ASUS Maximus II Formula WOES?

[X2beach]

OK, Ive been trying for 1 week to get my system stable WIth no luck
If I run anything 3d, like 3dmark Vantage, Age of Conan It crashes sometimes or I get Video Driver as stop responding errors
and I am running My CPU AT STOCK , It pass Memtest 30 loops, I can OCCT 12 hrs Fire up a Game and Crash or sometimes it will plat the I get Video Drivers has stop responding. I have tried all kinds of combo, Each time with a Format and Fresh install of Vista 64 SP1

Bios 0701
Q9550 cpu
E8400
GTX 280
ATI 4870
Gskill PC8800 Ram


as you can see Ive tried some different combos, Not sure how the motherboard can be bad and Pass Memtest and OCCT for hours


HELP!!

[Leeghoofd]

Bad Vista drivers maybe, you got a copy of XP ?

[X2beach]

I cant Switch back to windows XP. Ive tried 2 video cards now.. It either the motherboard is bad. or this 0701 bios is wacked. Wonder if PMP has a another beta out yet..

[ViRuS2k]

I get the distinct feeling that its your graphics card that borked.

underclock it on core and memory by 20mhz and see if that fixes it

[X2beach]

I dont see it being the videocard, Like I said I have a Brandnew GTX 280 and ATI 4870 Ive tried both, and I reformated and Reloaded Vista 64 Both times

[AquaRelliux]

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=92659&enterthread=y&STARTPAGE=7

here u have some solutions and it is because of Vista u get those problems alot of ati drivers sucks especially the new ones

[X2beach]

I have the same results when I use the Nvidia GTX 280

[AquaRelliux]

I bet the new nvidia cards and drivers arent that good either because my mate has alot of problems with his 9800gtx and Vista X64 but in XP it is fine, Try use the 4870 card and use Catalyst 8.2 if possible and see if it helps. All my vpu recovery problems got solved by that except for GRID

[X2beach]

well my p5e3 Premium works fine.. so it something with this board

[genec57]

It sounds like it is most likely the motherboard to me. a somewhat less likely culprit would be the PSU.
It is easy to blame vista but that IMHO is extremely unlikely. RMA the mobo.

[X2beach]

My powersupply is OCZ EliteStream 1000Watt (80amp Single Rail)

[golfjam]

http://http://www.techspot.com/review/105-asus-maximus-2-formula/
They had the same problem. M2F doesn't look good right now.

[Copenhagen69]

i have the same problem ... runs great surfing the net haha ... as soon as i fire up cod4 or CnC3 it freezes my comp ...


and golf ... your link doesnt work for me... does it work for anyone else?

ALSO ... stay away from the cmos reset button on the IO panel ... i tried it out ... did it like i was suppose to and now my PSU doesnt even turn on lights :/ so i have to RMA it

[safan80]

I bet the new nvidia cards and drivers arent that good either because my mate has alot of problems with his 9800gtx and Vista X64 but in XP it is fine, Try use the 4870 card and use Catalyst 8.2 if possible and see if it helps. All my vpu recovery problems got solved by that except for GRID

I think the nvidia problem is with the drivers I had issues with my 9800gx2 and GTX280 with vista x64. The G92s I have work fine and so does my G80.

[Copenhagen69]

The G92s I have work fine and so does my G80.


in what ... XP or vista?



also have you manually entered your ram settings ... cause i know when i looked at mine they were kinda screwey so i had to manually put them in
and any way you can take some screenies of your BIOS just so we can see the ram settings and see if everything is ok with them?

[Copenhagen69]

new BIOS are out ... so lets see if these help fix the problem...

[pablo906]

well my p5e3 Premium works fine.. so it something with this board

I've now had this problem twice, once the board didn't like the memory I had in it, dieing Micron D9 that I hadn't figured out was dieing yet, and the other time, which is right now, the PCIe bus puts out really unstable power as far as I can tell. So far every time I've had the error it's the board not liking something.

So to sum it up, check power supply, RAM, Video Card, and lastly motherboard. In your case I'd pass go not collect $200 and go straight to Asus RMA for the board.

[X2beach]

I fixxed it.. Sent back to NEWEGG got a p5Q Deluxe Everything is fine now