Quote Originally Posted by Khaotic View Post
Linflas,

I flashed my Striker Extreme back to 1301. Flashed it once, pulled the battery for about 3 hours, then reapplied the 1301 flash again. I used the settings in your 1303 for 3.6 post and it did help me get a little further. Instead of a deadlock machine that wouldnt' POST after hitting the power button, I can POST, but Vista won't make it to the desktop. I tried more CPU volts and more NB volts. The 8 multi also looks to be 'sticking' unlike before - where i could SET an 8 multi, but it would just default back to a 9 after POST.
I went with lower memory bus to make sure my memory (OCZ Platinum) wasn't part of the problem.

I'm under the impression that certain CPU FSB / MEM BUS ratio's work better than others. Is there truth to that?

I also tried to lower the FSP down to 355 (1422) for 3.2, and that ALMOSt makes it to the desktop, but then it blue screens.


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Ijust flashed back UP to 1303 and those settigns dio pretty much the same thing............

more and more i'm thinking that my bad luck on CPU acquisition is just doomed me to a life of 3.0 Ghz

no, I doubt it, 99% of the time a blue screen is related to the memory, usually would just hard lock or crash without blue screen if CPU.

Do you have any other ram you can try, or have you run a memtest on that ram at stock speed to see if it is OK, it sucks to do, as you should run memtest for 8 hours, but you might find the source of your problem.

Also if your ram is D9 based micron chips you should drop your voltage to the 1.9-2.0V range in the bios, the 680i seems to be better on lower volts with D9.

Good luck, got my RMA Striker today, soldered in bios chip, which pretty much sucks ass, only good thing is, is that MWAVE.com sent me a whole new retail box motherboard, all I shipped them was a mobo, they shipped me a brand new retail mobo, no complaints there, as no refurb, brand new. My ram will be back tomorrow, will get things fired up before I leave for work tomorrow night, but won't be able to really play with it until monday.