Edge Z690 WiFi - Clock Watchdog Timeout BSOD

[Ezmafl]

Finally installed my Z690 Edge WiFi DD4 with a 12900K last night. My G.Skill 32gb 3600 CL16 (2x16, Ripjaw) were carried over from my Z490 Gigabyte board, known working and installed in the appropriate slots for two modules. I freshly installed Win11 via media creation tool. No issues until I started installing drivers. I experienced freezes, Blue Screens and Black Screens with Clock Watchdog Timeout.

The only bios settings changed were: XMP Enabled and Resize Bar Enabled. No overclocking. Board shipped with 100 Bios, I flashed and retried everything with 110. Same issues.

Late last night, I ran across a post on Toms Hardware forum. Same issues, same board. The culprit and fix?

I had a WD 4TB Blue HDD and an Asus BD Drive connected to SATA ports A and B, respectively. Sure as hell, I switched both ports to like SATA 5 and 6, freshly installed Windows for the fourth time — and zero issues.

Hopefully this helps someone. For what it’s worth, my WD HDD was coming up as ejectable via the USB icon, too. Even though Windows Device Manager saw it as a disk drive. After switching SATA ports, that issue was corrected, too.

 

[wpwentzel15e602ea]

Can you make a screenshot of the greyed out option in the BIOS? Press F12 to make a screenshot to a FAT32 USB drive (you might have to convert the BMP to PNG later to lower the filesize).

Attached.

I wonder since I'm using the latest beta BIOS if this option isn't greyed out due to that?

 

[wpwentzel15e602ea]

OK, just flashed the latest non-beta bios (V1.2), the one without 12900KS support, and I can confirm the option to disable the ASMedia SATA controller is also greyed out there, too.

 

[citay]

Thank you for the screenshot. That's quite weird. It has to be some sort of B660 limitation. I mean, B660 only has four native SATA ports from the chipset, so they were forced to use an extra chip for six total ports, whereas on Z690 there are some boards which use all of its six chipset ports and some where they elected to go 4+2 like on your board. But then why do they only allow to disable the ASMedia chip on Z690? Oh well. Just don't use those ports and you should be good. The ASMedia shouldn't needlessly use too much power.

 

[wpwentzel15e602ea]

Thank you for the screenshot. That's quite weird. It has to be some sort of B660 limitation. I mean, B660 only has four native SATA ports from the chipset, so they were forced to use an extra chip for six total ports, whereas on Z690 there are some boards which use all of its six chipset ports and some where they elected to go 4+2 like on your board. But then why do they only allow to disable the ASMedia chip on Z690? Oh well. Just don't use those ports and you should be good. The ASMedia shouldn't needlessly use too much power.

Yep, so far, no issues. Simply unplugging from those ports solved all problems.