagoober]

Hey Folks,
First post here. I recently built a new rig for iRacing with the Extreme4 Gen3. I'm new to overclocking but I had little trouble getting my i5 2500k to 4.7GHz with this board. So far I've had no problems with it. The only thing I could use help figuring out is how to disable the onboard USB ports when the system is shut down. Right now anything connected to a USB ports remains powered after shutdown. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Unoid]

made x52 at 1.41v llc1 and llc2, on water . Offset voltage too.

Running 1.00 bios. I see no reason to upgrade it.

[zoomee]

made x52 at 1.41v llc1 and llc2, on water . Offset voltage too.

Running 1.00 bios. I see no reason to upgrade it.

Does it boot up ok (without any dual-boot issues) everytime with your current overclock? (i.e. 4.8?)

there are problems with it otherwise they wouldn't have 2 beta bioses to address mouse/keyboard problems which I still suffer now and then.....

Agree though that 1.00 is the best for overclocking

[tipes]

Does it boot up ok (without any dual-boot issues) everytime with your current overclock? (i.e. 4.8?)

there are problems with it otherwise they wouldn't have 2 beta bioses to address mouse/keyboard problems which I still suffer now and then.....

Agree though that 1.00 is the best for overclocking

I too am still on original bios - working fine, my earlier comment about bios updates was only a general comment that bioses to improve performance etc
dont seem forthcoming, but general rule still applies - if it aint broken dont fix it.

[zoomee]

Im curious if unoid has any booting issues like me when try over 4.6...... Thats the only reason im pushing for a bios update.

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[Weebeast]

Can someone tell me which ports on the extreme 4 gen 3 are marvel sata 6 and which are intel sata 6? Are the other 4 ports intel sata 3?

By the way there is a new beta bios

http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Mo...xtreme4%20Gen3

L1.12 11/24/2011 Improve keyboard and mouse compatibility under BIOS.

[Ket]

Blimey - very quiet in here - has everybody gone to sleep as well as Asrock.Lol.

Mark

I think its quiet more because the board doesn't really have any problems in that way I'll try to get a Gen3 E4 board for testing but it won't happen atm. Busy with other tasks right now.

[pgagoober]

Hey Folks,
First post here. I recently built a new rig for iRacing with the Extreme4 Gen3. I'm new to overclocking but I had little trouble getting my i5 2500k to 4.7GHz with this board. So far I've had no problems with it. The only thing I could use help figuring out is how to disable the onboard USB ports when the system is shut down. Right now anything connected to a USB ports remains powered after shutdown. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Bump - anyone know how to turn off USB at shutdown?

Pretty please?

[elton_juan]

Hi all,

I am new to this forum. Blessed to come across this forum dedicated to the Asrock Z68 Extreme7
Here is my issue: I am unable to get my PCIE x1 slot working.
I shifted the device (My TV tuner) to another PCIE x16 slot and it works.
Something is telling me my PCIE x1 slot is not working.
Here is my rig specification:

Intel i5 2500k + Intel Stock Cooler
Asrock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 (Bios Version 1.3)
16GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
3 x Samsung F3 1TB, 1 x Seagate 500GB, 1 x Crucial M4 64GB
Palit GTX570 1280MB (The first PCIE x16 slot)
Hauppauge 2200 (Tv Tuner - Located at the first PCIE x1 slot)
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude (The only PCI slot)
Intel Pro/1000PT (The forth PCIE x16 slot)
Fractal Design Arc Midi
Corsair HX850W

[Ket]

Before its a safe bet to say your PCI-E x1 slot is dead try the following;

Update the UEFI to the latest
Do a full CMOS reset (that means removing power cord and battery, setting CMOS jumper to "clear" and pressing power button 2-3 times)
Remove all add-in devices and their corresponding drivers
Install just the TV Tuner and see if you get any joy
Finally, try another device in the 1x slot and see if that is detected

If you tell me the make and model of your TV tuner I can ask my asrock contacts if they have the device to do some tests.

[elton_juan]

Hi Ket,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I have tried to isolate the problem one at a time. I realized that the motherboard (Asrock Z68 Extreme7) will disable PCIE lanes if some (I am not sure which one though - have to check the manual again) lanes are used. For example, if the first PCIE x16 lane is used then the second PCIE x16 lane will be disabled (it makes sense if the graphics card is dual-slot because the second lane will be physically inaccessible). By the way, my TV Tuner is Hauppauge HVR-2200.

[Ket]

There seems to be a lot of issues with TV Tuners, most are because of poor driver install routies. Try getting the latest driver and see if that helps.

[nakata24]

Hi guys , i just received my extreme 4 gen 3, nice board. Does this board support triple channel btw?

Im using the triple channel memory (Corsair dominator 3x2 gb) from my old setup, but it runs not very well.

2 gb runs normal, 4 gb runs sometimes (sometimes it boot sometimes not), 6gb wont run.

Nessecery buying dual or quad channel ddrs ?

[Unoid]

on 1.00 bioos above 4.6ghz I don't have booting issues that I can tell.

I am running 1.3V at 4.8ghz for 24x7 and it boots every time just fine.

I haven't rebooted much at 5.2ghz to see if there's any problem there.

[fullerms]

Hi all,

Has Asrock officially confirmed Ivy Bridge support for the Ex4Gen3? I kinda assumed they did and was all set to buy it tomorrow until these two threads stopped me dead in my tracks.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...e-support.html

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...herboards.html

Does anyone have any other source confirming or contradicting the information in those links?

Edit : The statement that bothers me the most 'Z68 Professional Gen3 and Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 will support Ivy Bridge CPU'

[LJHCPA]

Just checking in to report an observed problem with my Extreme 7 Gen 3 board. Upgraded BIOS to 1.3 and got much better boot-up times, but BIOS still doesn't recognize Logitech G510 keyboard. Also noticed my external hardrive in a Rosewill eSATA/USB 3.0 housing will drop its connection after about 5 minutes, but if I power the drive off and back on it will stay connected for hours. It does this with the USB 3.0 connection. Another external drive in an identical housing connected under eSATA stays connected full time with no disconnects. Is this disconnect a problem with the ASRock Xfast USB? It seems to affect only the USB 3.0, as 2 other USB 2.0 external drives connected through a USB hub don't drop their connections at all, nor do 2 other external drives using eSATA connections. For the record, I have a lot of drives connected to this system--6 internally and 5 externally, but only the external USB 3.0 is dropping connections.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[fullerms]

Hi all,

Has Asrock officially confirmed Ivy Bridge support for the Ex4Gen3? I kinda assumed they did and was all set to buy it tomorrow until these two threads stopped me dead in my tracks.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...e-support.html

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...herboards.html

Does anyone have any other source confirming or contradicting the information in those links?

Edit : The statement that bothers me the most 'Z68 Professional Gen3 and Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 will support Ivy Bridge CPU'

Anyone knows whether the EX4Gen3 will support Ivy Bridge?

[The Watcher]

Hey Folks,
First post here. I recently built a new rig for iRacing with the Extreme4 Gen3. I'm new to overclocking but I had little trouble getting my i5 2500k to 4.7GHz with this board. So far I've had no problems with it. The only thing I could use help figuring out is how to disable the onboard USB ports when the system is shut down. Right now anything connected to a USB ports remains powered after shutdown. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Bump - anyone know how to turn off USB at shutdown?

Pretty please?

Hi there "pgagoober" can you confirm what bios are you using now coz i"m also experience this usb behavior after update to the new F-beta bios L1.12.

Can someone tell me which ports on the extreme 4 gen 3 are marvel sata 6 and which are intel sata 6? Are the other 4 ports intel sata 3?

By the way there is a new beta bios

http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Mo...xtreme4%20Gen3

L1.12 11/24/2011 Improve keyboard and mouse compatibility under BIOS.

up
first gray --->marvel ( if u use esata then only can can be use)
second gray --->intel 6gb
Third black --->intel 3gb
Fourth black --->intel 3gb

Hi guys , i just received my extreme 4 gen 3, nice board. Does this board support triple channel btw?

Im using the triple channel memory (Corsair dominator 3x2 gb) from my old setup, but it runs not very well.

2 gb runs normal, 4 gb runs sometimes (sometimes it boot sometimes not), 6gb wont run.

Nessecery buying dual or quad channel ddrs ?

try swapping your ram with other slot( mine 3x2gb gskill 1600 cl8 and 1x2gb elixir 1600 cl9 )

[B Boy Rock]

Hey about to buy the Z68 Extreme 4 tomorrow but have just heard in this thread that this board has some serious issues with usb3 and random bsod.

What confuses me though is (I haven't had time to read through everything posted here yet) I don't think I've seen any mention of bsod'ing here while in the thread linked there is almost 9 pages of complaints about the etron drivers mixed in with oc'ing problems.

This board really is good value it seems, but if it's as problem ridden as I've heard is it worth it?

[impaelas]

I have a different pair of problems this time. I wanted to use Intel SSD Toolbox and Samsung SSD Magician tools for SSD optimization. Both tools don't recognize any of the SSDs installed in the system (Samsung 470 128gb, Intel X25-M SATA SSDs (34nm) 80 GB), while they are both working properly and are visible in device manager.
Controller: Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller: driver v. 1.2.0.1003 (latest from ASRock website). Did anyone experience anything similar?
SMART enabled in UEFI.

Edit: Both SSDs have latest firmwares.

Hi Ket. I'm pulling this one out again as I still haven't found the way to solve it. I have noticed that the drives aren't even recognized in UEFI. They are both on Marvell controller. I saw one forum member had the same issue and he solved it with removing Intel RST. I didn't even use it but tried installing and checking for differences. Didn't help at all.

Also, why is ASRock suggesting putting boot devies on Intel controller (this is a recommendation in UEFI) if Marvell is supposed to be faster. I'm getting a new SATA II drive tomorrow and it's frustrating my old 775 MBO enabled me to use all SSD tools needed and this one doesn't even recignize the drives..

thx

[vulture_g7]

About the Intel recommendation, it recommends the SATA3 Intel ports instead of the Marvell ones as the intel sata3 is faster. The Marvell ports are faster than the intel sata2 ports though.

Hi Ket. I'm pulling this one out again as I still haven't found the way to solve it. I have noticed that the drives aren't even recognized in UEFI. They are both on Marvell controller. I saw one forum member had the same issue and he solved it with removing Intel RST. I didn't even use it but tried installing and checking for differences. Didn't help at all.

Also, why is ASRock suggesting putting boot devies on Intel controller (this is a recommendation in UEFI) if Marvell is supposed to be faster. I'm getting a new SATA II drive tomorrow and it's frustrating my old 775 MBO enabled me to use all SSD tools needed and this one doesn't even recignize the drives..

thx

[impaelas]

About the Intel recommendation, it recommends the SATA3 Intel ports instead of the Marvell ones as the intel sata3 is faster. The Marvell ports are faster than the intel sata2 ports though.

and this also solves the problem with no drives being detected. thx alot mate! apparently Samsung and Intel counted on their SSD's used only on Intel controllers..

[R_1]

Hi, did someone tested L1.12 Beta BIOS on Z68 Extreme 4 Gen3 board? I have some issues. My mouse was properly detected in initial v.1.0 UEFI BIOS and worked fine , but in 1.10 and Beta 1.12 support is broken. Suddenly it freezes and stops responding. Also there is a minute delay before BIOS full screen logo disappears and Windows starts loading. Codes in bottom write angle of the screen are changing, so some kind of very prolonged checking is going on.Sometimes the PC didn't start , when overclocked to previously stable settings with v.1.0 BIOS. Very disappointing Asrock BIOS support. My previous two mobos were Gigabyte and they had like 12 to 15 regular BIOS releases in their lifetime. Now I am in a need for new RAID OROM version, so constantly checking official 1.10 and Betas, but it is not fun at all.