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

[M-XXXX]

Could you tell me MAX bench voltages for:

PLL
NB
FSB
SATA voltage
DDR2 REF Voltages?

[msarp]

Is there any issues w/ mounting the Thermalright ULTRA 120 EXTREME on my new Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 ?
Thanks

[Hockster]

Is there any issues w/ mounting the Thermalright ULTRA 120 EXTREME on my new Asus Maximus Formula SE X38 ?
Thanks

Nope.

[msarp]

thanks!!!

[tc17]

I started having reboot problems, where this motherboard started in a non-stop reboot sequence. Pushing the clear cmos button did nothing. I had to remove the cmos battery to get it to stop.

Is there a fix for this?

And does the Rampage bios have this same problem?

Its rather ridiculous that such an expensive board would have a problem like this. I'm currently running the 1201 bios.

[OVERK|LL]

I started having reboot problems, where this motherboard started in a non-stop reboot sequence. Pushing the clear cmos button did nothing. I had to remove the cmos battery to get it to stop.

Is there a fix for this?

And does the Rampage bios have this same problem?

Its rather ridiculous that such an expensive board would have a problem like this. I'm currently running the 1201 bios.

And you've come to the conclusion that this problem is the board how? It could be a setting, or an incompatible piece of hardware causing this issue, given that the rest of us are NOT having this issue, it's hard to point fingers at the board.........

[[IO]Mechti]

Hi,
I've just built me a new system: Rampage Formula and a QX9770. The system works fine and I wanted to overclock it a little bit, so I set the multiplier from 8.0 to 9.0 and Prime 95 ran for 10h without a single error. But when I switch my PC completely off (I switch the PSU off) and bott again I get the followin error:
"Error! The CPU to Bus ratio or VID configuration has failed"
I can then change the BIOS settings via F1 or load defaults with F2. If I choose F1 and change nothing the system boots properly and runs perfectly.
And the strange thing is: If i shutdown my PC and don't switch off my PSU this error does not occur. When I restart Vista the error does not occur, too.
The error also occurs if I just set the multiplier to 8, 7 or even 6 (but with "Auto" (=8) the error does not occur).
That's really strange, isn't it?
I use BIOS version 406 (but I already testet 403, 401 and 308) and have no idea what I can do to solve this problem.
I have seen that others here in this thread have the same issue. Here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=4693 it is sait that the error occurs when all memory slots are used - I use 4x2GB of memory but I also tried just to use one slot with 2GB of memory and the error still occurs.
I also tried to increase the core voltage up to 1,35 but this did not help either. Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance

//Edit: Here are the other components of my pc:
Board: Rampage Formula (Bios 0406)
CPU: QX9770
Memory:4 x 2GB OCZ Platinum XTC DIMM Kit 4GB PC2-8000U CL5-5-5-15 @2,1V
HDD: 1x WD VelociRaptor, 2x WD Caviar SE16 640GB @ Raid 0
GPU: Powercolor HD4870
PSU: Amacrox Freestyle 750W
CPU-fan: Noctua NH-U12P (with 2 fans in push-pull)
Further I have 5 other case fans in my Cosmos S 1000 but I didn't connect a fan to the "PWR"-connector on the board because in another forum I read that this can cause problems, too.

[tc17]

And you've come to the conclusion that this problem is the board how? It could be a setting, or an incompatible piece of hardware causing this issue, given that the rest of us are NOT having this issue, it's hard to point fingers at the board.........

Because in the past I have read posts from many other people who HAVE had this problem. I guess you speak for everyone huh?

[OVERK|LL]

Because in the past I have read posts from many other people who HAVE had this problem. I guess you speak for everyone huh?

With this board in particular? I simply don't recall reading that in this thread. If I'm wrong, my apologies.

Have you tried the basic "swap parts" out and see if it fixes it?

[philbrown23]

so hasn't the rampage extreme just come out?? if so wouldnt a maximus extreme to rampage extreme conversion work?? I'll be the gunea pig if someone will get me a file with everything needed on it so I can just extract it to a usb drive and go to town, hook me up guys, these maximus extreme bios really suck and are seriously limiting my overclocks I know my E8500 has way more in it!

[ZenEffect]

well, i just got my mobo back from rma. giving it a quick run through right now

w00t! now to rma my dfi

[ante_ante]

Having a problem when i´m trying to unpack a dvd for example. It takes 7min 30s for a 4,3gb file. Doesn´t think it would take so long. what could be the problem ?? Running Vista X64

[chawks2]

Turbo, are you running SP1 for x64 Vista? It increases file xfer rates tremendously.

[Grnfinger]

Having a problem when i´m trying to unpack a dvd for example. It takes 7min 30s for a 4,3gb file. Doesn´t think it would take so long. what could be the problem ?? Running Vista X64

I had the same problem with Vista 64bit, the latest chipset drivers solved the problem for me, you should give them a try.

[ante_ante]

I had the same problem with Vista 64bit, the latest chipset drivers solved the problem for me, you should give them a try.

Yes i have sp1. And which is the latest chipset driver then ?

[ZenEffect]

well, im having troubles now benching at 545fsb
rampage modded it straight away :P

i will get a 5.1ghz bench in tonight no matter what !

*edit*
also should i be worried that setting lowest available 1.5ppl results in 1.61?

[Grnfinger]

well, im having troubles now benching at 545fsb
rampage modded it straight away :P

i will get a 5.1ghz bench in tonight no matter what !

*edit*
also should i be worried that setting lowest available 1.5ppl results in 1.61?

I think 1.70+ is cause for concern

Yes i have sp1. And which is the latest chipset driver then ?

I have a link but I'm not at my pc right now I will post it shortly for you if you still need it.

[[IO]Mechti]

Here you can find the latest chipset-drivers:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20chipset.htm

[Robilar]

Hi,
I've just built me a new system: Rampage Formula and a QX9770. The system works fine and I wanted to overclock it a little bit, so I set the multiplier from 8.0 to 9.0 and Prime 95 ran for 10h without a single error. But when I switch my PC completely off (I switch the PSU off) and bott again I get the followin error:
"Error! The CPU to Bus ratio or VID configuration has failed"
I can then change the BIOS settings via F1 or load defaults with F2. If I choose F1 and change nothing the system boots properly and runs perfectly.
And the strange thing is: If i shutdown my PC and don't switch off my PSU this error does not occur. When I restart Vista the error does not occur, too.
The error also occurs if I just set the multiplier to 8, 7 or even 6 (but with "Auto" (=8) the error does not occur).
That's really strange, isn't it?
I use BIOS version 406 (but I already testet 403, 401 and 308) and have no idea what I can do to solve this problem.
I have seen that others here in this thread have the same issue. Here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=4693 it is sait that the error occurs when all memory slots are used - I use 4x2GB of memory but I also tried just to use one slot with 2GB of memory and the error still occurs.
I also tried to increase the core voltage up to 1,35 but this did not help either. Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance

//Edit: Here are the other components of my pc:
Board: Rampage Formula (Bios 0406)
CPU: QX9770
Memory:4 x 2GB OCZ Platinum XTC DIMM Kit 4GB PC2-8000U CL5-5-5-15 @2,1V
HDD: 1x WD VelociRaptor, 2x WD Caviar SE16 640GB @ Raid 0
GPU: Powercolor HD4870
PSU: Amacrox Freestyle 750W
CPU-fan: Noctua NH-U12P (with 2 fans in push-pull)
Further I have 5 other case fans in my Cosmos S 1000 but I didn't connect a fan to the "PWR"-connector on the board because in another forum I read that this can cause problems, too.

I have the same issue the Asus P5E when I have any type of overclock.

works fine but gives me the same error on bootup. bypass the error or go into bios and its fine.

not every time though. really odd.

[ZenEffect]

I think 1.70+ is cause for concern

for 45nm cpu? i thought 1.54 was supposed to be about the max. this new maximus is overvolting like crazy... .1 for dram... .03 for nb... .11 for ppl... im just glad the fsb tops out at 550 on this one.

[Grnfinger]

for 45nm cpu? i thought 1.54 was supposed to be about the max. this new maximus is overvolting like crazy... .1 for dram... .03 for nb... .11 for ppl... im just glad the fsb tops out at 550 on this one.

Sorry I was thinking you were running your Quad 65nm, I do believe that 45nm is 1.50 but I do not have my pc handy atm so I cannot verify that.

Here you can find the latest chipset-drivers:
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20chipset.htm

Thank you

[MonsterDK]

What do these do in the BIOS:

DRAM Static Read Control: Enabled
Ai Clock Twister : Light
Transaction Booster : Disabled
-Relax Level 0

Thanks for any advice

[ZenEffect]

What do these do in the BIOS:

DRAM Static Read Control: Enabled
Ai Clock Twister : Light
Transaction Booster : Disabled
-Relax Level 0

Thanks for any advice

those are for memory tweaking. im not exactly sure how dram static read control and ai clock twister work but transaction booster is your "performance level"

[shimmishim]

Anyone using 2x1 crucial tracers either the 8000 or 8500 variant?

I have the older single sided D9's but I can't get them to boot.

If you do, what bios are you using? I'm on the 1201. Thanks!

[[IO]Mechti]

Hi,

I had the same problem with Vista 64bit, the latest chipset drivers solved the problem for me, you should give them a try.

I just saw that you have a raid0 and I can tell you that the Intel Matrix Storage Manager increased my performance of my raid hdds greatly.
You can find the latest drivers here http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm
bye