ASRock Z68 Discussion/Owners Club - Page 225

Don't forget to put Power Options to High Performance if you want to keep clocks to non-idle.

I'm glad to see someone following up with my update! Ya, i'm still super confused as to what's happened here. Even though all functions of the MB are up and running, there is still an obvious problem since i have to, and had to find, a work-around, but at least I did. Now that i have I'm starting to think its a BIOS issue.

I'm really P.O. at ASRock!!!!!! I contacted them about the issue, on sunday and they were good about getting back to me fast, but their response was offensive. They basically claimed I was attempting to use the Chipset RAID sata in an un-designed way, trying to accelerate a RAID volume. The rep told me that SRT is deigned for 1 HDD and 1 SSD, and i had to choose to either use my RevoDrive or Intel series 6 RAID.

Not only did i find literature from Intel contrary to their statement, specifically stating a RAID volume can be accelerated with SRT, but i was doing it since I first got the board and was only broken after the update. I tried to kindly respond back, indicating these points. Hopefully i will a more helpful reply.

FYI, I noticed an unidentified driver in the Device Manager while i've been trying to figure out this USB wake issue.

Unknown device with hardware ID: INT33A0

With some research I've discovered that this is related to INTEL SMART CONNECT TECHNOLOGY. It's showing up in my device manager since i have this enabled in BIOS.

Also to almost confirm the BIOS issue, In an attempt to figure out the USB wake issue, i disabled "Legacy USB Support" and as a result, since a usb based card reader diappeared, the OCZ Drive moved to Priority #2 and i got the BCD error message again. and it was a pain to change back since my damn keyboard and mouse where disabled. Once i did change back all was well again.

In regards to AXTU, why does it have a power plan profile, and do we have to use it, in order to achieve power savings?

Does anyone know?

I find it annoying, my computer doesn't sleep after like 30 min, and every time i change the plan to balanced , it changes back after a restart

Yours keep switching back? Mine stays where it's supposed to but maybe just change the settings for the AXTU instead to match what you want? it's a sloppy workaround but it's a better alternative than uninstalling AXTU imo

Tonight I tried with C1E enable and C3/C6 enable. CPU still clocked from 1600-4600 and no sleep issues.
So it seems that only if all of those are set to disable will it now clock down to 1600.
Edited by FAUguy - 5/15/12 at 11:23pm

I currently have a 2600k at 4.6 and 16GB RAM at 2133.
Had anyone tried an Ivy Bridge in a Z68 to see if it would allow faster memory speeds like the Z77 boards?

You get to see this range ff you use an Ivy, options opened all the way to DDR3-2800 actually

Z68 Extreme3 Gen2 using P2.10 UEFI

Do I need a Sandybridge CPU in the Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 in order to flash it to the new 2.10 Bios (for Ivy compatibilty)?

I only have the Ivy 3770K, not a Sandy, so if I can't flash the Bios with it then I won't be able to try it out. Anyone know?

If I can flash it with the 3770K, then I can try to OC this Team Xtreem DDR3 2133 RAM to see how high it will go.

A Sandy is definitely needed just to POST/flash P2.10 unless your mobo comes with any of the earlier Ivy Sandy beta UEFI out of the box.

That's what I was afraid of...

Thanks for the reply though Mac.