ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Budious]

I have come to the conclusion that when I change bios settings and restart and it doesn't come back on like a normal board does that there is something wrong with my settings. I say this because when set on the stable settings I have found it NEVER does this.

I noticed the same thing on my board. I updated the 0401 BIOS it shipped with to 0505 during assembly and noticed on reboot it hung for a good 30 seconds then came back up, booted normally. System stability is great, I have been running Q6600 B3 @ 2.88 (320x9) with uptime of 7d:10hr now on Intel stock cooler. I'll push further but I'm shopping around for air cooling for cpu, nb, sb, vga or considering a 3/8" water kit and unsure which way to go. The NB is getting hotter than the cpu sometimes so something has to be done there, leaving the waterblock without water is not an option.

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I'd say if you have had weird issues from the beginning it may be worth trying out a new one. This board is a pretty sweet board when you find the correct settings. I am running 400x9 totally 100% stable. I am now working on 450x8 with the new 0701 bios since 0505 was not able to run that. I never did try with 0602, it was on here for about a day or 2 before I just upgraded to 0701 about an hour ago. If you get a new one and it is still not working correctly, I'd start looking at other hardware than the motherboard.