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

[HousERaT]

You trailblazers have big ones, I'll give you that much.

I'm waiting for more results before I take the plunge.

[kup]

How's that look? PL7, no pull down. Bios 0219.

[Grnfinger]

Grnfinger;
hehe

also,
i just upped my B/W by a bunch....
send me ur mem settings and ill compare the 2 of ours.



^---- still worse then my maximus bios by far...
w/ maximus, i was lookin at about 9600 M/B/s

Thanks
I was able to tweak abit and have managed to get respectable bandwidth again, but however I would like to run 4-5-5-15 to reduce latency if possible.




Anyways my wife has my camera atm so here is basically my mem settings

5-5-5-15-3-40-6-3

All other settings are AUTO
Dram Static = Auto
Clock Twister = stronger
Trans Booster = Auto

[ericab]

anyone else notice that their north/south bridge temperatures aren't being read properly ?
(ive reinstalled everest already...)

running small fft's, the temps stay at 38C and 29C, regardless of the time prime95 runs...

[kup]

anyone else notice that their north/south bridge temperatures aren't being read properly ?
(ive reinstalled everest already...)

running small fft's, the temps stay at 38C and 29C, regardless of the time prime95 runs...

Mine are fine...

[Spyrus]

Same bandwidth here with same setting and phases off.

I am a happy maximus rampage. Bios@0219

[kevinali]

i have just flashed to the 0907 bios and here goes the stories
1. the second ethernet controller does not work, i have enabled it in the bios, windows device manager sees only the first ethernet controller
2. I have manually set the dimm voltage to 1.8v and the led dimm voltage indicator is now red??
3. Under the power bios option, the CPU PLL voltage is reading 3.20 V in red (i have manually set this to the lowest setting)
4. The dimm voltage is reading 0.0 v in the power menu
5. North bridge voltage is 0.00 V in the power menu (i have 8 gb ram so i set it manually to 1.41v)
6. DDR Reference voltage is aslo reading 0.0V

I did have to increase the vcore to 1.2875 to get my Q6700 stable at 333 x 10 with bios 0907, under 0505 i was able to get away with 1.2750 to get it stable at 3.33Ghz

Should i rma the board for possible defective lan 2 and sensor failure

Kevin

[kup]

Kevin that sounds like either a duff board or a partial bad flash. Clear the CMOS, flash again, clear the CMOS again and re-input your settings.

[kevinali]

i would like to downgrade to the 505 bios....when i tried to do the usb flash method...it said that the bios is older and stops...any techniques to downgrading the bios

Can i bood with my original dvd and try to reflash that way

Kevin

[kup]

There are two ways to do it, rename 0505 to FORMULA.ROM and load it on a USB stick. Reflash 0907 and turn it off while it's flashing, this will corrupt it. When it boots up it will read FORMULA.ROM from the USB stick and reflash it automatically to 0505.

Or use the method described in the first post.

[giorgos th.]

are you guys experimenting with the sub-timings also?

first of all try giving values through bios..it gives better results in terms of bandwidth..

second try to play with the actual PL not the PL - phases enabled...

[ZenEffect]

There are two ways to do it, rename 0505 to FORMULA.ROM and load it on a USB stick. Reflash 0907 and turn it off while it's flashing, this will corrupt it. When it boots up it will read FORMULA.ROM from the USB stick and reflash it automatically to 0505.

Or use the method described in the first post.

or you can use afudos /n switch

[kup]

LOL. Oh yeah!

[.OCX]

Same bandwidth here with same setting and phases off.

I am a happy maximus rampage. Bios@0217

Nice, I might look into that this weekend, Board dies I'm fine by that. New DFi X48 coming out would be a suitable replacement if I screw up lol.

[.OCX]

Interesting problem here...

vPLL = Auto = No random reboots + 24/7 stable for weeks and weeks

vPLL = Manually set to the same as Auto (1.61v in this case) and I get random reboots within 5 hours and can repeat as and when I choose to manually set it again...

That's kind of crazy, my buddy just got the non SE version of this board with a quad. I didn't recommend it, but for troubleshooting I'll get a chance to see if I got a junk board when I rebuild my loop this weekend.

[kup]

That's kind of crazy, my buddy just got the non SE version of this board with a quad. I didn't recommend it, but for troubleshooting I'll get a chance to see if I got a junk board when I rebuild my loop this weekend.

That's what I thought too, but I've tested it and I can introduce instability just manually setting it. I tested it briefly on the Maximus bios and it was the same on that too.

[kevinali]

I just flashed to bios 1003....i has to set all my voltages to auto to get into windows...once there cpu-z is reporting 1.280 v for my cpu...i cannot tell what the bios levels are, because all i get is 0.0v for everything under the POWER hardware monitoring section of the bios...the Vdimm led is still red and enabling LAN 2 has no difference...windows does not see it and plugging in a lan cable into LAN 2 has no activity light...i suspect it is dead

Is there any danger with setting all key voltages to auto

kevin

[Spyrus]

are you guys experimenting with the sub-timings also?

first of all try giving values through bios..it gives better results in terms of bandwidth..

second try to play with the actual PL not the PL - phases enabled...

Which subtimings? Can you be more specific what have you changed?

[ZenEffect]

I just flashed to bios 1003....i has to set all my voltages to auto to get into windows...once there cpu-z is reporting 1.280 v for my cpu...i cannot tell what the bios levels are, because all i get is 0.0v for everything under the POWER hardware monitoring section of the bios...the Vdimm led is still red and enabling LAN 2 has no difference...windows does not see it and plugging in a lan cable into LAN 2 has no activity light...i suspect it is dead

Is there any danger with setting all key voltages to auto

kevin

probably not but it sounds like rma time for your mobo. i still think it might be a bad flash though. reset everything to default settings and use afudos to flash

[ZenEffect]

those 2 pull ins that are disabled are now enabled... i just noticed it when uploading the pics

sorry for the large pics

[zaracattle]

Hi guys...Can you tell me more about how to come back maximus from Rampage ? Step by step plz....Thanks very much...

[Yay for Cheese]

I'm having a big problem right now. My USB keyboard won't work in the startup anymore so I can't change the BIOS. I've tried using a PS/2 keyboard but that doesn't seem to work in the startup as well. I'm deciding if I should flash my BIOs or not since nothing else seems to be working.

I fixed it. <3 Asus Update

[sup3rfly]

Hi guys...Can you tell me more about how to come back maximus from Rampage ? Step by step plz....Thanks very much...

i suppose it will be like....
AFUDOS /iMF0907.rom /pbnc /n

p/s: lets say ur bios file name is MF0907.rom

[diezel]

back

[giorgos th.]

Which subtimings? Can you be more specific what have you changed?

1st information into bios.
from RAS to RAS delay untill the end Spyrus.

@ZenEffect do you have 3 dimms on your pc or 2?