**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[Hor$eman]

It isn't freezing. Its a bunch of vertical red/green squiggly lines, making the video unwatchable. It happens for me about every twenty to thirty minutes when watching video. It doesn't affect games.

[CBird28]

then the pc freezes... which is a pain in the ass as i watch alot of vids.

anyway this is the email i got back off asus

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

My name is Jany and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem.

We have been investigating the issue, there will be a new BIOS to be uploaded as soon as possible. Please wait patiently.
Thanks for your cooperation.

[holystarlight]

then the pc freezes... which is a pain in the ass as i watch alot of vids.

anyway this is the email i got back off asus

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

My name is Jany and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem.

We have been investigating the issue, there will be a new BIOS to be uploaded as soon as possible. Please wait patiently.
Thanks for your cooperation.

Cool, just have to wait it seems, Also the problem i have is with movies and also games, With SLI enabled games crash every 10-20mins and movies are unplayable, with SLI off movies look f***ed up sometimes and game dont seem to crash at all. so im not sure if its display drivers or bios or even both, guess I will find out soon

[Marios]

then the pc freezes... which is a pain in the ass as i watch alot of vids.

anyway this is the email i got back off asus

Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

My name is Jany and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem.

We have been investigating the issue, there will be a new BIOS to be uploaded as soon as possible. Please wait patiently.
Thanks for your cooperation.

You were right. I could watch videos without problems for hours. Though this time I did exactly the same thing you did at your video to replicate the problem. I installed Nero, then I started two videos. One with Nero and another one with media player. While changing between full screen and windowed mode and I got a crash. The video froze while in full screen mode without any lines or other kind of image corruption and only the mouse could move. The keyboard was dead. I pressed the power button but this didn't work. So I hard reset my PC.

Edit
Now I recall a couple of problems that might be related to this issue.
Google Earth, set in DirectX mode, crashes. In opengl mode it seems to be OK.
With firefox and lots of tabs open, video playback stops after a few seconds. The only way to watch a video is to turn firefox off and on again.

[CBird28]

Can everyone with a striker2 formula please make a complaint about the video prob, use the link below, the more complaints they get the faster they are actually going to sort this issue out, thanks

http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techser...Language=en-us

[seba84_2005]

Hej this looks the system of the cooling is so EK-Water

NB- 34C Idle


and here a bit pictures:








already soon blocks on mosfets

[Kevin1970]

Ok, new information here............

I got new ram from best buy. Not to keep but just to test if the issue was the ram. And it's not the ram at all. I put in a 2gig stick of corsair(not there best i might add). And i got into the bios and moved arround. It froze once, i rebooted put in the ram timings and saved. I checked the board temps. They read as follows 34,29,56,48. I made it to vista. things went well for 30-40 mins. i was just playing arround to see if it worked. I managed to hit windows update and update some stuff. and rebooted a few times. All seemed well. I believed it was the ram at that point. Till it froze again. I turned off the machine and opened the case. I felt the chipsets and they where hot. Like i didnt want my finger on there hot. I tried to get into the bios after letting it sit but never made it. I will try later but i wanted to see the temps. I know they must have been high. So i believe the issue is heat. NOW WHAT DO I DO? Cause i've got a stock setup. No overclocking. Also no fan on the chipsets. My CPU fan doesnt aim down at the board like most do, it aims sideways to cool off the massive heatsink. I've heard the is not ideal since a stock intel fan would aid at least a little in cooling the nearby chipset. Also i am wondering if the cheap non-artic silver compond might be bad and at this point degraded cause of the heat and that may have been the begining of my issues. If so do i rma the board of remove the heatsinks and replace with artic silver which i have. Did the heat cause permanant damage to the board? This i am wondering. I know that if i do remove the heatsinks i can't return the board. So if someone can reasure me the board isnt toast i will at least try to replace the heatsink compond.

I am wondering if the issue began when the cold weather went away. Cause it alway was very cool on the floor by the pc. It's been hot and humid here lately. Not like Florida weather but warm nonetheless. i felt i had good cooling on my case. and maybe i do, but maybe not for this board.

So is my board toast or do i can i still work work to fix it??????????

[MadDog]

Can everyone with a striker2 formula please make a complaint about the video prob, use the link below, the more complaints they get the faster they are actually going to sort this issue out, thanks

http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techser...Language=en-us

Cheers for the link.

I have had the same problem before when watching vids, but it hasnt happened for a while so it hasnt been bothering me. I actually thought it was a bad OC that was doing it in the first place.

But i will put a ticket in about the problem now


And as for my NB cooling:



And this keeps the NB at a respectable 65deg