ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

Im going to die... because of this crap

[Justifire]

I dont understand, if you have 3 8800GTX, where in the world is your X-fi? Unless you have your cards under waterblocks, I dont know whereelse can a PCI card fit...

Could you specify what BIOS you using? Driver? OS?

Yes have my cards under water (EK Blocks) and my X-Fi in the lowest slot, a bit bend
I use bios 0704 right now, with others there was either no problem .
Driver is always the latest beta that's leaked.
OS=Vista 64 Ultimate

Please do yourself a fever and RMA your board.

Onother thing wich might be interesting, check your cards ID with Nibitor and see if both card have a different ID#

[toyzruz]

Has anyone tried tweaking the LDT Multi yet?

P.S. I just got corrupted OS when Trying to boot at 1800mhz on Memory.

Hi, I'm still testing and looking for a stable 3,6 configuration ... Can you post yours, please?

[sakaana]

Hi all,

new to this place and what to say...it looks like that bios 0801 works better for me regarding 400x9, it wasn`t stable before but now it looks better.

[slim142]

OMG WHATS WRONG!!!

I installed XP again and when installing nforce, for some reason ethernet drivers wont install, it gets stuck in the middle of the installation. Whats going on?

[TheRoyalty]

Is sound card placement crucial when using SLI on this particular board? Using a dual 8800gtx setup with a Prelude X-Fi in the middle PCI slot inbetween the graphics cards. Would placing it in the lowest PCI slot make any difference to avoid any issues?

[day187]

just installed the 177.26 forceware driver for visitax64 (with modded disp.inf) and and now i'm gaming smooth on my 790I with SLi enabled

driver is here ready to install
vistax64 only

i hope they work for you guys

more drivers can be found over at Guru you will need to mod or find your disp.inf for your OS there are more disp.inf modded over at guru aswell

[Trigger5521]

just installed the 177.26 forceware driver for visitax64 (with modded disp.inf) and and now i'm gaming smooth on my 790I with SLi enabled

driver is here ready to install
vistax64 only

i hope they work for you guys

more drivers can be found over at Guru you will need to mod or find your disp.inf for your OS there are more disp.inf modded over at guru aswell

Thanks for posting..tried them but crackling X-FI audio still present in these drivers. Back to 174.74 for me. The whole 175 series is fubar for audio so far.

[sakaana]

Thanks for posting..tried them but crackling X-FI audio still present in these drivers. Back to 174.74 for me. The whole 175 series is fubar for audio so far.

That seems to be some strange issue with the X-FI´s, some ppl got problems with it on 780i & 790i and some don`t. For myself i can say that my X-Fi works without any problem into the middle of the 2 GFX cards (Forceware 175.80)

[Qwik]

I had problems with mt X-Fi also, what I did was reformat drives and do a clean install and reload creative drivers first before anything else. and I haven't had a problem at all sense. the last driver I installed was my video drivers. seems creative drivers don't like being install after nvidia drivers.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=373340

[M@G!C]

To all of us that have a X-FI card and are having lookups in games and crappy sound, maybe worth give this a try:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Creative...load-1944.html

Let´s hope that these fix some issues.

[sakaana]

To all of us that have a X-FI card and are having lookups in games and crappy sound, maybe worth give this a try:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Creative...load-1944.html
Let´s hope that these fix some issues.

Link doesn`t work, do you mean the new beta driver ?
http://at.europe.creative.com/suppor...ct=0&x=25&y=11

Fixes:

* Resolves issues of intermittent and random application/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX®, DirectSound®, OpenAL and/or ASIO features.
* Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occuring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.

[nuclearjock]

I had problems with mt X-Fi also, what I did was reformat drives and do a clean install and reload creative drivers first before anything else. and I haven't had a problem at all sense. the last driver I installed was my video drivers. seems creative drivers don't like being install before nvidia drivers.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=373340

You say that the creative drivers don't like to be installed before nvidia drivers. But before that you say you installed the creative drivers first and all's good.

Which way is it??

[Qwik]

You say that the creative drivers don't like to be installed before nvidia drivers. But before that you say you installed the creative drivers first and all's good.

Which way is it??

my bag I fixed it!

[M@G!C]

I had problems with mt X-Fi also, what I did was reformat drives and do a clean install and reload creative drivers first before anything else. and I haven't had a problem at all sense. the last driver I installed was my video drivers. seems nvidia drivers don't like being install before creative drivers.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=373340

Altought i´m not quite sure, i think QWIK is right, install X-FI drivers FIRST and install the nvidia video drivers AFTER.
I say this, because i was having issues with sound, and one of the times i´ve done a fresh SO install, i´ve installed F-XI drivers first and then video drivers(i was doing the reverse the other times) and things seem to work much better this way...

[Trigger5521]

Link doesn`t work, do you mean the new beta driver ?
http://at.europe.creative.com/suppor...ct=0&x=25&y=11

Fixes:

* Resolves issues of intermittent and random application/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX®, DirectSound®, OpenAL and/or ASIO features.
* Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occuring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.

Got my hopes up...I just installed these beta drivers. Does NOT fix distorsion when using NVIDIA 175 series for me.

Back to 174 again.

[vmanuelgm]

These beta drivers doesnt solve crappy sound when sli enabled. Back to 174 too.

[vmanuelgm]

Anybody knows if a new bios will be realeased soon? I am planning to sell my striker II and buy a DFI X48 T3RS...

[sakaana]

Anybody knows if a new bios will be realeased soon? I am planning to sell my striker II and buy a DFI X48 T3RS...

PMP posted a link to a beta bios (0801) on side 33 of this thread which works well for me.
@X-FI users: As i posted before, strange issue, i installed my system as i always do (Windows -> System Drivers - GFX Drivers - X-FI Drivers) and never had a problem with this. But i heard that some ppl got the same problem as you guys on a EVGA 790i.

[slim142]

OMG WHATS WRONG!!!

I installed XP again and when installing nforce, for some reason ethernet drivers wont install, it gets stuck in the middle of the installation. Whats going on?

Ok, I know I said it but this is it. No More NVIDIA chipsets for me until they prove me they finally got their stuff right.
HDD Regenerator ran on my Raptor all night and its 100% in working conditions. Windows XP SP2 installs ok, NOD32 installs, XP SP3 install but whenever I try to install the dam ethernet drivers, it wont, always gets stuck in the middle of the ethernet drivers installation. SMBUS installs as well as IDE drivers but not the ethernet.

I just bought a D-Link PCI ethernet card. DGE-530T 10/20/100/1000/2000 Gigabits network card cause I cant tolerate this BS anymore. XP installed 20 times just to get it stuck on ethernet drivers. Give me a break. Even tried 0801, safe mode, Guru3d driver removal but nothing. If for any reason it installs itself, it will tell me, Cant get connection, limited or nule. Nvidia gave me the hardest time in my life with this and adding the SLI issues, this makes the 790i the worse chipset I ever owned. Ill make sure next time I stick to NVIDIA Gfx cards because I dont want to ever deal with nForce or nTune ever again in my entire life. SLI issues were good enough to feel frustrated, add this to that and we have a useless machine which cant even go to the internet.

[vmanuelgm]

I have 0801 with my 2 gbpi gskill, and I am still having issues (bsods). I didnt try to install the second pack, it would cause total unstability...

In fact, there hasnt been a bios release that says "enhance memory compatibility"...

[sakaana]

Just would like to see some settings of other Q6600 users to compare them with mine, i finally found a primestable setting for my pretested (1.324V @ P35) Q6600:



The SB+NB voltages might be a bit too high, i will try to put them down a bit (or simply somebody say "yes you can do for sure") Oh yes, Bios 0801.

[slim142]

Still waiting for the miraculous BIOS that will fix SLI

[TheHardCase]

Still waiting for the miraculous BIOS that will fix SLI

slim142 do me a favour, remove all other hard drives from chain.
Only install using 2 of the same hard drives if you are using raid, remove the others...
Then lets see if things fail when you install OS.

[slim142]

slim142 do me a favour, remove all other hard drives from chain.
Only install using 2 of the same hard drives if you are using raid, remove the others...
Then lets see if things fail when you install OS.

What makes you think that because I have 4 hard drives they might be the reason why my SLI freezes? AFAIK, if I was using Tri-SLI, then yes, the SB might have something related but is all on the NB and my pc is Prime95 25+ hours estable.
Add to this that Im not the only 790i user who is experiencing this. We have Coupa here and thousands in the eVGA forums (this time, Im not been sarcastic like the corruption thing because there are many with SLI freezes)
I dont know if I mentioned this but I also tried with no sound card drivers. Just fresh XP but still SLI freeze in movies/videos.

I just installed the D-Link DGE-530T that I had to buy because of this stupid nForce drivers that wont install and after 24 hours of no-internet in my Striker II, I just want to play some CS and enjoy what I have rest of this day. Is ironic how this d-link card has the same Marvell chip as the Striker, E881116 lol.

BTW, talking in general, dont count on me on keeping overclocking this system. I had the worse nightmare for 5 minutes (and I was awake). For some reason after installing 0801, I tried 1800 Sync, Linked. When everything seemed to be estable, out of nowhere all my HDDs and Optical drives dissapeared from BIOS!. I have no idea what happened but I was sweating a lot because I thought RMA time, Nooo!, I thought "last chance, load defaults" and that did the trick, but since I have no needs to keep OCing, I prefer not to.

HardCase ->
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...e=en-us&page=2