Anyone tried Bios 4.20 on Asrock AB350 Pro4?

[Ratman6161]

So I tried it last night. It flashed fine and seems to add more fine grained OC options which is nice. But setting an over clock doesn't actually do anything. Everything was fine on V3.3. In 4.2, I set the clock speed to 3850 which is what I've been running for quite a while now and also set up the memory just as I had been doing all along then rebooted. But the CPU showed that it was running at its default 3200 and the memory was running at default settings as well.

All the settings I changed were still there i.e. they had actually been saved. But they weren't actually doing anything. I let it boot into Windows...no problems there. CPUZ reported that it was running at 3.4 Ghz and memory at stock/default settings. Nothing I tried made any difference. Tried reflashing 4.2. didnt do any good. Tried just setting the CPU OC and leaving everything else alone...same thing. Nothing.

In the end I flashed back to 3.30 and then loaded my old settings from backup and everything is back to normal.

Looking for someone who has this exact board and weather or not this worked for them. Bug in the bios or something about my system?

 

[Crv1]

I updated to bios 4.20 because i couldn't get my r5 1600 above 3,8ghz. I did updated my mother board no problems at all. But when I tried to OC my CPU... It looked like the oc profile didn't save or something else i dunno. I flashed back to 3.30 and got my 3,8ghz 1,27 V no problems now.

 

[Ratman6161]

I updated to bios 4.20 because i couldn't get my r5 1600 above 3,8ghz. I did updated my mother board no problems at all. But when I tried to OC my CPU... It looked like the oc profile didn't save or something else i dunno. I flashed back to 3.30 and got my 3,8ghz 1,27 V no problems now.

ok, essentially the same experience as me..

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm on 4.10, on an ASRock AB350M Pro4 (the micro-ATX board version). I don't think that there is a 4.20 available for this board yet. (Let me check.)

I'll try an overclock on it.

Newest BIOS is this one, for my board:

4.10 2017/12/6 6.96MB Instant Flash Update AGESA to 1.0.7.2 for upcoming processors.
* Before updating this BIOS, please update the BIOS to P3.30 firstly.

Yeah, now at 3.60Ghz @ 1.30625V. Stuttery mouse cursor, like I get when my Ryzen is overclocked for some reason.

Edit: There appears to be a new option, for "Power Supply Current Control", that wasn't there in 3.10.

Maybe that's why my PC is rebooting now, because my current PSU may not be "Haswell Ready".

Edit: Just checked, my PSU IS "Haswell Ready", according to an article from Tech Report. (Antec Neo Eco 620C shows up in their list as "Haswell Ready".)

 

[Ratman6161]

Looked at the Asrock web site this morning and see that the 4.2 bios is no longer available for download. So I guess CRV1 and I were not the only ones having problems. Too bad because while I had it running it did appear to have a bunch of new OC/tweaking options....just didn't work. Hopefully they will get a fixed version of it out soon.

 

[repoman0]

I haven't had any luck with anything since 2.50 on my AB350M (mATX version of the same board). What new OC and tweaking options did they add?

 

[LostPassword]

I have the pro board. 4.xx would reboot my system. I reverted back to 3.3. Asrock pulled the bios update. Looks like agesa 1.0072 just isn't stable. Ive been reading other manufacturers also having issues with it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have the pro board. 4.xx would reboot my system. I reverted back to 3.3. Asrock pulled the bios update. Looks like agesa 1.0072 just isn't stable. Ive been reading other manufacturers also having issues with it.

Now that's really interesting. I've got my rig overclocked to 3.8, I forget what voltage at this point, was 1.365V, but I think that I lowered it to a notch above 1.325V, and I think it seemed stable under a BOINC load of 10 threads of WCG.

But throwing in F@H on my RX 570 GPU at the same time, seems to cause random reboots. Even when setting WattMan to a Power Limit of -20% and adjusting fanspeed from 2200 to 3000, resulting in roughly 100W of power drawn by the GPU, and 75-77C temps. Which, I don't think should be too much?

PSU is a SeaSonic-made Antec Neo Eco 620C.. (Or maybe Delta?) Either way, the PSU should be solid.

I'm wondering about the GPU, if it has a failure now, since it was running @ 89C for a few weeks.

I had everything overclocked, was running BOINC on CPU and F@H on GPU, and it black-screened, I think. Then when I re-started, it started to re-boot on me. I tried it at stock speeds, and it was still doing it too (on UEFI 4.10).

Should I revert to 3.3?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Before, at 3.800Ghz, and on UEFI 4.10, I would regularly see CPU Utilization in Task Manager @ 100%. Now, overclocked to the same speed, with the same loads, I'm seeing utilization at 87-90%, which is IMHO where it should be, seeing as how I'm only using 10 threads of BOINC, and not 12.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Before, at 3.800Ghz, and on UEFI 4.10, I would regularly see CPU Utilization in Task Manager @ 100%. Now, overclocked to the same speed, with the same loads, I'm seeing utilization at 87-90%, which is IMHO where it should be, seeing as how I'm only using 10 threads of BOINC, and not 12.

 

[LostPassword]

i would revert back. they pulled the bios for a reason. i had nothing but issues with it. even my time clock was running twice as fast.
edit: i figured there was something wrong with my overclock so i dailed it back to 3.8ghz to test. and the motherboard wouldn't even overclock, it ran at stock when i set it to 3.8. some issues with my motherboard bios anyway. might be different with other models.