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

[ericab]

Okay, I've had it! My board is dying and I no longer have any patience. I think I'm going to take this piece up north with me next month and put it out of its misery w/ an 8mm 196gr fmj.

Seriously though, something here just isn't right. When I first set this board up when it was released I was able to run 4-1GB Mushkins w/o any problems but over the last month the board has been really unstable with 4 sticks of RAM. On cold boots I'd have to enter the BIOS due to OC failure to find that the BIOS has my DIMM voltage set at 1.9V even though I have it set to 2.12V. After exiting the BIOS screen I have to wait for the PSU to turn off and then on before the computer would boot properly.

I've followed everyone's suggestions on this board and on other boards but none of them have worked. I have also ran a few loops of Memtest and my OC was 4 hours+ stable under OCCT using both RAM/Blend. I never BSOD'd or had any lock-ups while encoding or playing games.

Yesterday I decided to pull two sticks of RAM to see if the problem would go away and sure enough everything is fine. When I cold boot I no longer have to enter the BIOS and the BIOS holds the DIMM voltage where I set it. For some reason I can no longer run 4gigs of RAM on this board. How does this happen? I even tried to run 4 gigs of Patriot PC8500 but ran into the same problems. The RAM works great until I make changes that require more than 1.90V at which time I get a Det Ram error again.

Oh well, the board was fun while it lasted. I ordered a DFI X48 from Newegg today and should have it by Wednesday. Thanks to those who helped me set this bastard up so many months ago--I don't think they come around here anymore. Maybe I'll see some of you guys over in the DFI x48 thread in the future.

so...
i haven't been following your dilemma regularly, so excuse me if i state something that you've already debunked but....;
why the fu** do you insist on running 4 sticks of ram ? why dontcha try emulating everyone else's successful settings w/ this board not only with software settings, but w/ hardware too..

either way good luck on your DFI;

hope its.... more to your taste.

[TouGe]

so...
i haven't been following your dilemma regularly, so excuse me if i state something that you've already debunked but....;
why the fu** do you insist on running 4 sticks of ram ? why dontcha try emulating everyone else's successful settings w/ this board not only with software settings, but w/ hardware too..

either way good luck on your DFI;

hope its.... more to your taste.

I'm sorry, does the board come with 4 RAM slots or only 2? Were the white slots just decorations then, a little eye candy? If your car dropped two cylinders would you still drive it our would you get it fixed?

The reason I run 4 sticks is because it ran fine w/ 4 sticks since I purchased it back in October of last year. I have two sets of 4 gig kits that I've been using since my P5K-D which, I might add, never had a problem running 4 sticks. So what, you ask? Now I should just go out and buy a 2x2gig kit since my board can't handle 4 sticks anymore. Sounds a tad absurd.

But hey thanks for the comment As needless as it was