790 corruption issues?

[saaya]

Currently installing Windows at 400MHz FSB and the RAM @ DDR3-1800.
I'll do some testing later on, don't know how many tests...as I'm finishing a review simultaneously

better make a northon ghost image alread before things go bad
too late, saw your other post

5200 PCI FTW! new 06 WR i'll bet
When I say not looking good I was actually referring to all these incompatibilities we keep getting that seem to be cropping up with more and more regularity.
After building close to a thousand systems over the last 10 years I can honestly say that I have had more hardware throwing its toys out of the pram in the last 12 months than the last 7 years put together.

I am not liking this trend line :/

yeah i know what you mean... btw, for those who are trying, the asus xonar soundcards do not work on 790 boards it seems a bios update is needed to get it working according to asus.

the UK price has dropped so much it is barely more expensive here now...

my god... uk shops arent overpricing everything anymore?
the world must be coming to an end

Pulled my S2E out again to play around with my E8400, and have had a better time, although there are some serious FSB holes...

ASUS Striker II Extreme
CellShock DDR3-1800
nVidia 8600GT
WD RaptorX 150GB
ALL AIR COOLED
CPU - Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
S2E - Stock cooling

ALL TEST: Unlinked, Memory speed locked at 1800 8-7-6-21 1.9V
ALL VOLTAGES: AUTO except CPU/RAM and stated otherwise
P1 P2: AUTO

FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

All of the above settings had crappy bandwidth, 8000 read 11500 write 74ns.

With P1P2 Enabled the board behaves very erratic.. if you manages to post, then the system seems stable, with memory performance on par with EVGA reference 790i.

Swapped out the E8400 and fitted a Q6600.

First Boot: FSB 450 x8 - boot - restarted after 20min of ORTHOS
after that all went into crap... with the same settings, it may boot, it may not. P1/P2 or not, the S2E has got an attitude problem with quads... \

HOWEVER; seems that having memory at 1800 is NOT causing corruption of the OS("is preventing OS corruption" would be too conclusive). Silver lining?

thanks a lot man!
thats really helpfull... if you have time and enough sanity left ( ) it would be cool if you could maybe map that fsb hole space in more detail.
what about the q6600 then? same fsb holes for it as for the 8500?

when trying to push the memory to extreme I got tons of OS corruptions - even when running dual Spi 32m, and I crash - after reboot XP will be corrupt50% of the times. Thanks god it only takes me 1min to restore OS thanks to xxcopy

50% of the time? hmmmm xxcopy... is that some tool for your areca raidcard?

1min os restore... man... awesome!
this should be a free add on to all 790 boards

Yeah bro, i couldnt even get the bios in there, i tried with ntune and it said bios id didnt match, it died while i was installing my software.

your board died?
out of nowhere? did you use high vdimm or high nb voltages?
any idea what could have killed it?

This is BS ...

Originally Posted by eternal_fantasy  
FSB 333 - default - boot - stable
FSB 425 - no boot
FSB 450 - no boot
FSB 500 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 525 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 550 - boot - 100% stable - no corruption
FSB 575 - bumped VTT - Boot - not stable - no corruption

My results with E8400

FSB 333 - boot - stable
FSB 400 - boot - stable
FSB 450 - boot - stable ... everything on default except RAM
FSB 500 - boot - stable
FSB 525 - boot - unstable

With Q9300

The same, but max stable is 470MHz FSB ...

With Q6700

No go higher then 370MHz FSB ...

please calm down man... just cause you get different results it doesnt mean his results are BS :P
Please post the detailed settings and bios version your using and what cpu multiplier, maybe there is some detail that improves the stability at different fsb speeds

Argh !!!! I am having no luck with this board at all. Got my replacement S2E, put everything back together with my E3110, reinstalled windows xp just to be safe. Ran everything @ default, SPI 32M frezees the system. I mean the system is hard locked with everything on auto. This is crazy. $450 worth POS. ARGH and I am running out of smilies.

hummm...
what mem speed?
did you try different mem speeds?