Hello, as this being my first post id like to thank anyone reading and taking the time to help me with this issue. As the title states, i recently purchased Asrock's M8 barebone computer, installed my CPU, RAM, etc. and got it up running with Windows 8.1. Here are links to the product on the companys page and Neweggs as well:
http://www.asrock.com/microsite/m8/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158036
Everything is working splendidly during operation, all the settings and tweak(s) in the UEFI and BIOS work like a charm, and really asking for anything more than whats expected or included would be greedy,
However, the towers "A-Command" knob on the front of the tower, are lacking the functions promised from the products description. To be exact, When turning the knob, each click of it should display and tweak these functions:
-Volume
-Mode (performance, standard, and power saver)
-Info (CPU frequency)
-Time
-Light
However, the only functions I can chose from are light and time... its very odd, and I cant change the time or date either, i can only choose from a yes or no option, albiet they both work. I havnt really made any effort to fix this, mainly because i dont know what can really be done i regards to it anyway, other than inserting the factory included software disc, which brings me to my next issue.
When I insert this driver/software disc thats for the motherboard, it is supposed to display a list of utilities and drivers for my PC. However, the only program that appears is google chrome! I went into the CD directory and installed what I believed to be all of the drivers and programs manually, but to be honest im not sure if they all are working correctly, but as stated earlier, everything during operation of my PC seems to be working like a charm. But I would assume that obviously this issue probably has some relation to my A-Command not displaying all the functions that its supposed to display.
I am really hoping this is a simple fix and wont require me to send back my PC , as i have now completely built it and do not want to restart, however If that is what it will ultimately take then i will do it.
Thank you in advance for anyones potential help and time to listen to my issue!
here are my installed main hardware for it:
CPU = Intel Haswell i7-4770k with stock fan
RAM = 1.35v 16gb DDR3 laptop
http://www.asrock.com/microsite/m8/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158036
Everything is working splendidly during operation, all the settings and tweak(s) in the UEFI and BIOS work like a charm, and really asking for anything more than whats expected or included would be greedy,
However, the towers "A-Command" knob on the front of the tower, are lacking the functions promised from the products description. To be exact, When turning the knob, each click of it should display and tweak these functions:
-Volume
-Mode (performance, standard, and power saver)
-Info (CPU frequency)
-Time
-Light
However, the only functions I can chose from are light and time... its very odd, and I cant change the time or date either, i can only choose from a yes or no option, albiet they both work. I havnt really made any effort to fix this, mainly because i dont know what can really be done i regards to it anyway, other than inserting the factory included software disc, which brings me to my next issue.
When I insert this driver/software disc thats for the motherboard, it is supposed to display a list of utilities and drivers for my PC. However, the only program that appears is google chrome! I went into the CD directory and installed what I believed to be all of the drivers and programs manually, but to be honest im not sure if they all are working correctly, but as stated earlier, everything during operation of my PC seems to be working like a charm. But I would assume that obviously this issue probably has some relation to my A-Command not displaying all the functions that its supposed to display.
I am really hoping this is a simple fix and wont require me to send back my PC , as i have now completely built it and do not want to restart, however If that is what it will ultimately take then i will do it.
Thank you in advance for anyones potential help and time to listen to my issue!
here are my installed main hardware for it:
CPU = Intel Haswell i7-4770k with stock fan
RAM = 1.35v 16gb DDR3 laptop
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