Cpu support for z97m Formular

I've been through the pictures. The Chipset Configuration, Primary Graphics Adapter does look wrong, only PCI Express as a setting. That is one of the screens, options, and setting I wanted to see. That is 50% of the proof of your situation, and is clearly enough to make your case IMO. If you cannot select the iGPU, how can you use it?

But as odiebugs said, more options in the OC Tweaker screen will wrap it all up for us. The iGPU voltage settings are farther down in the OC Tweaker screen, I'm only seeing one part of that screen, the upper portion only. That is after you said you posted more pictures.

The Advanced, CPU Configuration screen does not have any iGPU options, at least not on my Z97 Extreme6 board.

Sorry to be picky, as I said IMO you have made your case that something is wrong. You showed the Main UEFI screen, with your CPU and UEFI version information, which confirms that fine.

Please understand this is the first case in this forum of this happening with a Broadwell processor. Actually, this is the only thread related to a Broadwell processor that I can recall.

Are the DMI and PCI Express De-emphasis options on the default settings?

balotus wrote: Hey Parsec   Nope none. here are the screenshots http://imgur.com/a/7gYke and yeps, I got the intel ME on the system. all with loaded default option.   Cheers   Kim

Now did you really miss the slider to bring up the rest of the options,  move the long slider down and take a screen shot again so we can see if there really missing.

Edited by odiebugs - 19 Jul 2015 at 5:01am

So none of the UEFI options exist when using your Broadwell CPU, and even the Beta UEFI provided by ASRock?!

That is wild and unheard of, as you know. I hope you understand any skepticism about this, since it is an issue that is unheard of. ASRock was confident that that UEFI version would work, but if you say it doesn't... how can we not believe it.

Speaking of believing it, if you really want to get our attention, put a USB flash drive in a USB 2.0 port on the board's IO panel. Then go into the UEFI, bring up the screens that should but don't have the options for the Intel iGPU, make sure they are in the area they should be on the screen, and if applicable, click on the settings for an option, like Onboard and PCI Express on the Primary Graphics Adapter.

Then press the F12 key on the keyboard. The current UEFI screen display will be saved to the USB flash drive. You can then post one of more of those pictures, and make your case without any doubt.

One other thing, about all I've got to offer, is do you have the Intel IME software installed? That is the Intel Management Engine driver ver:10.0.0.1204.

Most people are skeptical about the need of this software on a 'Z' board with a 'K' processor, but do we really know what Intel has wrapped up in this software? I'm somewhat surprised that a new version of the IME software is not available for Broadwell.

Have you tried examining the motherboard for bent pins in the CPU socket or dirt/thermal compound on the CPU pads?

hey odiebugs

Edited by balotus - 18 Jul 2015 at 5:17am