Back in February, I upgraded the BIOS of my ASRock 890fx Deluxe 4 motherboard (AMD Phenom 1090T, 8Gb, 1 SSD, 1 HD) to the latest version. That's what the download page suggests, see http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/890FX%20Deluxe4/?cat=Download&os=BIOS
Everything ok, nice green flash screen, brilliant.
That is, until last Monday. Booting up the system, it suddenly stopped. I did log in into W10, but that's about it. Frozen screens, no mouse, nothing. Rebooting didn't help: blue Windows logo, no animated balls underneath.
At first, I blamed the SSD disk. I tried to start a bootable Linux DVD: Windows started. Memtest hangs, everything suddenly stops. I had no explanation. So then I blamed the controller. I installed an older IDE disk: same problem, same result. Was my system ready to be scrapped?
At wits end, I downgraded to BIOS 1.6. Works!
Now, could someone explain what could have happened, that, almost 6 months after the upgrade to BIOS V1.7, it no longer works? Is there one of those pesky W10 upgrades that got installed recently that somehow conflicts with this BIOS? I don't understand.
So, please, beware of the V1.7 BIOS on a ASRock 890fx Deluxe 4 motherboard.
JeffB
PS I hope someone @ASRock reads this...
Everything ok, nice green flash screen, brilliant.
That is, until last Monday. Booting up the system, it suddenly stopped. I did log in into W10, but that's about it. Frozen screens, no mouse, nothing. Rebooting didn't help: blue Windows logo, no animated balls underneath.
At first, I blamed the SSD disk. I tried to start a bootable Linux DVD: Windows started. Memtest hangs, everything suddenly stops. I had no explanation. So then I blamed the controller. I installed an older IDE disk: same problem, same result. Was my system ready to be scrapped?
At wits end, I downgraded to BIOS 1.6. Works!
Now, could someone explain what could have happened, that, almost 6 months after the upgrade to BIOS V1.7, it no longer works? Is there one of those pesky W10 upgrades that got installed recently that somehow conflicts with this BIOS? I don't understand.
So, please, beware of the V1.7 BIOS on a ASRock 890fx Deluxe 4 motherboard.
JeffB
PS I hope someone @ASRock reads this...