Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

Nightglow said:
DJAY: What o/s you using?

Have you enabled the Onboard HD Audio & Front Panel in the bios.

See page 70 of this manual.

http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsite/manual/Z68 Extreme4 Gen3.pdf
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Hi Nightglow. Yes i have enabled both of those in the bios. The onboard sound installs and looks perfectly ok, but it just will not output sound.

Davefran, no originally i just moved the Xonar which didnt work, then i put it back and it worked fine. Uninstalled the drivers then moved it and reinstalled. The installation just hangs trying to find the card :( Move it back and reinstall, works perfect.

mmj_uk, whilst searching for my issues, i did find a few people with dead ethernet ports.
 
djay said:
Hi Nightglow. Yes i have enabled both of those in the bios. The onboard sound installs and looks perfectly ok, but it just will not output sound.

Davefran, no originally i just moved the Xonar which didnt work, then i put it back and it worked fine. Uninstalled the drivers then moved it and reinstalled. The installation just hangs trying to find the card :( Move it back and reinstall, works perfect.

mmj_uk, whilst searching for my issues, i did find a few people with dead ethernet ports.
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try turning off usb3 or sata3 in bios? doesnt it restrict some of the slots when a gpu is used and usb3/sata3? as in reducing the speed of the slots? or is it just pci-e? worth a try anyway
 
wazza300 said:
turn off intel speedstep or c1e eist c3/c6 in bios see if noise stops if not then you need to try another brand psu,its caused by cpu power saving states and your psu emi electromagnetic interference
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Well all of those have been disabled since day one :p and I don't think it's PSU as it's worked flawlessly up until now, I'll give it a try tomorrow though. I can't get any audio at all just electrical noise. :(
 
wazza300 said:
try turning off usb3 or sata3 in bios? doesnt it restrict some of the slots when a gpu is used and usb3/sata3? as in reducing the speed of the slots? or is it just pci-e? worth a try anyway
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Hi, tried that still the same. :( Loved this board as well. RMA will take ages so will now have to buy another board then sell the replacement when i finally get one.
 
I just tried the board with different CPU, different memory, different PSU and the problem is still the same. I switch it on and shortly after I get a squealing electrical noise through the headphones which strangely doesn't disappear when it's in a powered off state (with psu still connected obviously :p), if any sounds play in Windows etc it's still the same just noise, it's as if the sound has packed in but instead of going deadly silent it's making noise instead.

I just looked at the invoice too beginning of November. :(
 
_Jimlad_ said:
that is a bugger, could it be shorting on something? might be worth trying it outside the case if you have to take the thing out to RMA anyway
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To be honest, even if it did work i still have the issue with the onboard sound. In all honesty i would probably never use it but it would be a major drawback when selling it on down the line possibly.
 
I'm having a problem, not sure whether it's the board or the OS.

Basically, I plugeed in my Corsair 60GB Force GT SSD and my CD drive through SATA (the SSD through SATA3 port). Everything seemed fine, I could eneter the BIOS, from which point on, have tweaked the options so that my SSD is the primary Boot drive (changed SATA controller to ACHP). I put in the Windows 7 OS CD, went through the set up; Select Language, Choose to upgrade or custom (I chose custom since this was a fresh install), choose which drive (only the SSD came up as intended) and then it went through the extracting process. This is where the problem starts, it asked the the computer needed to restart, so it did, however when loading, it freezes on the Asrock splash screen. I can't enter into the BIOS or anything. the DrDrbug is showing "0d"

I'm kinda scared since this is my first build and have no idea what's going on. I've tried searching online, some have a similar problem but there wasn't any solution that I could see. I tried switching SATA ports but that didn't work. What's going on? :(

EDIT: Someone suggest I should press the CMOS switch at the back. That changed the whole BIOS back to factory settings, but at least I have control now. Not sure whether to go through the whole process again >.>
 
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RadicalCookie said:
I'm having a problem, not sure whether it's the board or the OS.

Basically, I plugeed in my Corsair 60GB Force GT SSD and my CD drive through SATA (the SSD through SATA3 port). Everything seemed fine, I could eneter the BIOS, from which point on, have tweaked the options so that my SSD is the primary Boot drive (changed SATA controller to ACHP). I put in the Windows 7 OS CD, went through the set up; Select Language, Choose to upgrade or custom (I chose custom since this was a fresh install), choose which drive (only the SSD came up as intended) and then it went through the extracting process. This is where the problem starts, it asked the the computer needed to restart, so it did, however when loading, it freezes on the Asrock splash screen. I can't enter into the BIOS or anything. the DrDrbug is showing "0d"

I'm kinda scared since this is my first build and have no idea what's going on. I've tried searching online, some have a similar problem but there wasn't any solution that I could see. I tried switching SATA ports but that didn't work. What's going on? :(

EDIT: Someone suggest I should press the CMOS switch at the back. That changed the whole BIOS back to factory settings, but at least I have control now. Not sure whether to go through the whole process again >.>
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yeah wipe bios settings and start over. (enter the bios and make sure your SSD is set to achi and not ide if you have another pc and a spare 4gb usb stick you could always copy your contents from the windows dvd to the usb stick and install from there. have you made sure you SSD is in ports 0 or 1 (grey) and the dvd is in one of the black ports?
 
wazza300 said:
try turning off usb3 or sata3 in bios? doesnt it restrict some of the slots when a gpu is used and usb3/sata3? as in reducing the speed of the slots? or is it just pci-e? worth a try anyway
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No it doesn't, this board has a Plx Pex8608 chip so the PCI-E x 4 slot doesn't slow down like other boards, or take bandwidth away from other lanes.
And he's using a PCI card anyway ;)

 
Removed the ASRock and have installed the Asus Z68-V/Gen3. Didn't need to reinstall windows, everything installed perfectly and up and running again at 4.6ghz. Might try for more later.

Tried soundcard in both slots, works fine. Will RMA the Asrock. Shame as i still really rate the board.
 
djay said:
Removed the ASRock and have installed the Asus Z68-V/Gen3. Didn't need to reinstall windows, everything installed perfectly and up and running again at 4.6ghz. Might try for more later.

Tried soundcard in both slots, works fine. Will RMA the Asrock. Shame as i still really rate the board.
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Will you get money back or new and then sell?
 
I'm having an issue with this board, just wondering if a none can help? Sometimes it will hang on the asrock screen after boot up and I sometimes have to reboot the system numerous times for it to post. I've cleared the CMOS, reset bios settings but with no joy. Any ideas?
 
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