ASUS Striker II Extreme

[HurinThalion]

We need some more info from you, what vid drivers and what bios?

From what I've seen, all the 790's have the SLI lockup issues but I fixed my problem with new Nvidia drivers.

Erik

Sorry, I've covered a bit of it above in prior posts. But if we're going to start directly working on mine, I'll post my specs. . .

Hardware overview
Intel Q9450 w/ Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (no OC yet - Stability Testing)
Dual NVIDIA GTX 280 SLi (eVGA)
4GB Mushkin 1600 DDR3 7-7-6-18-1T (WinXP 64-bit)
Asus Striker II Extreme Motherboard
300GB Velociraptor
Creative X-fi Titanium PCI-E
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W
Sony GDM-FW900 24" Widescreen CRT -- Best Monitor Ever!

Just last night, I wiped again and installed fresh:
Windows XP 64-bit
Video driver 177.41
nforce 15.17
X-fi drivers for PCI-E X-fi (only drivers currently available are on CD. No web updates yet.)

I have only the following installed on my computer:
SP2 and all Windows Updates (there is no SP3 for 64-bit XP)
Lord of the Rings Online
3DMark06
DirectX June Runtime Update from Microsoft.

That's about as "clean and pristine" as possible.

BIOS 801
Over time, I've gradually raised my voltages and settings to the following as freezing has persisted.
vcore: Default (not overclocking yet)
NB: 1.48
SB: 1.50
RAM: 1.86v (shows at ~1.90)
Timings: 7-7-7-20-2T @ 1333 (loosened up to rule out RAM) - Passes Memtest indefinitely. Though it did that at 7-7-6-18-1T as well. Just being safe.

Just last night, I raised NB to 1.52, SB to 1.55, and memory to 1.88 or 1.90 (can't remember), but haven't had a chance to play to test if these minor bumps helped.

Thanks for the interest! =)

H

[OBR]

Finally got my system stable (20 hours)
thought SLI issues were fixed with videos (hills have eyes played with no problems)
Played X-men 3 (1080p matroska) and after 1 hour, everything was fine while I was surfing the net and then

BSoD
Machine_Check_Exception

I had FOUR SiiEx boards, and only ONE (last) is ROCK stable after high OCing, many first edition of these boards has serious errors ... RMA your, and maybe you will got a better.

[rob2k]

Hi OBR, is there a rev number printed on the boards near to the PCI slots ?. If so and you can get at it what does yours say ?. Cheers.

[Tyke]

Hi OBR, is there a rev number printed on the boards near to the PCI slots ?. If so and you can get at it what does yours say ?. Cheers.

I've just had a new board and revision is still 1.02g.

[Tyke]

Couple of pics as requested. Both rads are mounted outside of the case.

http://www.ccook.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wc1.jpg
http://www.ccook.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wc2.jpg

[OBR]

I've just had a new board and revision is still 1.02g.

It is not exactly in hard revision , my board is 1.02G too, but in newest batches ... first boards i had was crappy like a hell ... frezing, bad ocing, video freezing ... with last (RMAed last week) is everything ok now ...

[Tyke]

It is not exactly in hard revision , my board is 1.02G too, but in newest batches ... first boards i had was crappy like a hell ... frezing, bad ocing, video freezing ... with last (RMAed last week) is everything ok now ...

Yes I agree. I am on my third board and the first one was a nightmare!

[Atlantic2142]

Yes I agree. I am on my third board and the first one was a nightmare!

Agreed!
I´m getting my fourth board to day. Hope that it will work.
Do you guys have any idea if ASUS have released a new rev. ?

Cheers friends

[Tyke]

Agreed!
I´m getting my fourth board to day. Hope that it will work.
Do you guys have any idea if ASUS have released a new rev. ?

Cheers friends

As already stated, my revision was unchanged..I got this board yesterday. However recent boards do seem more reliable!!

[rob2k]

Thanks for feedback on board rev number guys.

Just changed my Raptor X to a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1Tb to accompany my two Hitachi 500Gb drives, very pleased with speed and silence !!. Had a BSOD when copying files across from Raptor to F1 on 0801 bios, changed to 0804 and it copied first time. Not sure if this is significant or not - but maybe some file corruption issue creeping in with 0801 ????.

[pmp]

ASUS Striker II Extreme BIOS build 0901
New NVMM - 4.A82.75

[rob2k]

Good work PMP

What does this fix or allow me to tweak more ???

[BoeZombie]

ASUS Striker II Extreme BIOS build 0901
New NVMM - 4.A82.75

thanks！

[MikeMK]

ASUS Striker II Extreme BIOS build 0901
New NVMM - 4.A82.75

Gonna test this out tonight I think! Will let you know how I get on.

BTW... has anyone got anythoughts on my voltage problems here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1221

[OBR]

with "new nvmm" in 0804 ive had lot of problems with IDE devices ... is that fixed now?

[ceevee]

As already stated, my revision was unchanged..I got this board yesterday. However recent boards do seem more reliable!!

I really hope its true. I just RMAed my first S2E and have another on the way.

I would be so happy if SLI works for more than 20mins without freezing on this new board.

[extremis]

For all your EK block questions...

EK Compatibility List

Skinee,

Thank you, but I have already seen that. What I am asking is if it will fit. I know it isn't the right block, but are the holes spaced correctly?

[slim142]

Testing new BIOS

EDIT: BIOS 0901 has no notable changes. I also noticed my system is not stable anymore just 1 day after it proved to be Prime95 20 hours stable. Im this close to RMA this board since all of you say positive things about your RMAs.

[HurinThalion]

Testing new BIOS

EDIT: BIOS 0901 has no notable changes. I also noticed my system is not stable anymore just 1 day after it proved to be Prime95 20 hours stable. Im this close to RMA this board since all of you say positive things about your RMAs.

Are these RMAs going through Asus or through the retailer?

Some may be getting new boards (rather than refurbs/repaired) from Asus.

I think you should probably RMA. But keep in mind that a lot of folks here may be using their 30-day exchange policy with their retailers.

[slim142]

Are these RMAs going through Asus or through the retailer?

Some may be getting new boards (rather than refurbs/repaired) from Asus.

I think you should probably RMA. But keep in mind that a lot of folks here may be using their 30-day exchange policy with their retailers.

I understand Im taking a risk to get it repaired or a refurbished, but I cant keep a board that is stable one day, but not the next day.

We will see how this goes.

[ceevee]

Are these RMAs going through Asus or through the retailer?

Some may be getting new boards (rather than refurbs/repaired) from Asus.

I think you should probably RMA. But keep in mind that a lot of folks here may be using their 30-day exchange policy with their retailers.

Yes I am exchanging through the retailer.

Actually when I get the new board I think I am going to go to 0704 and stay there for a while. 0704 was the most stable for me, and I will wait until more work is done to try something else. Hopefully these issues with freezing will be resolved very soon in a way that works for everyone.

It is especially sad for me because I have owned other SLI boards that were rock solid stable and would run SLI for hours and hours with zero issues. It seems like 790 series has just had way too many problems.

[slim142]

Besides that, is unbeliavable how one day you run normally then the other you just freeze out of nowhere.

Can somebody help me out cause I cant find the RMA option in the ASUS site (form to fill in), Im ending up in the support page everytime I click somewhere Grrr...

[ceevee]

Besides that, is unbeliavable how one day you run normally then the other you just freeze out of nowhere.

Can somebody help me out cause I cant find the RMA option in the ASUS site (form to fill in), Im ending up in the support page everytime I click somewhere Grrr...

Here you go.

http://vip.asus.com/eservice/usa_rmaserv.aspx

[slim142]

Thank you!

[slim142]

Guys, I need some serious help right now cause I think I found the problem on my motherboard
According to what I have checked and reviewing here, I think my problem is the droop of voltages while in idle.
So please help me on this, I need to know what voltage droop causes the system to freeze and sometimes to restart so here it goes

vcore= Yes this could be the one, maybe?
PLL= This was the key for me to achieve stability on 0804, maybe adding a little more will finally let me be stable on idle?
VTT= How do you know you need more VTT? freezes? BSoDs? 1.30 (1.33 real) is what I have needed so far. dont know if I should increase this (Im almost on border line=1.36)
Memory= well, all I know is that if this was the responsable for my problems, I would get BSoDs. Could this be the one?
NB= In load 100%, but could this cause inestability in idle? I seriously dont know what to say here
SB= I have it in 1.50, is there any chance I would need more than 1.50? Im not using Tri-SLI, but all 6 SATA ports are in use, maybe this is the responsable since it has to handle a lot of hard drives? unsufficient power?
So far I think is the SB, as far as I can tell, prime95 doesnt stress the hard drives or the SB as much as it does to the NB, and this might be the reason why Im not stable specially since Im using all SATA ports.

Ok , Im not covering my eyes and trying to think that I have the perfect board and I just need to find the right voltages. I am 100% stable in Load, but I sometimes freeze in idle and I came to the conclusion it could be because of the sudden voltage droops.

Anybody think they can help me out on this one before I end up RMAing the board, I would really appreciate!