X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[neo_rtr]

Reflash your board with 0803.

Remove your power cable from your PSU or disable it with the power switch if you have one. Do a Clear CMOS before you flash it.

Start your system and enter BIOS Setup to load Setup Defaults and save it.

Enter BIOS Setup again and flash your board again with BIOS 0803.

After flashing your board power it down remove the power cable again from the PSU or disable the power switch and do a Clear CMOS again.

Start your system and enter BIOS Setup again to load Setup Defaults and save it.

Now you can put all your settings back.

Initital testing with 8x425=3.4Ghz , Custom FFT 1024 size pass.
Small FFT pass.
Linx Pass few cycles. (stopped it to write the update)

will do the above this afternoon. Tks

[Alien Grey]

help to calibrate plizz
lvl perfomance and dram skll chanel a y b

You didn't read my post. High CPU speed and high Memory speed will never be stable. Not with BIOS 0803 and BIOS 0902 or any previous released BIOS.

You have to be happy with the your stable clocks that you have right now with BIOS 0803.

[Alien Grey]

Initital testing with 8x425=3.4Ghz , Custom FFT 1024 size pass.
Small FFT pass.
Linx Pass few cycles. (stopped it to write the update)

will do the above this afternoon. Tks

Yeah, I've got a feeling that BIOS 0902 screws up more than just a previous stable OverClock.

[SirDaemon]

Well.. been reading all these (lot of) posts for the last week, to learn something with you guys, and I did

I also flashed the bios to 0902, clear CMOS, end re-entered all the settings I had with bios 0803 (because loading saved profiles is not recommended), and everything is stable, just as it was with bios 0803.

My OC:

E8600 @ 4,4ghz 1.4v (not a good cpu from what I see in forums)
OCZ 2x2GB @ 1100 - 5-5-5-15 - 1:1 - PL9 - Moderate - DRAM Static Enabled
NB 1,49v

[kuebk]

Does anyone know what enchanced in 3th and 4th SATA ports description mean?

[Alien Grey]

Well.. been reading all these (lot of) posts for the last week, to learn something with you guys, and I did

I also flashed the bios to 0902, clear CMOS, end re-entered all the settings I had with bios 0803 (because loading saved profiles is not recommended), and everything is stable, just as it was with bios 0803.

My OC:

E8600 @ 4,4ghz 1.4v (not a good cpu from what I see in forums)
OCZ 2x2GB @ 1100 - 5-5-5-15 - 1:1 - PL9 - Moderate - DRAM Static Enabled
NB 1,49v

Did you test it with IntelBurnTest or LinX?

If so can you post a screen shot with at least 20 passes stable?

[Armored_Kech1]

Does anyone know what enchanced in 3th and 4th SATA ports description mean?

I've been wondering about that myself. Asked OCN about it a while ago and nobody knew the answer.

[Alien Grey]

I've got my stable clocks back with BIOS 0803 with the same settings that I used before flashing it to BIOS 0902.

[RedBull1985]

What am i supposed to do with my 500 gig WD HDD randomly disappearing ? I am sure it happened right after the 0902 BIOS flash, but no amount flashing back and forth is solving it.The CMOS Clock is also getting reset randomly....Time to replace the CMOS battery with a fresh one?

PS: When the HDD does get detected, its as good as anything - tested thoroughly in Windows and no bad sectors, nothing.Good speeds too....

[Fritz_the_germ]

Yo guys,
does anybody have a link für downloading a sounddriver. I had to deinstall mine.
Should it be a problem that I am having a converted RF?

[Alien Grey]

What am i supposed to do with my 500 gig WD HDD randomly disappearing ? I am sure it happened right after the 0902 BIOS flash, but no amount flashing back and forth is solving it.The CMOS Clock is also getting reset randomly....Time to replace the CMOS battery with a fresh one?

PS: When the HDD does get detected, its as good as anything - tested thoroughly in Windows and no bad sectors, nothing.Good speeds too....

If you think that BIOS 0902 is causing this why don't you just flash it back to BIOS 0803?

[Alien Grey]

Yo guys,
does anybody have a link für downloading a sounddriver. I had to deinstall mine.
Should it be a problem that I am having a converted RF?

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

In the left corner you see the download search engine. Just put in your boards name.

[Fritz_the_germ]

Thank you for the link. But the latest sounddriver (SoundMAX 1988B_Audio_V610016280_zip) causes an application hang by starting vista.

[Ghostleader]

I had to test the 0902 and so far it looks good for me.

I did run LinX 30 loop with the following

E8600 500 4,25GHz / 4x1 Kingston HyperX PC9600@1200MHz 5-5-5-15 tRD 7 Strong / DRAM Static disabled.

Time and GFlops are close so it means that it´s stable enough.

[Alien Grey]

Seems to be stable. It's probably only a problem with Quads. They put more strain on the NB.

They might have changed something in the BIOS for those new CPU's that our Quads don't like.

[Alien Grey]

Thank you for the link. But the latest sounddriver (SoundMAX 1988B_Audio_V610016280_zip) causes an application hang by starting vista.

Is that the version for the Maximus from the ASUS download page?

[Ghostleader]

Seems to be stable. It's probably only a problem with Quads. They put more strain on the NB.

They might have changed something in the BIOS for those new CPU's that our Quads don't like.

You´re probably right, maybe i gonna put in my Q9650 and run it with my 4x1 Kingston and see if it works, what do you say, A-Grey, should I?

[Alien Grey]

You´re probably right, maybe i gonna put in my Q9650 and run it with my 4x1 Kingston and see if it works, what do you say, A-Grey, should I?

If it's no problem for you to switch CPU's it would be nice to see if you get it stable with your Q9650 at 8 X 465MHz and DDR 1117MHz with tRD 7, AI Clock Twister Moderate and DRAM Static Read Enabled.

[Fritz_the_germ]

@Alien Grey,
it is the latest version for the Rampage Formula.
Am I supposed to chose the one for the Maximus Formula because my board is converted?
Edit: I just compared the formula and the maximus driver. They are all the same version number 6280. They seem to be crap! I think the sounddriver doesn´t like the Service Pack 2 for Vista. What can I do?

@Gostleader,
many friends of mine told me before I bought this board, just never ever try to run a quad, you need a very high nb voltage and still you can not be sure that your system runs stable.

[Mikefra2008]

This topic has fed up time already for segir speaking things of noob
A-GREY you have fed up there swindles already for segir with the fsb strap 400 which(who) is bad


Ghostleather already deberias another oc tries if 4.2ghz it he is very easily it to stabilize with fsb strap 333 6:5
plizz is this forum good or not?

[greg.m]

Guys i have the need to share my pain with you... i just discovered that one of my memory sticks is baaad Thats why i couldnt pass memtest or prime95blend, etc. I think that this bad stick stops me from doing 500fsb also. Im starting en rma proccess tonight. Wish me luck

[Alien Grey]

@Alien Grey,
it is the latest version for the Rampage Formula.
Am I supposed to chose the one for the Maximus Formula because my board is converted?
Edit: I just compared the formula and the maximus driver. They are all the same version number 6280. They seem to be crap! I think the sounddriver doesn´t like the Service Pack 2 for Vista. What can I do?

There is a new version that mikeyakame posted here in the thread. You can find his post here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1572

[Alien Grey]

Guys i have the need to share my pain with you... i just discovered that one of my memory sticks is baaad Thats why i couldnt pass memtest or prime95blend, etc. I think that this bad stick stops me from doing 500fsb also. Im starting en rma proccess tonight. Wish me luck

Put your Corsairs back and run some tests with BIOS 0902 to see if you can run it stable at 8 X 465MHz.

I would really like to know what the hell is going on with my system and that BIOS.

[Mikefra2008]

oc E8600

585x 8,5 5ghz divisor 1:1 1170mhz perfomance 8
556x9 5ghz divisor 1:1 1112mhz perfomance 8
600x 8 4,8ghz divisor 1:1 1200mhz 3dmark03 perfomance 8
570 x 8.5 4.8ghz divisor 1:1 1140mhz 3dmark03 perfomance 8
515x9.5 4,9ghz divisor 6:5 delay300 advance 300 perfomance 7
533x9 4.8ghz divisor 6:5 DELAY300 advance 300 memos marco perfomance 7





24/7 E8600


450x10 4.5ghz divisor 3:4 1200mhz 1.36vcore advance 300 advace 300 perfomance 6
563x8 4,5ghz divisor 1:1 1130mhz 1.36vcore perfomance 8
500x9 4,5ghz divisor 6:5 1200mhz 1.36vcore delay 300 advance 300 perfomance 7
474x9.5 4,5ghz divisor 6:5 1140 mhz delay300 advance 300 perfomance 7
573x7 4ghz divisor 1:1 1150MHZ 1.18VCORE advance 300 advance 300 perfomance 8



helpme xtreme systems
Of better to villain divisor: 3:5 2:3 8:5 4:5 5:6 3:4 1:1

200fsb strap is imposible up 360fsb is anormal stable
266 fsb strap 8:5 4:5 up 370fsb and 480fsb ? But it he does not remain stable Alone achievement superpi2m
333fsb strap 5:6 is stable in 4.4ghz since in 4.5ghz is unstable For superpi alone achievement to 4.8ghz not import multiplicador


help to calibrate plizz
lvl perfomance and dram skll chanel a y b


eyes Everything oc those that I gave I lack for doing since not manage mas time

eyes mi oc stabl is 4.4ghz multi 9x fsb strap 333 divisor 5:6
record superpi 2m 23seg 4.82ghz fsb strap 333 divisor 5:6 multi 9.5
3dmak 03 4.5ghz 1.31vcore multi 10 fsb strap 400 divisor 3:4 98mil puntos

[Ghostleader]

If it's no problem for you to switch CPU's it would be nice to see if you get it stable with your Q9650 at 8 X 465MHz and DDR 1117MHz with tRD 7, AI Clock Twister Moderate and DRAM Static Read Enabled.

Why do you want to run that specific FSB and ram speed at "Moderate" and Static enabled when "Strong" and Static disabled is somewhat better.

Here´s two Everest screenies

465 3720 2x2 1116 555 15 tRD 7 Moderate Static enabled



465 3720 2x2 1116 555 15 tRD 7 Strong Static disabled