ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Fusion2002]

No problem. I finally figured out that enabling P1/P2 was the cause of all the lockups that I was having.Disabling it for now(Hopefully the future BIOS will fix), but, I lost $50 S&H while RMAing the OCZ which might have been good.I had to overnight em as my RMA time ends tomorrow.

Yeah that fixed my problem too. however, I went back to stock for now because i'm concerned about the high VTT voltages. I tried backing it down to 1.40 and superpi wouldnt complete 1M it just locks up. So back to stock settings for now until I can make sense of everything. I may just wait for another bios release before trying anything more.

[X2beach]

Is 1.02G not the latest REV of this board now ? I hear there is a B1 REV ?

[tekjunkie]

Is 1.02G not the latest REV of this board now ? I hear there is a B1 REV ?

B1 is the revision of the SPP. Check CPUZ "Mainboard" section. Mine says B1 for the SPP and for the motherboard it says 1.xx

[Tyke]

@Tyke, could you please find out the revision of your board. The random lockups that I was having was because of P1/P2 enabled. I set it to Auto and the lockups go away and you said you are not having any issues with P1/P2 enabled. P1/P2 enabled @445 FSB requires a lot of spp voltage and/or a lot of vdimm. You also said that your OCZ EB could do 1900 with 1.9. Is this with P1/P2 or without.

P1 & P2 settings enabled, memory performance is much worse when on Auto. I can get 1900MHz at 2.0V on my memory at 8-7-7-20 2T.

[/\/eutro]

Hey guys, I just get mine 2 days ago, 100% stable @ stock and no corruption with bios 511 (already installed windows 5 times).

But i'm wondering if I should get bios 0512 or 0601 before getting started?

Anyone knows?

[Tyke]

Anyone knows?

0601 has been very stable for me, and seems to give better memory performance.

[/\/eutro]

Thx Tyke, gonna try it now

[pmp]

Asus Striker II Extreme BIOS 0603

[Holmer]

#pmp, thanks for sharing. Any changelog, experiences - basicly any info please?

[TheHardCase]

Can't load from 0601 to 0603 with EZ Flash...

[X2beach]

anyone getting Distored Audio when scrolling Web Pages? I ve tried 2 soundcards and the onboard Sound.. all cards where PCI-express

driving me nuts

[X2beach]

Just flashed to 0603 No change

still getting Audio Distortion,, But if I leave all my voltages on AUTO I dont get the audio Distortion

[Big Myke]

flashed 0603.bin with no problem using our trusty awdflash. Just had to flash cmos afterwards.

[tekjunkie]

I just enabled P1 and P2 on auto and failed SPI 32M with the same settings that had worked before.Then I did chdsk and sure enough it found a whole lot of problems and fixed it. So I guess the corruption problems still exists. After I fixed the files with chkdsk I ran SPI 32M and it passed. Also, flashed to 0603 with no problems using awdflash and look what I found.



THIS IS WITH P1/P2 AUTO .

This could be good news or bad news. I hope the BIOS is not enabling P1/P2 behind the scene. Atleast when P1/P2 was auto with 0512, sure the bandwidth was lost, but atleast no random freeze and the OC was stable. With P1/P2 on auto with 0603, the bandwidth does come back, I hope it does not freeze. If the random freeze is there, we don't have P1/P2 disable option in BIOS, to get stability.

[tekjunkie]

This is with P1/P2 enabled with 0603

[Fusion2002]

Hows the stability? I'll flash 0603 tonight and try it out. My 9800GTX just arrived so I'll have to play with that when I get home. Gogo EVGA Stepup

[tekjunkie]

Hows the stability? I'll flash 0603 tonight and try it out. My 9800GTX just arrived so I'll have to play with that when I get home. Gogo EVGA Stepup

So far so good




But I am not ready to call it stable, yet. Not until 10 AM morrow(12 hour prime run). Going by my previous experience with the same settings that it's currently running, one of the core might error out in priming, but I am gonna keep it running until tomorrow.

[sergmann]

@tekjunkie

can you post your Bios Settings for 445FSB?

[pmp]

#pmp, thanks for sharing. Any changelog, experiences - basicly any info please?

Changelog... as you can see, 0603 users NVMM in older version...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
BIOS ID: STRIIEX

1. Release EZ FLASH2 B328
2. Patch Wolfdale 2.66G/1066MHz (E7300) CPU VTT to 1.20V to fix OC 5% unstable issue
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
*NVMM - NVMM 4.081.60
JMB363 OptionROM: 1.06.75
NVRAID ROM: 9.87

BIOS version: 0603 Date:04/24/2008

Checksum: 1E00H

Release for MR. Base on 0511:

1. Change CPU VTT Voltage item from 1.10V ~ 2.36V for 45nm CPU to fit H/W design
2. Skip re-enable ClockRatio_Item if "Cpu level up mode"

** Micro Code Information **
ID CPUID |ID CPUID |ID CPUID |ID CPUID
-----------+-----------+-----------+---------
2C 0F25 |17 0F34 |17 0F41 |05 0F43
06 0F44 |03 0F47 |04 0F4A |03 0F49
04 0F64 |0A 0F32 |02 0F37 |05 0F60
07 0F61 |0F 0F62 |0B 0F65 |A3 06FD
B6 06FB |82 06F9 |68 06F7 |CB 06F6
5A 06F2 |33 06F5 |33 06F5 |26 06F4
38 0661 |04 0660 |06 0671 |06 0671
06 0671 |0B 0676 |0B 0676 |03 0677
B3 06FB |
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

0601 and 0602 uses NVMM 4.082.01.

[Holmer]

Changelog... as you can see, 0603 users NVMM in older version...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
BIOS ID: STRIIEX

1. Release EZ FLASH2 B328
2. Patch Wolfdale 2.66G/1066MHz (E7300) CPU VTT to 1.20V to fix OC 5% unstable issue
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
*NVMM - NVMM 4.081.60
JMB363 OptionROM: 1.06.75
NVRAID ROM: 9.87

BIOS version: 0603 Date:04/24/2008

Checksum: 1E00H

Release for MR. Base on 0511:

1. Change CPU VTT Voltage item from 1.10V ~ 2.36V for 45nm CPU to fit H/W design
2. Skip re-enable ClockRatio_Item if "Cpu level up mode"

** Micro Code Information **
ID CPUID |ID CPUID |ID CPUID |ID CPUID
-----------+-----------+-----------+---------
2C 0F25 |17 0F34 |17 0F41 |05 0F43
06 0F44 |03 0F47 |04 0F4A |03 0F49
04 0F64 |0A 0F32 |02 0F37 |05 0F60
07 0F61 |0F 0F62 |0B 0F65 |A3 06FD
B6 06FB |82 06F9 |68 06F7 |CB 06F6
5A 06F2 |33 06F5 |33 06F5 |26 06F4
38 0661 |04 0660 |06 0671 |06 0671
06 0671 |0B 0676 |0B 0676 |03 0677
B3 06FB |
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

0601 and 0602 uses NVMM 4.082.01.

Thanks pmp, your the man. To be honest I don't know what NVMM means and what importance it has to me (should I take certain precausions)?

[MateoTTR]

It is not clear if it improves anything from 0601, based on the changelogs.
Thanks again pmp (you working at ASUS?).

[pmp]

Thanks pmp, your the man. To be honest I don't know what NVMM means and what importance it has to me (should I take certain precausions)?

NVMM - nVidia Memory Module - basically it's a portion of BIOS which is responsible for RAM/NB handling.
Correct me if im wrong, but to my known this code is closed and belong to nVidia, so different BIOS versions - but utilizing the same NVMM - should behave the same in terms of RAM/NB.

Keeping in mind what's above - 0603 should perform close to 0511.

It is not clear if it improves anything from 0601, based on the changelogs.
Thanks again pmp (you working at ASUS?).

Some minor changes are usually not covered by changelog, so ... just evaluate it

[Holmer]

NVMM - nVidia Memory Module - basically it's a portion of BIOS which is responsible for RAM/NB handling.
Correct me if im wrong, but to my known this code is closed and belong to nVidia, so different BIOS versions - but utilizing the same NVMM - should behave the same in terms of RAM/NB.

Keeping in mind what's above - 0603 should perform close to 0511.

Some minor changes are usually not covered by changelog, so ... just evaluate it

Thanks again. If you have good contacts at Asus, could you please ask them to fix the 2x2GB memory issues. Almost all happy Stiker II Extreme users use 2x1GB while the 2x2GB users are constantly changing RAM and loosing hair due to frustrations (I am at least).

[my87csx481]

Thanks again. If you have good contacts at Asus, could you please ask them to fix the 2x2GB memory issues. Almost all happy Stiker II Extreme users use 2x1GB while the 2x2GB users are constantly changing RAM and loosing hair due to frustrations (I am at least).

Yeah, yeah, what he said

I'll be testing my 3rd and 4th kits tonight hopefully....frustrated and going bald also

[pmp]

Hmm i'm using without any troubles (at their stock settings) OCZ 1600 EB kits (2 of them, so totally 8GB) without any problems at 1:2 div ?

What kind of problems are you facing ?