ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[philbrown23]

no matter what bios i use 1606, 1307, 1307 ket modded, or the 1802's it still hangs if I set it to raid, WTF that means my raid setup is gone, man this board is a heap.

[Grnfinger]

no matter what bios i use 1606, 1307, 1307 ket modded, or the 1802's it still hangs if I set it to raid, WTF that means my raid setup is gone, man this board is a heap.

Thats strange, I run raid0 and dont have issues on 1307 or new 1802.
I find 1802 rather decent so far, cant get volts lower but its a solid stable bios for me and my hardware. Others are complaining but dont provide any info about there problems

[SkOrPn]

Thats strange, I run raid0 and dont have issues on 1307 or new 1802.
I find 1802 rather decent so far, cant get volts lower but its a solid stable bios for me and my hardware. Others are complaining but dont provide any info about there problems

Grnfinger, can you verify EZ Flash is working on 1802 please? I don't want to burn a disk or go digging in the closet for a floppy if I need to flash back to 1307.

Thanks

[64dragon]

i'm still running bios 802 that my board shipped with and not had any problems, is there reason for me to move up to 1307 or 1802?

I tested virtually every setting for GTLref and 465mhz. I tested all options from voltages bracket 0.8v to 0.85v and 0.9v to 0.99v (the snapiest system I got from around 0.95 to 0.99) so I am pretty sure GTLrefs are not the problem but some voltages or combination of voltages. Also when GTLrefs are around 0.95 - 0.99 on 465 it would pass 1h blend but will crap out at linpack at around 4 pass (too little vcore or vtt?)

Also my CPU with GTLrefs set to auto is dropping Blend after 30sec starting from 440 mhz+.

So which voltage would you up first in my case to get it stable on 465? and which next after first one I need some pattern to fallow as I am to chaotic

oh yes I almost forgot mostly core 0 and 1 are dropping all the time ...

PS. my voltages are no were near to optimum as did not yet optimized them I just wanted to stabilize it somewhere.
PS2. On same settings (gtls changed to 70 30 70 30) but 465 will pass 10 linpacks but will fail core 0 after 12min and core 1 after 2

with Orthos or prime95, run small FFT's to see if the cpu can handle that speed/vcore. then go to large FFT's, depending on what test fails you can find out what voltage to raise

1024 - increase VTT or vNB
896 or 448 - vNB
768, 512, 332 - VTT

Grnfinger, can you verify EZ Flash is working on 1802 please? I don't want to burn a disk or go digging in the closet for a floppy if I need to flash back to 1307.

Thanks

the board does have 2 bios chips and a switch allowing you to choose what one to boot from. keep one chip with your current settings on 1307 and flash the other to 1802, if 1802 is bad flip the bios switch and you can run off 1307 again.

[seban]

with Orthos or prime95, run small FFT's to see if the cpu can handle that speed/vcore. then go to large FFT's, depending on what test fails you can find out what voltage to raise

1024 - increase VTT or vNB
896 or 448 - vNB
768, 512, 332 - VTT

Thanks m8 this is exactly kind of info I was looking for.

Alto that makes me wonder because I had my 9550 4ghz stable 3h small ftp on all GTL set to Auto and vcore 1.34 - but it failed blend test after 2 minutes at maximum (blend starts with 1024).

So according to your tips I am over volting my CPU atm with 1.368. I will check this.

Same here mate...I had 3 stables OC, then one day i benched with safe voltages and now won't pass any of them...start messing with gtls and get again stable on the 445x9...today again won't pass...

Yeah this is really not nice when it happens...

[powellandy]

then go to large FFT's, depending on what test fails you can find out what voltage to raise

1024 - increase VTT or vNB
896 or 448 - vNB
768, 512, 332 - VTT

Out of interest - How are these derived. Is it personal experience or is there a scientific reason 448 and 896 are good for vNB and 332,512 and 768 are good for vTT?

Cheers,
Andy

[64dragon]

Out of interest - How are these derived. Is it personal experience or is there a scientific reason 448 and 896 are good for vNB and 332,512 and 768 are good for vTT?

Cheers,
Andy

another member here (jcool) posted that info and more here on XS and it worked perfectly for me.

[dctokyo]

Grnfinger, can you verify EZ Flash is working on 1802 please? I don't want to burn a disk or go digging in the closet for a floppy if I need to flash back to 1307.

Thanks

It works but what you need to do is to make sure that you do a full CMOS clear before you flash with 1802. After you do a full CMOS clear it will see your USB drives.

[grifonemoloch]

It works but what you need to do is to make sure that you do a full CMOS clear before you flash with 1802. After you do a full CMOS clear it will see your USB drives.

Clear cmos with the button in the I/O shield or with jumper and battery?

[dctokyo]

Clear cmos with the button in the I/O shield or with jumper and battery?

Well I unpug the power cord and Cleared the CMOS with the button on the I/O shield in the back and waited 5 minutes and it was good to go for the flash with 1802.

If that does not work then pull the battery at the same time as you unplug the Power cord and hold down the CMOS button.