Soldato
anyone help with this? it says unknown device.. not sure what it is!! arghghg
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Z68 Extreme4 Gen3
- Thread starter Ak!ta
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Soldato
yeah, can't work out what i have missed driver wise, unplugged all my USB bits and it still stays, can you check you device manger? might give a clue
Soldato
ok cool, what is the smart tech and do i need it?
Soldato
ok disabled it and it has gone now,
it's a Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System for Intel Smart Connect . u can get the driver from asrock.
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Soldato
cheers chaps, its gone now, so i presume i wont be missing any performance issues ?
no, mate
Thanks for the info, my machine had slowed down a little bit, looking for the driver after BIOS update. Driver is loaded, and all is well.
According to Intel, ’Intel® Smart Connect Technology is designed to update programs by periodically waking your computer from sleep/standby mode for a short time. This function works with applications that automatically get their data from the Internet, such as Microsoft Outlook*, Microsoft Windows* Live Mail and Seesmic’.
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AsRock Z68 Ex4 G3, [email protected], Ballistic Tracers 16GB,
5850 1GB(CFX), CM90 II Advanced, Crucial M4 256GB, 4 HDDs,
NH-D14, XFX 850W BE, Xonar Essence STX, BlackGold HD DVB.
According to Intel, ’Intel® Smart Connect Technology is designed to update programs by periodically waking your computer from sleep/standby mode for a short time. This function works with applications that automatically get their data from the Internet, such as Microsoft Outlook*, Microsoft Windows* Live Mail and Seesmic’.
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AsRock Z68 Ex4 G3, [email protected], Ballistic Tracers 16GB,
5850 1GB(CFX), CM90 II Advanced, Crucial M4 256GB, 4 HDDs,
NH-D14, XFX 850W BE, Xonar Essence STX, BlackGold HD DVB.
Been running this board on 2.10 BIOS with my 2700k for about a month now and its rock solid stable - even has a reduction on volts too!! 
Anyways - 2.20 BIOS out now - check out the dehumidifier function lol:
1. Add Dehumidifier Function.
2. Modify for Windows8 shut down behavior.
3. Update CPU code.
4. Modify i-Rock PS2 keyboard issue.
5. Improve discrete VGA card vBIOS compatibility.
http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.asp?Model=Z68 Extreme4 Gen3&o=BIOS
Anyways - 2.20 BIOS out now - check out the dehumidifier function lol:
1. Add Dehumidifier Function.
2. Modify for Windows8 shut down behavior.
3. Update CPU code.
4. Modify i-Rock PS2 keyboard issue.
5. Improve discrete VGA card vBIOS compatibility.
http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.asp?Model=Z68 Extreme4 Gen3&o=BIOS
Soldato
So when you are using the newer bios do you have to use the newer drivers(VGA etc) as well?
Soldato
No, I only updated bios to 2.20, others on here will take the opportunity to update all the drivers.
Everything is running superbly, so I've left well alone updating drivers
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Soldato
Ivy or Sandy?
I'm on sandy.
If you upgrade the BIOS to 2.x and leave the settings alone you'll get an unknown device (something to do with either intel management/smart or something - can't remember) but installing the newly available drivers resolves it - or you can just switch off the new settings in the BIOS (sorry I forget what they were - but it was defo new intel-ly stuff!)
If you upgrade the BIOS to 2.x and leave the settings alone you'll get an unknown device (something to do with either intel management/smart or something - can't remember) but installing the newly available drivers resolves it - or you can just switch off the new settings in the BIOS (sorry I forget what they were - but it was defo new intel-ly stuff!)
Soldato
cool will check this out
Soldato
Just tried the new 2.20 bios for Ex4 gen3 and I do have the "unknown device" in device manager!
Going to disable some things as I saw many new additions in bios.
Apart from that I did manage to lower the voltage for 4.6GHz.
Going to disable some things as I saw many new additions in bios.
Apart from that I did manage to lower the voltage for 4.6GHz.
Soldato
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yeah same here - using the auto 4.6 profile my volts under max load dropped from 1.32v to just below 1.3v
Any other changes you've noticed with 2.20 from the previos bios?
Soldato
i don't get the whole voltz things?