Quote Originally Posted by xarot View Post
I've run the R3E for something like six months now but now I've began to experience a strange issue. When booting up the system, sometimes the board won't go further from POST. It hangs on "Initialising USB controllers...done". And nothing after that. If I press F8, it tries to to go BIOS, but it won't. CTRL-ALT-DEL sometimes lets me boot up or if not reset usually helps. So it's not completely crashed since it recognises some keys, seems it just can't go on for some reason. This began just two days ago, of course while I'm on my holiday and willing to game, FFS...

I googled and I saw several other users having this issue, someone said it's a bad south bridge or a bad integrated sound card since disabling onboard sound helped for some. I don't have another sound card in the system so I'm not too willing to test as it doesn't always happen.

Time for RMA? btw my friend has exactly this same problem on his R3E. I'm not sure if I'm out of warranty as well, have to contact my old colleague in the store I bought it from (open box).

Luckily I still have my ol' trusty P6T6 and i7-965! I just threw two of my 580s in it and of course I could transfer the SSDs and games as well! To be honest, I haven't been too impressed at all with my R3E, I liked my P6T6 much more. It could run my 990X at 4.5 with lower volts than my R3E..
I had this issue when I had a dying USB device plugged in. Try unplugging all USB and booting. if it helps, plug each one in one by one, and boot to figure out what device is dying.

This issue will also happen some times if you have a cdrom in your drive that's marked bootable but has no OS. Same thing with a usb flash drive.

Quote Originally Posted by kaka_89 View Post
Yup, i'm aware of that risk...i refer to this thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...20-1.65V-*HOT*

he uses the same proc as i'm using, that's why i'm a bit dare to take the risk for going beyond 1.45v of cpu/vtt

however, i will try with 2k dram and 4k uncore with 1.45cpu/vtt..and btw, is going above 1.5v considered safe for 24/7..?
1.45v is max 'safe' for 24/7. Intel says 1.4 with overshoot of .05v, so even 1.45 is 'bending' the rules on safety. I read the link you posted. You need to re-read the first post. He says that Turbo-V is misreporting the voltages and they are not that high. 1.65v is DDR Voltage, NOT qpi/vtt.