ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Evanesco]

0505 bios?
where?

[Extera]

Still can't break 575mhz 1M stable. But I did break 10sec SPI 1M



My mem is holding me from better performance...
Hope new bios will help. If I can find it, i'll maby try it tonight.

By the way, the board boots @ -145*C whit my cpu, and I heard Syngrow can boot it @ -180 / -190*C whit a celleron, so the board seems to have no coldbug.

// @ vaduk, are you sure you mean 0505, not 0504??

[Chri$ch]

0505 is on Asus FTP

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...ula/MF0505.zip

[vaduk]

interesting, it got removed from the support page, but it was there this morning.

[andyr(uk)]

Any News on what 0505 it fixes ?

@ GAR , do you rate these G Skill 2 x 2 Gig kits , as i have chance of buying a set , thanks

[Leeghoofd]

New Gskills not listed here, any idea about the price, there are Mushkin 4gig 1000Mhz kits but they cost over 700 euro's lol

[andyr(uk)]

They havn't posted them yet , but they have a few sets in and they have quoted me approx £140. as soon as they are up i will pm you with the info M8

[hornet]

0505 is on Asus FTP

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...ula/MF0505.zip

Loadline already it functions?

[andyr(uk)]

Loadline already it functions?

excellent news

[hornet]

excellent news

I am to ask, not to affirm.

[andyr(uk)]

I am to ask, not to affirm.

Ah didnt notice the question mark

Leeghoofd i sent you a pm with a link for the G-Skill . Just ordered a set £145 including del so not so bad , not as cheap as Neweeg though

[tylerw13]

i dont know know about any of you guys but i flashed to the 505 bios and it didnt change anything as far as my ability to runmy ram over about 850 mhz so still ram isssues with the bios no need to flash if you dont have problems with 401

edit: just to let you guys know what is happening to me...it boots fine with my ram @ 1066+ but when it trys to start windows before it brings up the windows loading thing the screen just stays black and doesnt go anywhere...odd but it didnt do it when i was using 401

[cadaveca]

That's about the upcoming Penryn.

Yeah, I guess sarcasm cannot be read easily...lol...

{"You'd think..." but no.} was the whole sentence...



So, like 4 sticks...lol DQ6 too(had to pull it out and try)...my issue here is heat.


I just don't get it. Well, I do, but, on stock cooling, running each ramslot and each expansion slot full creates a ton of heat. I was running like 65-70c on the chipset, southbridge as well, stock cooler, and only two ssticks would work.

Got weird reboots...in the end I powered up and down 12 times before board could complete post. I was trying to get the board to load default settings(nevermind most stuff in bios was on auto at this point, as I had just about given up). Finally it booted completely, so I started over again.

So, i test each ram stick individually in each slot.


Some sticks don't liek some slots...will error...in the exact same place. SO, in case it was ram, I upped voltage from 2.0 to 2.2v.


The error moved.


Happening just as often, almost down to the millisecond...so I lower volts, and the error moves back.

SO, I put that particular stick in a slot that it did not error on, and procedded to test another stick, with the first in a "good slot".


So, we get to that slot agian, and same error....same place....up volts, moves to the same place...


SO, I'm ready to RMA the board...but I populate all ramslots, taking the stick that had jsut errored and putting it in another slot...ram was almost too hot to touch. Burnt my finger...part of my fingerprint is now burnt .

CHipset, it's a bit cooler, but still hard to hold my finger on it for more than like 1/2 a second....

So, I grab a fan, drop it on the ram...et voila! Ce n'est pas difficile! And now it's stable.



SO like...shouldn't a board work with just stock cooling? MUST we add additional cooling to get it to work? I mean I suppose that if I watercooled the chipset, like this board was kind of intended to be used..I would not have ever noticed any issues...but...

how the hell did this board get through QC? do they not test board fully populated? do they do like the local "I'm-a-geek-that-know's-something-you-don't-so-I'm-gonna-rip-you-off-as-much-as-possible-pc-store" and test with a pci videocard and a siingle DIMM?


I think they do. They never put 4 sticks in this board and tested it...they may have put two, maybe, and in a box it went, to be sold.

BUt here I an runnning dual 2900XT's, a Phys-X, pci-e tv tuner, 4gb of D9's, and a B2 Core2. stock cooling on everything doesn't work. toss a bunch of fans all over, and it works?



SO, do I RMA, and hope to get a board that will work on stock cooling with 4 DIMMs, and all slots full, or do I go with what I got, and watercool it?

[cuke2u]

Yeah, I guess sarcasm cannot be read easily...lol...

{"You'd think..." but no.} was the whole sentence...



So, like 4 sticks...lol DQ6 too(had to pull it out and try)...my issue here is heat.


I just don't get it. Well, I do, but, on stock cooling, running each ramslot and each expansion slot full creates a ton of heat. I was running like 65-70c on the chipset, southbridge as well, stock cooler, and only two ssticks would work.

Got weird reboots...in the end I powered up and down 12 times before board could complete post. I was trying to get the board to load default settings(nevermind most stuff in bios was on auto at this point, as I had just about given up). Finally it booted completely, so I started over again.

So, i test each ram stick individually in each slot.


Some sticks don't liek some slots...will error...in the exact same place. SO, in case it was ram, I upped voltage from 2.0 to 2.2v.


The error moved.


Happening just as often, almost down to the millisecond...so I lower volts, and the error moves back.

SO, I put that particular stick in a slot that it did not error on, and procedded to test another stick, with the first in a "good slot".


So, we get to that slot agian, and same error....same place....up volts, moves to the same place...


SO, I'm ready to RMA the board...but I populate all ramslots, taking the stick that had jsut errored and putting it in another slot...ram was almost too hot to touch. Burnt my finger...part of my fingerprint is now burnt .

CHipset, it's a bit cooler, but still hard to hold my finger on it for more than like 1/2 a second....

So, I grab a fan, drop it on the ram...et voila! Ce n'est pas difficile! And now it's stable.



SO like...shouldn't a board work with just stock cooling? MUST we add additional cooling to get it to work? I mean I suppose that if I watercooled the chipset, like this board was kind of intended to be used..I would not have ever noticed any issues...but...

how the hell did this board get through QC? do they not test board fully populated? do they do like the local "I'm-a-geek-that-know's-something-you-don't-so-I'm-gonna-rip-you-off-as-much-as-possible-pc-store" and test with a pci videocard and a siingle DIMM?


I think they do. They never put 4 sticks in this board and tested it...they may have put two, maybe, and in a box it went, to be sold.

BUt here I an runnning dual 2900XT's, a Phys-X, pci-e tv tuner, 4gb of D9's, and a B2 Core2. stock cooling on everything doesn't work. toss a bunch of fans all over, and it works?



SO, do I RMA, and hope to get a board that will work on stock cooling with 4 DIMMs, and all slots full, or do I go with what I got, and watercool it?

Hi, well all I can say is my board is fine, although slightly warm, that's probably due to the two pro's flashed to XT's. Perhaps you just have a faulty one, I know that ram should never too hot to touch, I've had that before though and it was the ram.
My ram is as below, 2.2volts, 5-5-5-15, haven't tried it any lower...
ChrisC

[GAR]

0505 bios is the same as 0504 except for vdroop being fixed, memory dividers are all broken except for 1/1 going back to 0401

[GAR]

Any News on what 0505 it fixes ?

@ GAR , do you rate these G Skill 2 x 2 Gig kits , as i have chance of buying a set , thanks

They are great, runs 1066 with 2v 5-5-3-15 timings!! if you dont need n e thing faster than 1100, because that is preety much max, then go for it, best memory money can buy at the moment. for a 4gb set that is

[Leeghoofd]

Just ordered mine, thx Andy for the link , much appreciated...

[Pete]

Is there an X38 clockgen for this yet?

[andyr(uk)]

They are great, runs 1066 with 2v 5-5-3-15 timings!! if you dont need n e thing faster than 1100, because that is preety much max, then go for it, best memory money can buy at the moment. for a 4gb set that is

Got some ordered

[Evanesco]

0505 bios is the same as 0504 except for vdroop being fixed, memory dividers are all broken except for 1/1 going back to 0401

Yup! Vdroop is rock stable now with 0505!
Have a feeling that Maximus Formula, once the bios is mature, will be the best board I've ever owned!

[Pete]

Been able to get 455FSB with the 0505 BIOS so far

[andyr(uk)]

Yep droop and drop spot on, wouldnt boot on certain dividers though , once that is fixed then bingo

[Supershanks]

0505 working ok here

[andyr(uk)]

0505 working ok here

M8 that shows up as 0401 in cpuz

[T2k]

Just ordered mine, thx Andy for the link , much appreciated...

Just checked my order at ClubIT:

Purchase Date:	10/16/2007 
Status:	Pending for Shipment