ASUS Striker II Extreme

[skinnee]

I looked at your settings and I think 1.36V is way too low for 4GB RAM and high FSB, especially with P1/P2 enabled. Try 1.4 SPP and disable P1/P2 and Memtest first for starters. It has happened to me so many times with the earlier BIOS release with P1/P2 enabled and system freeze while priming. Heck, I even RMAed a very good pair of same EB sticks that you have, just because of the system freeze and I thought it was the RAM. Those sticks did 1800@ 7-7-7 no problems with 1.96V and it turned out be a BIOS problem with P1/P2 enabled.The replacements that I got sucks big time.Your sticks also look good as they could do almost 1800 @ 1.86 passing memtest.

The Vcore also looks pretty nice for 4GHZ that you are running(1780x9).Usually when the vcore is too low you will see a BSOD and/or a system restart.I also hope all the spread spectrums are disabled and C1E and EIST diabled(the usual stuff while ocing).

Good luck.

Just to echo the P1 & P2 disabled, I couldn't get passed 1808 until I disabled P1 and P2, I didn't really see much difference in Everest benchmarks or SuperPi with both disabled.

[jcool]

Lol, I "solved" the boot issue. The customer already had one Seagate ES 500GB disk that he wanted to attach to his new comp.
So I added the drive and just for the heck of it set the Seagate to #1 in the HDD boot list. Guess what.. the VR Raid 0 with Vista on it, now in 2nd position, boots up fine, without any delays or errors (since the Seagate doesn't contain any OS).
If I change the priority back to the Raid array being #1 I get "boot disk error" again, perfectly replacable. I cleared CMOS several times and even reflashed 1002, so no OC problem and no corrupt bios

Neither ideal nor logical solution, but it works. Better than having to leave Vista in ur drive.

By the way, I'm running 1700/2000 unlinked with a Q9550 at 3,6Ghz and 2x2GB CSX Diablo, P1 & P2 enabled (needs 1,54V Vnb bios and good cooling though, water through Fuzion block + MX-2 under the hood in my case).

Sadly I had to RMA the last Diablo D9GTS kit I got, as it couldn't do more than 1600 C7 without errors. CSX rep said their last batch of GTS evidently contained some bad samples and they were out of stock on Micron-based Diablos, so I had to use some Samsung for quick replacement.
They run 2000 at 1,9V for sure, CL10-9-9-24 kinda sucks tho

[nuclearjock]

Quick question.

Just switched to a Q9650, upped vcore alittle, and started prime95,

failure is in the form of reboot. no red individual core failures, just reboot.

Has anyone run into this and how did you solve it.

Very strange and repetable.

[Warboy]

Quick question.

Just switched to a Q9650, upped vcore alittle, and started prime95,

failure is in the form of reboot. no red individual core failures, just reboot.

Has anyone run into this and how did you solve it.

Very strange and repetable.

I've ran into that before, It was either NB or VTT voltage that was the issue.

[M@G!C]

Lol, I "solved" the boot issue. The customer already had one Seagate ES 500GB disk that he wanted to attach to his new comp.
So I added the drive and just for the heck of it set the Seagate to #1 in the HDD boot list. Guess what.. the VR Raid 0 with Vista on it, now in 2nd position, boots up fine, without any delays or errors (since the Seagate doesn't contain any OS).
If I change the priority back to the Raid array being #1 I get "boot disk error" again, perfectly replacable. I cleared CMOS several times and even reflashed 1002, so no OC problem and no corrupt bios

Neither ideal nor logical solution, but it works. Better than having to leave Vista in ur drive.

By the way, I'm running 1700/2000 unlinked with a Q9550 at 3,6Ghz and 2x2GB CSX Diablo, P1 & P2 enabled (needs 1,54V Vnb bios and good cooling though, water through Fuzion block + MX-2 under the hood in my case).

Sadly I had to RMA the last Diablo D9GTS kit I got, as it couldn't do more than 1600 C7 without errors. CSX rep said their last batch of GTS evidently contained some bad samples and they were out of stock on Micron-based Diablos, so I had to use some Samsung for quick replacement.
They run 2000 at 1,9V for sure, CL10-9-9-24 kinda sucks tho

If so it seems a problem in the bootloader of VR´s, try Vistaboot Pro to write the bootloader of the VR´s again, that should solve your problems.

[tekjunkie]

I've ran into that before, It was either NB or VTT voltage that was the issue.

Usually its VTT or vcore. If NB is too low, the system freezes.No BSOD, no prime errors, just hard freeze. This is from my experience with S2E.

[my87csx481]

Just to echo the P1 & P2 disabled, I couldn't get passed 1808 until I disabled P1 and P2, I didn't really see much difference in Everest benchmarks or SuperPi with both disabled.

Interesting. If I disable P1 and P2 I get <9,000 read and >69ns latency. With them enabled, I get almost 12,000 read and <50ns latency.

Anyway, at <9,000 and >69ns, I passed 3 or 4 passes of memtest, and over 4 hours prime. Sorry, no screenshot, just popped the circuit breaker before I could save it. It won't do 1800/1800 at the following voltages, but this is where I'm at now:

BIOS - 1002 non-beta:
1780 QDR
1780 DDR3
Unlinked
8-8-8-24-2t-all sub-timings on auto
P1 - Disabled
P2 - Disabled
Vcore - 1.325
LLC - disabled
PLL - 1.54
VTT - 1.3
Mem - 1.86
NB - 1.4
SB - 1.55
Not mentioned - Auto

Now I just gotta get the speed back.

....snip....Edit: Guys, where the hell can I download bios 1103? Searched everywhere, even manually on the Asus ftp. It's not there.

Here.

[Trigger5521]

Interesting. If I disable P1 and P2 I get <9,000 read and >69ns latency. With them enabled, I get almost 12,000 read and <50ns latency.

Anyway, at <9,000 and >69ns, I passed 3 or 4 passes of memtest, and over 4 hours prime. Sorry, no screenshot, just popped the circuit breaker before I could save it. It won't do 1800/1800 at the following voltages, but this is where I'm at now:

BIOS - 1002 non-beta:
1780 QDR
1780 DDR3
Unlinked
8-8-8-24-2t-all sub-timings on auto
P1 - Disabled
P2 - Disabled
Vcore - 1.325
LLC - disabled
PLL - 1.54
VTT - 1.3
Mem - 1.86
NB - 1.4
SB - 1.55
Not mentioned - Auto

Now I just gotta get the speed back.



Here.

I just found the new 1103 bios will pass memtest at 1800 for me if I let it set the main mem timings on auto. Auto @ 1800 linked and synced it sets it to 9-10-10 26 2T. Memtest bandwith is lower than my 1702 settings at 7-7-7-22 2T
so I see no benefit but it's the first time i have been able to pass memtest @ 1800 with any settings.

[my87csx481]

Trigger, can you please post your BIOS settings/voltages and version for 7-7-7-22-2t?

Thanks.

[Prelude]

my Q6600 @ 3.5Ghz the vcore is low 1.38 but the VTT and PLL are big
VTT 1.38
PLL 1.62
work 48hours prime95 all fine
try VTT 1.3 1.34 1.36 freeze even in stock speed my E8500 too

Q6600
but when i move from x9 multi to x8 and boot in 3.8Ghz work fine with only VTT 1.28 but the temp are too high the v-core voltage goes to 1.48 will try when the water cooling solution come in 30 days

and this loadline calibration is that bug when i fix 1.45 vcore and when the loadline calibration is enable the evereset says the vcore is 1.5

[Trigger5521]

Trigger, can you please post your BIOS settings/voltages and version for 7-7-7-22-2t?

Thanks.

Here ya go. Bios 1103. check sig for anything else.

Note: everything under water except the GPU's

[Erikz]

my Q6600 @ 3.5Ghz the vcore is low 1.38 but the VTT and PLL are big
VTT 1.38
PLL 1.62
work 48hours prime95 all fine
try VTT 1.3 1.34 1.36 freeze even in stock speed my E8500 too

Q6600
but when i move from x9 multi to x8 and boot in 3.8Ghz work fine with only VTT 1.28 but the temp are too high the v-core voltage goes to 1.48 will try when the water cooling solution come in 30 days

and this loadline calibration is that bug when i fix 1.45 vcore and when the loadline calibration is enable the evereset says the vcore is 1.5

Wow a Q6600 over 3.0 Ghz, I'll have to try this out myself.

What is your FSB set to?

[tekjunkie]

That was the first thing I did.
Guess what, Vista is not dead, on the contrary. It's the ing stupid mobo giving me crap. Listen to this fellas...

If I don't have any CD/DVD in my drives, but set boot priority to HDD 1st (no other drives attached, only the VRs so they are on top naturally) the mobo just says boot disk failure after a few seconds.

Now, if I insert the Vista DVD and reboot, I see the "press a button if you want to enter setup" screen - remember, I did NOT change boot priority, it's still on HDD 1st - so why the hell does it boot from CD then?!

Now on to the good part: If I wait a few seconds and don't enter setup, Vista will boot up fine.
If I remove the DVD it's boot disk failure again.

I ing hate this mobo.

Same thing is happening to me.I had 4 raptors(raptor Xs) in Raid 0 and I was having problems getting the board powered up inside the case(the lights would just blink after I press the button and the fans spin for a second and the board was powering itself down).Every thing was working fine and I thought the mobo was dead again. I disconnected everything, took it outsode the case to debug the problem and guess what the board powers up fine, but it's not booting into XP.I get the "Boot disk failure" message even though all the HDDs are connected and recongnized in BIOS. I was cussing and thought I would have to reinstall XP, popped in the XP disk(DVD drive was already the first in the boot order), it came up with the message "Press any key to boot from CD" message. I don't press any key and BAM boots right into XP. Very wierd to say the least . This is with 0901 Bios.

[Prelude]

Wow a Q6600 over 3.0 Ghz, I'll have to try this out myself.

What is your FSB set to?

in 3.5Ghz 379 x9
in 3.8Ghz 475 x8

[tekjunkie]

These are my settings on my E8600 if anybody needs it









It is also almost 6 hours prime stable.



I also did intel burn test(50 times) which I dont have screen shot of.

[|SiLA|]

new nvidia drivers out 15.23

[nuclearjock]

Quick question.

Just switched to a Q9650, upped vcore alittle, and started prime95,

failure is in the form of reboot. no red individual core failures, just reboot.

Has anyone run into this and how did you solve it.

Very strange and repetable.

Turned out to be a funky chip, (boxed and everything).

Exchanged it for a new one, (vid dropped from 1.250 to 1.225).

This chip behaves as it should.

[my87csx481]

Thanks tekjunkie and Trigger5521 for the settings

I'll give 'em a shot over the next couple days....really can't wait to get outta' work now

I'm really having a hard time with mine....since the spring....

Side thought: I was somewhat concerned and now I'm relieved....my "CPU Level up" field in BIOS disappeared a long time ago (don't remember which rev. bios killed it) but, I see both you guys' is missing too....not that I used it, just that it was weird, one day I just noticed it missing.

@Erikz: Another side thought: I got a Q6600 doing 450 x 8 on a 680i Striker for over a year now....just a hunch, but I would think you should be able to do something similar on 790i.

[sweep]

Hi,

I am new to this forum and have been reading through the various threads relating to the Striker II Extreme.

I have been trying to overclock my rig but have not had much success, I first tried these settings;

Extreme Tweaker 

CPU Level Up = Auto
Memory Level Up = Auto
CPU Multiplier = 10
FSB (QDR) Frequency = 1600 (400)
Mem (DDR) Frequency = 1600 (800)
LDT Frequency = 5x

Memory Timing Section 

P1 = Auto
P2 = Auto
tCL = 9
tRCD = 9
tRP = 9
tRAS = 24
Command Per Clock = 2T
tRRD = Auto
tRC = Auto
tWR = Auto
tWTR = Auto
tFAW = Auto
tRD = Auto
tRTP = Auto
tRFC = 60
tREF = Auto

Over Voltage

CPU Voltage = 1.35v
Loadline Calibration = Enabled
CPU PLL Voltage = 1.6v 
CPU VTT Voltage = 1.3v
Memory Voltage + 1.8v
NB Core Voltage = 1.40v
SB Core Voltage = 1.50
CPU GTL_REF0 Ratio = Auto
CPU GTL_REF1 Ratio = Auto
CPU GTL_REF2 Ratio = Auto 
CPU GTL_REF3 Ratio = Auto
DDR3 CHA1 Ref Voltage = Auto
DDR3 CHA2 Ref Voltage = Auto
DDR3 CHB1 Ref Voltage = Auto
DDR3 CHB2 Ref Voltage = Auto

Upon booting into Windows it bluescreened so I upped the CPU Voltage to 1.4 volts. Again did the same when booting into Windows, I then dropped the multiplier to 9 it got to the logon screen I put in my password and as the Windows loading sound went to play it bluescreened.

I have run Memtest for a few hours and on ever pass it was successful even with the recommended memory timings.

CoreTemp shows the VID as 1.2375v.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks!

[tekjunkie]

Side thought: I was somewhat concerned and now I'm relieved....my "CPU Level up" field in BIOS disappeared a long time ago (don't remember which rev. bios killed it) but, I see both you guys' is missing too....not that I used it, just that it was weird, one day I just noticed it missing.

Hmm. never paid attention to it. Also, I was able to reduce the Vspp to 1.42 and did a prime run of 9 hours no problem. Next is to see how much low of a PLL I can go

[Sem]

What are the NB temps like on this with a quad core

i briefly had a Striker II Formula but the NB idled at 65c and went into the 80s under prime with a Q6600

im hoping the S2E wont be as bad as that

[Prelude]

What are the NB temps like on this with a quad core

i briefly had a Striker II Formula but the NB idled at 65c and went into the 80s under prime with a Q6600

im hoping the S2E wont be as bad as that

54c in 100% load

[seymourp]

Help needed.

I have this configuration in my gaming PC

Asus Striker-II-Extreme nF-790i

Intel Core2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz

Corsair Twin3X 2048MB DDR3 1600Mhz PC-12800 Twin Pack (2x 1024mb
Gigabyte GeForce GTX280 1GB DDR3 PCI-E x16 video card,

2 of 150Gb Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drive, in raid config

Cyber-Sport 1000W GamePWR PSU,

For the first 4 months it ran without a hitch using default settings, now I get random freezes, mainly when the system is idle - but can happen anytime, even when I am staring at the bios screen. Was originally on Bios 0704, I have tried 0901 and 1002 - same behaviour.

What information would i need to post for someone to give me some advice on how to diagnose this?

thanks in advance

[Prelude]

Help needed.

I have this configuration in my gaming PC

Asus Striker-II-Extreme nF-790i

Intel Core2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz

Corsair Twin3X 2048MB DDR3 1600Mhz PC-12800 Twin Pack (2x 1024mb
Gigabyte GeForce GTX280 1GB DDR3 PCI-E x16 video card,

2 of 150Gb Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drive, in raid config

Cyber-Sport 1000W GamePWR PSU,

For the first 4 months it ran without a hitch using default settings, now I get random freezes, mainly when the system is idle - but can happen anytime, even when I am staring at the bios screen. Was originally on Bios 0704, I have tried 0901 and 1002 - same behaviour.

What information would i need to post for someone to give me some advice on how to diagnose this?

thanks in advance

hi there did you intall or update any drivers ? try the newes bios after the 1002 ? and the ram what timings are you using ?

[sweep]

I seem to have found some stability at 450 with multiplier at 9.

Seems to be running sweet!