ASRock x370 Gaming K4 bios issue

[Nordein]

So I bought the motherboard in the title. All fine and dandy when I got it, working as intended. However, 2 issues have arised. My RAM G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4 DDR4 3000Mhz 16GB (8GBx2) is only running at 2133MHz and any attempt to clock it higher turns it into a boot loop until it returns to default bios settings. Max supported rate for the mobo is 2667.

On top of that I cannot get the CPU to over clock either and post. So I decided to check the new bios' since its a new board. Mine is currently running with revision P1.3, on Asrocks website its lists 1.60 and a beta 1.63 revision. The 1.60 revision shows CPU over clocking and quick flashing and the 1.63 adds addition lal xmp memory support. So it looks all fine and dandy right? Just update your bios and your good to go. We'll unfortunately I can't seem to get my bios to update. They have a DOS and Windows version of bios updating. Neither one works for me. There's not even a flash utility of tool in my bios.

I'm currently at a loss and have contacted ASRock support and waiting on a response. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

TL;DR RAM not running at max speed, CPU won't overclock. Can't update Bios, need help.

 

[clancysmart]

My issue is, no matter where I download the bios file from, none of them are a exe file, so I have no idea what to do from there...

[strike]I'm in the same boat, so I've contacted asrock support asking for a download of a version with the exe. If they provide one I will share the link and host a copy of the file on google drive for a while.[/strike]

Literally a minute after I posted this I found a a download with an exe version of 1.6, which should be runnable from DOS, and should feature the flashing utility find it HERE.

Website is down for me. Are you able to send me a link? I just bought this board & I'm also stuck on 1.50

 

[rasengan]

So I bought the motherboard in the title. All fine and dandy when I got it, working as intended. However, 2 issues have arised. My RAM G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4 DDR4 3000Mhz 16GB (8GBx2) is only running at 2133MHz and any attempt to clock it higher turns it into a boot loop until it returns to default bios settings. Max supported rate for the mobo is 2667.

On top of that I cannot get the CPU to over clock either and post. So I decided to check the new bios' since its a new board. Mine is currently running with revision P1.3, on Asrocks website its lists 1.60 and a beta 1.63 revision. The 1.60 revision shows CPU over clocking and quick flashing and the 1.63 adds addition lal xmp memory support. So it looks all fine and dandy right? Just update your bios and your good to go. We'll unfortunately I can't seem to get my bios to update. They have a DOS and Windows version of bios updating. Neither one works for me. There's not even a flash utility of tool in my bios.

I'm currently at a loss and have contacted ASRock support and waiting on a response. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

TL;DR RAM not running at max speed, CPU won't overclock. Can't update Bios, need help.

I have the same MB, came with bios P1.50
I created a bootable usb disk (FreeDOS 1.2 lite) with bios updates 3.10 (dos exe) & 3.30 (rom)
- download fd12bu.img.7z archive & extract
- write img file to a usb flash disk (overwrites everything on it !) with:
sudo dd bs=1M if=fd12bu.img of=/dev/sdb status=progress
where /dev/sdb is your usb device (not sdb1 or sdb2)
- boot from usb disk
- on freedos install prompt, say no to drop to dos shell
- run GK4-310.exe
on reboot your MB will have P3.10 & instant flash menu with which you can update to 3.30
tested & worked.
my $.02

 

[lcslandscapesupervisor]

I created a small partition on hard drive with a fat16 file table and put the bios update on there. Worked first try. Using fat32 file table it wouldnt see the bios images. Using usb or the asrock software would never work or see any files.