Author: akumajou
Subject: Corrupted Management Engine > Overclocking Gone?
Posted: 02 Jun 2016 at 7:51pm
Do you know anyone who works for ASRock that could help me with a firmware solution?
Now I'm worried that the BIOS chip that I ordered is going to exhibit the same problems since it's supposed to be flashed with the latest BIOS.
By the way, I'm not sure what you meant by, "For some reason your board does not have a BIOS update that includes the microcode update available so there is no way for you to fix your current BIOS chip."
To clarify, when I originally bought this motherboard new (several years ago), I believe it came with BIOS version 1.30 or so. I incrementally updated the BIOS as they became available. I do remember the point at which there was a BIOS update that required leaving the USB drive inserted after restarting. I did not remove the drive, and as far as I know, the update, and for that matter, all updates completed successfully. But those were done years ago, and this problem I'm having now only now manifested after upgrading the RAM a week ago or so. I had been trying to lower the memory timings, but wasn't able to get it stabilized even after adding additional voltage. I believe the last setting I changed was MRC Fast Boot to Disabled in the DRAM Configuration section of UEFI. Prior to getting this new memory, I had never changed that MRC Fast Boot option (I had read disabling it can help with "memory training" if there is such a thing) or the VCCSA setting (I read increasing this could help with stabilizing a memory overclock). I don't know if that specifically had anything to do with it...
Edited by akumajou - 56 minutes ago at 8:49pm
Subject: Corrupted Management Engine > Overclocking Gone?
Posted: 02 Jun 2016 at 7:51pm
Do you know anyone who works for ASRock that could help me with a firmware solution?
Now I'm worried that the BIOS chip that I ordered is going to exhibit the same problems since it's supposed to be flashed with the latest BIOS.
By the way, I'm not sure what you meant by, "For some reason your board does not have a BIOS update that includes the microcode update available so there is no way for you to fix your current BIOS chip."
To clarify, when I originally bought this motherboard new (several years ago), I believe it came with BIOS version 1.30 or so. I incrementally updated the BIOS as they became available. I do remember the point at which there was a BIOS update that required leaving the USB drive inserted after restarting. I did not remove the drive, and as far as I know, the update, and for that matter, all updates completed successfully. But those were done years ago, and this problem I'm having now only now manifested after upgrading the RAM a week ago or so. I had been trying to lower the memory timings, but wasn't able to get it stabilized even after adding additional voltage. I believe the last setting I changed was MRC Fast Boot to Disabled in the DRAM Configuration section of UEFI. Prior to getting this new memory, I had never changed that MRC Fast Boot option (I had read disabling it can help with "memory training" if there is such a thing) or the VCCSA setting (I read increasing this could help with stabilizing a memory overclock). I don't know if that specifically had anything to do with it...
Edited by akumajou - 56 minutes ago at 8:49pm