I decided on an ASRock board because of the long and enjoyable relationship I had with a 939SLI32-eSATA2. I suppose that dates me. Back in the day, you guys didn't do Fata1ity badged stuff, or indeed, any motherboard over $75. :) I had the choice between this and a lower-end MSI which was $20 less and looked much less robust and featureful, but part of me is beginning to wish I had gone the other way.
I've got several distinct *issues* with my setup:
* C1E Mode doesn't work. If I enable it, Windows won't even get past the splash screen. Fair enough... but undesirable. Everything I can do to keep an 8350 running cooler is desirable in my book. Took me quite a bit of effort to get through the first Windows install til I discovered this.
* Today I noticed: Windows is reporting 16Gb memory, just under half of which is usable. As a test, I rebooted into NetBSD and it only tries to use eight gigs too. I noticed this after the machine bluescreened, then ended up stalled out at the ASRock logo screen. Not sure if it's correlated.
* Most recent: the machine doesn't reboot under software control, whether from selecting restart from the shutdown menu, or "save and reset" from the UEFI setup. It ends up in a half-dead state, where it won't reboot, won't respond to even the hard-reset button on the front panel, and eventually starts running pretty hot judging by the fan spinning up. It has reached this state at other times, frequently involving suspending and shutting down. Update: Clearing CMOS with the button got it back.
* New: I set the memory settings to "Auto" or "XMP v1.2 No. 1", and then select the correct memory speed of DDR3-1600, and it continues to default to DDR3-1333. This is both in the main page of setup, and CPU-Z confirmed. Seems to have happened when I re-enterred the configuration after the above clearing CMOS.
Also, two side issues:
* The CPU seems to run ridiculously hot in the setup utility. It's getting over sixty degrees.
* Most third-party hardware monitor tools I've tried, like Core Temp and HWMonitor from the CPU-Z people, don't return credible data. Not your fault, but ATXU is sort of overkill in terms of load time and screen size when all I want is a few numbers.
Hardware configuration:
FX-8350
CM Hyper 212+
Corsair 4x4Gb DDR3 kit, model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9
Asus brand GTX660 in top PCI-E slot
Hauppauge HVR-1250 TV tuner in PCI-Ex1 slot above video card
Software:
BIOS 2.40
Chipset drivers 13.4
Sound drivers 2.71 - using coax digital output, which I know is nonconventional
LAN drivers v7073
ASMedia drivers 1.16.10
I've got several distinct *issues* with my setup:
* C1E Mode doesn't work. If I enable it, Windows won't even get past the splash screen. Fair enough... but undesirable. Everything I can do to keep an 8350 running cooler is desirable in my book. Took me quite a bit of effort to get through the first Windows install til I discovered this.
* Today I noticed: Windows is reporting 16Gb memory, just under half of which is usable. As a test, I rebooted into NetBSD and it only tries to use eight gigs too. I noticed this after the machine bluescreened, then ended up stalled out at the ASRock logo screen. Not sure if it's correlated.
* Most recent: the machine doesn't reboot under software control, whether from selecting restart from the shutdown menu, or "save and reset" from the UEFI setup. It ends up in a half-dead state, where it won't reboot, won't respond to even the hard-reset button on the front panel, and eventually starts running pretty hot judging by the fan spinning up. It has reached this state at other times, frequently involving suspending and shutting down. Update: Clearing CMOS with the button got it back.
* New: I set the memory settings to "Auto" or "XMP v1.2 No. 1", and then select the correct memory speed of DDR3-1600, and it continues to default to DDR3-1333. This is both in the main page of setup, and CPU-Z confirmed. Seems to have happened when I re-enterred the configuration after the above clearing CMOS.
Also, two side issues:
* The CPU seems to run ridiculously hot in the setup utility. It's getting over sixty degrees.
* Most third-party hardware monitor tools I've tried, like Core Temp and HWMonitor from the CPU-Z people, don't return credible data. Not your fault, but ATXU is sort of overkill in terms of load time and screen size when all I want is a few numbers.
Hardware configuration:
FX-8350
CM Hyper 212+
Corsair 4x4Gb DDR3 kit, model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9
Asus brand GTX660 in top PCI-E slot
Hauppauge HVR-1250 TV tuner in PCI-Ex1 slot above video card
Software:
BIOS 2.40
Chipset drivers 13.4
Sound drivers 2.71 - using coax digital output, which I know is nonconventional
LAN drivers v7073
ASMedia drivers 1.16.10
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