X670e Steel Legend no post after BIOS 3.01

mrbill wrote: After reverting to 1.30, and with a fresh install of Windows, I figured it was a good time to give 3.06 another shot. Its not like I had much to lose at that point. I was able to get into Windows only to experience repeated crashes with a clean install. I doubt I will attempt another FW upgrade, but if I do I will make sure to do a fresh data backup beforehand. What I likely will do is give it some time, for tech to advance a bit, and buy a MB/CPU combo from a different manufacturer and throw this ASRock board in the trash.

I looked up your memory on the Gskill website, and saw the QVL is only for Asrock Intel boards, the Steel Legend is not listed as compatible . So you may be having memory compatibility issues, I would post a question on the tech support forum for Gskill and see what they have to say, couldn't hurt.

After reverting to 1.30, and with a fresh install of Windows, I figured it was a good time to give 3.06 another shot. Its not like I had much to lose at that point. I was able to get into Windows only to experience repeated crashes with a clean install.

I doubt I will attempt another FW upgrade, but if I do I will make sure to do a fresh data backup beforehand. What I likely will do is give it some time, for tech to advance a bit, and buy a MB/CPU combo from a different manufacturer and throw this ASRock board in the trash.

mrbill wrote: No luck here and what a nightmare with fw 3.06. I did get it to train the memory but windows would crash when restarting the pc. So i rolled back to 1.30as05 and encountered all kinds of errors - no start menu, no file association endpoints and more joys. I used wre to roll back to a restore point and all I get is a black screen after logging in. Can?�t even see task manager. I?�m now in the process of resetting the pc. Let me tell u, if I have to pull out the x670e steel legend mb for a RMA, an ASRock board isn?�t going back in. I?�m so done with that company. Regardless, I?�m glad it worked out well for you. I?�d hate anyone else to experience what I?�m going through.

That's too bad, I wish I could help but I don't even know where to begin. I'm wondering if something is actually wrong with the Windows installation, but without sitting down with it, I could be very wrong. well good luck, I hope you get it sorted out soon.

mrbill wrote: killroy2963 wrote: Yes I have had Eric as well, he is all but useless in providing help other than telling you to RMA a good board. Other than the initial response, where Eric suggested we use old FW with security vulnerabilities, we still haven't heard from him in three months. So I sent him another email today asking he respond to the reply I sent months ago. My expectations are low that I'll even get a response considering ASRock as a company is allowing their support staff to encourage their customers to keep using old FW with known security vulnerabilities. Poor support all the way around IMO.

Bios version 3.06 finally released for the Steel Legend, I flashed it and everything seems to be working fine, no issues at all. It's too bad Eric is of no help and recommends ridiculous solutions, like in your case and mine. Ripping the motherboard out and RMA'ing it and waiting weeks to get a replacement should be last on the list to recommend, especially when it doesn't fix the problem.

Good luck with you're board, hopefully 3.06 works as well for you.

System arrived relatively unscathed, lower fan dust guard apparently got dented in transit. If that?™s all that happened I?™m happy enough.

They installed the CPU and cooler into the 2nd motherboard which I never got to work. They found the same issues that I was.

They then used a repurposed MSI flash drive that they use to install BIOS on systems because for some reason they always work. They put on BIOS 3.01 which is the one that started all these problems?? Boots straight to windows all good. So it appears the flash drive I used, which wasn?™t a problem for 3/4 BIOS updates, didn?™t like something.

I could have had the system back for the weekend but they wouldn?™t be able to stress test and run their diagnostics. I just said keep it and do what you gotta do, next week isn?™t a long time to wait.

So yeah, at least it wasn?™t something stupid. Almost a shame ASRock don?™t do what MSI apparently do which is give you a compatible USB stick with original bios, in case things go wrong.

No idea what caused the actual problem, or what the problem was, but system is working now and I don?™t think I?™ll be updating BIOS anytime soon ;)