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Lmao you can wait for 1.07 I suppose and hope for the best. I don't know how ASRock handles bug reporting but it may be worth noting. They do however appear to treat these boards as 2nd tier (which they are). I'm really hoping this platform to last a good 4-5 years (my Sandy Bridge laptop lasted 5) and I think an OC will make that very probable. But it looks like that ain't happening with this board.

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Pretty sure it's some UEFI bug that not a lot of people have, so ASRock doesn't know about it or just don't care. It's also not the Vcore, since I was able to boot into my broken PState after a hard restart, and it displayed the values higher than my actual setting.

I've tried basically everything to fix this problem except flashing 3.20 BIOS, but I heard there's a lot of bugs for that. 

If you plan on upgrading to Zen+ or Zen 2 and OC'ing those, this definitely is not the board for you.

Pretty sad, since before buying a lot of reviews said this thing was good. 

It is good, at giving me headaches. 


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It's just weird that Ryzen Master can hit the OCs just fine but the UEFI wont even boot using the same exact settings. It's certainly not designed to be significantly pushed, but when a platform is sold as being overclockable for all, it should be overclockable for all rather than some who pay more $$ for premium. Also a couple of these boards sold on eBay pre-owned for $50+ USD so at least some money can be recovered
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I've read that people with similar problems on other boards fixed it with the voltage offset instead of a static one.

As this board lacks Offset, LLC, SOC and a bunch of other things I was not aware that it lacked, this board is obviously not made for OC'ing.

We were juked. I think i may pick up a B350-F or an X370-F. 
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I'm inclined to think you are correct unless ASRock can fix something with an update. It makes you wonder about the long-term reliability as well. Wonder if the cheaper ASRock or Gigabyte X370's are any good, and if the B350 can be sold.
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I just tried PState0 OC'ing with the BIOS 3.0, and it doesn't work. I set the VID to 20 (1.35v) or 1E (1.36v) and the FID to 99 (3825) and had a lot of trouble booting. When I did, HWiNFO64 told me my clock was at 2800 and my vcore was around 1.375-1.385.

I tried with lower values, and needless to say, it didn't work for me.

I'm inclined to believe this board is just garbage. This was my first ASRock board, and I'm thoroughly disappointed if it won't even let me Save & Exit with the settings. It's stable in Ryzen Master, so it's not the chip being unable to handle the OC. I can't even boot with lower values!

If anything this experience has taught me not to buy a budget board, and just go full out on the best board because this is absolutely annoying.


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I've not had a chance yet to try P-State OC but I'm fully expecting to be disappointed. I don't know what's wrong because the OC's seem stable via Ryzen Master so (presumably) the chip can handle the clocks & voltages. @Superannoyed, what UEFI version are you using? I'm reluctant to upgrade past 1.06 because nothing is broken per say, but I want to OC to a modest 3.8 without having to perform some voodoo magic on the stupid computer.
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It black screens at any change I attempt to make to the Vcore or Frequency, it only allows me to save and restart if I leave those settings on auto. It's strange because I was able to actually change these values and boot with the same settings the first few times as I was fine tuning the OC, then it suddenly decided to nope me out of BIOS OC'ing because the board obviously hates me LOL

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Originally posted by superannoyed superannoyed wrote:

No im using the AB350 Pro4. My 1600 is stable in Ryzen Master at 3825MHz @1.35625v but I can't save these values in the bios (3.0).

I'm not sure if there are any bugs pstate oc'ing with this board, and i don't know if there are any issues with 1006b. Confused

its been 5 months since i've built this rig and i might just get a better x370 board since my experience with this board is pretty bad as of rn.

But i would still like to solve this problem...


theres more problems trying to clock with 50 and 25 mhz increnments

try at 3800
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I'm running a Ryzen 1600 on the AsRock AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX and 3.10 update and I was able to overclock to 3.7 stable with simply changing the multiplier in the UEFI and rebooting.

Strange how different some people's experiences with almost identical hardware is. Confused
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