Wizerty Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 week1 end @ 9/30 11:00am (GMT+8). that means 3:00am GMT or 5:00am GMT +2 right ? I will Probably start FM2 tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy-The-Kid Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Yes, I have a very bad luck with APUs. Guess I just have to sit back and watch. Billy, where? I can only see one bios chip on the board. PS: I have Extreme6, not 6+. Extreme6+ is not available in Bulgaria yet, so I had no other choice but get the older model. yes you have reason messed with extreme 6+ sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stilt Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Anyone know if there's a way to revive Asrock A85 Extreme6 after a bad bios flash?Not talking about a programmer device, because I can't find one in the weekend. Got the board yesterday and tried to flash the LN2 bios today. Loaded setup defaults, reset and entered instant flash. It's the first time I try to flash a new bios on this board. The process stuck at ~30%. Waited 10-15 minutes and it didn't move, everything appeared frozen. Had no other choice but restart and it's now dead. I only managed to install Windows PS: If it matters - I've used the black usb2.0 ports near the clrCMOS button. You should be able to hot flash it in pretty much any board with a DIP8 socketed bios. http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/dos/ Command "Flashrom -p internal -w biosname.xxx" In case that does not work, try: "Flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop -w biosname.xxx". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.nfraR.ed Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Error: Image size (8392704 B) doesn't match the flash chip's size (8388608 B). That with the second command, the first one errors out with "Programmer initialization failed" and I get on both Calibrating delay loop... OK Bad command or file name (x4 times) I've tried with 3 bios versions and also tried with different file extensions - the original ones, bin and rom. The board I'm trying on is Asus M4A89GTD. Will try on Asrock Z77 OCF in a moment, 'cause I don't have a newer AMD moard than this (except Crosshair IV Formula which is similar to the M4). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stilt Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 What about if you add a "-f" switch after the command? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.nfraR.ed Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 (edited) Nothing changed with -f. Took a look at the full commands list, but I don't think anything else can help. Edited September 29, 2013 by I.nfraR.ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alavadomanuel Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 i.nfrar.ed Yesterday I was looking for a solution I found nothing. it only if you have 2 plates change the bios chip so you can use either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizerty Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Massman can you confirm that if we used seven, "Time measurement data not available. The validity of the result cannot be determined. (What is this?) " is not an issue please.... need to know ASAP please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack4033 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Man every one is pushing the 6800 chip to the limit. I must step up my game plan. Thanks, Mack4033 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacClipper Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 (edited) Not being someone who regularly submits 3DMark11 scores so not quite sure what's happening here, but there seems to be lots of invalid and/or unvalidated 3DMark11 scores posted so far. Especially these few recurring result details shown in many validation links, Unable to verify AMD Catalyst tessellation setting, result invalid. (What is this?) Benchmark tessellation load modified by AMD Catalyst driver, result invalid. Check your video driver settings. (What is this?) Time measurement data not available. The validity of the result cannot be determined. (What is this?) Graphics driver is not approved (What is this?) Anyone care to comment? Thanks. Edited September 30, 2013 by MacClipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickShih Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 BIOs and tools download link http://picx.xfastest.com/nickshih/bios/FA85EX62.zip http://picx.xfastest.com/nickshih/bios/F288E6P130a.rar http://picx.xfastest.com/nickshih/bios/ATuningSetup(v2.0.36.6).rar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickShih Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Here is the pic of slowmode .... sorry i am lazy to put more description on the picture . find a on/off switch . soldering the marked pin and ground to the switch . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Vivi Posted September 30, 2013 Crew Share Posted September 30, 2013 1. Unable to verify AMD Catalyst tessellation setting, result invalid. (What is this?) 2. Benchmark tessellation load modified by AMD Catalyst driver, result invalid. Check your video driver settings. (What is this?) 3. Time measurement data not available. The validity of the result cannot be determined. (What is this?) 4. Graphics driver is not approved (What is this?) 1. Result is HWBOT valid. But not FM valid cause you are cheating the Tesselation of the benchmark 2. same as above 3. System info is not new enough to verify if you are using the windows 8 RTC bug / cheat. If you are running any other OS than win8 this result is still fine. Otherwise update your system info to 4.20. on futuremark site 4. You are using a beta or new graphics diver, its not FM valid but HWBOT supports the use of any driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacClipper Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Most informative & enlightening though disturbingly unusual, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacClipper Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Anyone know if there's a way to revive Asrock A85 Extreme6 after a bad bios flash? Maybe give this a read, something similar with a success story http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?284953-ASRock-990FX-Extreme9&p=5201322&viewfull=1#post5201322 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.nfraR.ed Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I have tried that in Sunday without success. Board stops at F2 and there's some activity on the USB drive (formatted in FAT32 and the only file in the root directory is the bios). After 1-2 minutes it moves to 7C and usb activity led stops, but the board does not boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stilt Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 (edited) Several people have reported that the 3DMark score is dropping after a certain clock frequency has been reached. The technical background of this issue is the "Bidirectional Application Power Management" (BApm). The performance starts to degrade when the GPU divider is dropped to 3,00 or below (equals 1266MHz or higher SCLK at 100MHz BCLK). It is because at this point the power envelope (44W on 6800K) for the GPU is reached. When the GPU exceeds it's power envelope, BApm forces the SCLK to throttle to get the power consumption back within the limits. During the throttle the SCLK frequency will oscillate between 304MHz and 1266MHz (at 100MHz BCLK). Eventhou the BApm has access to the real power consumption and temperature data they are ignored for the SCLK power limit. The BApm only weights changes made to the commanded UNB Vdd and the SCLK Dpm frequency. Since the voltage changes made from the bios are not visible to BApm, it only sees the SCLK frequency itself changing. Therefore the SCLK throttling activates always at the same point, no matter if the chip is running on air or LN2 cooling. Anyway I will post a tool to disable the throttling on Trinity and Richland APUs later today. Have to make one first, as BApm cannot be killed easily without breaking number of other things Edited October 1, 2013 by The Stilt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzan Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Several people have reported that the 3DMark score is dropping after a certain clock frequency has been reached. The technical background of this issue is the "Bidirectional Application Power Management" (BApm). The performance starts to degrade when the GPU divider is dropped to 3,00 or below (equals 1266MHz or higher SCLK at 100MHz BCLK). It is because at this point the power envelope (44W on 6800K) for the GPU is reached. When the GPU exceeds it's power envelope, BApm forces the SCLK to throttle to get the power consumption back within the limits. During the throttle the SCLK frequency will oscillate between 304MHz and 1266MHz (at 100MHz BCLK). Eventhou the BApm has access to the real power consumption and temperature data they are ignored for the SCLK power limit. The BApm only weights changes made to the commanded UNB Vdd and the SCLK Dpm frequency. Since the voltage changes made from the bios are not visible to BApm, it only sees the SCLK frequency itself changing. Therefore the SCLK throttling activates always at the same point, no matter if the chip is running on air or LN2 cooling. Anyway I will post a tool to disable the throttling on Trinity and Richland APUs later today. Have to make one first, as BApm cannot be killed easily without breaking number of other things Thank You So much and Much Apriciacite Roger . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alavadomanuel Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 thank you very much THE STILT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrekogre Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 1. Result is HWBOT valid. But not FM valid cause you are cheating the Tesselation of the benchmark2. same as above 3. System info is not new enough to verify if you are using the windows 8 RTC bug / cheat. If you are running any other OS than win8 this result is still fine. Otherwise update your system info to 4.20. on futuremark site 4. You are using a beta or new graphics diver, its not FM valid but HWBOT supports the use of any driver so result with item 3 is fine for submission on window 7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacClipper Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Several people have reported that the 3DMark score is dropping after a certain clock frequency has been reached... Hey wow, now where the heck is the Like or Thanks button... ? Much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiwa Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Can't wait to test it sir, so great support roger, thanks so so much man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stilt Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Had some nasty flashbacks from the time when I did the ACI... Nothing has changed since those days. None of the ODMs seem to follow the design guidelines, but instead use their custom configuration. And the custom configurations are rarely working perfectly and therefore the results may vary... Tried three different boards and came across of three different configurations. None of them followed the default configuration defined by AGESA. Didn't try ASRock as I don't have one yet, but I think I managed to cover all of the possible scenarios The fix itself is very simple, but to make it all work perfectly I had to build a logic around it. The logic required around 20 times more rows than the fix itself. The BApm controls all of the Dpms (dynamic power management) on 15h APUs. There are different Dpms for NCLK (NB), SCLK (GPU), LCLK (Link), DCLK (Display), VCLK and few different Dpms for the UVD clocks too. If the BApm is disabled you will loose all of those Dpms. No Dpm (PState) change can occur after that. This includes both the clocks and the voltage. The software will configure the Dpms prior disabling the BApm in a way that there will be no performance impact. For NCLK Dpm for example it will determine the highest performance resulting PState and lock the NBPll to that frequency prior disabling the BApm. After the BApm has been disabled no frequency change can occur (other than CPUPll & GPUPll, i.e frequency). As the NCLK PState (and frequency) is tied to the GPU activity it is continously varying. In case the BApm would be disabled directly, the NCLK could lock into a low performance (frequency) state, which naturally would cause a performance impact. Notes: - In case the display driver crashes and is recovered the BApm needs to be disabled again - Running simultaneously with CPU-Z or HWMonitor might cause a system crash. - All of the changes will be overwritten by a reset - Unlocking the NCLK frequency might require a cold reset - The NCLK frequency cannot be changed in flight (e.g with PSCheck) after BApm has been disabled - In case your are already running at critical UNB voltage levels (1.55V or above), do note that disabling BApm sometimes results a 25mV increase in the GPU voltage. It is tested on Catalyst 13.9 WHQL and on 13.10 Beta 2 drivers. AMD has changed and might change again the behavior of BApm in different driver versions, so the fix might not work on future or older drivers. https://www.dropbox.com/s/22vdtd3ruwsd54s/DPT_R1.00.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme Addict Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Great job The Stilt! BTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 I like Asrock's packaging lately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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