UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[dejanh]

The 1104 has indeed REALLY messed something up here..

I'm back to 1001 in both BIOS chips now, but here are a list of problems popping out of nowhere since I updated (and for some reasons they don't disappear after "down-flashing")

- Manually setting the DRAM timings doesn't work whatsoever, I will get the settings I set but when configuring this manually my BIOS just recognize 2-4GiB of my 6GiB of RAM? When running on auto all my 6GiB is recognized? But the second I configure this manually, even if it's the exact same as the dims are rated to it will just recognize 2-4GiB of my total 6GiB RAM?

- Now suddenly my system wont boot with ram setting: 1603MHz, 6-7-6-20-1N which has worked flawlessly for me since December? On BIOS 1001 and 0805 / 0804 it did pass memtest86+ over 10x times with these settings, but no suddenly with 1104 it won't post at all? Forcing me to run 7-7-7-20-1N to get it to boot?

- This is perhaps the most annoying and worst part of it all, the BIOS wont enter RAID mode! I select RAID, it reboots, it still says RAID in the BIOS but the system does not run raid? My RAID set-ups are recognized as separate disks, the CTRL+I thing for setting up RAID array never shows while booting, and of course my system don't manage to boot as my operative system is on a raid array. Would try to re-configure the array, but how can I do that when the CTRL+I never shows upon boot?


I have no idea what the hell happened when updating to this BIOS, it all seemed to go as normal, I got BIOS 1104.. The second I figured it didn't work with my BIOS set-up, as I mentioned I had to "downgrade" my RAM settings to get it to post I re-flashed down to 1001 again, but it apparently didn't solve anything? All these awkward issues after the 1104 BIOS flash persists even after flashing back? Making my system useless and not bootable as my operative system is on a raid array that doesn't work as the RAID function is screwed.

Try this for kicks if you want...

Downgrade to a BIOS prior to 1001 and take apart your whole system including removing the CPU. Then reassemble it again and see if it runs better...also, make sure that somewhere along the way some CPU pins did not bend.

I know it sounds completly stupid, but so is the problem. I'm at my wits end in terms of what is going on so really, anything at this point is a viable possibilty

I posted the following in Asus forums earlier in relation to experiencing boot problems only at cold boot after long periods of time powered down (I quote)...

Indeed, I can now shut down my system over and over again, even leave it off for a few hours, and still turn it back on just fine. You know what that indicates? I'll tell you...

1. Issue with the board circuits that cause them to have a better connection when warm then when cold (explains the lengthy delay required before system will exhibit cold boot problems).
2. Issue with the board capacitors.
3. Issue with the battery in that there is a problem with the connection to the board resulting in the inability to boot after all of the capacitors have been completly discharged.
4. Faulty PSU (unlikely) or board circuitry (more likely) that causes an unrealistic power draw at cold boot on the power supply. This indeed seems like the most feasable to me as it would explain why high power and amperage single-rail PSUs tend to not exhibit cold boot problems where as all other PSUs (basically 85%+ of them in the market) will exhibit some problems.