UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[DR3]

Hey guys,

This is my first post on here since I'm a [H]ardforum regular. But since I've been following this thread religiously since the past week or so, I decided to post my problem to see if anyone here can help. (Hardware in sig)

Nearly every time a boot up, the bios keeps switching my boot HD around. I have no idea why, I save my changes and everything every time but it still wont work. Second problem, although I'm not sure if this is MOBO related, is that everytime I install or patch something my PC freezes for a second to half a minute.

I 've run Prime 95 overnight and everything seems fine and dandy. I've gone back to my default settings in the bios.

Any Idea what could be causing these problems? My os is vista ultimate.

Thanks guys!!

I had this experience and it turned out to be the sata ports.
Like usual on a build I put my primary HD in sata port 1 and secondary HD in sata port 2. Pretty much standard stuff.
Noticed that the system would switch the HDs as you mention.
Also noticed that the my primary drive (WD VelociRaptor) was very sluggish.
Tested both the primary and secondary drive and the VelociRaptor was being smoked by the secondary drive. Defiantly strange and not suppose to happen.

Corrected the problem by putting the main drive on sata port 2 and secondary on sata 4.

It is my opinion that the drive in sata port 1 was reporting so slowly that when the bios was determining boot order the only HD there was the one on sata port 2. So it got selected as the primary and then later the HD on sata port 1 finally does report it is the second drive.
This is only my opinion and I really did not test it out.

So try to put the main HD on sata port 2 and change the HD and boot priority in the bios and see if it corrects the problem.

Hope that helps.

[electricl]

I can pass LinX with these settings without the temps getting to high. Does everything look allright or should I lower some settings?




AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - auto
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - auto

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting - auto
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable
Intel Virtualization tech - disabled
CPU TM Function - disabled
Execute Disabled bit - disabled
Intel HT Technology - disabled
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - enable
Intel Speedstep tech - disabled
Intel Turbo Mode tech - disabled
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

BCLK frequency - 195
PCIE frequency - 110
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1563MHz
UCLK frequency - 3127MHz
QPI frequency - auto

Dram timing control
1st iformation - Insert Timings Here in 9-9-9-24 -X-X-Xformat
2nd information - Insert Timings Here in X-X-X-XX -X-X-Xformat
3rd information - Insert Timings Here in X-X-X-XX-X-X-X format

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - enable
CPU differential amplitude - 800mV
Extreme OV - disabled


Cpu voltage - 1.344V in windows 1.35000v BIOS
CPU PLL voltage - auto
QPI-Dram voltage - 1.37500v BIOS 1.356v win


IOH voltage - 1.310v win1.35191 BIOS
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- 1.15316 BIOS 1.15v win
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

Current voltage X.xxx v, X.xxx v, X.xxx v ,X.xxx v
DRAM Bus voltage - 1.64356 v BIOS 1.640 Win
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled or enable

CPU spread spectrum - disabled or enable
PCIE spectrum - disabled or enable
CPU clock skew - auto or XXXX ps
IOH clock skew - auto or XXXX ps

[dejanh]

So finally we will get the option to disable TDP limits eh? Good stuff! Can't wait for this BIOS

Maybe this will finally make my Rampage II Extreme actually "Extreme"

[Brashen]

I had this experience and it turned out to be the sata ports.
Like usual on a build I put my primary HD in sata port 1 and secondary HD in sata port 2. Pretty much standard stuff.
Noticed that the system would switch the HDs as you mention.
Also noticed that the my primary drive (WD VelociRaptor) was very sluggish.
Tested both the primary and secondary drive and the VelociRaptor was being smoked by the secondary drive. Defiantly strange and not suppose to happen.

Corrected the problem by putting the main drive on sata port 2 and secondary on sata 4.

It is my opinion that the drive in sata port 1 was reporting so slowly that when the bios was determining boot order the only HD there was the one on sata port 2. So it got selected as the primary and then later the HD on sata port 1 finally does report it is the second drive.
This is only my opinion and I really did not test it out.

So try to put the main HD on sata port 2 and change the HD and boot priority in the bios and see if it corrects the problem.

Hope that helps.

Thanks DR3,

I Formatted my Velociraptor today and reinstalled windows. It seems to have done the job. But these things tend to rear their heads later. Are you talking about the sata ports on the MB? Or are you talking about changing them in the bios? If on the MB how will I know which is which? My Case has HotSwap back plane do you think this could have caused the disruptions?

Thanks gain mate much appreciated!!

[PalmeAsus]

Hi guys . I got two problems. First one if i set the qpi vtt higher then 1.46 when using the 6th ramslot the system wont boot up after i have shutdown the comp turned of the power wait a couple of seconds. Every time i break the power i need to reconfigure settings after it works perfectly fine to run with more then 1.46 when i do it afterwards.
If i remove the mem from slot 6 the system will boot up but then i don't get triple channel. So i thought i go for the white slots then prob is the system wont boot at all. This is weird to get it running i just need to put 1 mem in any of the blue slots and it boots up with the rest ram in the white slots.
Whats the prob here? I was thinking of the cpu mem controller is broken but i dunno? Im using corsair 1600 mhz dhx 6 gb.

Does anyone else got this boot prob when you set qpi to like 1.5 and use the 6th slot after power off?

Think is it's not the cold boot issue that many seems to have since this only occur after total power off with qpi higher then 1.45.


Regards

[chayos00]

Hey everyone, first off this thread has been a great help! My issue is this, my RIIE board is a little odd for my IOH voltage to read @ 1.111v (it's lowest setting) I have to up the forced voltage to 1.399v to read 1.111v in the bios and in Asus Probe 2. Where as my ICH set at 1.111341v will read 1.111v.

Is this a problem with the board? I believe it has done this since day one.

[cstkl1]

Hi guys . I got two problems. First one if i set the qpi vtt higher then 1.46 when using the 6th ramslot the system wont boot up after i have shutdown the comp turned of the power wait a couple of seconds. Every time i break the power i need to reconfigure settings after it works perfectly fine to run with more then 1.46 when i do it afterwards.
If i remove the mem from slot 6 the system will boot up but then i don't get triple channel. So i thought i go for the white slots then prob is the system wont boot at all. This is weird to get it running i just need to put 1 mem in any of the blue slots and it boots up with the rest ram in the white slots.
Whats the prob here? I was thinking of the cpu mem controller is broken but i dunno? Im using corsair 1600 mhz dhx 6 gb.

Does anyone else got this boot prob when you set qpi to like 1.5 and use the 6th slot after power off?

Think is it's not the cold boot issue that many seems to have since this only occur after total power off with qpi higher then 1.45.


Regards

no issue with qpi voltage running at 1.55 set 1.48-1.49v probe for quite sometime
on off, cold boot, etc

one think i want to mention
i found that nb temp cannot exceed 60C. if it does ure in for a lot off errors

[PalmeAsus]

ok :O i have no problem runing it 24/7 but if i break power like when i move the comp i need to reconfigure the settings. It hangs on Det dram i have tried so many settings but none works . But without 6th mem slot it boots up fine maybe mine intergrated mem controller have a prob with cold boot at that volt. Sad because this aint a rma reason =/

regards

[BustaH]

Im getting a very weird message from probe. every now and again the alarm thing goes off and says SBV has gone to 255c then goes back to 35c on its own, its intermittent but worrying just the same, anyone else had this issue? im hoping its just asus probe soft playing up.

btw this happens with 3.8ghz 19x200 1.37vcore qpi 1.35. ram 1.65 everything else on auto.

[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:21 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:22 am] SB Temperature become normal, 33 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature become normal, 36 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade

[waixxx]

Everybody good. I am the human who an English not too understands. But some questions want to consult. Why is 230x12 can enter the system. .230x13 cannot enter the system actually. Is because of that factor?

[cstkl1]

Im getting a very weird message from probe. every now and again the alarm thing goes off and says SBV has gone to 255c then goes back to 35c on its own, its intermittent but worrying just the same, anyone else had this issue? im hoping its just asus probe soft playing up.

btw this happens with 3.8ghz 19x200 1.37vcore qpi 1.35. ram 1.65 everything else on auto.

[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:21 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:22 am] SB Temperature become normal, 33 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature become normal, 36 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade

increase and balance ure ich/ioh voltage
or u entered a ambitious ram subtiming

[BustaH]

increase and balance ure ich/ioh voltage
or u entered a ambitious ram subtiming

Ambitous ram timing, I like that! im always a little over ambitous.

Dont think its that tbh, could be tho I suppose, ram is dominators 1866mhz @1600mhz 8-7-8-22 that should be fine really?

I tried setting static voltages on ich/ioh I still get the error, ill try loosening the timings and see if I get it again, though I havent had the error since the last time/date in that log table.

[cstkl1]

Ambitous ram timing, I like that! im always a little over ambitous.

Dont think its that tbh, could be tho I suppose, ram is dominators 1866mhz @1600mhz 8-7-8-22 that should be fine really?

I tried setting static voltages on ich/ioh I still get the error, ill try loosening the timings and see if I get it again, though I havent had the error since the last time/date in that log table.

i usually get that errors for the above
provided i found the perfect ioh/ich
so far seems ioh must be always more than ioh and ioh depending on vtt has a bigger droop somewhere around 0.04-0.06v read.
try setting ioh 1.28v/ich 1.24v

err also what proc ??
nb temp??
cpu temp??
nearing the tdp/tdc limit sometimes things go a bit haywire also.
unless ure quoting me a 965xe then sorry bro.

[cstkl1]

oh yeah it happens very often also since maximus if i remember correctly if u open pc probe and then before it loads u open cpuz for example.

[Twist360]

Hi guys
I just gonna receive my new PC in few days with the Asus RIIE in.

I have an important question about flashing my motherboard during the first boot.

Can u valid the process i gonna use to do it please ?

1- download the last Bios on Asus website, called RampageII-ASUS-Extreme-1001
2- format my usb key
3- copy in my usb key the last bios called "RampageII-ASUS-Extreme-1001.ROM"
4- connect my usb key to my PC
5- boot for the first time
6- and let the process doing his job itself

Is this right ? or do i forget something ?

Thanks

[clone38]

How do i find out whe rev my board is please.

[cstkl1]

Hi guys
I just gonna receive my new PC in few days with the Asus RIIE in.

I have an important question about flashing my motherboard during the first boot.

Can u valid the process i gonna use to do it please ?

1- download the last Bios on Asus website, called RampageII-ASUS-Extreme-1001
2- format my usb key
3- copy in my usb key the last bios called "RampageII-ASUS-Extreme-1001.ROM"
4- connect my usb key to my PC
5- boot for the first time
6- and let the process doing his job itself

Is this right ? or do i forget something ?

Thanks

nope
from 6 is wrong
press tab
u will see the option for ez flash so press the function key for it
in the program tab to the drive ure usb is in
and then tab into the file list for the rom file.. take note it will be a shorten name
select
wait for it to check version and intergrity
say yes
and wait for it to be done
then reboot
wait
for some reason u need to wait for a bit but it will start back
havent tried on all 6 dimm but for rE it wont boot back.

[chayos00]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bustamove44 View Post
Im getting a very weird message from probe. every now and again the alarm thing goes off and says SBV has gone to 255c then goes back to 35c on its own, its intermittent but worrying just the same, anyone else had this issue? im hoping its just asus probe soft playing up.

btw this happens with 3.8ghz 19x200 1.37vcore qpi 1.35. ram 1.65 everything else on auto.

[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 09:58 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:21 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:22 am] SB Temperature become normal, 33 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 06:43 am] SB Temperature become normal, 36 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 07:07 am] SB Temperature become normal, 35 degrees centigrade

increase and balance ure ich/ioh voltage
or u entered a ambitious ram subtimingincrease and balance ure ich/ioh voltage
or u entered a ambitious ram subtiming

I've got something similar.


[02/01/2009 at 11:26 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature Abnormal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 11:27 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature become normal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature Abnormal, 49 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature become normal, 22 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.47 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage become normal, 1.46 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage Abnormal, 0.23 V
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[02/07/2009 at 12:32 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.54 V
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 52 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.09 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] DRAM Bus Voltage Abnormal, 28.78 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V

Here is a picture of my Asus Probe 2 readings, I'm running Seti@home in the background so I'm about 100% loaded.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...empsnvolts.jpg


My IOH has a large voltage drop, even when everything is set at default 920 speeds. But here is what my bios reads.

Current voltage 1.111v – 1.508v – 1.111v – 1.508v
IOH voltage – 1.399v (droop of 0.288v???)
IOH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v
ICH voltage – 1.11341v
ICH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v

[headala]

Any updates on that new BIOS?

[BustaH]

I've got something similar.


[02/01/2009 at 11:26 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature Abnormal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 11:27 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature become normal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature Abnormal, 49 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature become normal, 22 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.47 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage become normal, 1.46 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage Abnormal, 0.23 V
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[02/07/2009 at 12:32 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.54 V
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 52 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.09 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] DRAM Bus Voltage Abnormal, 28.78 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V

Here is a picture of my Asus Probe 2 readings, I'm running Seti@home in the background so I'm about 100% loaded.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...empsnvolts.jpg


My IOH has a large voltage drop, even when everything is set at default 920 speeds. But here is what my bios reads.

Current voltage 1.111v – 1.508v – 1.111v – 1.508v
IOH voltage – 1.399v (droop of 0.288v???)
IOH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v
ICH voltage – 1.11341v
ICH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v

I really hope this is a probe software issue, its certainly not very encouraging, can others check/test this plz. I got this with no load at all. those voltages should never drop like that aside from the crazy sb flips.

[dejanh]

I've got something similar.


[02/01/2009 at 11:26 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature Abnormal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 11:27 am] OPT_FAN1 Temperature become normal, 50 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 01:46 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 66 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature Abnormal, 49 degrees centigrade
[02/01/2009 at 09:07 pm] OPT_FAN2 Temperature become normal, 22 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 74 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 75 degrees centigrade
[02/03/2009 at 09:23 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 76 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.47 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:49 am] CPU Voltage become normal, 1.46 V
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 05:50 am] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/04/2009 at 06:22 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 47 degrees centigrade
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage Abnormal, 0.23 V
[02/05/2009 at 11:39 pm] ICH PCIE Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[02/07/2009 at 12:32 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.54 V
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature Abnormal, 255 degrees centigrade
[02/07/2009 at 02:02 pm] SB Temperature become normal, 52 degrees centigrade
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.09 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] DRAM Bus Voltage Abnormal, 28.78 V
[02/08/2009 at 11:43 am] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V

Here is a picture of my Asus Probe 2 readings, I'm running Seti@home in the background so I'm about 100% loaded.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...empsnvolts.jpg


My IOH has a large voltage drop, even when everything is set at default 920 speeds. But here is what my bios reads.

Current voltage 1.111v – 1.508v – 1.111v – 1.508v
IOH voltage – 1.399v (droop of 0.288v???)
IOH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v
ICH voltage – 1.11341v
ICH PCIE voltage – 1.51106v

I have that same IOH voltage problem. It is as though IOH voltage is stuck. I have identified this in the R2E issues list a long time ago...it's in this thread, somewhere in the first 10 pages I think...

[PalmeAsus]

That's preicsely it. That's what mine does. I've never had issues with it not booting. It will just hang during the boot process. If I leave my PSU switch on it fires right up, but if I shut the PSU off and totally power it down, I would sometimes get hangs at DET RAM, and VGA BIOS. I've never had a complete failure to boot though.

I suspect there might be some BIOS fixes and Chipset Drivers on the way. We'll see...

Thats exactly the prob i have just that it only occurs with qpi set to like 1.5 i think it has to do with that the most psus cant power up this board up fast enough or something like that or maybe just a bios issue. Maybe they should put in a power up boot before the actual boot as the have on some boards.When you power up from power off it boot for 2s turn off and than it turn on again and boot. My maximus extreme had this for example.

[scaramonga]

Now......

I've been sitting at 3.8GHz with HT on for a few weeks, 1.42 vcore and 1.65 vdimm, all else 'auto' and everything OK.

Decided to turn HT off today, as its a 'heat' hog, and not much benefit, if any, anyway.

Upped BCLK to 211 @ 19 Multi (4005GHz) and tested with same voltages as above, and all passed LinX etc no problems. Decided to reduce vcore a little, so took it down to 1.40v, and all passed no problems...BUT!

2Gb RAM disappeared just like that, 4Gb instead of 6Gb? BIOS and OS.

Dropped vdimm to 1.64v, and presto......I have my 6Gb back?, not tested for stability as yet.

Any thoughts guys?

[posershadow]

I have that same IOH voltage problem. It is as though IOH voltage is stuck. I have identified this in the R2E issues list a long time ago...it's in this thread, somewhere in the first 10 pages I think...

I went into the bios and set my ioh voltage to 1.365, rebooted and it showed 1.330 in the bios as my actual. So i took a dmm reading and it was at 1.31. Definitely some droop but not as heavy as some of the others.

[BustaH]

i usually get that errors for the above
provided i found the perfect ioh/ich
so far seems ioh must be always more than ioh and ioh depending on vtt has a bigger droop somewhere around 0.04-0.06v read.
try setting ioh 1.28v/ich 1.24v

err also what proc ??
nb temp??
cpu temp??
nearing the tdp/tdc limit sometimes things go a bit haywire also.
unless ure quoting me a 965xe then sorry bro.

Proc is 940, not sure if this was happening with the 920, never really used probe since Commando days so kind of thinking it might just be probe being retarded. Considering others are seeing similar.

255c on sb is extreme in any situation, I cant really see how that should happen even for the split second it is happening.

temps are cpu 36c ish across all cores, nb 34c In my example the pc was at idle-no load. under load nb hardly moves according to probe.

I would have been no where near the tdp limit which is the issue we are aware of when pushing the board hard.
I will try your suggested ioh/ich voltages and see if it becomes more constant.

Look at chayos cpu temp at [02/07/2009 at 12:32 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 65.54 V that cannot be right, that would blow a hole thru his mobo