The Maximus Formula Thread - Help/OCing/Guide/Rampage conversion

[Talonman]

Installed the driver, 90 second delay still there...

Re-installed the driver, 90 sec delay still there....

Fired up device manager and uninstalled the sound card.
(Right click on 'Computer' and manage)

Re-booted. Vista detected the sound card and it installed drivers.

Re-booted, 90 second delay is now a skinny 10 seconds until full internet conection is made, and programs ready to launch!!

This is OP update material...

3.8GHz is hitting the ground early now!!!

Thanks for the info JohnMike. Way to be a Team player!!!

[Raver]

Well not sure if it was a NIC BIOS issue, but my delay is completely gone, drivers did help for sure

[Talonman]

Yeha, delay is a poor word now. Mabey 10 sec of healty system activity would be more fittting?

[ZenEffect]

^this is why im still on xp. imma wait it out till windows 7

stupid to ask but you guys did do the msconfig tweak to utilize all cores while loading right? i know that vista and xp both are set by default to load off 1 core.

msconfig
boot.ini
advanced options
check /numproc and set it to highest available number. 4 for quads 2 for duals *duh*

if you already know, then just ignore... just gotta throw that one out there.

[Talonman]

I didn't know, but just tried it. Vista blocks the program at boot up each time. I currently have to manually slect allow if I want it to run.

[icecpu]

You dont need any drivers during Vista installation.

In BIOS just selesct RAID for your drives, reboot.

Watch for the Intel Matrix screen and hit ALT-I and setup your raid, reboot.

Put your Vista CD in your DVD drive and way you go, also make sure once you have setup your RAID that it's the first drive in your boot order, that is why youre getting the message "unable to get disk information" .

Thank you , I just set up raid without installing any drivers. I read the manual of the maximus , it's said i have install driver during installing vista. Weird , their manual messup too.

[Lestat]

im not sure what boards you guys have but the Formula doesnt use the realtek drivers it uses the marvel Yukon NIC and drivers
it is NOT realtek..

[Sources]

Is marvel running outta chips and swapping em for Realteks LMAO !

im not sure what boards you guys have but the Formula doesnt use the realtek drivers it uses the marvel Yukon NIC and drivers
it is NOT realtek..

[Sources]

Hmmm isnt the bottom one port #1

Yeah I kinda noticed the red X on the network icon also, but I thaught it was due to the fact that Vista was busy doing something else and hadn't initialized the nic yet.

Installed the realtek drivers and rebooting...

Edit#1
Rebooted and rex X is still there and the delay is still there, cant open programs or folders for about 30-45 sec's after the OS has loaded.
Once the NIC's red X is gone everything starts working fine, there is alot of drive activity during this delay.
Gonna disable the second NIC in BIOS and see what gives.

Edit#2
I disabled and enabled the proper NIC's in BIOS and hooked up my cat5 cable to NIC port #1, it's the upper one, disabled NIC #2 and now after a couple of reboots my NIC initializes right away and I can now open programs and folders no more delay.

Edit#3
Wow this is weird I disabled NIC #1 in BIOS, hooked up my cat5 cable to NIC #1 and still have connection to the web?!?
Going to try the opposite becaus the delay was happening when I had my cat5 connected to NIC#2 and possibly had IT disabled in BIOS at the time.
Dont know if it's Vista or the board but net ttraffic is redirected to either working NIC independetly if it's disabled in BIOS.

[Lestat]

Is marvel running outta chips and swapping em for Realteks LMAO !

i've never seen a company switch nic's
not like they cant do that if they run out.
production would have to be really heavy to do that.
but yes they could do it.

they are both mediocre nic chipsets anyways with crap driver support
its why i will NEVER use onbaord audio. super duper crap ultra sh|t realtek HDAduio,, yeah whatever.

[atomicvai]

I tried uninstalling the sound driver and rebooting... this removed the delay for me also, but also reverted back to the generic driver. Is it sound or is it network, lol... either way the boards rockin... would just like to resolve the unknowns.

[arfett]

Anyone know why I can't get my DVD-RW drive detected as such on this motherboard? I've uninstalled the dvd drive and the ide drivers from device manager and let windows reload it and it still can't detect it properly.

[Kondik]

Just a informative question, i bought Maximus Formula yesterday will be shipped here tommorow ... what are the major flaws of this board .. honestly, every board has them. Cold boots , it can't boot with 4x 2 GB Dual side sticks, cooler suck , the vdrop is bigger than a generation gap btw Caesar and Bush and so on. + What's bios is the best. I won't use the integrated Soud Max crap buzzer so i don;t mind the sound quality. Thanks for shor compare

[Spyrus]

It is hard to stabilize it sometimes.
What did you not like with Gigabyte X38 DQ6 and want to change?

[Warboy]

Just a informative question, i bought Maximus Formula yesterday will be shipped here tommorow ... what are the major flaws of this board .. honestly, every board has them. Cold boots , it can't boot with 4x 2 GB Dual side sticks, cooler suck , the vdrop is bigger than a generation gap btw Caesar and Bush and so on. + What's bios is the best. I won't use the integrated Soud Max crap buzzer so i don;t mind the sound quality. Thanks for shor compare

Really bad voltage flexes that make hardware used such as CPU and Memory to degrade.

[Kondik]

It is hard to stabilize it sometimes.
What did you not like with Gigabyte X38 DQ6 and want to change?

X38 DQ6 blown PCI Mosfet = Total Instability when PCI card connected so I RMAe'd it and needed a new one [ i hate to wait] and only Maximus Formula in this category is available. DQ6 was allready set as End of Life product

[Kondik]

Really bad voltage flexes that make hardware used such as CPU and Memory to degrade.

Is it that bad ? No seriously .. if my CPU will die in a couple of months even when not OCed [ I usually overclock 1 ste+ , if CPU is x * 266 i'll oc it to x * 333 and so on not more , RAM aren;t getting OCed at all ]. Your'e scaring me ...

[Spyrus]

These issues mostly occur when leaving voltages to auto.
Need to fully understand all setting in bios.
I have no problem with degration.
But these settings if change a little a restart and/or blue screen is going to happen
for example gtls,dram refs.

[Kondik]

These issues mostly occur when leaving voltages to auto.
Need to fully understand all setting in bios.
I have no problem with degration.
But these settings if change a little a restart and/or blue screen is going to happen
for example gtls,dram refs.

Well i hate auto everywhere i set up thing manually especiali voltages. So this Board shouldnt have problems with 8 GB's of black dragons [ Geill 800/CL5 ] if i set up everything corectly

[Spyrus]

As far as memory concern Asus is great there being compatible and overclockable (comparing to Abit Quad GT for example).

[Kondik]

As far as memory concern Asus is great there being compatible and overclockable (comparing to Abit Quad GT for example).

So the MOBO won't be problematic if good memory is used , correct me if im'm wrong. 4 x 2 GB Geil Black Dragon 800/CL5 not OCed will work and i won't be forced to throw half of them out because of something ...

[WFO]

^this is why im still on xp. imma wait it out till windows 7

stupid to ask but you guys did do the msconfig tweak to utilize all cores while loading right? i know that vista and xp both are set by default to load off 1 core.

msconfig
boot.ini
advanced options
check /numproc and set it to highest available number. 4 for quads 2 for duals *duh*

if you already know, then just ignore... just gotta throw that one out there.

I for one was unaware of this tweak. Thanks for posting it. From the time I hit "enter" after entering my password, loading of the OS is almost immediate. Everything is already in the system tray (Everest with temps too) and my wireless card comes already connected. That eliminated my delays without touching the drivers.

[Virous]

So the MOBO won't be problematic if good memory is used , correct me if im'm wrong. 4 x 2 GB Geil Black Dragon 800/CL5 not OCed will work and i won't be forced to throw half of them out because of something ...

Got my 2gb of dominator at 1119mhz 5-5-5-12 2.16V
3hrs PI stable at 3600MHZ on air. on a Q6600..

I am enjoying this board.

Only mod im going to do is, the fact i was sent and SE. Im going to remove the fuzion block. and try and tim+glue some norman ramsinks in its spot. and put a 40mm fan on top to keep the NB cooler.

[Kondik]

Got my 2gb of dominator at 1119mhz 5-5-5-12 2.16V
3hrs PI stable at 3600MHZ on air. on a Q6600..

I am enjoying this board.

Only mod im going to do is, the fact i was sent and SE. Im going to remove the fuzion block. and try and tim+glue some norman ramsinks in its spot. and put a 40mm fan on top to keep the NB cooler.

I don't care about frequency , usuall full double sided RAMs are having problems with various MOBOs that's why i asked. Btw i have all Thermalright Cooler available si i will pimp the board with thermalrights , i hate stocl cooling

[Robin77]

I for one was unaware of this tweak. Thanks for posting it. From the time I hit "enter" after entering my password, loading of the OS is almost immediate. Everything is already in the system tray (Everest with temps too) and my wireless card comes already connected. That eliminated my delays without touching the drivers.

I don't want to dissapoint you guys, but Vista doesn't use boot.ini anymore. Instead it saves its bootsettings in Boot Configuration Data Store (BCD Store) which is in binary format and therefore not editable with a texteditor.

You can change settings using bcdedit. But even don't know without googling if there's a setting for coreamount is required.