What happened to Fatality X399 Bios 1.60?

Didn't the description for the 1.60 UEFI version for the Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming have a warning in red text about RAID arrays? It also said there was a new RAID driver version, 9... something, and that RAID arrays created with the earlier RAID driver version would not work with the new RAID driver. Existing RAID arrays would need to be deleted and recreated with the new RAID driver. There may have been a new AMD RAID storage Option ROM in the 1.60 UEFI.

Found it in another thread:

1. Enables NVMe RAID support.
(Note: 1. If you update the BIOS and build the new RAID, it is necessary to install new driver V9.00.00.84.
2. If the RAID was built with old BIOS, it is necessary to back up the data and rebuild RAID with new BIOS and driver.)

This was the new X399 support for NVMe SSDs in RAID arrays. AMD announced this feature for X399 a few weeks ago. Apparently it is not working correctly, or there was more to it than what was contained in the 1.60 update. AFAIK, that must be why 1.60 was removed, as well as the new RAID driver.

LurkerLito, I am totally surprised by your 80 C on the Enermax Ligtech TR4 360 cooler.  I have done no stress testing yet but I do not expect anything near that on my TR4 240.  My idle CPU temperatures are about 35 C (AIDA64).  What method are you using to measure?  Aida64 also measures CPU power usage.  Do you know that?  I was waiting to get some good memory and AMD/ASRock get the AGESA/BIOS problems fixed.  Did you check the flatness on the CPU and cold block?  My CPU was very flat but the cold block allowed a piece of paper across the diagonal (about 0.4 mm).  I used Arctic Silver 5.  What TIM did you use?  Do you think you got a good interface?  Thanks and enjoy, John.

Thanks, LurkerLito.  I need to do some testing, but Enermax claims 500 Watt capacity and you should not need anywhere near that.  If my water block was very curved, I would have RMAed it not attempted to lap it.  I suspect lapping will void the warranty.  Thanks and enjoy, John.


EDIT:  You might try a trial copy of AIDA64.



Edited by MisterJ - 25 Sep 2017 at 5:25am

datonyb: I don't know how I could check for that with an AIO cooler so I can't really say. But I attributed my temp drop with the 4Ghz prime95 run to it throttling because it did hit 80 and and IIRC threadrippers generally start to throttle at around 80-85 range. But with the sudden drop at the 71c mark at 3.8 I just don't know why it would drop to the mid 60c range since it shouldn't be throttling.

MisterJ: I have Aida64 trial installed, I didn't want to put in my license data because I am just testing on a temp HDD that I am going to wipe soon as I feel things are good to go. Problem with Aida is I only see one temp for the CPU and not for each core. That's why I went with CoreTemp. It has a similar issue but if I load up the coretemp gadget it displays all 16 cores with load and temp values.

Meh individual schmdividual.

It's just another thing NOT to worry over



Next questions will be "What's wrong with my Core 3?"