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

[Ket]

Thanks for the heads-up!

On a slightly different note, has anyone else run into the odd situation of only one of the Extreme4's front USB 3.0 ports responding to devices (even with this latest set of drivers?)

I had a similar issue when testing drivers, use the 101 Etron drivers when in doubt. Thus far in my tests they are deffinately the "go to" driver.

Yes, another user had this problem with older drivers. He found that the Etron controller was causing extremely high latency and the issue was present with several types of sound cards:



See this thread, search for Etron:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/pax-dr...d-crashes.html

Ask him to use the Etron 101 drivers to see if he has the same problem.

this is with 0.111 driver... no difference at all, if i disable the upper back usb (the best performance according to asrock..) the dpc has way lower latency.. (the "spikes" are rare and up to 900-1000μs)

Holy hell thats bad. I've been trying to diagnose this problem for weeks without much joy. Have you tried the Etron 101 driver? Theres a reason why I keep telling people to use it

I'm not using any of the ASRock "extras." Personally, I treat them like I treat all bloatware. Anything that tinkers with Windows to improve boot or internet speed = marketing hax. From what I've read, I'm not the only one who feels this way. All I want are the bare-bones, unadulterated drivers for the "Keep It Simple, Stupid" benefits.

Edit: I could wish that manufacturers would instead spend that time on the drivers themselves; I think they have a tendency to underestimate just how critical they are to the overall stability and efficiency of a system. In ASRock's favor, they do seem to be updating their drivers pretty frequently--my hat's off to them for that! I know marketing would never agree, but IMO fewer mobo models = more time/resources for QA = better hardware and drivers.

I agree. Simple straightforward reliable drivers is all that anyone wants, although this MAGIX thing Asrock has going is very nice.

BTW, I'm back people At least for now.

[GregoryDonner]

Not a big deal (and yes, I know it's only during boot or when browsing the UEFI), but some time ago I noticed that the P67 Extreme4 (B3) UEFI splash screen does not properly detect and fill the available screen space on HD (1920 x 1080) monitors on boot, leaving a black border between the splash screen and available, full monitor screen resolution. Here's a snapshot of what I mean:

http://www.gregdonner.org/temp/uefi_border_problem.jpg

This occurs on two solid-rated HD monitors: a 23" Acer G235HAbd and a 23.6" ASUS VE247H.

ASRock tech support explained it to me as: "Some model of HD monitors do not support the high BIOS resolution; therefore your screen is not completed fill the areas."

I'm curious if anyone actually has a monitor capable of properly displaying the UEFI at full resolution like they claim?

[GripS]

Not a big deal (and yes, I know it's only during boot or when browsing the UEFI), but some time ago I noticed that the P67 Extreme4 (B3) UEFI splash screen does not properly detect and fill the available screen space on HD (1920 x 1080) monitors on boot, leaving a black border between the splash screen and available, full monitor screen resolution. Here's a snapshot of what I mean:

http://www.gregdonner.org/temp/uefi_border_problem.jpg

This occurs on two solid-rated HD monitors: a 23" Acer G235HAbd and a 23.6" ASUS VE247H.

ASRock tech support explained it to me as: "Some model of HD monitors do not support the high BIOS resolution; therefore your screen is not completed fill the areas."

I'm curious if anyone actually has a monitor capable of properly displaying the UEFI at full resolution like they claim?

Mine shows it full screen. I'm only running a 22" LG 227WTG at 1680x1050. Honestly....it's a bios screen. As long as you can clearly see it I don't think it's worth trying to fix... The P67 chipset is unfortunately considered old at this point so don't plan on a bios update correcting it. I believe we have the last updates for this board at this point. Aside from Etron USB 3.0 that is.

[Ket]

Not a big deal (and yes, I know it's only during boot or when browsing the UEFI), but some time ago I noticed that the P67 Extreme4 (B3) UEFI splash screen does not properly detect and fill the available screen space on HD (1920 x 1080) monitors on boot, leaving a black border between the splash screen and available, full monitor screen resolution. Here's a snapshot of what I mean:

http://www.gregdonner.org/temp/uefi_border_problem.jpg

This occurs on two solid-rated HD monitors: a 23" Acer G235HAbd and a 23.6" ASUS VE247H.

ASRock tech support explained it to me as: "Some model of HD monitors do not support the high BIOS resolution; therefore your screen is not completed fill the areas."

I'm curious if anyone actually has a monitor capable of properly displaying the UEFI at full resolution like they claim?

To elaborate on what Asrock tech support meant its a simple case of some monitors have weird seperate skewed resolution settings until they hit the login screen where the monitor switches to its native resolution. You can usually fix the issue by simply pausing the boot process at the splash screen and adjusting the height and width options on your monitor settings until the splash screen completely fills the screen.

Oh, and in terms of age of the chipset, while the P67 can't be considered new anymore theres still not a lot of differences between the P67 and Z77 The biggest are no PCI-E 3.0 or ability to use the on-die IGPU. Those really are the only major differences. Technically there isn't even any reason whay any P67 mobo can't have a UEFI update letting it support IB CPUs, you just won't get the PCI-E 3.0. Intel as they are though will probably forbid any such UEFI update so people have to buy a Z77.

[GregoryDonner]

To elaborate on what Asrock tech support meant its a simple case of some monitors have weird separate skewed resolution settings until they hit the login screen where the monitor switches to its native resolution. You can usually fix the issue by simply pausing the boot process at the splash screen and adjusting the height and width options on your monitor settings until the splash screen completely fills the screen.

...unless you have a monitor that doesn't (for some obscure reason) disable your screen height and width options. *ahem* Note to self: stop buying cheap monitors! Thanks for the clarification on this! +1

Oh, and in terms of age of the chipset, while the P67 can't be considered new anymore there's still not a lot of differences between the P67 and Z77 The biggest are no PCI-E 3.0 or ability to use the on-die IGPU. Those really are the only major differences. Technically there isn't even any reason why any P67 mobo can't have a UEFI update letting it support IB CPUs, you just won't get the PCI-E 3.0. Intel as they are though will probably forbid any such UEFI update so people have to buy a Z77.

That wouldn't surprise me about Intel; but not a problem anyway, since it seems like the best time to do a system refresh is 2-3 years after the release of your current mobo when technology again offers the biggest bang for your buck.