UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[dejanh]

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA is most commonly a result of failing memory. However, as you have pointed out your memory checks out okay. Well, therein lies the problem. For the last four weeks I have been having issues with memory and it also checks out okay in all the test tools. Some members pointed to the PSU and said to try a different one, but I am having a really hard time accepting this as the source of the issue.

For me, what used to be my stable settings for booting 24/7 (1600MHz, 7-8-7-18-1T timings) no longer are stable, but only at boot. Every cold boot with it fails. Then I changed to 1600, 8-8-8-20-1T and that was fine for about four days, and yesterday I again got the cold boot hang at DET DRAM. I restored the 7-8-7-18-1T settings today, and booted only to lock up once I arrived at the desktop

Now testing the DRAM but so far so good. I am not expecting any errors to show up. I never had them show up before. All test tools always checked out 100% fine.

The longer I own this board the more convinced I am that it has some serious issues with DRAM. Either that, or it's just Corsair that for some reason is deteriorating on it. But, I am not about to go out and spend another $350 on a Mushkin kit to find out (always used them as I never had issues with them).

I've got a really odd problem since I flashed to 1104!

I have been running 19x 200BLCK @ 1603MHz, 6-7-6-20-1N with HT enabled on 1.32V and 1.65V on RAM for ages now.
Suddenly after the flash my system wont boot at all?

So then I try to trick with my settings, and it seems like I have to make the RAM run 7-7-7-20-1N @ 1603MHz for the system to boot?
Okay, fine.. I was going to boot BIOS01 which got the 1001 and just forget about this new crappy BIOS!

But what happens? My old BIOS setup wont boot with 1001 any more either?
What the hell is going on?

And now, whatever what I try to lock my DRAM Timing to my BIOS just recognize 2040MB of RAM?
I can set the speed to 1603MHz, but even when trying to set the timing to 7-7-7-24, or 8-8-8-24, or even 9-9-9-28 it will but, but just recognize 2GiB RAM?

What's that all about? Not being able to lock my DRAM Timing at all? Auto DRAM Timing = 6GiB RAM, Locked settings = 2GiB RAM???!

This is right in line with what is happening on my end. I found that I have to constantly readjust my memory timings. Very messed up if you ask me, and same as for you, going back to older BIOS does not restore stability. For me this started with 1001 (first time I encountered DET DRAM hang in months of working fine), and now it is a problem every day.

Anyway, left Memtest HCI running as I said I will using all of the memory. Been about 4 hours and no errors at all. I just stopped it now. Here is the screenshot at 1600MHz, 7-8-7-18-1T, 3600MHz Uncore.

Something is very wrong here, and there is no way in hell that it is the PSU. Maybe a more powerful PSU will make the symptoms disappear but I really doubt that anything gets fixed here. Something else is causing this, and I do not think that this is a small problem either.

EDIT: Can somebody answer this for me please...

What happens when you shut down the system for a longer period of time that does not happen when you just shut the system down for about 1 or 2, or even 3 hours? Keep in mind that no power is removed from the system at this time, nothing is shut down, unplugged, nothing at all changes. However, booting after 8 hours is a no go, but booting after 2-3 hours is always a go...

There in lies the answer to this problem, but I do not know what exactly happens, and therefore I cannot get to the bottom of this...please fill in some info to the best of your knowledge.