ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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Originally Posted by Grnfinger

Under the Advanced tab scroll down to LCD Poster and LCD control
Enable the ROG Logo
Not sure if that will work , its a shot in the dark.

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Originally Posted by al-

Try enabling 'QUICK BOOT' under the BIOS 'BOOT' Tab, it's a 'POST' message...

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Hi guys unfortunately both tips did not help with my strange boot issue. Logo option suggested by Grnfinger does light up the Logo on motherboard (we do not want that ;) ) and quick boot does not affect this strange thing with "esc" key.

I will try 1602 from other bios - but I remember I was able to turn it off somehow in 1602. Maybe I got bed flash of 1802.

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Originally Posted by andressergio

Hey guys yesterday i started testings this amazing mems on the MF2

Just booted them at 1,9v at 1200 PL10, they booted on less but i decided to give a try on this that seem so low volts, and put a little NB = 1,3, later i will be testing on lower PL that it'll need more NB and perhaps more vdimm

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That is very nice RAM you got there. Sergio can you post everest test for your settings.

Thanks

andressergio
Yeah, some everest please

No point in everest just yet till he gets the PL down to 8 and tightens up the chipset settings. He'll be pulling low to mid 9K with those settings at the moment.

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Originally Posted by WaterFlex

andressergio
Yeah, some everest please

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Hey waterflex I'm getting my way to get PL8, I need more NB and maybe some more vdimm but impressed they passed that 4x SPI 32M on such low volts :D

Will post soon i'm enjoying them by now :D

Cheers
Sergio

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Originally Posted by CryptiK

No point in everest just yet till he gets the PL down to 8 and tightens up the chipset settings. He'll be pulling low to mid 9K with those settings at the moment.

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Yes mate at PL10 it's no big deal, also a x9 multi for 4050 it has less bandwith to push...but very good mems as i told y ou they booted perfect on less than 1,9 wich impressed me, just a little bit of NB and i get them stable fast.

Cheers
Sergio :up:

Kinda stuck here. so any help would be greatly appreciated. This is what I've got so far.



Processor: E8500 E0
Asus Maximus II Formula
2x (8gb) OCZ TECH OCZ Gold XTC 4096MB DDR2 PC6400 KIT (OCZ2G8004GK)
Velociraptor 300g + 2x Samsung SpinPoint 750gb raid0
Antec Sonata III 500w psu door off
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283
Roomtemp 23C

Ai Overclock Tuner: Manual
OC From CPU Level Up: Auto
Ratio CMOS Setting: 9.5x
FSB Frequency: 430 (bluescreens on 440)
CPU Clock Skew: Auto
NB Clock Skew: Auto
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
DRAM Frequency: DDR2-861MHz

DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: Auto
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: Auto


DRAM Timing Control: Manual 6-6-6-18

DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
Dram Read Training : Disabled
MEM OC Charger : Enabled
Ai Clock Twister : Auto
Transaction Booster : Manual

Common Performance Level [11] (Tried 10 but I got DET DRAM all the time if I went from 420 to 425fsb)

Pull-in of CHA PH1: Disabled
Pull-in of CHA PH2: Disabled
Pull-in of CHA PH3: Disabled
Pull-in of CHB PH1: Disabled
Pull-in of CHB PH2: Disabled
Pull-in of CHB PH3: Disabled

PCIE Frequency: 100

CPU Voltage: 1.35 (unstable at 1.32)
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.54
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.245
DRAM Voltage: 2.0
North Bridge Voltage: 1.35
South Bridge 1.5 Voltage: 1.54
South Bridge 1.1 Voltage: 1.113

CPU GTL Reference (0): Auto
CPU GTL Reference (1): -30mv (probably wrong, just copied something)
CPU GTL Reference (2): Auto
CPU GTL Reference (3): +30mv

NB GTL Reference: Auto
DDR2 ChA Reference Voltage: Auto
DDR2 ChB Reference Voltage: Auto
North Bridge DDR Reference: Auto


CPU Configuration:

Ratio CMOS Setting: 9.5
C1E Support: Disabled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabled
Intel Virtualization Tech: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

Load-Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled

Increase the vNB ;) mwarf I guess you're so far from my settings wit this shubby 1,35v :D

Hi All Friends

http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/screenshot/465508.png

Valid Link

With 1.65 Volt On CPU

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Originally Posted by loften

al- i think if you are using the hd48xx card in your sig that you might be having problems with it. drivers looping like blink- black screen and sound continues to play. vpu revovery error that thousands of hd users are experiencing.. i have that problem with mine. i can pass every test for days and can't play games..

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Thanks, I'll take a look at that--

BTW is there a way to make Prime stop all cores when any of cores fails?

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Originally Posted by loften

al- i think if you are using the hd48xx card in your sig that you might be having problems with it. drivers looping like blink- black screen and sound continues to play. vpu revovery error that thousands of hd users are experiencing.. i have that problem with mine. i can pass every test for days and can't play games..

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loften, I looked (googled) at numerous posts and although the 'vpu recovery error' has definite similarities to my video issue(s), it does not seem to quite fit, and it looks like the 4870 card has 'crash' problems, with different sets of symptoms, that are resolved in different ways. And also, just because one persons' 4870 has the same symptoms as anothers' 4870, doesn't mean that it can be 'fixed' the same way. I think, after trying many things, that I may have it resolved...I deleted everything ATI/CCC, booted into 'Safe-Mode', used 'Driver Sweeper', and re-installed CCC Suite v8.12 from the desktop (along with bumping-up my NB and Vcore). I noticed that prior to using 'Driver Sweeper', my default clock/memory and gpu clock/memory (GPU-Z) was 500/900:750/900, but now its 750/900:750/900, and GTA runs smooth as silk, not choppy like it was before...maybe ATI will pick-up the ball and straighten-out all the problems users are having with HD48XX's-I seriously thought this was just an issue for the maximus2formula bios (voltages), but it looks like it was 'drivers' too (keeping my fingers crossed)...

BTW maybe somebody in the future will find it useful - my problems with random choppiness when moving windows around the desktop was resolved by adjusting NBGTL in my case to +60.

Also the same option gave me stability on my Dominators at 1130 5-5-5-15.

And just upping vNB did not helped even to vhigh values.

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Originally Posted by ViViD

Hi All Friends



Valid Link

With 1.65 Volt On CPU

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Nice work, whats the max FSB you can hit on that chip?

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Originally Posted by seban

BTW maybe somebody in the future will find it useful - my problems with random choppiness when moving windows around the desktop was resolved by adjusting NBGTL in my case to +60.

Also the same option gave me stability on my Dominators at 1130 5-5-5-15.

And just upping vNB did not helped even to vhigh values.

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Yes I used to experience the same thing back in the day on my P965 system if i didnt have enough vNB. Weird that your board like positive GTL Ref on the NB, my board hates anything other than auto (0.64x), if I'm pushing the board a little, say 550FSB, setting -5mv or more gives me no boot, and +10mv or more gives me no boot.

Good to hear you sorted it out.

I think every board is different, as evidenced by my earlier post here :

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=2421

The same exact components were used across the two MFII's for testing.

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Originally Posted by andressergio

Hey waterflex I'm getting my way to get PL8, I need more NB and maybe some more vdimm but impressed they passed that 4x SPI 32M on such low volts :D

Will post soon i'm enjoying them by now :D

Cheers
Sergio

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hmm whats the point of doing so high mhz on the ram when ure taking a hit on the performance levels?? willing to bet 1:1 with lower tRD will preform better with lower latencies

500fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 8 for 4x1gb
400fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 5 for 4x1gb

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Originally Posted by CryptiK

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Yes I used to experience the same thing back in the day on my P965 system if i didnt have enough vNB. Weird that your board like positive GTL Ref on the NB, my board hates anything other than auto (0.64x), if I'm pushing the board a little, say 550FSB, setting -5mv or more gives me no boot, and +10mv or more gives me no boot.

Good to hear you sorted it out.

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Yes my mobo really like high volts. Actually I have a problem with this, because I am ATM stabilizing it at 471 fsb and it needs more than unfamous 1.4v value which I do not want to cross for 24/7.

Are there any other ways to lower hunger for Vtt than tuning CPU GTLref? Does increasing vcore might help in lowering vtt?

I need more vtt power but cant go higher with volts on it :D. Does actually anybody run here >1.4v Vtt for 24/7?

Cheers

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Originally Posted by cstkl1

hmm whats the point of doing so high mhz on the ram when ure taking a hit on the performance levels?? willing to bet 1:1 with lower tRD will preform better with lower latencies

500fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 8 for 4x1gb
400fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 5 for 4x1gb

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I'm willing to bet otherwise :) Aside from nVidia chipsets I've never seen where 1:1 did better than a divider with Core 2...

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Originally Posted by Shiranui Gen-An

I'm willing to bet otherwise :) Aside from nVidia chipsets I've never seen where 1:1 did better than a divider with Core 2...

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Once I got home I will post screenies where 942 1:1 on loose timings does marginal better than 1130 on 5:4.

It might be coincidence tho.

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Originally Posted by cstkl1

hmm whats the point of doing so high mhz on the ram when ure taking a hit on the performance levels?? willing to bet 1:1 with lower tRD will preform better with lower latencies

500fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 8 for 4x1gb
400fsb 1200mhz CL5 - tRD 5 for 4x1gb

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mate i put this ram 2 days ago...I just started testing them, i posted that as pointless...I know what you meant of course i will find a better bandwith for 24/7...

Cheers
Sergio

what do you think this?i was packing the board up to send it and just noticed this under the light.i cant believe they can send this stuff out.http://i42.tinypic.com/24omwe1.jpghttp://i40.tinypic.com/2l896qg.jpg

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Originally Posted by radaja

what do you think this?i was packing the board up to send it and just noticed this under the light.i cant believe they can send this stuff out

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Hard to tell from teh pics. looks like some sort of insulating spray they use for preventing moisture when cooling with dice but not 100% sure.

How are you making out, did the supervisor call you? I will know today what what mobo I'm getting as a replacement. I tried to squeeze a P6T Deluxe out of them but I was denied:D

i know its hard to tell from the picture but it definitely looks like maybe some spilled (maybe coolant from a WC setup).

Good luck getting a "upgrade" guys.... They beleive in giving you what you paid for, nothing more, EVER......:shakes:

all i want is a new unwarped,no spilled stuff, fully functioning maximusII formula. so i can enjoy it as much as every one else does.

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Originally Posted by screwtech02

Good luck getting a "upgrade" guys.... They beleive in giving you what you paid for, nothing more, EVER......:shakes:

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Well then you'd be wrong, got my email and I am offerd.....
1.Maximus II Formula
2.Striker II Formula
3.Rampage Formula
4.P5Q Premium

Oh and I'm getting a token Asus T-Shirt as a sorry for the hassles.

So as you can clearly see (altho it took 4ever) the squeaky wheel gets the greese.