ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

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Went to start my MIIF this morning and cmos had been wiped including 2 saved OC profiles, sweet I thought as I had saved a profile to a usb stick but when I tried to load it I got a message saying file not compatable (or words to that effect - cant remember exact wording). Blimey I have not removed battery or even touched the mobo. Anyone else had this happen to them?

Oh and dont worry about water cooling, honestly you will love it and the temps, I know I do. Its also silent

That is very odd, I have not had that happen. Is the battery dead perhaps? Do you power off at the wall and/or unplug your system at night? If it is and you do this could explain it.

When you are in the Bios does it say you are using the correct bios version? Does it work ok if you use the jumper and choose the other bios chip?

All I could suggest is try and reflash it if the other bios chip is fine and the battery is fine etc. It may even be a case of the bios chip going bad.

Guys, I got linpack stable 10/10 but after some minutes of playing I get BSOD (often driver not equal thing), and sometimes when I restart the PC, it doesn't boot correctly on the first try, then it shuts off, and turn on normal again with the clock settings. The temps are high but not to high so it would cause BSOD. I have tried to increase the NB from 1.29V too 1.31 and over, but then I can't post. Please what can I do to fix this?

here is screenshot from linpack

What are your NB temps like loaded? Is your ram/NB stable in HCI memtest and Orthos blend?

If it is all ok temp wise & passes all stress tests, perhaps adjust your NB GTL ref, I was totally everything stable except in games, and I found it was my NB GTL Ref.

Adjust it from say -80mv to +80mv and play games you usually crash out of and see if you can find a setting that makes you game stable. Once you do that, you need to re-stress test it, as after I found a game stable NB GTL Ref setting, I found it was not stress test stable (go figure) so I adjusted the NB GTL Ref more till I was stress test stable again and also game stable.

Also if you need to further raise vNB, you may need to increase Vtt (vFSB) as some boards have weird behaviour if vNB is too much higher than Vtt.