790 corruption issues?

[BenchZowner]

Currently installing Windows at 400MHz FSB and the RAM @ DDR3-1800.
I'll do some testing later on, don't know how many tests...as I'm finishing a review simultaneously

No go for today... none of my Twintech nVIDIA cards here work on it.
Especially those Twintech 8800GT's are so full of incompatibilities

[Biker]

No go for today... none of my Twintech nVIDIA cards here work on it.
Especially those Twintech 8800GT's are so full of incompatibilities

well overall it seems quality control is falling apart industry wise... at least thats the impression i got over the past 5-10 years :/

which is really too bad... there are so many power users who are actually willing to BE abused as beta testers from manufacturers, and most users are more than happy to work with the manufacturers on a solution, but 95% of the feedback seems to be ignored or takes a month to reach the right people.

Not looking good ....

....current problems notwithstanding anyone have any idea when we might get the DFI variant?

[BenchZowner]

Not looking good ....

....current problems notwithstanding anyone have any idea when we might get the DFI variant?

Don't worry...those Twintech's didn't work on my Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 as well...
It's a graphics card BIOS related issue.

I'll grab some VGAs tomorrow ( if I make it in time ) and start my tests with them.

For now... I'm stuck with a PCI "SuperPi" graphics card on the Striker II Extreme

[Turrican]

hi guys

i've a striker ii extreme here to test and also have serious problems. anything above 350mhz fsb isn't stable at all.

also my 74gb raptor got corrupted a few hours ago.

[Biker]

Don't worry...those Twintech's didn't work on my Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 as well...
It's a graphics card BIOS related issue.

I'll grab some VGAs tomorrow ( if I make it in time ) and start my tests with them.

For now... I'm stuck with a PCI "SuperPi" graphics card on the Striker II Extreme

5200 PCI FTW! new 06 WR i'll bet

When I say not looking good I was actually referring to all these incompatibilities we keep getting that seem to be cropping up with more and more regularity.

After building close to a thousand systems over the last 10 years I can honestly say that I have had more hardware throwing its toys out of the pram in the last 12 months than the last 7 years put together.

I am not liking this trend line :/

lol.

I'm going to NYC this weekend and I was going to pick up a 790I while I was over.... but because of all the problems the UK price has dropped so much it is barely more expensive here now...

[webwilli]

hi guys

i've a striker ii extreme here to test and also have serious problems. anything above 350mhz fsb isn't stable at all.

also my 74gb raptor got corrupted a few hours ago.

try to raise CPU VTT and NB-Voltage a little. Not too much. For NB 1,45 Volt is ok.

[GAR]

http://www.momoshare.com/file.php?fi...426289f325f84a


here you go. Let us know how things go with this bios.

Have you tried it??? did you get it from a trustworthy source???? i dont want to brick my board, thanks.

[BenchZowner]

Flawless...loss
Data loss to be precise.

My first corrupted Windows installation.
Gay RAM timings ( 100% stable ) and low FSB ( 450MHz ).
Thank you 790i, thank you Asus!

[Delirious.]

Have you tried it??? did you get it from a trustworthy source???? i dont want to brick my board, thanks.

I have not tried it. I got it from the EVGA forums. It is the bios that was sent out to one of the board review websites. Let me see if I can find more info for you.

edit: it came from here http://www.hardwarextreme.de

That's all I know. I would gladly delete this post if someone else has a more reputable source. Sorry, I just thought I would make it available.

[Biker]

Flawless...loss
Data loss to be precise.

My first corrupted Windows installation.
Gay RAM timings ( 100% stable ) and low FSB ( 450MHz ).
Thank you 790i, thank you Asus!

Oh crap.

[eternal_fantasy]

Pulled my S2E out again to play around with my E8400, and have had a better time, although there are some serious FSB holes...

ASUS Striker II Extreme
CellShock DDR3-1800
nVidia 8600GT
WD RaptorX 150GB
ALL AIR COOLED
CPU - Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
S2E - Stock cooling

ALL TEST: Unlinked, Memory speed locked at 1800 8-7-6-21 1.9V
ALL VOLTAGES: AUTO except CPU/RAM and stated otherwise
P1 P2: AUTO

FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

All of the above settings had crappy bandwidth, 8000 read 11500 write 74ns.

With P1P2 Enabled the board behaves very erratic.. if you manages to post, then the system seems stable, with memory performance on par with EVGA reference 790i.

Swapped out the E8400 and fitted a Q6600.

First Boot: FSB 450 x8 - boot - restarted after 20min of ORTHOS
after that all went into crap... with the same settings, it may boot, it may not. P1/P2 or not, the S2E has got an attitude problem with quads... \

HOWEVER; seems that having memory at 1800 is NOT causing corruption of the OS("is preventing OS corruption" would be too conclusive). Silver lining?

[eternal_fantasy]

Oh crap.

Couldn't have put it better myself...

[eternal_fantasy]

Have you tried it??? did you get it from a trustworthy source???? i dont want to brick my board, thanks.

I used it, and it is fine. However flash at your own risk.

[slim142]

Hey slim142 did you get the Asus S2E yet? Newgg is having a -$40.00 off coupon plus free shipping a $50.00 savings for a 24-hour sale...

L I N K

Do you know how pissed I am right now? wow I cant believe I missed that one!!!
Well at least ZZF seems to be lowering the price of the board. Thanks for the heads up but wow all because I needed to sleep one day and this big promo happens the day I deciede to take a break...

[tekjunkie]

Pulled my S2E out again to play around with my E8400, and have had a better time, although there are some serious FSB holes...

ASUS Striker II Extreme
CellShock DDR3-1800
nVidia 8600GT
WD RaptorX 150GB
ALL AIR COOLED
CPU - Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
S2E - Stock cooling

ALL TEST: Unlinked, Memory speed locked at 1800 8-7-6-21 1.9V
ALL VOLTAGES: AUTO except CPU/RAM and stated otherwise
P1 P2: AUTO

FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

All of the above settings had crappy bandwidth, 8000 read 11500 write 74ns.

With P1P2 Enabled the board behaves very erratic.. if you manages to post, then the system seems stable, with memory performance on par with EVGA reference 790i.

Swapped out the E8400 and fitted a Q6600.

First Boot: FSB 450 x8 - boot - restarted after 20min of ORTHOS
after that all went into crap... with the same settings, it may boot, it may not. P1/P2 or not, the S2E has got an attitude problem with quads... \

HOWEVER; seems that having memory at 1800 is NOT causing corruption of the OS("is preventing OS corruption" would be too conclusive). Silver lining?

All these problems make me think it's an SPP problem. Since it's NV's first
DDR3 memory controller, I think they have a lot of divider issues.It reminds me of my early P5WDH memory divider issues.Hope it's gets better as the bios matures. It got better on the P5WDH as the BIOS matured, so hoping the same(Crosses fingers).

[taliababa]

I've been lucky so far, no corruption yet.

[mike]

when trying to push the memory to extreme I got tons of OS corruptions - even when running dual Spi 32m, and I crash - after reboot XP will be corrupt50% of the times. Thanks god it only takes me 1min to restore OS thanks to xxcopy

[GAR]

My board just died after 1 hour!!! i set up an advanced rma, hope i get a new one soon.......it just died, just like that, refuses to boot, i get a blue power light on the board, but the board is dead......crap quality for a $350 board.

[dinos22]

My board just died after 1 hour!!! i set up an advanced rma, hope i get a new one soon.......it just died, just like that, refuses to boot, i get a blue power light on the board, but the board is dead......crap quality for a $350 board.

lol you sure you didn't brick it

[GAR]

lol you sure you didn't brick it

Yeah bro, i couldnt even get the bios in there, i tried with ntune and it said bios id didnt match, it died while i was installing my software.

[dinos22]

FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

lol crazy holes there

[OBR]

This is BS ...

Originally Posted by eternal_fantasy  
FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

My results with E8400

FSB 333 - boot - stable
FSB 400 - boot - stable
FSB 450 - boot - stable ... everything on default except RAM
FSB 500 - boot - stable
FSB 525 - boot - unstable

With Q9300

The same, but max stable is 470MHz FSB ...

With Q6700

No go higher then 370MHz FSB ...

[tekjunkie]

Argh !!!! I am having no luck with this board at all. Got my replacement S2E, put everything back together with my E3110, reinstalled windows xp just to be safe. Ran everything @ default, SPI 32M frezees the system. I mean the system is hard locked with everything on auto. This is crazy. $450 worth POS. ARGH and I am running out of smilies.

[day187]

Successful flash of the P03r2 BIOS to the EVGA 790i here using a SATA Samsung DVDRW

*DISCLAIMER*
I cannot be held resonsable for any damage that may occour

I flashed the beta BIOS using this method:

Download bios here

Burn the BIOS file to rewriteable CD/DVD, floppy, or USB flash disk (not tried)

Restart PC, and press ALT-F2 to load the built in flashing software (see MB manual)

Flash BIOS, restart, turn off, Clear CMOS
Enjoy lower latencies, and slightly improved bandwidth

Here is the Bios P03r2 Post 74# of this thread

[saaya]

Currently installing Windows at 400MHz FSB and the RAM @ DDR3-1800.
I'll do some testing later on, don't know how many tests...as I'm finishing a review simultaneously

better make a northon ghost image alread before things go bad
too late, saw your other post

5200 PCI FTW! new 06 WR i'll bet
When I say not looking good I was actually referring to all these incompatibilities we keep getting that seem to be cropping up with more and more regularity.
After building close to a thousand systems over the last 10 years I can honestly say that I have had more hardware throwing its toys out of the pram in the last 12 months than the last 7 years put together.

I am not liking this trend line :/

yeah i know what you mean... btw, for those who are trying, the asus xonar soundcards do not work on 790 boards it seems a bios update is needed to get it working according to asus.

the UK price has dropped so much it is barely more expensive here now...

my god... uk shops arent overpricing everything anymore?
the world must be coming to an end

Pulled my S2E out again to play around with my E8400, and have had a better time, although there are some serious FSB holes...

ASUS Striker II Extreme
CellShock DDR3-1800
nVidia 8600GT
WD RaptorX 150GB
ALL AIR COOLED
CPU - Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
S2E - Stock cooling

ALL TEST: Unlinked, Memory speed locked at 1800 8-7-6-21 1.9V
ALL VOLTAGES: AUTO except CPU/RAM and stated otherwise
P1 P2: AUTO

FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

All of the above settings had crappy bandwidth, 8000 read 11500 write 74ns.

With P1P2 Enabled the board behaves very erratic.. if you manages to post, then the system seems stable, with memory performance on par with EVGA reference 790i.

Swapped out the E8400 and fitted a Q6600.

First Boot: FSB 450 x8 - boot - restarted after 20min of ORTHOS
after that all went into crap... with the same settings, it may boot, it may not. P1/P2 or not, the S2E has got an attitude problem with quads... \

HOWEVER; seems that having memory at 1800 is NOT causing corruption of the OS("is preventing OS corruption" would be too conclusive). Silver lining?

thanks a lot man!
thats really helpfull... if you have time and enough sanity left ( ) it would be cool if you could maybe map that fsb hole space in more detail.
what about the q6600 then? same fsb holes for it as for the 8500?

when trying to push the memory to extreme I got tons of OS corruptions - even when running dual Spi 32m, and I crash - after reboot XP will be corrupt50% of the times. Thanks god it only takes me 1min to restore OS thanks to xxcopy

50% of the time? hmmmm xxcopy... is that some tool for your areca raidcard?

1min os restore... man... awesome!
this should be a free add on to all 790 boards

Yeah bro, i couldnt even get the bios in there, i tried with ntune and it said bios id didnt match, it died while i was installing my software.

your board died?
out of nowhere? did you use high vdimm or high nb voltages?
any idea what could have killed it?

This is BS ...

Originally Posted by eternal_fantasy  
FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

My results with E8400

FSB 333 - boot - stable
FSB 400 - boot - stable
FSB 450 - boot - stable ... everything on default except RAM
FSB 500 - boot - stable
FSB 525 - boot - unstable

With Q9300

The same, but max stable is 470MHz FSB ...

With Q6700

No go higher then 370MHz FSB ...

please calm down man... just cause you get different results it doesnt mean his results are BS :P
Please post the detailed settings and bios version your using and what cpu multiplier, maybe there is some detail that improves the stability at different fsb speeds

Argh !!!! I am having no luck with this board at all. Got my replacement S2E, put everything back together with my E3110, reinstalled windows xp just to be safe. Ran everything @ default, SPI 32M frezees the system. I mean the system is hard locked with everything on auto. This is crazy. $450 worth POS. ARGH and I am running out of smilies.

hummm...
what mem speed?
did you try different mem speeds?