2nd striker 2 extreme mobo with the same NVIDIA 9800 GX2 GPU and BIOS issues
As I stated in my topic this is the second striker II extreme motherboard I have had in the last two weeks that is unable to display any thing in BIOS/DOS or Windows using my BFG 9800 GX2 GPU?
To make matters worse when I use my BFG 8800 GTX GPU to boot into the BIOS or Windows to update BIOS from the version 0402 that the mobo shipped with I am told that, ”ROM ID in the file is incompatible with the existing BIOS"? The only too available ROM versions are 0508 & 0601.bin, neither of which seem to be compatible with the currently installed version 0402. So I’m caught in a loop, anyone got any ideas as to what the hell is going on?
I know what you’re thinking that maybe it’s the BFG 9800 GX2 GPU that is at fault, but I have tried it on a different motherboard (ASRock 1333 FSB), and it works fine ironically on a inferior 650 Watts GPU. SIIE mobo has a superior 650 Watts ASAKA PSU with a piggyback ThermalTake power plus 250 Watts dedicated graphics card PSU which works fine with my current BFG 8800 GTX GPU.
The other issue I have is that I can’t get both sticks of 2 x 2Gb of DDR3 OCZ - OCZ3P16004GK 2 x 2GB 7-7-7-24 – RAM to boot but one stick 2Gb is fine, anyone else having this problem?
I only bought the 790i SLi SIIE because my first striker extreme 680i SLi is at Asus UK for repair but in the last two weeks I’ve had two SIIE, both with the same graphics card issue!
Any help or thoughts appreciated.
Surely RMA isn't the solution?
After telling me to disable ”quick boot” in the BIOS, BFG have offered me an RMA. One thing I’ve learned in my 20 years of IT is that you need to know why you have a problem before you can decide what you’re going to do about it.
Having put this issue out too many forums I’m starting to think that my 650 Watts ASAKA combined with my Thermaltake 250 Watts GPU dedicated PSU is the culprit. This thread that this forum seems to also suggest that this: http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?...ic=19742&st=20. Coupled with the fact that when I drop this 9800 GX2 into a inferior rig which I mentioned in my first post the GPU worked in got me into Windows XP and Vista no problems.
I need a pole on which PSU’s you 9800 GX2 GPU users are using, as this 3 weeks have cost me enough in money so I want to get this PSU purchase right?
I want some headroom for Quad Sli & I don't think running @ 100% is good for any rig? What do you peop's think of NVIDIAŽ HybridPower™ mode?
Cheers