ASRock Forums : Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:49:42 +0000 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:06:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2460 <![CDATA[ASRock Forums]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ <![CDATA[Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ : Given the description of the CPU...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12520&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12520 Author: parsec
Subject: 2460
Posted: 20 Apr 2016 at 2:06pm

Given the description of the CPU Fan Type Setting option, it should be left on Auto except when using a stock Skylake cooler with a Nidec fan.

When set to Auto, the four pin PWM fan speed control still works fine. The names of the settings of this option are unfortunate, they should be Auto and Nidec/Stock Cooler.

Yes, this option affects both the CPU_FAN1 and CPU_FAN2 connectors.

But I have used both three pin and four pin fans on the CPU_FAN2 connector, and they worked fine, no speed problems, no triple POST.

These headers are said to detect a three or four pin fan, its a feature called Smart Fan Speed Control.

Is there a reason you feel the need to use the "4 Pin" setting, given what it does to your cold startup? I've tried both settings, with UEFI 3.00, and while it never causes the triple POST failure, if set to 4 Pin it breaks three pin fan speed control on the CPU_FAN2 connector. Three pin fans seem to run at full speed regardless of the CPU_FAN2 speed profile selected. That is actually better for Corsair pumps! Read on.

Ahh, Corsair, your instructions can be so terrible... "... connect the dual fan connector to any four pin fan header on the board..." Pinch   The same for the three pin pump connector. Ouch   No mention of speed adjustment for either the fans or pump. Thumbs Down

I've used Corsair AIO coolers. The pumps are meant to run as full speed ALL THE TIME! How does that happen on most mother board fan headers that have fan speed control? Unless they are set to Full On? Ermm

The Power Fan header on this board can be used with the Corsair pump, no speed control, full power all the time.

I ran my Corsair pumps with a four pin molex to three pin fan adapter, a common extra included with fans.

I suggest trying either of the two ideas above for the pump, and see what happens.


]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:06:22 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12520&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12520 <![CDATA[Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ : 3.0 working rock solid for me...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12506&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12506 Author: apachehavok
Subject: 2460
Posted: 20 Apr 2016 at 4:28am

3.0 working rock solid for me here.  Boots every time even from power supply cutooff.  BUT I don't have a CPU fan plugged in as my water pump is controlled elsewhere.  Could offer some clues.
]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:28:14 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12506&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12506 <![CDATA[Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ : Hi parsec, Thanks for...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12451&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12451 Author: squawker
Subject: 2460
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 at 6:58am


Hiparsec,

Thanksfor replying.

Answeringyour questions:

1.I'm using a Corsair H105 watercooler that has one 4 pin power connector forfans and one 3 pin connector for pump.

The4 pin fans connector is connected to CPU_FAN1 board header and the 3 pin pump connectorto CPU_FAN2 header.

 

2.You're right, the setting that causes the issues I'm referring to is "CPU FanType Setting", and not "CPU Fan1 Type", my fault. Problem only occurs when "CPUFan Type Setting" is set to 4 Pin, and only after PSU being off.

IfI don't switch the PSU off, both 4 Pin and Auto settings don't cause anyproblems and PC posts and boots faultlessly.

MyPSU is connected to an APC Surge Protector/power strip, and also is connectedto this Surge Protector a Dell monitor, a cable fiber ONT, a router, and aspeaker system, so, after switching the PC off, I also switch the SurgeProtector off (for economy), and this way, every day the PC boots from a coldstate.

 

3.With UEFI 2.50, after the "triple attempt to POST" occurrence, the PC bootsnormally, and everything is OK.

    With UEFI 3.00, after the "triple......." event,PC goes to UEFI Main Menu and stays there until I go to Exit Screen and enterSave Changes and Exit. After that the PC posts and boots normally into OS(Windows 10 Pro).

 

4.The Boot Failure Guard option is enabled, and I have never seen any messagerelated to it.

 

5.With both 2.50 and 3.00 UEFIs, after the triple..... event, the watercooler fansand pump are running normally: water cooler fans at approx. 950 rpm (silentmode) and pump at approx. 1.600 rpm (standard mode).

 

Somebios pics showing my settings:

a.My usual fan settings (no one problem occurs with this setting)

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b.Triple attempt to post issues if I set 4 Pin for CPU Fan Type Setting

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c.Fans and Pump speeds

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d.Boot screen

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Now,after yours comments, I'm wondering if the issues I have are caused because CPUFan Type Setting perhaps controls both CPU Fan 1 and CPU Fan 2 Settings simultaneously, and when I set it to4 Pin, it tries to control both CPU Fan 1, which is OK because the watercoolerfans are 4 pin type, and also CPU Fan 2, which is not OK, because thewatercooler pump that is connected to its header is of 3 pin type, causing biosto be "confused" and arising the issues in a cold boot!

Anyway,the issues I have are for a very specific config (CPU Fan Type Setting set to 4Pin) and condition (after PSU being switched off), and hardly will affect most users,as you have tested and didn't experience any misbehavior.

Evenme, I don't have any issues in the normal operation of PC and I could say theExtreme7+ is a great board (and one of the few that we can set an NVMe raid0array without a glitch!).

 

Andthank you very much for the comments about Support 4k native HDD, now I'm awarethat it has nothing to do with SSDs, and the actual need for a specific flash storagebased file system, now that SSDs are so popular.

Iwill be waiting it impatiently (Microsoft?), since my PC only has SSDs for OSand storage.

regards,

]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2016 06:58:05 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12451&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12451 <![CDATA[Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ : Wow, those are some wild issues...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12421&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12421 Author: parsec
Subject: 2460
Posted: 17 Apr 2016 at 11:38am

Wow, those are some wild issues you have with UEFI 3.00! Sorry to hear that is the situation.

As you know (I think), I have a Z170 Extreme7+ myself, and just changed to 3.00 yesterday.

I can honestly say that I do not have any of the issues you described with either setting of the CPU Fan Type Setting, with UEFI 3.00 or 2.50. I was just in the UEFI earlier today, and I could swear the name of this option is CPU Fan Type Setting. I imagine we are talking about the same thing.

I just had the PSU switched off an unplugged, as I had the case of the Z170 Extreme7+ PC open to change a fan. So I started the PC with UEFI 3.00 and had turned off the PSU as you described. I do not experience anything like your "triple attempt to POST", or the PC going directly into the UEFI Main screen.

When this board/UEFI goes into the UEFI automatically during a startup that is NOT after a UEFI clear or UEFI update, that means the Boot Failure Guard feature has detected a number of failed POST attempts (default number is three), and assumes one or more options in the UEFI need to be adjusted. Your "triple attempt to POST" experience sure seems to be the Boot Failure Guard feature working as it should be.

Questions for you:

With UEFI 2.50, after the "triple attempt to POST" occurs, what would happen next? It seems the PC then booted, is that right?

UEFI 3.00 puts you into the UEFI apparently right away, after one POST failure. Our board now simply has an option called Boot Failure Guard Message, and we cannot set the number of attempts. The automatic count is three. I guess you are not seeing this message? Perhaps this option is Disabled?

How the triple POST attempt is related to the CPU Fan Type Setting is strange IMO. Are you using the stock Skylake cooler? I'm guessing that whatever CPU cooler you are using, with whatever CPU fan speed profile is in use, might not let the fan on the CPU_FAN1 header spin up? That is seen as an error, therefore you are put into the UEFI to fix this. Only thing I can think of. Confused

But we may be able to figure your issue out now, if you give me some more hints by answering my questions please.

The Support 4K native HDD thing should be only related to HDDs that are of the "Advanced Format" type. This has nothing to do with SSDs, and there is nothing we can configure or do to use it or not. This is all dealt with at a low level of IO, that we cannot touch. It simply means HDDs that are 4K Native will work correctly with this board and UEFI update.

For HDDs in the past, the standard sector size was 512 bytes. A larger sector size of 4K more efficiently uses the space on a magnetic storage medium, HDDs. 4K Native means the HDD no longer uses the "512e" 4K sector type, a type of emulated 512 byte sectors.

SSDs do not have sectors in the way that HDDs do, but we still must look at SSDs as we do with HDDs, due to the NTFS file system that was created for HDDs, not SSDs. I await the first flash storage based file system in PC operating systems, but wait we probably will. Pinch
]]> Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:38:59 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12421&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12421 <![CDATA[Bios 3.00 and Extreme7+ : Hi, My Extreme7+ was...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12400&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12400 Author: squawker
Subject: 2460
Posted: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:55am

Hi, 

MyExtreme7+ was running without a glitch with UEFI 2.50, so, against ASRockwebsite advice i did an UEFI update to 3.00 version Tongue. 

Everythingwent smoothly, and even my M.2 raid config survived one more time biosupdating Beer. 

UEFI3.00 description says:

1. Improve FAN compatibility.

2. Support 4k native HDD.

3. Improve DRAM compatibility.

 

Andhow UEFI 3.00 does work in my system?

Item 1 with UEFI 2.50:

IfI set in ''CPU Fan 1 Type''  the setting  ''4 pin''  instead of  ''Auto'',  bootafter PSU being off caused what i called  ''triple attempt to post''  in thisthread:

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1793&PN=2&title=bios-250-with-microcode-fix-for-extreme-7-out:

''Summary: in my rig, what I called "triple attempt to post", in theabsence of a better name, only occurs in UEFI v. 2.50 when the "CPU Fan 1Type" is set to "4 Pin" and the PSU is off before booting.''

Item1 with UEFI 3.00

Again, If I set in  ''CPU Fan 1Type''  the setting ''4 pin''  instead of  ''Auto'', boot after PSU being off iseven worse, because instead of having the triple attempt to post, and aftergoing to OS, with 3.00 it goes to UEFI Main Menu and stays there!

 

Item3 with UEFI 2.50 and 3.00:

My board did not and does nothave any DRAM issues with both bios versions (it works at stock 2133 MHz).

 

Item2:Support 4k native HDD.

This is what induced me toupdate bios  Smile.

My rig shows in SystemInformation and in Intel Rapid Storage Technology Control Panel that it workswith 512 Bytes/Sector.

I would thanks any input aboutif this new UEFI characteristic could change anything related to SSD's behavioror performance and what is needed to put it to work in actual configs.

Regards]]> Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:55:49 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2460&PID=12400&title=bios-3-00-and-extreme7#12400