ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[devilhood]

Hi notice in your sig;

How do I flash the BIOS without a floppy, answer USB.

Please would you give details how I can do that with this Mobo as I can't seem to find a boot from USB option, also I want to use the USB to put my Raid drivers on XP using F6 again I haven't a clue been trying for 2 full days now.

Thanks..

or just use a CD and EZ FLASH 2

[kimandsally]

or just use a CD and EZ FLASH 2

I could do that for the BIOS but the F6 option installing XP needs either floppy or USB I would love to find out the USB way, it's the future and I want to learn now.

[devilhood]

I could do that for the BIOS but the F6 option installing XP needs either floppy or USB I would love to find out the USB way, it's the future and I want to learn now.

oh no no, I was talking about the BIOS, not RAID drivers lol
I've never used USB for F6, I just compile my own custom XP or Vista install disc with whatever drivers I need.
See nLite for XP and vLite for Vista

[jonny_ftm]

UP


A* : Supports one module inserted in any slot as Single-channel memory configuration
B* : Supports one pair of modules inserted into eithor the blue slots or the black slots as one pair of Dual-channel memory configuration
C* : Supports 4 modules inserted into both the blue and black slots as two pairs of Dual-channel memory configuration


Should I understand from that, that for DDR2 above 800 (even PC2-9600), you need four modules. That is the board won't run fine with only 2 Kingston modules for example?

[Raja@ASUS]

supports up to 4 modules should be the wording there I think.

2 modules in 2x1GB format will have no problems at all.

[kimandsally]

oh no no, I was talking about the BIOS, not RAID drivers lol
I've never used USB for F6, I just compile my own custom XP or Vista install disc with whatever drivers I need.
See nLite for XP and vLite for Vista

Does anyone know where I can find how to do it?

It's crazy loads of people say they've done it yet I can't even find out how to do it.

[Clump]

Does anyone know where I can find how to do it?

It's crazy loads of people say they've done it yet I can't even find out how to do it.

I don't know about using a USB for driver loading in XP. What I did was use nLite to slipstream SP2 and the RAID drivers when I was using XP on a P5W DH. It worked great! Here's a link to a guide on the nLite web site that makes it very easy to set up http://www.nliteos.com/guide/.

On this build with the Maximus I'm using Vista x64 Home Premium and have been well satisfied with it. No drivers requred for RAID install.

[kimandsally]

I don't know about using a USB for driver loading in XP. What I did was use nLite to slipstream SP2 and the RAID drivers when I was using XP on a P5W DH. It worked great! Here's a link to a guide on the nLite web site that makes it very easy to set up http://www.nliteos.com/guide/.

On this build with the Maximus I'm using Vista x64 Home Premium and have been well satisfied with it. No drivers requred for RAID install.

Thank you, I've downloaded NLite and will do it that way

I was just hoping to do it the USB way because I thought it was the "future".

[safan80]

I could do that for the BIOS but the F6 option installing XP needs either floppy or USB I would love to find out the USB way, it's the future and I want to learn now.

you use the flash util that's in the motherboard bios. you can get to it easily at POST by hitting alt+F2, but your usb flash drive must be formated in fat16 or fat32.

[kimandsally]

you use the flash util that's in the motherboard bios. you can get to it easily at POST by hitting alt+F2, but your usb flash drive must be formated in fat16 or fat32.

BIG thanks

It works

Now to the next bit, I was about to build a Nlite disc with the SATA Raid drivers built in but is there a way to use the USB stick when pressing F6 to intall the SATA Raid drivers?

The reason is, tried the floppy way and used make disk utility but for some reason it says somethings wrong when installing from the floppy then near the end of installation it blue screens.

Thanks again.

[zoob]

Finally got my Maximus swapped in (after having it sit in a box for two weeks, and then testing random chips for another).

Maximus Formula S.E. BIOS 0505
Q6600 G0 L626A840 08/13/07
9x400 = 3600
BIOS VCore: 1.47500 V (1.456 V in CPU-Z)
VID = 1.3000 V

No problems with X-Fi in last PCI slot.
No problems going from 975 (P5WDH) -> P35 (P5K-DLX) -> X38 (Maximus Formula).

I said I was going to swear off Asus, but the Maximus Formula seems to be the only decent X38 board available in Toronto at this time.

FINALLY with this new chip I have 3.6 stable for at least longer than 2 minutes. I had it Priming small FFT for an hour which is much better than my last two chips (B3 and G0) who would either error on two cores (B3) out or outright BSOD (G0).