ASRock AB350M Pro4 - Freezing

PetrolHead wrote: wardog wrote: PetrolHead wrote: Three words, ASRock: Proper release notes. Two words: Never happen(ed) I'm with you, I'm only stating that in all my years building the ONLY mb manuf to do that was DFI. I'm hoping that if enough people join me in complaining about the lack of release notes, ASRock will mend its ways. ;) Frankly, I don't know why people let motherboard manufacturers get away with this. After all, it's not like they shouldn't have the information at their disposal. Surely they have some sort of version control, change log, ticket system etc. in use, as this is standard software development stuff. If they don't, well, good luck to them in that case, but assuming they have normal control over their software development, they know what's been done to the BIOS (and by whom). Collating that information, at least the most important bits, should not be a huge task. From the motherboard manufacturer's perspective, release notes should also make sense even without people asking for them. Release notes -> better understanding on whether to update BIOS -> less confused and unhappy customers (also hopefully less bricked boards and angry customers). Blergh, I'm going off on a tangent here. Sorry for the OT. I know I'm preaching to the choir.

Yup. You went of on a tangent / rant alright 

"You' want less confusion / less bricked boards?

Preach to the choir to NOT flash their bios UNLESS they absolutely need it.

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PH, noticed you returned earlier last week. How's things? OK I hope.

wardog wrote: PetrolHead wrote: Three words, ASRock: Proper release notes. Two words: Never happen(ed) I'm with you, I'm only stating that in all my years building the ONLY mb manuf to do that was DFI.

I'm hoping that if enough people join me in complaining about the lack of release notes, ASRock will mend its ways. ;) Frankly, I don't know why people let motherboard manufacturers get away with this. After all, it's not like they shouldn't have the information at their disposal. Surely they have some sort of version control, change log, ticket system etc. in use, as this is standard software development stuff. If they don't, well, good luck to them in that case, but assuming they have normal control over their software development, they know what's been done to the BIOS (and by whom). Collating that information, at least the most important bits, should not be a huge task.

From the motherboard manufacturer's perspective, release notes should also make sense even without people asking for them. Release notes -> better understanding on whether to update BIOS -> less confused and unhappy customers (also hopefully less bricked boards and angry customers). Blergh, I'm going off on a tangent here. Sorry for the OT. I know I'm preaching to the choir.

Have you fixed it yet guys?

PetrolHead wrote: Three words, ASRock: Proper release notes.

Two words: Never happen(ed)

I'm with you, I'm only stating that in all my years building the ONLY mb manuf to do that was DFI.

Hmm. There was no such option under Zen Common Options either in my BIOS, but there was indeed a "PSI" option under NBIO common options. This is likely the same thing, but the BIOS description did not help at all in this regard. I also only have the options "Auto" and "Disabled", of which "Auto" is the default value.

In any case, I think Leeouque is on to something. I found this by googling Power Supply Idle Control:

"We have been investigating the issue where systems are reportedly locking up when idling or running small workloads

This issue is related to the power supply.  Most PC power supplies (PSUs) are designed to handle a wide range of power consumption from your PC components, but not all PSUs are created equal.

Edited by PetrolHead - 13 Mar 2018 at 7:06am