Z390 Taichi Bios 1.80 problems
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Topic: Z390 Taichi Bios 1.80 problems
Posted By: marjohn56
Subject: Z390 Taichi Bios 1.80 problems
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 8:12pm
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Anyone else having issues with the 1.80 version? I have an nvme Samsung as my boot device and after installing the 1.80 bios everything slowed to a crawl, my old 386 would have been quicker to boot! Reverted back to v1.51 and normal service was restored. Would have gone back to 1.60 but cannot find that one on my drives. |
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Posted By: RLGL
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 10:54pm
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After the installation of the 1.80 version did you clear the cmos and go through and reset everything? ------------- Asrock Z370 Gaming K6,Intel i7 8700K, Asrock x570 Taichi |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2018 at 10:57pm
| Well I reset to default settings, rebooted and went through my normal setup again. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2018 at 4:56am
| I've just repeated the procedure to make sure I had done nothing stupid, exactly the same result, W10 is very sluggish, mouse is slow etc, all in all just not responsive. |
Posted By: RLGL
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2018 at 6:58am
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do you have anything plugged into the sata ports. some are shared with the m.2 slots ------------- Asrock Z370 Gaming K6,Intel i7 8700K, Asrock x570 Taichi |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2018 at 8:56pm
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I do have drives on the SATA ports, but they are not conflicting with the NVMEs. I have two NVMEs a 512Gb ( boot ) and a 1Tb work drive, they are in slots 1 & 3, I also have four SATA drives, two are in the appropriate sata3_2 & 3_3 and the other two drives are on the ASMEDIA ports. To add to the usual gfx card I also have a Soundblaster card, and a USB3 expansion card as I never appear to have enough USB ports! That card also has a couple of SATA3 ports on it as well, I only use them for hanging drives on temporarily if I need to. I have just completed a clean W10 install, using 1.60 ( found a copy ) Bios, update the bios and it crawls, revert back to 1.60 and all is fine, think I'll be sticking with 1.60, it ain't perfect but it works. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 4:33am
| Came here to post this exact same thing. I updated to 1.80 and immediately noticed my Samsung 970 PRO slowing to a crawl. Something is seriously wrong with this version. I even ran userbenchmark and it said it was performing well below expectations. I reverted back to 1.60 and everything is fine now. I would NOT recommend updating from 1.60. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 4:35am
| Seems I can't edit my previous post but I also wanted to mention that I'm not using any SATA drives and my m.2 is installed in the 3rd spot (under the heatsink). |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 6:22am
Phew.. thanks. Glad it's not just me.  Been with ASRock for years, my z77 extreme6 was superb, never any problem, ;ets hope they can resolve this. |
teegale wrote:Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2018 at 7:07am
I figured I wasn't alone. Which is why I came here. I'll give the next update a shot. Thank god for being able to downgrade. |
Posted By: 007Bond
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 7:40am
| Same issue here, came searching for answers. Will downgrade BIOS, thanks |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:33am
| Did you flash v1.80 through Windows instead of instant flash? Because I did it with Windows the first time. I just decided I wanted to flash it again with instant flash on a usb stick and it's fine. Might explain why we had issues. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 3:55pm
| I used a flash drive and caĺled it from the bios. What type of nvme r u using? |
Posted By: RLGL
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 12:04am
Do NOT flash through Windows, too many failures have been reported. This is with all brands of product. ------------- Asrock Z370 Gaming K6,Intel i7 8700K, Asrock x570 Taichi |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 1:21am
| I'm using a Samsung 970 PRO |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 1:46am
I usually never do this. I couldn't find my USB stick at the time and was getting impatient. Never plan on doing that again. I still don't think that was the issue considering the guy above me had the same issue and he flashed it via instant flash. I'm thinking maybe ASRock snuck in a fix a few days later on their 1.80 download. |
Posted By: sora70david
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 2:08am
| I just finished building a new system based on the Z390 Taichi with an i5 9600k and am using a Samsung 970EVO NVMe SSD as my boot drive in M.2 #1. The MOBO had BIOS v1.30 installed which seems pretty old to me, so I was thinking of upgrading the BIOS to the latest to take advantage of any fixes or new feature support. Should I upgrade to 1.80 or hold off? |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:30am
It seems to be fixed. Just make sure you load the BIOS to a USB device and use instant flash. My NVME card has much better performance in 1.80 than 1.60 now. If you have issues you can always downgrade. I'd also recommend installing your m.2 NVME in your 3rd M.2 slot under the heatsink. NVME's tend to get hot and that's what that's there for. Also make sure you install the Samsung NVME drivers to further improve performance! Here's a link http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201805/20180514160435960/Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.0.exe |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 7:31am
| Forgot to mention Samsung Magician. Install it to make sure your M.2 is in the latest firmware. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 2:40pm
Away from home working abroad this week but I'm fairly certain that when I did the re-install of w10 last week I did d/l a new copy of 1.80. All the other suggestions are also in play. I'll re-download and try again when I get home. |
Posted By: sora70david
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 10:54pm
| Thanks Teegale for the recommendations. I did load all the latest drivers on Samsung's website and also Samsung Magician. I initially installed my NVMe drive in M.2 port 3 but then decided to move it to port 1. The reason I did this was because I noticed that the mounting points in slot 1 were better suited to the size of the 970 EVO. Also, I noticed some other people who had this same setup using slot 1. So I decided to go with that. I wish that this MOBO came with heat sinks for all 3 M.2 ports. Do you happen to know if ASRock sells spare heatsinks for ports 1 and 2 or if they are available from a 3rd party? |
Posted By: AceoftheSwordz
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 3:37pm
| I just did this update and I noticed that the option for Multi core Enhancement is no longer there. Can anyone confirm this? I flashed through windows and I've noticed MCE behavior when I don't really want that. I was going to tweak my OC but it's in AUTO on pretty much everything with XMP on until I figure out where the setting to control that is before I tune a new OC profile. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2018 at 10:32pm
| Still no go with 1.80, flashed it after a fresh d/l from ASRock and it still slows my machine to a crawl. I'll stay with 1.60, at least it works. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2018 at 12:09am
So strange. I have no idea why my issues were fixed after doing it a second time. |
Posted By: basementjack
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2018 at 12:37pm
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Hi Everyone, new here, joined to join this discussion, wish I would have searched for this yesterday! I am also having the same problem as everyone else. Downgrading to 1.60 immediately resolved the issue. I saw a few questions asked above so I'll try to answer those here and also will tell what steps I did to troubleshoot... Question: Where can I find the 1.60 bios to downgrade? Answer: It's on the asrock website - I went to the motherboard page then to support, then bios, and there are 4 different versions listed, I've used the Instant flash 1.60 one to downgrade. [URL= https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z390%20Taichi/index.us.asp#BIOS]https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z390%20Taichi/index.us.asp#BIOS[/URL] My specifics: Brand new machine, i7-9700k, Samsung 1TB 970EVO NVME in the 3rd (heatsink) slot, no other drives, 32GB ram in dual channel (2x16) Standard z390 Taichi, not the ultimate. I had installed windows for the first time about a week ago with BIOS 1.60, and everything was running great. I've rebooted, powered off and powered on from scratch, plenty of times to have a feel for what the login process was like before. On 12-22-2018 I downloaded 1.80 from asrock.com and used the USB method to update my machine on the same day. Everything was immediately awful. I also did a reset cmos both via the switch on the IO panel, and also from within the bios. On 12-23-2018 I downgraded to 1.60, fetching the 1.60 bios from asrock.com. I used a second machine for this to avoid any issues. Note: I was able to put both bios versions on the same USB stick, and instant flash presented me with a list to choose from. Note2: User Teegale mentioned a second flash fixed the issue and suspected that asrock had fixed the bios online, however that was posted on 12-19, prior to my downloading the file Note: After the first boot when it was hanging big time, I finally got into Task manager and noticed system interrupts were taking 18% of the CPU - this seemed wrong. Note: I have never run or installed any samsung drivers, nor updated bios, but installed Magician, and it shows I have the latest Firmware. Running on bios 1.60, magician showed 3549 read, 2461 write, with 368,408 read iops and 303,222 write-iops. Ok I think that's all the relevant details on mine - I'm really thankful everyone else posted here - the information was really helpful! - Jack |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2018 at 10:18pm
No problem man. I have no idea why its varying user to user. Or how I was able to fix it with the second flash. If you haven't installed the Samsung NVME drivers from Samsung I'd recommend doing so. There's a link in one of my previous posts. I doubt that fixes the issue for you. Best bet for anyone having trouble with v1.80 is so try it and run Userbenchmark. If you're NVME is significantly underperforming go back to 1.60 until there's a new BIOS update. Just a strange BIOS release in general. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2018 at 10:19pm
| I'd also like to add that I'm on Windows 10 1809 with every update installed from Windows update. Again, I doubt that's the issue but you never know. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2019 at 3:17pm
| Was anyone brave enough to try the new 1.90 update? If so was the issue gone? |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2019 at 3:21pm
| No, but I'll try it one day, switched out the board for an MSI Godlike, the Taichi is now sat in a cupboard whilst I decide what to do with it. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2019 at 7:57pm
I bit the bullet. Everything works fine for me. Userbenchmark new high scores. |
Posted By: BullGator
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 10:04am
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I updated to 1.90 prior to my new build. Board and new BIOS is working well for me. [URL=https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14001602]UserBenchmarks: Game 126%, Desk 189%, Work 169%[/URL] |
Posted By: Abula
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2019 at 3:05am
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Very interesting thread, specially for me, since building with a Taichi Ultimate. I just assemble and havent seen much issues with 1.8, but im not using a NVME yet, just assemble it outside to see if everything was working before going inside the case. Wondering if others have updated to 1.9 to see if its running good wish NVMEs? and if MCE is available again? |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2019 at 12:06am
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Well I needed to check something with the Godlike so re-installed the Taichi and updated the BIOS to 1.90 Have to say everything is now working perfectly, so well in fact I am sticking with the Taichi. Passmark Performance test is giving a score of 8500 which I am more than satisfied with. Whatever they did with 1.90 fixed the problems I was having so nice one ASRock. |
Posted By: Abula
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 12:20pm
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Something is wrong with 1.8 and 1.9 still. When ever i connect an NVME (1 or 3, havent tried 2), the booting takes at least 1 minute more, its even faster to boot into a sata ssd (as long as there are no nvme plugged). I'm guessing "Adjust the NVME Hardware TPM Encryption" messed something up with the NVMEs. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 4:12pm
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Did you follow the preferred method of nvme installation? Only nvme no other drives, I have two nvme's so they were both installed so no issue with that. Set BIOS to AHCI and UEFI only. If they are sammy NVMEs then make sure you install the sammy drivers after initial W10 install. So that does ask the question - are the NVMEs Samsung or other? As I started this thread I was having a lot of issues, but not anymore - all working very well. |
Posted By: Snakecatcher
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2019 at 9:53am
| New Taichi Z390 build, built 12/17/18 two months later started freezing, keyboard dead, mouse dead, display black, had to push the reset button to get the PC back. Read quite a few posts, noticed something I had not done after adding new devices, video card, memory, switching M.2 ports, Clear the CMOS. It's something everyone does, right? not me and when I did I did it wrong, it's more than pushing the clear button on the motherboard, unplug the power completely after shutting down the computer. Doing this fixed my freezing, PC ran for 5 days non-stop, before CMOS clear it wouldn't run for more than 24hrs. Cleared CMOS, then updated BIOS, 1.9 working without fail. I had read another post where software install would fail because a DVD/Blue Ray drive would be the cause of the failure. I had the same problem, after clearing the CMOS, no install failures. |
Posted By: Abula
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2019 at 2:54am
1) The ssd was not Samsung, was a ADATA X8200, and it was running fine, but seems like it died (i need to test in another pc still), but this was one of the issues. 2) I was using a shingle 8tb for storage, and not sure why, but it adds a ton of time not only to boot to bios (around 28 sec) and also loading windows takes at least 20 sec more. I tested with only a 970pro, and i boot to bios in 9sec, if i add a Sata SSD like 850pro the boot don't increase its 9-10sec to bios, then i tested with 3tb WD red, and still adds time to booting to bios, around 15 sec total, not so bad, although i do find it interesting that even though its not booting from either of the mechanical, its still adding time to booting. I'm seriously considering adding a storage ssd to the build, but for sure it will be Sata, as in my testing there was no penalty for booting bios/windows. After a day testing outside, i finally decided to use the board, i assemble on the case and been running great for a day now, no issues. Thanks again for your reply. |
Posted By: marjohn56
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2019 at 3:44pm
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Good you have it sorted. The added delay is because the BIOS interrogates the drives, and with spinners they do need to spin up. |
Posted By: Abula
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2019 at 12:06pm
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In case anyone is interested or waiting for a new bios, version 2.00 released 2019/3/15. 1.Update Intel Microcode 2.Update "Ln2 Overclocking Preset" function |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2019 at 11:23pm
| 4.00 came out yesterday. My only complaints with this board are I'm getting static in my headphones and over my microphone. Apparently, it's a common issue. I'm thinking about returning it and getting something else. |
Posted By: Abula
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2019 at 10:08am
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Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2019 at 10:18am
Thanks for the advice. The static on the mic is so bad I have to RMA it. 4.00 BIOS. Apparently, they decided to push another update out 5 days later and skip an entire number. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2019 at 10:21am
This may sound stupid but open command prompt in Windows as admin. Type "bcdedit /set useplatformclock false" without the quotations. If that doesn't work try changing the value to true. That's what fixed my BIOS issue with my PC slowing to a crawl on my NVME. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2019 at 10:30am
Forgot to mention to install the latest BIOS 4.00 to see if it fixes it. If not proceed with what I mentioned above. Also don't forget to restart after applying that command in command prompt. |
Posted By: teegale
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2019 at 4:29am
MCE is available again in 2.00 and 4.00 |
Posted By: basementjack
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2019 at 8:06am
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I tried bios 2.0 today and the same performance issues perceived with storage. I tried: Update bios from 1.60 to 2.0 via usb stick and F6 ezupdate process. Result - Took forever to boot, clearly something wrong. Came here, tried @teegale's suggestion of disabling the HPCT - tried it with BDCedit and also in the Bios->Advanced Settings->ACPI->HPCT. Seemed to help slighty, but still very slow to boot. What is interesting is, once the system is fully booted, if I wait long enough, I can run Samsung's magician software and it benchmarks the drive at 3231read/3115 write. Whatever is going on it appears to resolve itself minutes after boot continues - I also tried disabling some UEFI compatiblity setting in the bios - didn't help Tried "loading defaults" that didn't help either. I flashed 1.60 back on again and it seemed to take a long time to handoff from the bios to the sign in screen, but was immediately better after that. Very frustrating - my Pc's run great for months and just today it started doing 3 beeps at times - I googled it and it seems to be a common occurance - advice was to update bios/drivers - drivers are done, but the bios is non-functional like this. Has anyone else come across this recently and had any luck with it? I'm half wondering if it's a true bios issue or an incompatibility with the state of windows on my Samsung NVME drive, but I don't have the time right now to format and start over. I wish I knew what setting/thing to look at to resolve this! |