X399 Taichi Boot Loop After Flashing to BIOS v1.80
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Topic: X399 Taichi Boot Loop After Flashing to BIOS v1.80
Posted By: damaya1982
Subject: X399 Taichi Boot Loop After Flashing to BIOS v1.80
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 3:29am
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I've tried contacting ASRock regarding this issue, but they don't ever seem to respond, so here I am on the forum. Before I dive right into the current issue, let me give you a little background. First, the specs of my system: -- Asrock X399 Taichi MB -- AMD Threadripper 1950x w/ Enermax Liqtech TR4 240 liquid cooler -- 128GB G.Skill F4-3200C16D-32GVK RAM -- Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe NVMe drive -- Eight Seagate 8TB SATA drives, RAID10 (ST8000NM0055) -- Two Samsung 850 EVO 2TB SSD volumes -- Visiontek Radeon HD 7750 -- EVGA SuperNOVA 850w G2 Power Supply -- Antec P9 Case -- Arch Linux (4.13.9-1-ARCH) The system above boots fine with BIOS version 1.70 if less than 8 DIMM slots are used (7 populated: boots; 6 populated: boots; 8 populated: doesn't POST). Alright, fine, I can't fully populate the memory just yet. So I throw 4 sticks in and I'm faced with the same issue so many people seem to be facing: The full amount of memory does not show up in the OS as usable (48GB is available with 64GB physically in the motherboard). Reading other threads elsewhere on here, I found a few people with the same memory as me saying that BIOS v1.71 fixed the issue. I quickly emailed ASRock and they responded a few days later (the only response I've received from them) with the file. I flashed the BIOS, booted and was faced with a boot loop. I emailed ASRock again, and never received another response. I've been checking the BIOS download page frequently, and today I noticed v1.80 is out. Excitement! Downloaded it, did a Quick Flash, and when I went to boot the system I was stuck in the same state as I was with v1.71 (i.e., boot loop). Here's what I've tried: -- Unplug USB connector from MOBO, boot (result: boot loop). -- Remove NVMe drive, boot (result: boot loop). -- Unplug all SATA drives, boot (result: boot loop). -- Remove video card completely, boot (result: boot loop). -- Replace video card with a 1070, boot (result: boot loop). -- Try booting with all the above done and only a single stick of RAM (result: boot loop). -- Same as above, except now booting with liquid cooler unplugged (result: boot loop). I'm at my wit's end here. I have no idea what else to try, and with ASRock not responding to my emails, I figured I would try here to see if anyone has any ideas, or is in the same situation. See below for a video of my system doing the boot loop. |
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Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 4:50am
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Quick update: I just tested with two DIMMs in 2 slots on the right sight of the motherboard (slots A2/B2) and the system booted. Fully populated the right side (A1/A2/B1/B2) and the system once again boots, this time reporting 62GB of available memory in Linux. However, when I throw a single DIMM into any slots on the left side, that is when the system goes into a boot loop--meaning the left side is completely unusable with BIOS v1.80 for me. I am literally half way there at this point. Now I just need to figure out why the left side DIMMs are not working. |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 7:42am
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" rel="nofollow - a bad flash ? i suggest back flashing to earlier version and try then flashing to new to make the safest flash reset everything to stock bios (cmos clear even better) and according to a ryzen/ amd guru named chew just use one single ram stick when flashing to minimise risk of corruption ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250]  [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 9:52am
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Hello datonyb. A while back you were involved in this thread: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp%3FTID=6214&PN=9&title=fatal1ty-x399-wont-post-with-128gb-ram" rel="nofollow - http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp%3FTID=6214&PN=9&title=fatal1ty-x399-wont-post-with-128gb-ram In that thread, a user threadrippera came back to report that after flashing to v1.71 (beta) the memory s/he was using finally worked (model: F4-3200C16D-32GVK). I can't find it now unfortunately, but I also read the same thing from another user elsewhere (i.e., that memory worked in their X399, this time it was Taichi). Alright, so I've been testing extensively today, below are the results for v1.8: Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2: Works. BIOS reports Dual Channel memory, 64GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1: Boots, BIOS reports Single Channel, 82GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C2: Boots, BIOS reports Single Channel, 82GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2: Works. BIOS reports Single Channel memory, 98GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2 / D1: Boot Loop. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2 / D2: Boot Loop. Slots A1 / B1 / C1 / D1: Boot Loop. Slots A2 / B2 / C2 / D2: Boot Loop. Testing with v1.7 results: Slots A1 / A2: Doesn't boot. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2: Works. BIOS reports Dual Channel memory, 64GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1: Boots, BIOS reports Single Channel, 82GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2: Works. BIOS reports Single Channel memory, 98GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2 / D1: Works. BIOS reports Quad Channel memory, 98GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2 / D2: Works. BIOS reports Quad Channel memory, 98GB. Slots A1 / A2 / B1 / B2 / C1 / C2 / D1 / D2: Doesn't boot, gets stuck at C0. After going with your suggestion and reverting back to v1.70, then flashing again with only one DIMM and a cleared CMOS, I find the same results as above. Here's my conclusion: v1.80 fixed the issue I was having with the OS reporting the incorrect amount of memory; however, I can now no longer get Quad channel working with v1.80. |
Posted By: JUANNY
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:16am
did you try the recommended quad channel at A2/B2/C2/D2 ------------- Asrock X399 Fatality Pro Gaming Bios 2.0 Threadripper 1950X Cpu cooler Enermax 360 mm TR4 GSkill 64 GB F4-2933C14Q-64GFX Windows 10 X64 PRO Version 1709 Build 16299.19 2X EVGA 1080 TI in SLI mode |
damaya1982 wrote:Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:20am
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> did you try the recommended quad channel at A2/B2/C2/D2 Sorry, my edit didn't seem to show up. I added in there that with v1.80, I tried the following (both before and after reverting back to v1.70 and reflashing as per daytonb's suggestion): A1 / B1 / C1 / D1: Boot loop. A2 / B2 / C2 / D2: Boot loop. |
Posted By: JUANNY
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:28am
Since other users have gotten at least quad channel config working that would leave your memory as the most likely culprit otherwise there would have been more reports posted ------------- Asrock X399 Fatality Pro Gaming Bios 2.0 Threadripper 1950X Cpu cooler Enermax 360 mm TR4 GSkill 64 GB F4-2933C14Q-64GFX Windows 10 X64 PRO Version 1709 Build 16299.19 2X EVGA 1080 TI in SLI mode |
Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 10:30am
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Yet Quad channel seems to work perfectly fine in v1.70? I don't get it. I'm highly skeptical at this point that it is my memory considering the impact that BIOS versions seems to have on things. |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2017 at 2:53am
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" rel="nofollow - so you have 8 sticks of 16gb ram ? did you buy them as 4 packs/kits of 2x16 gb sticks ? if so can you try and first find out the matching pairs ? eg which ones came as paired up sticks then try each pair in a set of channels eg for example try a pair in a2 and b2 test for booting /test for xmp. then run a quick memtest then select next pair and repeat this teps 3 times for each pair see if that throws any unusual event with a pair your ram is made with hynix m dies which have been a pain since amd launched ryzen but they should be playing ball ok at stock settings (you have been trying at 2133 stock and not 3200 xmp havnt you ? ) ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250] [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2017 at 3:36am
I ordered 8 sticks of quad channel but they were sent in packs of 2, so I'm not 100% sure these DIMMS are not Dual and I have no idea how to tell. Each DIMM does say the following on the sticker: PC4-25600 16Gx2 DDR4-3200 CL 16-18-18-38 1.35v Intel XMP 2.0 Ready. I am leaving everything in the BIOS at factory defaults, not trying to OC them at all yet. I'm wondering if I can override any settings in the BIOS to get them working. Meanwhile, I will do as you've suggested and test them in pairs. Is there anything exactly that I should be looking for? |
Posted By: datonyb
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2017 at 4:32am
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unstable or weird events a quick google reveals as far as these sticks go , well they dont fly the flag very well for gskill lets just say techpowerup tested them and found very bad overclocking potential even unstable at 3333mhz allthough they did report they got them stable at 3200 16/16/16/16 BUT this was with a well proven intel system that the xmp was designed for anyways back to your ram yes the kits in pairs are harder work than the quads becuase alledgedly............ram kits are suposed to be matched, quite how much effort goes into matching them we'll never know imagine your worst case scenario (and i mean worst case) one pack has sat on shelf for a month and is sent out to you with a pack fresh off the line now 4 sticks at least will be a pretty bad match (compared to a quad kit) anyways enough far fetched examples lets try and see if there is a way to sort out what of the 8 sticks were supposed to be matched as a pair first option would be to study the serial numbers and try to find a pattern or concurrent numbering would be nice try and see if you can use that to match pairs for testing and yes at some stage ,i will try and help you find settings for manual bios options but credit for the settinhs will have to go to two guys named chew and 1usmus who are far more gurus than myself i can just lead you to thier knowledge and help you adjust it for yourself ive had confirmation today from 1usmus that his ryzen timing calculator will work for threadripper and he seems to be working for the option to set the tool automatically to adjust everything for threadripper heres a link for a quick read http://www.overclock.net/t/1640919/ryzen-dram-calculator-overclocking-dram" rel="nofollow - http://www.overclock.net/t/1640919/ryzen-dram-calculator-overclocking-dram ------------- [url=https://valid.x86.fr/jpg250] [/url]3800X, powercolor reddevil vega64, gskill tridentz3866, taichix370, evga750watt gold |
Posted By: jjoshua2
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 11:02pm
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I'm having this same problem with a x399 asrock gaming professional I just picked up on black friday sales along with an 1950x and 4x ddr4-3200 g. skill tridentz cas 14 8gb samsung b die (so better ram). It came with bios 1.4 and booted fine with all 4 sticks, but memtest7 only showed 16g. So I flashed to 1.8 and it wouldn't but up with anything in either D1 or D2, but I was able to get it to work with 3 even at ddr4-3200 cas 14 and memtest stable overnight, now seeing 24g. I flashed to 1.7 and now it boots up and the bios sees quadruple channel memory, but memtest still only sees 24g. I flashed with just two good sticks back to 1.8 and still the same state as before. It seems to be either a bad MOBO or bios. I can swap out sticks and any work fine on 6 of the slots, but none work in the d1 and d2 slots it seems.
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Posted By: jmmec
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:46am
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" rel="nofollow - Just curious: with 4 sticks you should be installing them in A2, B2, C2, D2 according to the manual? Just wondering why you're also attempting to use D1 and some of the other slots? |
Posted By: damaya1982
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2017 at 12:21pm
Exact same issue I am having. With 1.7, works perfectly fine quad channel, DIMMs in A2/B2/C2/D2, but it does not show the correct amount of memory in OS. Flashing to 1.8 or above and it will not boot with anything in D1 or D2 slots. |
Posted By: jjoshua2
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2017 at 8:31am
| new mobo fixed |