Horrible X670E Steel Legend Firmware Upgrade Again

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   Figured I would give FW 2.06.AS03 a try since I was running 1.30 AS05. Ran into another ASRock nightmare setting supported RAM from 4800 to 5200. PC kept rebooting noting a bios error one time, a memory error the next, a missing Windows file the next, etc. Tried rolling back to 1.30 AS05 but after confirming the new bios, the PC would boot back into Windows saying a Windows file was missing but it shouldn't have booted into Windows anyway. Finally on the tenth try I was able to roll back. Why do I only run into these problems with ASRock products?

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mrbill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Status: Offline Points: 365	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrbill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Horrible X670E Steel Legend Firmware Upgrade Again Posted: 21 Jan 2024 at 5:54am
	Figured I would give FW 2.06.AS03 a try since I was running 1.30 AS05. Ran into another ASRock nightmare setting supported RAM from 4800 to 5200. PC kept rebooting noting a bios error one time, a memory error the next, a missing Windows file the next, etc. Tried rolling back to 1.30 AS05 but after confirming the new bios, the PC would boot back into Windows saying a Windows file was missing but it shouldn't have booted into Windows anyway. Finally on the tenth try I was able to roll back. Why do I only run into these problems with ASRock products?
	ASRock X670E Steel Legend (ABA159EAF581) AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill F5-5200J4040A16GX2-RS5K WD SN570 2TB MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Win 11 Pro

7900x670e Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2024 Location: Benelux Status: Offline Points: 215	Post Options Post Reply Quote 7900x670e Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 2024 at 6:36am
	I see 2.06.AS03 is still in beta. Maybe wait untill it's official. I run gskill 2x32 cl30 6000 fine on my steel legend x670e on 6000. But mine have hynix chips, yours have micron chips. Do you use the ramslots mentioned in the manual for 2 dimms, which are A2 and B2 ? Your RTX 3060 works fine in your system ? I can't get both of my newest firmwared MSI/EVGA GTX 1070ti's to work in the pcie 5.0 slot.

mrbill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Status: Offline Points: 365	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrbill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jan 2024 at 9:30am
	Official or not, these types of issues are unfortunately all too common when updating ASRock FW even with all components on the QVL and RAM installed as instructed. I've had similar problems on prior official FW versions as well. As far as my 3081TI goes, it runs fine.
	ASRock X670E Steel Legend (ABA159EAF581) AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill F5-5200J4040A16GX2-RS5K WD SN570 2TB MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Win 11 Pro

tim73 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2023 Status: Offline Points: 75	Post Options Post Reply Quote tim73 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2024 at 7:16am
	That means the memory is not stable, not the problem of the BIOS. You can run the memtest for a longer time and I'll bet there will be an error.

tim73 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2023 Status: Offline Points: 75	Post Options Post Reply Quote tim73 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jan 2024 at 7:18am
	You can run as an admin "sfc /scannow". Probably there are corrupted files.

mrbill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 07 Jan 2023 Status: Offline Points: 365	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrbill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jan 2024 at 8:13am
	@tim73 Memory passes Win diagnostics and corrupt files are the three common bluetooth files that SFC reports as corrupt that are even there on a fresh install. Been down this road many times with updating this MB's FW. Seems when new FW is released, ASRock drops support for memory on the QVL as other threads note as well. This box runs solid on 1.3AS05, and I won't try another FW update knowing the very buggy history with ASRock updates.
	ASRock X670E Steel Legend (ABA159EAF581) AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 32GB (2x16GB) G.Skill F5-5200J4040A16GX2-RS5K WD SN570 2TB MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Win 11 Pro

Katana1074 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 31 Dec 2022 Status: Offline Points: 1310	Post Options Post Reply Quote Katana1074 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 2024 at 5:50pm
	Hi there.... I Would check your bios and make sure that memory context restore and powerdown mode are both enabled.....
	CPU: RYZEN 7950x \| Motherboard: ASROCK X670E TAICHI \| GPU: MSI RTX4090 LIQUID X 24GB \| RAM: FURY X DDR5 C40 \| Hard Drive: INTEL OPTANE 900P 480GB,1 x SAMSUNG 980 PRO 2TB,2 X ADATA S8200X 2TB