790 corruption issues?

[Tyke]

Okay so what I have to say is (through extensive research) 703 does not "FIX" the corruption issue entirley it reduces the size of the window where corruption occurs.. I still get corruption under certain GTL, SPP combinations regardless.. It is still a work in progress so we are not there yet with 703 but big improvement over the previous bios's.. Anyway, I hope the ref. board bios helps their issues with corruption but I imagine there will still be underlying issues....

I have only ever had corruption using 1T memory settings, no problems with 2T.

[franco_cov]

is it safe to get an x48 board from asus after all the crap I have been having recently with the asus Striker II Extreme ?

As I too am going to sell this and move on to a non sli after all i currently have 2 x 8800 ultra for sli and I thought if i go for a x48 chipset and get myself the top gx2 card and then sell my 2 880 ultra off ? Is this a good decision? I would laso have to sell my ddr3 memory and get good old ddr2 memory but then what ddr2 memory is the best to get?

[gundam789]

you should wait for this http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=3343

The rampage x48 is a good board.

[Darksaber]

Well I am using a XFX 790i Ultra with E8400 and A-DATA DDR3 1600. The memory will do 1800Mhz CL7 at 2V and the CPU works perfectly fine on good air at 4.05 GHz (450 MHz).

When using the P04 BIOS from XFX, the board runs fine at 400 MHz (3.6 ghz), stable. I can easily boot at 450 MHz and I know the memory works flawlessly at this speed (benched on P5K3 Deluxe). But I won't be able to format the HDD for Windows Install at this speed, and after installing windows at 400 MHz FSB and then raising it back to 450, I get corruption after boot. The shipping bios of the board was riddled with bugs. Even very noticable ones (tried setting CL7-7-7 in the bios always ended up with CL8-7-7 for example) those seem fixed by P04. Oh and setting 1T or 2T does not change anything in my case.

I will try to tweak the settings as mentioned. I was aiming for those 4+ Ghz on air...

cheers
DS

[saaya]

hey, arent you that other guy from techpowerup?
welcome to XtremeSystems vahid!

vtt and gtl tweaking seems to be vital, check the first post in this thread in case you havent already, theres some useful info in there
what cpu are you using? an 8400?

[bingo13]

Okay so what I have to say is (through extensive research) 703 does not "FIX" the corruption issue entirley it reduces the size of the window where corruption occurs.. I still get corruption under certain GTL, SPP combinations regardless.. It is still a work in progress so we are not there yet with 703 but big improvement over the previous bios's.. Anyway, I hope the ref. board bios helps their issues with corruption but I imagine there will still be underlying issues....

Agreed, as I said ASUS has another BIOS update coming that should cure about 98% of the data corruption problems, the 0703 was the first step (mainly from an Auto setting viewpoint). I have been up all night with P05 and so far, so good although specific BIOS settings will still do it, but I have the same problem on the P45 boards right now also.

The underlying issues go back to the GTLRef/VTT tables not being correct, which besides giving us data corruption problems, also introduced various system instabilities across the board, especially with Auto settings. These have been tamed somewhat with the latest BIOS code, but there is still work to be done.

[Roger_D25]

Great point Saaya about GTL's being somewhat vital (to any of the 790i chipsets)! Although I've been able to put it off so far now that I'm testing at 4050Mhz I'm finding GTL tuning is needed for stability (especially because I'm not interested in just cranking up the VCORE and VTT)! I'm sorry if you have already posted this somewhere in the thread but have you been testing any of the 790i chipsets along with a quad lately? If so do you remember where abouts GTL tuning became important? Thanks for your help

[saaya]

sorry bro, i actually never received a 790 board from evga, waiting for it until today
but thats ok, i dont think id have wanted to play with it after all the things ive read here.
im just beeing a smart parrot here and summing up and combining what everybody else posted about their 790 experiences

[Roger_D25]

I understand, given your experience and know-how you can post what you want! With that said do you plan on thoroughly testing the eVGA if it ever arrives? If so what hardware will you run on it?

[RLM]

No details, but to quote EVGATech_JacobF

New BIOS will be going up today.

RLM

[Roger_D25]

A bit off topic but I must say that I've had nothing but positive experiences with eVGA and in particular Jacob Freeman (amazing support)! If as bingo says this new BIOS might help with overall data corruption I hope that Asus is soon to follow with comparible BIOS release!

[Pyr0]

the bin and exe P05 bios's are already there
ftp://ftp.evga.com/bios/NF79_P05.exe
ftp://ftp.evga.com/bios/NF79_P05.bin

[JacobF]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=374007

Wow you guys are fast

[froste]

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=374007

Wow you guys are fast

Does P05 BIOS include NVIDIA's updated NVMM 4.082.28?

[nachthymnen]

Till now my new Zotac 790i-Supreme never have any kind of problem:

[slim142]

Nice, so this IS the BIOS everybody was waiting for since the changelog clearly states this solves the isolated problems from corruption. Cmon ASUS! You were always first... Im waiting for 801! :P

[Natalia]

Flashing to P05 right now.

Hope this solves some of my issues.

[FuriousSalesman]

What method do people use to update their bios?

[Guacamole]

Off topic but is there a Vcore mod for the ref. board yet, I mean 1 that works all the time??

[Robilar]

I've also loaded the P05 and plan to do some tests. The only issues I have had is the occasional hard lock during high overclock bench runs and games. Member at the EVGA forum apparently had similar issues and the P05 fixed it.

[bluehaze]

No corruption issues for me on EVGA 790i 475x8 with q6600 I even managed to boot into windows at 4ghz (8x500) had stability problems but no corruption.

[Roger_D25]

That is a good start for sure guys!

FuriousSalesman - What board do you have (as it makes a difference in how you should flash it)?

[FuriousSalesman]

That is a good start for sure guys!

FuriousSalesman - What board do you have (as it makes a difference in how you should flash it)?

I have a 790i too. I tried the alternative method because I didn't have floppy or a cd writer. I got bios corruption and I have always used used windows based bios updates in the past.

[Roger_D25]

I meant to ask what vendor of motherboard do you have (reference design or Striker II Extreme)? With that said it sounds like you have the S2E, if so I'd just stick with using the Windows based "Asus Updater" software (depending on what BIOS you currenlty have because if you have a very old version you need to use a different method)? Now besides using the Asus Updater in Windows do you happen to have a thumb/USB drive? You could just put the BIOS file on that and then use the "EZ Flash" program through BIOS to update the BIOS file. I'm sorry if you have already posted what board your using (its quite late here and I'm tooo tired to go searching through earlier pages of the thread)!

[FuriousSalesman]

Actually reference