Impossible to activate XMP

Omg is everyone having this problem.  I'm so pissed a the ASRock boards.  I have the AB350 Pro4 with A8-9600 and I had no overclock settings.  Somebody told me that ASRock had a beta BIOS that fixed this so I inquired to support and they gave me P3.20B BIOS.  I know have a CPU multiplier and DRAM settings too!!!  Don't hold your breath though because they don't work at all.  OC to 3.6 GHz and Windows reports base clock as 3.6 GHz but when stress testing it will never actually go over 3.4 GHz (The turbo boost speed) when turbo boost/core performance boost (AMD's name for turbo boost) and if I disable core performance boost it won't work over 3.1 GHz (the out of the box base clock speed).  I'm so mad at these sh*tty ASRock boards.  I should've gone with Gigabyte or Asus because their OC for APUs actually works.  ASRock support is also brain dead, because when I originally told them that OC didn't work they just told me that the A8-9600 is not unlocked to which I responded by linking them AMD's spec page which said it was unlocked.  If you want the BIOS and try it for yourself let me know.  I can link you a download for it if you trust me or you can contact ASRock support yourself and ask for a beta BIOS.  Might take a few days though.


Edited by brendanw36 - 27 Oct 2017 at 9:50pm

I don't think so.  Ages 1007 isn't supposed to come out til November and I doubt ASRock would be handing out secret microcode.  On top of that other boards like from Asus and Gigabyte have full functional overclocking on Agesa 1006b so I'm assuming that ASRock just wasn't ready for the APU release and they can't even make a working BIOS to fix it.

GUYS! This problem are resolved in [Beta] 4.63 version of BIOS. I had problem like you, but after update i see all settings.