Quote Originally Posted by truehighroller View Post
The level three enigineer manager at asus said that the issue seems to be popping up on the 9450s.
What was the issue he said specifically?

My symptoms were first speedstep loss, then BSOD then hard to load OS again

I think I am back to normal now, used the jumper reset, and firmly using 803. I am using my normal Bios settings in my signature and its running 3.6 speed step and prime95 small running right now with no problems

Going to stick with 803 and current settings until more time passes (mature bios), as I think it was just a bad flash to 1201 or 1303 & maybe I uploaded an old overclock profile which "confused" it. I can't remember doing this but its possible.

I know for the future that if my speedstep stops working for the same bios then its reset and reflash time

I could not get raid1 nor driveexpert backup to work for any length of time so I am just staying away from that - fed up reloading OS. I could not get acronis true image to restore but I think it could have been the express gate interferring with the acronis loader. When I get 6hrs out of prime I'll try the software again. If it works I'm done with raid/drive expert for good

So far so good with prime "fingers crossed"
Previously I did ~6hrs each small, large & then blend and it was good so I'll just run the small test and if its good I'll be happy enough.

Man I don't know how you guys can get the overclock with 1.2* volts, I'm 1.34375 for 3.6 and I need them all