ASUS Striker II Extreme

[seymourp]

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

Prelude, thanks for the reply.

Been no driver changes recemtly.

Memory timings are 9 9 9 24 1T

Last night I tried upping the memory voltage to 1.8v - still froze

cheers

and I have now tried 1303 - seems to freeze more often, so I have gone back to 0901

[sweep]

Prelude, thanks for the reply.

Been no driver changes recemtly.

Memory timings are 9 9 9 24 1T

Last night I tried upping the memory voltage to 1.8v - still froze

cheers

and I have now tried 1303 - seems to freeze more often, so I have gone back to 0901

Have you tried changing your memory timings to 9-9-9-24-2T I beleive this memory is rated to work at those timings. Also would be worth you opening your PC and popping out one of the memory sticks and checking what the voltage rating is on the side of it. Then set your memory voltage to what it says on the stick of memory.

[seymourp]

Have you tried changing your memory timings to 9-9-9-24-2T I beleive this memory is rated to work at those timings. Also would be worth you opening your PC and popping out one of the memory sticks and checking what the voltage rating is on the side of it. Then set your memory voltage to what it says on the stick of memory.

Thanks Sweep, after I read your reply, I looked at the memory - it says 7 7 7 20 1T. I tried both 9-9-9-24-2T and 7-7-7-20-1T settings - still freezes.

I noticed this morning that the core clock reading (on the Nvidia monitor) seems to cycle between 3167 and 2000, would this be a sign that the cpu is developing a fault?

Edit, that cycling seems to be caused by speedstep - I have switched it off. System still freezes though.

[Trigger5521]

Thanks Sweep, after I read your reply, I looked at the memory - it says 7 7 7 20 1T. I tried both 9-9-9-24-2T and 7-7-7-20-1T settings - still freezes.

I noticed this morning that the core clock reading (on the Nvidia monitor) seems to cycle between 3167 and 2000, would this be a sign that the cpu is developing a fault?

Edit, that cycling seems to be caused by speedstep - I have switched it off. System still freezes though.

Manually set the linked and synced speed you want and set all memtimings to auto and see what it gives you.

Also do you have loadline calibration enabled? If so this has been known to give random freezes on desktop when it drops the voltage due to inactivity/low load.

[seymourp]

Manually set the linked and synced speed you want and set all memtimings to auto and see what it gives you.

Also do you have loadline calibration enabled? If so this has been known to give random freezes on desktop when it drops the voltage due to inactivity/low load.

I set the FSB to 1333 and Memory to 1600.

Mem timings on Auto were set by the board to 9-11-11-29-2T,

Froze after about 30 minutes. Loadline calibration is disabled


thanks for your help.

[tekjunkie]

I set the FSB to 1333 and Memory to 1600.

Mem timings on Auto were set by the board to 9-11-11-29-2T,

Froze after about 30 minutes. Loadline calibration is disabled


thanks for your help.

I had the same problem as you do when i bought the board and I was pissed off that I could not get the board stable even @ stock speeds. Granted, I was one of the first ones to jump on the bandwagon of 790i and the BIOS was so immature at that time. Anyway, here is what I did to get the board stable @ stock speeds.Give it a shot and see if it helps.


Leave everything on auto except the memory voltages and timings and manually enter the vdimm and the timings that your memory were rated for and run memtest for atleast 5 passes. If memtest freezes or errors out, go into "Voltage Monitor" section of the BIOS and see what are the values for VTT and VSPP and increase them by a notch(usually it's the SPP voltage). After you are memtest stable, you can boot into windows and run SPI or prime or whatever you run for the stability test. Hope this helps.

[Fusion2002]

Tek is right on the money on that one. The ram voltages can really be off depending on what RAM you have. My ram is rated at 2.0V, auto for bios was much much lower. Might be the case for you as well.

[seymourp]

I had the same problem as you do when i bought the board and I was pissed off that I could not get the board stable even @ stock speeds. Granted, I was one of the first ones to jump on the bandwagon of 790i and the BIOS was so immature at that time. Anyway, here is what I did to get the board stable @ stock speeds.Give it a shot and see if it helps.


Leave everything on auto except the memory voltages and timings and manually enter the vdimm and the timings that your memory were rated for and run memtest for atleast 5 passes. If memtest freezes or errors out, go into "Voltage Monitor" section of the BIOS and see what are the values for VTT and VSPP and increase them by a notch(usually it's the SPP voltage). After you are memtest stable, you can boot into windows and run SPI or prime or whatever you run for the stability test. Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll give that a try - It is really annoying that the board ran fine for 3 months and now this crap - getting close to chucking it into the bin

[Fusion2002]

Uhh ohh... Got my card back from RMA today and it looks like my bottom PCI express slot is dead. Wonderful..... I might be in big trouble too since I took off the fusion block. Sigh.... what to do what to do....

I wonder if they will take the board back without the fusion block on there. Don't suppose anyone knows if I can get a replacement heatsink assembly.


On the bright side EVGA sent me an overclocked card. 738 core clock. Kinda nice

[seymourp]

I had the same problem as you do when i bought the board and I was pissed off that I could not get the board stable even @ stock speeds. Granted, I was one of the first ones to jump on the bandwagon of 790i and the BIOS was so immature at that time. Anyway, here is what I did to get the board stable @ stock speeds.Give it a shot and see if it helps.


Leave everything on auto except the memory voltages and timings and manually enter the vdimm and the timings that your memory were rated for and run memtest for atleast 5 passes. If memtest freezes or errors out, go into "Voltage Monitor" section of the BIOS and see what are the values for VTT and VSPP and increase them by a notch(usually it's the SPP voltage). After you are memtest stable, you can boot into windows and run SPI or prime or whatever you run for the stability test. Hope this helps.

Damn, Memtest ran for 3 hours without an error. Lasted only about 15 minutes with Vista loaded - is it time for the bin, or should I be looking for a driver clash of some sort?

[sweep]

Damn, Memtest ran for 3 hours without an error. Lasted only about 15 minutes with Vista loaded - is it time for the bin, or should I be looking for a driver clash of some sort?

I would personally get another hard drive, disconnect all other install a fresh copy of Vista with the latest drivers. Before installing take out any hardware which you dont need so just leave it with Sound, Graphics etc. Install it up and see if it runs stable, if it works then it shows it could be your current installation, also by disconnecting unecessary hardware you are able to isolate whether its something else causing it.

[Trigger5521]

I would personally get another hard drive, disconnect all other install a fresh copy of Vista with the latest drivers. Before installing take out any hardware which you dont need so just leave it with Sound, Graphics etc. Install it up and see if it runs stable, if it works then it shows it could be your current installation, also by disconnecting unecessary hardware you are able to isolate whether its something else causing it.

Also I would run CMD prompt in admin mode and type sfc /scannow it is supposed to check if Vista is corrupt (it has it's issues with false positives) but in your case it may be worth a try.

[seymourp]

Also I would run CMD prompt in admin mode and type sfc /scannow it is supposed to check if Vista is corrupt (it has it's issues with false positives) but in your case it may be worth a try.

Thanks Trigger & Sweep - I'll give that a try

[tekjunkie]

Damn, Memtest ran for 3 hours without an error. Lasted only about 15 minutes with Vista loaded - is it time for the bin, or should I be looking for a driver clash of some sort?

Hmm, did you update the 790i drivers with the new ones?? I am on 9.xx chipset drivers and I never had problems with lockups.

[NecroSavant]

I've got an issue with my Striker 2 Extreme mobo, and i'm just wondering if anyone has/had it, and what is the solution to that problem, if any.

My system is a Striker II Extreme mobo with bios 0507, a QX9650, 2x EVGA 9800GX2, 4 Gigs (4X1 Gb) OCZ ReaperX DDR3 PC3-10666C6, SoundBlaster X-FI Fatality, 4 HDD (2 Raptors as boot up drives for XP and Vista and other 2) and a CoolerMaster 1000W, everything put together with watercooling inside a CoolerMaster Stacker 832, and everything is in stock and in auto.

I managed to fix my system after removing 2 gigs and 1 of the 9800GX2 (don't ask me how :-P), but now i have another problem.

After unsucessfully updating my bios using a usb pen or even floppys, i thought to myself "I've used ASUS update before and it worked everytime...so why not now"...so i used the latest ASUS Update to update my bios from 0507 to 0901 from windows XP.

It worked fine on XP, BIOS succesuffly updated and it asked to restart the computer...i clicked on yes...and now the computer won't boot past DET DRAM...even worse, it seems that the computer is having hiccups...what i mean is it re-starts by itself every 3 to 4 seconds after you press the power button, and the only way to stop it is to press down on the power button to shutdown the pc completely.

I tried using clear cmos and everything, but it doesn't seem to work.

As anyone of you found this problem, and it there a way to fix it?

EDIT - Fixed the problem by removing the battery for over 3 hours :-P

[Prelude]

seymourp

use 1.64 voltage at default memory timings
it's work for me

[dejobar]

I've got an issue with my Striker 2 Extreme mobo, and i'm just wondering if anyone has/had it, and what is the solution to that problem, if any.

My system is a Striker II Extreme mobo with bios 0507, a QX9650, 2x EVGA 9800GX2, 4 Gigs (4X1 Gb) OCZ ReaperX DDR3 PC3-10666C6, SoundBlaster X-FI Fatality, 4 HDD (2 Raptors as boot up drives for XP and Vista and other 2) and a CoolerMaster 1000W, everything put together with watercooling inside a CoolerMaster Stacker 832, and everything is in stock and in auto.

I managed to fix my system after removing 2 gigs and 1 of the 9800GX2 (don't ask me how :-P), but now i have another problem.

After unsucessfully updating my bios using a usb pen or even floppys, i thought to myself "I've used ASUS update before and it worked everytime...so why not now"...so i used the latest ASUS Update to update my bios from 0507 to 0901 from windows XP.

It worked fine on XP, BIOS succesuffly updated and it asked to restart the computer...i clicked on yes...and now the computer won't boot past DET DRAM...even worse, it seems that the computer is having hiccups...what i mean is it re-starts by itself every 3 to 4 seconds after you press the power button, and the only way to stop it is to press down on the power button to shutdown the pc completely.

I tried using clear cmos and everything, but it doesn't seem to work.

As anyone of you found this problem, and it there a way to fix it?

EDIT - Fixed the problem by removing the battery for over 3 hours :-P

I have the same problem like you. I have Asus9800gx2. You sad that you fix problem removing batery for over 3 hour. Not need to much time. One minute, or two minute fix problem.

[dejobar]

Help me. My pc is unstable.. I try everything, but
Procesor Q6600
Watercooling system
OCZ 850 Watt
http://www.teamgroup.com.tw/teamgrou..._id=1&pl2_id=1
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...32&modelmenu=1

[Erikz]

Dejobar, you're running the Q6600 2,4ghz at 3.6ghz.

That "could" be the problem of your instability.

I can't run my Q6600 past 3.1Ghz.

[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

After much playing around I didn't get this system stable anywhere near 3.5Ghz. It would boot, however when it boots to Vista it crashes before or after login.

[dejobar]

Dejobar, you're running the Q6600 2,4ghz at 3.6ghz.

That "could" be the problem of your instability.

I can't run my Q6600 past 3.1Ghz.

I know, but I run q6600 at 3.7 with Asus Maximus Formula and 4x1gb Geil 1066. Everything work perfect. With this board I have problem on default.

[Erikz]

Damn, Memtest ran for 3 hours without an error. Lasted only about 15 minutes with Vista loaded - is it time for the bin, or should I be looking for a driver clash of some sort?

This is abit left field but in the early days I found that running the PCI-E Slot 1&2 to 101MHz sometimes helps.

[Erikz]

I know, but I run q6600 at 3.7 with Asus Maximus Formula and 4x1gb Geil 1066. Everything work perfect. With this board I have problem on default.

Try running it at 3.0ghz

[dejobar]

I buy Asus Striker II Extreme to drive q6600 at 3.7, not 3.0. I am sad.

[Deathspine]

I buy Asus Striker II Extreme to drive q6600 at 3.7, not 3.0. I am sad.

It took me a week of bios tweaking to get this motherboard stable. Of the dozens of motherboards I have had none and that includes a 680i and 780i were this difficulty to get stable. Best overclock was with the 680i to 4GHz with this same chip I now have in this 790i at 3.6GHz. After I recovery from the stress of overclocking to 3.6 I hope to muster up the courage to try 4GHz again. This may be a very capable motherboard but it is very unforgiving. There is a very narrow margin for error if any at all.