ASRock AB350M Pro4 boards, some do "Internet Flash", some don't. Why?

[VirtualLarry]

Just curious.

I own several of these boards, and all are connected via gigabit wired LAN to my router, which connects to another router, which connects to the internet.

Some of the boards will do "Internet Flash" in the BIOS, but not all of them. The ones that won't work, basically return immediately, rather than waiting for a DHCP reply, with "Internet connection not found".

The ones that DO work, there's a UEFI menu option for RealTek ethernet controller, that will give you info. The ones that don't work, don't seem to have that menu.

What could be different between these boards? Did ASRock release different revs., with different RealTek LAN controller chips onboard, and the BIOS code doesn't work with some of them?

All of them work fine with the wired network inside Windows 10, so that Windows' LAN drivers work fine.

 

[XavierMace]

That was known to not work on the original BIOS releases for several of their boards. Maybe even the first couple of releases. Some boards ship with newer BIOS's from the factory.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is after manually installing BIOS / UEFI 3.00. It still doesn't work, to flash 3.10. Have to break out the USB stick.

 

[whm1974]

I have to ask, but why would you flash your BIOS/UEFI straight from the Internet instead of using a USB stick? Wouldn't the stick be safer and have far less risk of bricking your motherboard?

 

[ch33zw1z]

VL, look for a setting that disables/enables it. I haven't dug thru manual

Whm1974: companies are trying to make it smoother.

USB or internet, the file is pulled and staged on the board, verified, the the update begins.

The risk is still during the actual update, not during the download. Regardless of the method, don't pull power during the update.

 

[Topweasel]

Personally on my Taichi I made a 500MB Fat32 partition on my drives and download the update and toss it onto that drive and run the updates. But mine originally didn't have the feature for net updates, they added it, and it worked the first time I used it.