ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[froste]

Hey could you do me a favor and run prime 95 while task manager is open, click on the process tab and see how much cpu is p95 using, with 1.5v and up quads have a problem in this board........thanks.

At 3.82 GHz and 1.51 actual volts in Windows I can run blend or small FFT's and it loads my CPU 100% in task manager. Q6600 G0 here. I checked last night.

[Scope666]

I’m in RAM Hell. When I first got this board, both of my Ballistix were randomly testing bad in Memtest86+ One stick all the time, the other only after the machine had been on for a few hours. So I put an RMA request in for them, and picked up a pair of Corsair XMS2 sticks to hold me over until the Ballistix get back. First set of Corsairs, BOTH sticks test bad (different bit locations for each stick, swapped slots and verified it wasn’t the motherboard or the slot itself)

So I returned those 2, got ANOTHER 2 Corsairs, 1 of the 2 is bad. Keeping the good one and hoping CompUSA won’t bust my chops about swapping out just the one bad one today. Anyone else running these sticks? Have you had problems? What volts do you guys run these at. They’re rated at 1.9 which sounds low compared to the 2.2 the Ballistix are rated at. At the moment just trying to run them at their rated timings and speed. (DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 timings)

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

[Majoram]

I’m in RAM Hell. When I first got this board, both of my Ballistix were randomly testing bad in Memtest86+ One stick all the time, the other only after the machine had been on for a few hours. So I put an RMA request in for them, and picked up a pair of Corsair XMS2 sticks to hold me over until the Ballistix get back. First set of Corsairs, BOTH sticks test bad (different bit locations for each stick, swapped slots and verified it wasn’t the motherboard or the slot itself)

So I returned those 2, got ANOTHER 2 Corsairs, 1 of the 2 is bad. Keeping the good one and hoping CompUSA won’t bust my chops about swapping out just the one bad one today. Anyone else running these sticks? Have you had problems? What volts do you guys run these at. They’re rated at 1.9 which sounds low compared to the 2.2 the Ballistix are rated at. At the moment just trying to run them at their rated timings and speed. (DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 timings)

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

That sounds very much like the problem I have.
I sent in both the RAM and the motherboard for RMA.
I'm using the same Ballistix and got errors for all of them (Memtest86+).

Strange thing is when I tried some OCZ PC2-8500, it worked just fine with no errors at all.

I'm getting them back today and I will see how it goes.
The Ballistix I have are PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 and I have 4x1GB but I tried just two at a time and still got errors.

[Scope666]

That sounds very much like the problem I have.
I sent in both the RAM and the motherboard for RMA.
I'm using the same Ballistix and got errors for all of them (Memtest86+).

Strange thing is when I tried some OCZ PC2-8500, it worked just fine with no errors at all.

I'm getting them back today and I will see how it goes.
The Ballistix I have are PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 and I have 4x1GB but I tried just two at a time and still got errors.

THANK YOU, at least I'm not the only one, I thought I had the worst luck in the world. I have 2 new sticks to try tonight, as long as 1 is ok I'll be in decent shape until the Ballistix come back. (I have 1 good stick from the last batch that tests ok, it just needs a friend now)

Anyone else with weird Memtest errors? Does your RAM like more / less volts than they're rated for at stock speeds?

Maybe this BIOS is just too immature...

[sonicsallen]

That sounds very much like the problem I have.
I sent in both the RAM and the motherboard for RMA.
I'm using the same Ballistix and got errors for all of them (Memtest86+).

Strange thing is when I tried some OCZ PC2-8500, it worked just fine with no errors at all.

I'm getting them back today and I will see how it goes.
The Ballistix I have are PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 and I have 4x1GB but I tried just two at a time and still got errors.

I am having trouble overclocking my Ballsitix 8500 too.

[ChaosMinionX]

Went back to 0505 no problems with that one, other than some bugs....BIOS is still very immature imo.

[Majoram]

THANK YOU, at least I'm not the only one, I thought I had the worst luck in the world. I have 2 new sticks to try tonight, as long as 1 is ok I'll be in decent shape until the Ballistix come back. (I have 1 good stick from the last batch that tests ok, it just needs a friend now)

Anyone else with weird Memtest errors? Does your RAM like more / less volts than they're rated for at stock speeds?

Maybe this BIOS is just too immature...

I didn't bother testing one stick at a time since my sticks came in pairs and to RMA I would have to return both anyway.

Just FYI, I would get errors in tests 5, 6, 7, 8.
Sometimes it was just one or two of those tests or all of them.

I didn't try upping the voltage though. All I did was leave the BIOS at it's default settings and then try the RAM.

I don't see why the voltage would cause a problem as both the OCZ and Ballistix I have are the same timings and same PC2 8500 yet OCZ pair works just fine.

I am having trouble overclocking my Ballsitix 8500 too.

I wasn't overclocking though. I just reset the BIOS and Cleared all the settings and then tried the RAM. No changes except to boot from CD first.

[Scope666]

I didn't bother testing one stick at a time since my sticks came in pairs and to RMA I would have to return both anyway.

Just FYI, I would get errors in tests 5, 6, 7, 8.
Sometimes it was just one or two of those tests or all of them.

I didn't try upping the voltage though. All I did was leave the BIOS at it's default settings and then try the RAM.

I don't see why the voltage would cause a problem as both the OCZ and Ballistix I have are the same timings and same PC2 8500 yet OCZ pair works just fine.



I wasn't overclocking though. I just reset the BIOS and Cleared all the settings and then tried the RAM. No changes except to boot from CD first.

Same here, usually between tests 4 and 5, although one stick was bad enough to show an error immediately. It just seems weird to me that this many sticks are actually bad. I think this board is just REALLY picky about what chips and SPD data are on the sticks.

[kup]

Where are you guys getting your errors on the sticks? I've got 4x1GB sticks in, so 4096MB of ram, but Memtest86+ is reporting errors within the 4200MB-4350MB range? Is that why I'm getting those errors? Because Memtest is attempting to address a location that isn't actually ram? It seems to be the "reserved" area?

[Majoram]

Same here, usually between tests 4 and 5, although one stick was bad enough to show an error immediately. It just seems weird to me that this many sticks are actually bad. I think this board is just REALLY picky about what chips and SPD data are on the sticks.

I've gotten back my RMA'd mobo and RAM.

So far in pairs the Ballistix have had no errors in Memtest86+ after 17 passes for the first pair and for the second pair I only did 3 passes but no errors.

Tested them both at DDR800 and DDR1066 speeds.
Left the DRAM voltage on auto and this is using the 0602 BIOS (previously I was using the 0505 BIOS).

Right now I am testing all 4 sticks in at DDR1066 and when I left home it was on test 8 with no errors so far on the first pass.

Did yours work out okay?

[Scope666]

I didn't bother testing one stick at a time since my sticks came in pairs and to RMA I would have to return both anyway.

Just FYI, I would get errors in tests 5, 6, 7, 8.
Sometimes it was just one or two of those tests or all of them.

I didn't try upping the voltage though. All I did was leave the BIOS at it's default settings and then try the RAM.

I don't see why the voltage would cause a problem as both the OCZ and Ballistix I have are the same timings and same PC2 8500 yet OCZ pair works just fine.



I wasn't overclocking though. I just reset the BIOS and Cleared all the settings and then tried the RAM. No changes except to boot from CD first.

UPDATE: got home and BOTH SETS of the Corsair XMS2's are failing Memtest
So that's 1 stick out of 6 So either this board HATES this brand of RAM (even
though it's on the QVL) I have incredible bad luck, or there is some setting somewhere that I'm missing. I've tried pretty much everything on auto except for DRAM volts and vCore. I also have transaction booster off from what I've read here. These sticks say 1.9 volts, is that right, my Ballistix were 2.2. Anyone have these, what do you run them at. This is getting nuts!!!

[krifosjen]

Corsair XMS2 Pro 1.9v 6400 working fine here with Maximus.

Ran memtest 2 times - no errors.

Just FYI.

[kimandsally]

UPDATE: got home and BOTH SETS of the Corsair XMS2's are failing Memtest
So that's 1 stick out of 6 So either this board HATES this brand of RAM (even
though it's on the QVL) I have incredible bad luck, or there is some setting somewhere that I'm missing. I've tried pretty much everything on auto except for DRAM volts and vCore. I also have transaction booster off from what I've read here. These sticks say 1.9 volts, is that right, my Ballistix were 2.2. Anyone have these, what do you run them at. This is getting nuts!!!

Please post your timings and voltages so we can see if something stands out.

[cuke2u]

I’m in RAM Hell. When I first got this board, both of my Ballistix were randomly testing bad in Memtest86+ One stick all the time, the other only after the machine had been on for a few hours. So I put an RMA request in for them, and picked up a pair of Corsair XMS2 sticks to hold me over until the Ballistix get back. First set of Corsairs, BOTH sticks test bad (different bit locations for each stick, swapped slots and verified it wasn’t the motherboard or the slot itself)

So I returned those 2, got ANOTHER 2 Corsairs, 1 of the 2 is bad. Keeping the good one and hoping CompUSA won’t bust my chops about swapping out just the one bad one today. Anyone else running these sticks? Have you had problems? What volts do you guys run these at. They’re rated at 1.9 which sounds low compared to the 2.2 the Ballistix are rated at. At the moment just trying to run them at their rated timings and speed. (DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 timings)

Thanks in advance for any assistance. 

Hi, mine also fail big time, yet they are 100% stable in all other tests. However I'm not about to rma anything as it's only memtest that has these issues...
ChrisC

[Scope666]

Hi, mine also fail big time, yet they are 100% stable in all other tests. However I'm not about to rma anything as it's only memtest that has these issues...
ChrisC

yeah, I'm starting to wonder about that. I passed 30 minutes with OCCT so I have to think if my RAM was bad that would have caught it. Can anyone recommend another RAM test that I can use to isolate the FSB / RAM and make sure it's stable?

I'm really glad I found this forum!


if anyone else had false Memtest86+ 1.70 errors please chime in

[cuke2u]

yeah, I'm starting to wonder about that. I passed 30 minutes with OCCT so I have to think if my RAM was bad that would have caught it. Can anyone recommend another RAM test that I can use to isolate the FSB / RAM and make sure it's stable?

I'm really glad I found this forum!


if anyone else had false Memtest86+ 1.70 errors please chime in

Hi, well I've just tested 2 of the 4 modules and they seem ok, I'll leave the other 2 running in a mo and report back my findings..
ChrisC

[cuke2u]

Hi, I've not actually tried this http://www.goldmemory.cz/ but some guys on the Asus forum recommend it...
ChrisC

[cuke2u]

Hi, well I've just tested 2 of the 4 modules and they seem ok, I'll leave the other 2 running in a mo and report back my findings..
ChrisC

Hi, the other two also test out ok. Now going to try the blue module sockets...
ChrisC

[cuke2u]

Hi, the other two also test out ok. Now going to try the blue module sockets...
ChrisC

Hi again, well those sockets test fine as well with only two memory sticks in place, looks like this motherboard doesn't like 4 x 1gbs.
Anyone recommend some 2 x 2gb memory modules?
ChrisC

[GAR]

At 3.82 GHz and 1.51 actual volts in Windows I can run blend or small FFT's and it loads my CPU 100% in task manager. Q6600 G0 here. I checked last night.

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

[froste]

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

Ahh, I see. I will check that later tonight, gotta take the girly out first.

[TheSamurai]

Yes task manager will show 100% but check prime95.exe see how much cpu it is using........... task manager will show you 100% check the prime95.exe in the process tab. thanks.

this has got to be something with the different batches... when did you get your G0??

[cadaveca]

this has got to be something with the different batches... when did you get your G0??

I get this with a B3...actually with 2 B3's, one L644G, one L725A. This info about OCCT loading tho...that's some good info. will check that out later!

[Creek Tha Gray]

Version 0602 2007/10/31 update



OS DOS / All OS



Description Maximus Formula BIOS 0602
1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Update EIST control code
3. Enhance PCIE card compatibility
4. Enhance memory compatibility



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