How awful Asrock motherboards are !£
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Topic: How awful Asrock motherboards are !£
Posted By: sacrificedPawn
Subject: How awful Asrock motherboards are !£
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 12:31am
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First I bought x870 riptide, I just realized that PCI slots are very close to each other therefore, little bit thick GPU, blocks 2nd PCI to be used. I returned it and I bought B850 riptide as there is sufficient space between PCI slots. First of all Bios is extremely awful. It is as basic as a laptop's bios. Even my previous Alienware had more advanced Bios lol. More importantly, tragedically brand new rtx 5070 ti doesn't work on the motherboard. So motherboard is either defected or some serious bios issues... Facing such things with a non-cheap brand, tragedic. |
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Posted By: M440
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 3:51am
I think you might be referring to the graphic design rather than the features of the BIOS. If not, please list the features you are missing. I really like the classic, professional graphic design of the ASRock AM5 BIOS, and I hope it will not be changed. ------------- asrock b650m-hdv/m.2, ryzen 7700x@85watt, arch/kde |
sacrificedPawn wrote:Posted By: NDRE28
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 10:41am
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My X670E Taichi is amazing! |
Posted By: sacrificedPawn
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 10:36pm
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I dont mean anything about graphic design. I just mean bios options, features. i.e. Enabling/disabling M2 slots through bios is not possible. Even bios of my laptop had such functionality. I am not a bios expert but, I honestly can say that amount of menus and options available in the bios is much much less than other bioses i have seen. made in 2013 asus z87 motherboard had much more complex bios than this. Another example, f12 key opens boot devices list. When i choose different storage from that list, that device becomes permanently main boot device. That menu must exist only for one time boot !? On the other hand when i choose the other storage device from that f12 menu, it doesnt become permanent boot storage. So, there is both inconsistency and unexpected behavior. PS: there is a vital difference between boot disk is, one is veracrypt encrypted, other one is standard windows. One minor thing, version of PCI slot can not be chosen manually. I just hope to return this motherboard for refund and buy another brand! |
Posted By: thisonerighthere
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 11:26pm
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As someone who has just spent last month or so with B850m, I am completely lost and puzzled by some of your issues. Some manufacturers have issues with the PCI slot being too low. Your issue however is that you have a 2 slot card. Then for the bios settings, I have been able to do everything I need. Even disabling data ports. But I'm a little lost on the M2 port. That setting has zero value on a computer. Only reason I could possibly think that your laptop has this, is if it's populated and you want to conserve energy you can disable it. For portability reasons of course. Just why are you trying to disable M2 ports that are not active because they are not used is beyond me. Maybe ask questions that you clearly need help with. |
Posted By: sacrificedPawn
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2025 at 11:56pm
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Obviously main point i need help is to make my rtx 5070 ti working on the that motherboard. That was very clear request. And when multiple OSs are installed on different M2 disk, disabling one M2, in order to prevent one OS from interfering with other OS or other disk is also very clear necessity. It is very amateur way of pretending to be an ordinary user but actually being belong to Asrock company rofl. |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025 at 7:35am
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No ASRock staff pretend to be regular members here. If you want help from ASRock directly then you need to open a support ticket: https://tw.asrock.com/events/tsd.asp" rel="nofollow - https://tw.asrock.com/events/tsd.asp I doubt you will find help from the community with this attitude. ------------- 
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Posted By: eccential
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025 at 8:49am
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I've read some PCIe Gen.5 issues with RTX 5000 series. Supposedly, they released VBIOS to fix it, and it worked for some, but not others. Latest beta BIOS from AsRock (3.20) should have a way to force the main PCIe slot to run in Gen.4 or Gen.3 mode. Try that and see if your 5070Ti comes to live. No company is perfect, but I've been very happy with AsRock motherboards. I built lots of AsRock motherboard based systems. 10 AM4 boards, one of which is AsRockRack) and 1 AsRock AM5 board. I study them to know how they're configured and their limitations, before I buy. No company makes the perfect board for any particular individual, so I have to work around some bits here and there, but AsRock has always come through for the important bits for me, such as ECC memory support. Now, AsRockRack, on the other hand, hasn't been very good with their BIOS support. But then, I know of a different company with way worse support. I probably shouldn't say which one. I'll just say it's all about the FRAME of mind on how we WORK on things. I don't think this forum is run by AsRock company, although it is using their web address. People who post here are just regular people. I sure don't work for AsRock. |
Posted By: M440
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025 at 1:05pm
There is a menu in my board's BIOS to choose the PCIe version/speed for each port, including the chipset link. In the same menu, there's also an option to disable the CPU-connected M.2 slot. It's true that being able to disable specific PCIe slots in the BIOS might be nice for extra convenience, but thats it. Show me a single ASUS AM5 mATX board with a physical CPU-connected PCIe 4x4 slot. ------------- asrock b650m-hdv/m.2, ryzen 7700x@85watt, arch/kde |
Posted By: sacrificedPawn
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2025 at 1:35pm
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Thank you very much for your answers. First thing I did to update motherboard bios when gpu didn't work though. I managed to make it working. Solution was quite extraordinary for me. I installed nvidia driver when PC was running through integrated GPU. Isnt it so weird solution ? mustnt GPU give display even with default driver and settings? I thought of trying this because GPU appeared as non-working device (with !) in device manager after long time. I seen the device in the same way weeks ago when everything was new and psu was 650 watt too. but at that time never thought of installing driver. |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2025 at 4:47am
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to be fair i would be very upset and moaning if i had spent good money on a rtx5070 gpu as well ........... luckily enough i done the wise thing and paid less for a better rx9070 and im much happier in every way :) ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: M440
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2025 at 3:41pm
if it appeared in the device manager IMO it was an os/software problem all along ------------- asrock b650m-hdv/m.2, ryzen 7700x@85watt, arch/kde |
Posted By: sacrificedPawn
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2025 at 12:15am
but at the same time it is supposed to give display from external GPU even if device is shown with an error code due to lack of driver. No display is bullsh*t. what would I do if my CPU didn't have integrated GPU support. |
Posted By: thisonerighthere
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2025 at 3:49am
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It is bizarre and completely a OS issue. The default windows gpu driver should have worked. I've read that you might want to look at previous stable releases. Random issues with Nividis drivers. The other problem you're having was with dual boot, maybe someone can help with that. What OS you dual booting? |