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ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 - Who has it?

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Gabe3 said:
do I need drivers for a single ssd in ahci mode? are there intel drivers that I need to download or do I use the sata raid driver from the asrock site? I assume I install the driver during the windows 7 install?

thanks.
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You don't need any special drivers.
 
Can anyone share their BIOS settings with me? I am at 4.4ghz and I tried it with voltages 1.17 all the way to 1.32 and it is stable at full load even with 1.17v. I am having an issue when the CPU is going back to idle and I am just doing basic web surfing etc, I get a BSOD.

I enabled cstates and C1E. I notice the Vcore is dramatically dropping down to .085v and sometimes 0.81v. All of my other motherboards never dropped this low and I wondered if anyone has run into this as well? If I run full speed it never crashes, just when the power saving features are on then I get a BSOD while overclocked.

Right now I have C1E and CStates disabled but Speedstep enabled. So far everything seems stable and the CPU and voltage is throttling. The lowest vcore I seen from Speedstep is 0.88v.
 
I just bought this MB, but I am having a problem with the sound device. I have installed the correct driver, even the updated one from the Asrock site but I cannot get it to work.
 
yinan said:
I just bought this MB, but I am having a problem with the sound device. I have installed the correct driver, even the updated one from the Asrock site but I cannot get it to work.
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what OS are you using? is device manager not detecting the onboard sound? I installed win7 64bit with service pack 1 and had sound from the get go.
 
1)Should I update to 1.2 immediately if it's not already there?

2)Should I let windows detect and update all the USB/VGA/Realtek/sound drivers or should I download and install them from the ASRock website?
 
kazaam said:
1)Should I update to 1.2 immediately if it's not already there?

2)Should I let windows detect and update all the USB/VGA/Realtek/sound drivers or should I download and install them from the ASRock website?
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I looked in the bios and I couldn't find what version it already had so I updated it to 1.2 with a thumb drive.

windows didn't find the usb 3.0 drivers, so I installed them from the asrock website, the onboard vga I left uninstalled cause I think its better to just have one vga driver installed at a time, since I'm using a gtx 570. I had sound working right away so I didn't bother installing audio drivers.
 
SLK said:
Can anyone share their BIOS settings with me? I am at 4.4ghz and I tried it with voltages 1.17 all the way to 1.32 and it is stable at full load even with 1.17v. I am having an issue when the CPU is going back to idle and I am just doing basic web surfing etc, I get a BSOD.

I enabled cstates and C1E. I notice the Vcore is dramatically dropping down to .085v and sometimes 0.81v. All of my other motherboards never dropped this low and I wondered if anyone has run into this as well? If I run full speed it never crashes, just when the power saving features are on then I get a BSOD while overclocked.

Right now I have C1E and CStates disabled but Speedstep enabled. So far everything seems stable and the CPU and voltage is throttling. The lowest vcore I seen from Speedstep is 0.88v.
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I turned off the power saving right now as I test for overclocking....

To avoid vdroop you need to find the load line calibration setting and turn it to 1. The book explains a bit more what is happening here
 
Gabe3 said:
what OS are you using? is device manager not detecting the onboard sound? I installed win7 64bit with service pack 1 and had sound from the get go.
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Running Win7 x64 Ultimate SP1. Still no onboard sound, had to buy a cheap USB sound "card".
 
yinan said:
I just bought this MB, but I am having a problem with the sound device. I have installed the correct driver, even the updated one from the Asrock site but I cannot get it to work.
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Do you have the device listed in Device Manager? I'm guessing it's the "High Definition Audio Device" under "Sound, video, and game controllers".

I don't remember if I had the device driver installed off the bat with Win7 x64 SP1. I didn't try using Windows Update; I just installed the audio driver package from the CD.

I am having issues using the headphones and/or speakers. The only way I can use headphones is to plug them into the rear and keep the speakers selected as the default audio device. The way I think it's supposed to work is I can leave the headphones plugged into the front and use both. But that's something different than your problem.

Really annoying though I don't get why the sound works the way it does in Win7.
 
Gabe3 said:
I looked in the bios and I couldn't find what version it already had so I updated it to 1.2 with a thumb drive.
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Yes, I have the same question. I suppose it's not 1.2 for board being sold right now, but maybe 1.0 or 1.1??
How do you get to know which version it is? It's not in the bios, it's not in the book, it's not on the package...
 
duragezic said:
Do you have the device listed in Device Manager? I'm guessing it's the "High Definition Audio Device" under "Sound, video, and game controllers".

I don't remember if I had the device driver installed off the bat with Win7 x64 SP1. I didn't try using Windows Update; I just installed the audio driver package from the CD.

I am having issues using the headphones and/or speakers. The only way I can use headphones is to plug them into the rear and keep the speakers selected as the default audio device. The way I think it's supposed to work is I can leave the headphones plugged into the front and use both. But that's something different than your problem.

Really annoying though I don't get why the sound works the way it does in Win7.
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It is listed, but it has the yellow exclamation point next to it saying it cannot start. I have tried every variation of the driver I could find. From install media, updated from Asrock website, bare bones one from Realtek and none of them worked.
 
Menicolas said:
Yes, I have the same question. I suppose it's not 1.2 for board being sold right now, but maybe 1.0 or 1.1??
How do you get to know which version it is? It's not in the bios, it's not in the book, it's not on the package...
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Its on the bios chip on the mobo.
 
yinan said:
I just bought this MB, but I am having a problem with the sound device. I have installed the correct driver, even the updated one from the Asrock site but I cannot get it to work.
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yinan, I tried to reply to your PM but I get an error saying you don't accept PMs.

Anyway, I never got my sound to work no matter what I tried. I threw in the towel after a while since it was my intention to get a dedicated card anyway.
 
yinan said:
It is listed, but it has the yellow exclamation point next to it saying it cannot start. I have tried every variation of the driver I could find. From install media, updated from Asrock website, bare bones one from Realtek and none of them worked.
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Now that I think of it, I didn't install any sound driver. It wasn't clear to me which of the ~12 drivers I needed to install. I thought I checked drivers on ASrock website beforehand and they were the same versions as the included driver CD so I used the CD. I ended up installing:

ME (Intel Management Engine) Driver
Realtek LAN driver
INF driver
Asmedia USB3.0 driver

So I didn't end up even installing the HD Audio App & Driver from the CD/ASrock website. I remember just having the sound work from the beginning so I never installed it. Maybe I should and it would fix my speaker/headphone issues, or maybe it would hose things like yours is.

Maybe you could try to remove any installed driver packages, remove the device and reboot and when it comes back asking, have it search Windows Update, although I didn't even have to do that since it just used a MS driver when I installed Win7 64-bit SP1.
 
kazaam said:
yeah it was Z68E3G31.20.exe

Thats ALL i had in my usb. Weird that its an executable, haven't seen that before.
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it shouldnt be an exe, make sure your downloading the instant flash version, also, i forget what F key it is, but you want to hit it and flash the bios that way, instead of using the flash option in the bios.
 
Gabe3 said:
it shouldnt be an exe, make sure your downloading the instant flash version, also, i forget what F key it is, but you want to hit it and flash the bios that way, instead of using the flash option in the bios.
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Didnt think so. That's interesting...i just went and downloaded it again for the trillionth time and its FINALLY not an exe.

WTF? Thanks.
 
kazaam said:
Didnt think so. That's interesting...i just went and downloaded it again for the trillionth time and its FINALLY not an exe.

WTF? Thanks.
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strange, theres a download server US, asia, and germany or something like that, maybe the files aren't consistent across the three.
 
Did anyone have issues mounting this is their case, from what I'm seeing is that's an inch off width wise from normal ATX standards. Going in a Stacker 830 on my end. Is part of the board just going to hang?

Just wondering is all.
 
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Hi guys--

I'm a noob here, but I found this thread and I was hoping I could get some advice from people who already have the board. I have built machines before, but not in a long time, so I guess I am something of an overall noob at the moment.

So with that said, here are a few specific questions. I just assembled a system with this board last night, but it isn't posting. Unfortunately I had to go to work and couldn't really do much diagnosis, so this is slightly underinformed.

*did anyone else find that once the processor was in the socket, closing the socket up again took a little more force than usual? I didn't see any bent pins on the board or the processor, but I'm a little concerned.

*do you know where the pins are on the board for an internal speaker? I can't seem to find them.

*have you used Dr. Debug? I love that name.

Thanks, and I apologize for my newbish questions!
 
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