ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[thelawns]

Looks pretty good. What vr of Everest are tou running? I have v4.20 and beta 4.10 and they do not give correct volts on vcore and no more vdimm anymore . I'm on BIOS v0903, it starte since v0901. Also, I dont get the choice to display NB, SB and correct +12v in options anymore.

It actually tells you at the top of the menu tree, its Everest v4.20.1170 the Ultimate Edition...

[leoftw]

After Prime at 3.6GHz I always get a BSOD, usually the 'system encountered an uncorrectable hardware error' kind of BSOD.

LOL I get the same . It's not your CPU its the boards bios. I ran my chip @ 3.6ghz on the stock heatsink on a abit Ip35-e easily with no problems.

Let me quess ; vists os right ?

[ElEctric_EyE]

what are the advantages to lowering the divider from 9 to 8? I've not done any testing at 8 yet? does it slow things down alot?

[devilhood]

LOL I get the same . It's not your CPU its the boards bios. I ran my chip @ 3.6ghz on the stock heatsink on a abit Ip35-e easily with no problems.

Let me quess ; vists os right ?

Yep. Good ole' Vista

You had the same problem? have you flashed back to 0902 to see if the problem went away?
Seriously though, it annoyed me to hell when it still crashed even at 1.45v VCore with 1.6v PLL, so basically the only logical assumption was to assume that the OS/BIOS was deciding to be a sh**

[devilhood]

It actually tells you at the top of the menu tree, its Everest v4.20.1170 the Ultimate Edition...

thelawns: how did you manage to fit your Ultra eXtreme 120 in with your NB IFX heatsink too? did you get the IFX/SLi version of the NB heatsink?

[Zucker2k]

Could someone post a graph of their 3.3v line under full load (5 minute run) in OCCT? It looks like my Antec Quattro 1KW PSU is the weakest link in my hardware. Go figure!

[DMight]

devilhood, I don't know if mine might be a similar issue as I didn't get a BSOD, but I'm using 903 and this happened last night...

I've had my best luck with the 450x8 settings offered by Grnfinger. Over the past two days I've been tweaking and testing to see what kind of stability I can get at a lower VCore. I hadn't been using prime95 until last night, and after about 2 hours (according to the results log) my system apparently shut itself down. In none of my 4 results files (Q6600) was there an error reported, the system was just shut down when I woke up to check it this morning. It took about 10 minutes of pressing the CLR and RESET CMOS buttons and whatnot to even get the BIOS to post. Now it's back up, I'm back in Windows and I'm going to start again.

I've been testing with OCCT prior to attempting prime95 last night. My initial settings with a VCore of 1.55 ran OCCT blend test STABLE for 8 hours, but my temps were really high. So yesterday I started stepping down VCore. I had set my VCore to about 1.45, which ran OCCT's 30 min Auto Blend test just fine it should be noted, then I decided to try and run prime95 overnight with the above result. Sadly, as prime95 offers no monitoring like OCCT, I have no idea what was happening with the system in terms of temps and voltages at the time of the crash.

[devilhood]

Then I am at a loss as to why my system is hard crashing

[thelawns]

thelawns: how did you manage to fit your Ultra eXtreme 120 in with your NB IFX heatsink too? did you get the IFX/SLi version of the NB heatsink?

Like follows:





I have got two 80mm fans to fit to the NB & SB IFX's yet...

EDIT: These are the straight IFX, not the IFX SLI ones... The SB one was a very tight fit next to the 8800GTS...

[iadstudio]

Any ideas why my cpu temps are a solid 10c higher on this board? I'm using Everest 4.20 and the mobo temps are pretty scary (hovering around 40-45c) and my cpu is more than 10c higher than any other board I've owned. I did use some neoprine on mu backplate for the cpu mount, but coulc that be effecting temps? My only other guess it that moving the loop around, I must have gotten some debris in the cpu block.

[eSp!s0]

Can sb. help me getting my Transcend axeRam 1200 working with other strap and devider than 333strap? My system only boots regulary, when I use 333strap and its deviders.
Any tricks getting 400Strap work? It`s **** having Ram running 1200mhz, but not having the ability to choose other deviders!

[rabor]

I have no troubles on 400 strap (0903), only 266 is still not working as it should.

[eSp!s0]

I don`t get any of the 400strap-deviders working. Sometimes it doesn`t even boot, sometimes it boots but half of the things in post screen of bios are missing. Then it only says "Ami Bios Megatrends...", no IDE detection, no dram detection, nothing. Or it boots until he is shortly before windows loading screen, when the screen is black for 1-2 seconds, but he stays black with 400strap and doesn`t even show loading-screen

I have an idea but I`m not sure. My ram only boots with transaction booster disabled level 1, not higher or lower. And with 400strap there are some inside timings which are lower or "less aggressive" than lower straps, aren`t they!?
Therefor I theoretically have to put transaction booster disabled on level 0 or activated and find the one working setting.
Ok, there are better ideas definetly

What do you think? I tried this but haven`t find that right setting yet.
PS: Please excuse my english again

[Zucker2k]

Anyone willing to post a graph of 3.3v line under 5 minute OCCT test? Thanks.

[cuke2u]

I didn't try this as I installed Vista from an OEM DVD. This article http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp
shows how to do a clean install with an upgrade key. I didn't load any F6 drivers at all for Vista, so if this works it should save you a bunch of pain.

Hehe, I beat them all by a county mile :-)
http://www.warp2search.net/microsoft...ns-s31186.html
ChrisC

[iadstudio]

I didn't try this as I installed Vista from an OEM DVD. This article http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp
shows how to do a clean install with an upgrade key. I didn't load any F6 drivers at all for Vista, so if this works it should save you a bunch of pain.

Thanks! I already installed but it'll help for future installs.

I myself, just do it the f6 method for each XP x64 and Server 2003 Ent x64.

I got it to work finally. Only I used xp home with the x32 ich9R drivers then upgraded to vista x64. I assume the x64 drivers in vista take care of the RAID from ther on out, but it there any downside to starting from a x32 version of xp and going up to a x64 vista?

[Tergon]

I recently flashed to 903 and then back to 902, system does like either but I can't get back to 0602 I can't figure out why? EZflash won't let me "something about the board version" message and something, Temperatures under 902 are very high, also I can not long change the CPU multipler. Q6600 and Asus Maximus Special edition. Thermal right 120 extreme cooler. Any ideas.
Thanks

[devilhood]

I recently flashed to 903 and then back to 902, system does like either but I can't get back to 0602 I can't figure out why? EZflash won't let me "something about the board version" message and something, Temperatures under 902 are very high, also I can not long change the CPU multipler. Q6600 and Asus Maximus Special edition. Thermal right 120 extreme cooler. Any ideas.
Thanks

Take off NumLock and type the multiplier using the keypad... also if you want Auto again, just type Auto.
It even says on the right side of the screen that you need to literally enter in the multiplier manually now

[Tergon]

Thanks but what about flashing back to a previous BIOS version any ideas guys.

Take off NumLock and type the multiplier using the keypad... also if you want Auto again, just type Auto.
It even says on the right side of the screen that you need to literally enter in the multiplier manually now

[Tergon]

I can't be the only person with the temp issue with this board?

Thanks but what about flashing back to a previous BIOS version any ideas guys.

[Nuckin_Futs]

what are the advantages to lowering the divider from 9 to 8? I've not done any testing at 8 yet? does it slow things down alot?

This is where most overclocking begins. Using a lower multi allows you to up FSB and better RAM as well, since you now get to make better use of 1:1 for best stability. If your CPU allows, you can also get same CPU clock but now at higher FSB for more system bandwidth. It can be faster in apps that love bandwidth.

Any ideas why my cpu temps are a solid 10c higher on this board? I'm using Everest 4.20 and the mobo temps are pretty scary (hovering around 40-45c) and my cpu is more than 10c higher than any other board I've owned. I did use some neoprine on mu backplate for the cpu mount, but coulc that be effecting temps? My only other guess it that moving the loop around, I must have gotten some debris in the cpu block.

If on the origional ASUS cement for SE version, these can be good temps if if you've OC'd a bit on the mobo and a NB of 1.5v. @1.504v, I get 42c on NB & 39c on SB @ 1.10v with Fusion block.

Can sb. help me getting my Transcend axeRam 1200 working with other strap and devider than 333strap? My system only boots regulary, when I use 333strap and its deviders.
Any tricks getting 400Strap work? It`s **** having Ram running 1200mhz, but not having the ability to choose other deviders!

Not sure what spacific devider you need or want, but if you leave the strap to Auto, you can get the various mixed deviders on the DRAM Frequency menu. I get 1:1/5:6/5:4/4:3/3:2/1:2. 1:1&1:2 or the most stable for me, but 1:2 is only gonna really be usefull on DDR3 so not much use here unless you got older CPU's to under 300FSB. Dont get me wrong, those early core 2's loved the 1:2 devider especially the 800FSB units. Regardless of what ratio, you need to loosen up timings a tad, increase NB, FSBT and NB GTL Ref plus Vdim to get stable. If running 4 slots, relax even further.

Anyone willing to post a graph of 3.3v line under 5 minute OCCT test? Thanks.

Here's a quick 7mn test as 480x8 in a 5:6 devider;

[Nuckin_Futs]

Thanks but what about flashing back to a previous BIOS version any ideas guys.

I haven't had time to check, but does anybody know if this mobo and BIOS supports the ASUS "OLD_BIOS" recovery from ASUS Installation CD ROM? It was so for my old P4C800 where if flash gone bad or experiencing issues, one could restor from CD to factory installed BIOS. This way you were back to square one and could go forward to a known good BIOS as you choose.

If somebody has tested this on this mobo, please let us know.

[Grnfinger]

I haven't had time to check, but does anybody know if this mobo and BIOS supports the ASUS "OLD_BIOS" recovery from ASUS Installation CD ROM? It was so for my old P4C800 where if flash gone bad or experiencing issues, one could restor from CD to factory installed BIOS. This way you were back to square one and could go forward to a known good BIOS as you choose.

If somebody has tested this on this mobo, please let us know.

I have been trying to tell ppl for days now.
Asus Update 6.0 beta will work on vista 32 bit and xp 32 bit, I posted a link to it maybe 10-15 pages back, I'll look for it.

I know it works cause I used it from 902 back to 802

[Grnfinger]

Link to Asus Update 6.0 Beta is on page 138 and below now

It came from my A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo disk

Will work for BOTH Vista 32 bit ( run as admin ) and XP 32 bit

http://rapidshare.com/files/73214067/AsusUpdt.rar


It state's in the manual the install cd will restore bios to factory

[Zucker2k]

Here's a quick 7mn test as 480x8 in a 5:6 devider;

Thanks, Nuckin_Futs.

My 1KW PSU is a dud. Time for a 3.3v mod. I think that's what is responsible for me not clocking higher than 8x475.