Dear community,

today was the day I went to greedy.
My mobo wont let me overlock my CPU, so I tried down version the mobo. And offcourse, now I can't boot anymore.
First I get a invalid fw version, and afterwards the heci point mismatch. ANd then the screen goes black with the stripe that comes on and on and on and on ...

I can get in the bios due, so I thought with a rom file I could instant flash it back to version 2.2
Obviously my manufacture doesn't have a rom file ... Only an .exe

So my question is, is there anyway I can get the .rom file and will it even work?
What I've tried so far; Several extracting programs, I think most of them that are online and findable trough the forums.
I tried to look in the &temp& map. Tried to boot from from a bootable USB into MSDOS, didnt work either.

It's an fatal1ty p67 performance mobo, with i7 2600k CPU that I failed to overclock.

If I could get any help, that would be highly appriciated.

Regards,

Danny.

p.s. On the bright side, if I could get my mobo back online, after all these hours googling, I think I know why I couldnt overclock.
Something with the ME version of an Intell driver that is different then the mobo version right now. Actually the reason why I tried to get it a few versions down ( instead of trying to find the right driver for this intell shit .... )

EDIT by Fernando: To help other users with the same problem to find this thread and the solution, I have customized the thread title and hope, that it is ok.
EDIT by Arty: I've taken the "Solved" away for now. All due the original question is solved, I'd like to see replies on my other question(s).

@Artyni - Yes, you should be able to overclock with stock BIOS no modifications needed etc on that motherboard and CPU.
Here is latest BIOS bin/rom file, I just extracted from 2.20 exe. I'm not sure, maybe somewhere in BIOS you can load flash tool, should be possible.
http://www.filedropper.com/p67fatal1typerf

If not, you can boot to DOS and flash it via AFU, but not sure what versions would work for you, I can send you package of all I have.
If you have a spare hard drive, try a clean install of windows, in case it's just a windows issue, then you can use the exe to reflash. Sounds like BIOS is OK, since you can get in BIOS.

Thank you very much, this did it for me.

And no, my multiplier was stuck at 38. Wouldn't go up. So now I still have too find the right ME version of that intell program.

Never the less,
Thanks again!

@Artyni - great, so you fixed it now? If yes, how were you able to use the bin file, did you find flash BIOS within the BIOS options?

Yes, during P67 time, if you update past certain BIOS it's only best for Ivy CPU, you'll need to flash back in older BIOS before the Ivy one (not just ME FW)

Hello @lostandfound,

yes there was an flash option in the bios.
I already knew this, so that's why I was looking for the flash file in the first place, considering I couldn't boot up to windows anymore.

I'm kinda scared to flash back, since this all started with a bad flash in the first place ...
I did flash it back to 2.1 and 2.0 and they both didn't do shit for my OC unfortunate.

I have got a 2nd harddisk and I will try to install windows 7 on that one.
Once the install is done, I'll remove the w10 hdd for a bit, and see if it's related to OS.
I think Windows 10 and the ME for windows 10 are different then the ones I need from Windows 7.

If that's not it, I have seriously no clue anymore.

@Artyni - I thought there should be flash option in the BIOS, but wasn't sure since they're now only posting those exe's on the BIOS download page (That's odd)

It may be the ME causing you issue, if you want to verify that you can leave Win10 connected and flash back to the BIOS version right before Ivy Bridge Support was added.
I don't think there is any ME version required for Win10, I've never seen mention of that before, but there is ME version changes needed once Ivy Bridge CPU's came out for these boards

Could this method be used with Asrock bios as well. Or there is a diifferent hash that needs to b selected.

@Lost_N_BIOS is there any tutorial on extracting bios file from Asrock exe.

Thank you for doing so @Fernando. Hopefully some kind soul can help. I have installed 3.21 A before installing 3.10A and now evertime i try to run the bios update exe my system freezes. No clue on how to proceed.

Also could you please edit the thread title, as this is not solved yet !

Apologies. The link to the Bios file is here :
http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/BIOS...(L3.21A)Win.zip. Please also a tutorial on how to extract would be great. Thank you for your support. The motherboard is Asrock P67 Fatal1ty Professional.

@tids2k - here is your BIOS.bin extracted. This is done by using AMIUCP program, for this particular instance/BIOS = [Solved] again
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...372492844341795

Many thanks.

Hello there! Been what? 8 months? Hehe

I still didnt figure out why I can't OC with this setup.
You said try bios version before Ivy Bridge, seems like I already done that.
Ivy bridge was made in the 2.1 bios version and higher, and I have tried 2.0 like 8 months ago. I couldn't use OC with the 2.0 bios version..

You got any other idea to get this thing working?

Also, Ive got 1600 speed memory, to be exact VENGEANCE® Pro Series — 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 1600MHz C9 Memory Kit. Both my motherboard and this memory should be able to use XMP profiles, but there is no XMP profiles in the of the bios. So my memory is always running at 1333 speed. I don't think 1333 and 1600 makes such huge a diffrence(?) but I thought that might be related?
I've read somewhere that someone had this same issue, and once he got his memory working ( trough a bios update ), he also could use his multiplier.

All I can think off, is that I can't OC because of that there is no newer bios version after 2.2.
But that would be weird as well, since my processor is already supported in the bios.

I've seriously no clue anymore.
I hope someone here can help me out.

Sorry for posting on my solved topic, but since most information was in this topic already, didnt want to make another post. And it still seems to be in the right section.

@Artyni - What, OC Ivy bridge on SB board you mean? If yes, no, this is not ideal and never works properly even when you can make it work somewhat.
Ivy bridge was released too soon, and should have never been made compatible with SB boards (This included P67 and Z68), Ivy should only be used on Z77 boards, unless maybe you planned to only run stock (then it's acceptable, but still often = issues)

Not all memory has XMP, show me CPU-z SPD tab, and or Click motherboard >> Memory >> Pick a stick, in HWINFO64, and scroll down past SPD until you see XMP profiles and show me that.
Also, in HWINFO64, the little CPU-z like window that comes up when you first open it, leave that open so I can see too, it has an area like CPU-z that also shows SPD/XMP if present.
SPD is not same as XMP

Making memory run at whatever speed or timings can easily be set manually, you don't need XMP for that, nor a BIOS update, first release BIOS would allow that with any set of memory.
Here is where you set memory speed in the BIOS, directly below where you'd see XMP if your memory has XMP profiles.



CPU supported vs CPU 100% compatible and was made for that board series are two very different things.