***ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Owners Thread***

[Nsidious9]

That 01 code your getting usually means instability with memory. Do all your sticks pass stability testing at stock?? Try setting DRAM voltage to 1.65 manually for starters.

Yes, I ran both kits with mem test on different machines for 8 hours (while I slept today, heh) without error.

If I was you I would also try 4 sticks of RAM in the red slots at least till you have the OS installed. With 8 Dimms you may need sligthly higher VCCSA and/ or VTT.

Do you have a recommended starting point?

please use bios 0901 or if on 00xxb BIOS go into DRAM Timing and set Rampage Tweak to Mode 1

I am now using 0901.
I have tried everything from XMP to manually setting up the memory pages. I tried voltages 1.5-1.65. I am not sure I should go any higher?

I also had all 8 RAM slots filled and the board was unstable, even though the memory was NOT faulty. So try running with just 4 or 2 sticks installed.
For me sometimes it wouldn't post and gave some error code but i just thought it was because i had the board overclocked, then i discovered it also did this on default settings. I also had trouble installing or booting Windows on a RAID array and now i think it was the memory. If more than 4 RAM slots are filled then the system becomes unstable.

In the end i got my board running ok with all 8 dimms (32GB) by doing the OPPOSITE of what you normally would do... i tightened the memory timings to 9-11-10-28 and set the memory voltage LOWER to 1.6v. Default auto settings were 11-11-11-28 and 1.67v yet these didn't work. The latest BIOS (0901) dont fix this problem either.

The settings for memory timings and voltage are under the first tab in the BIOS. But try it with less RAM installed first and if it's ok then you might have this same problem...

I got the system to run and install Windows on 4 modules/16GB without issue. But it is when I put the 8 in that I am.


Should I adjust the strap? If so. what should I set it to? Should I be more fine tuning the cpu settings or stick to changing specific items first?

[LardArse]

I got the system to run and install Windows on 4 modules/16GB without issue. But it is when I put the 8 in that I am.
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no promises but you can try this bios
http://www.mediafire.com/?s5mbqsba3qjoa6p

And set the Third timings as shown:


http://www.freeimagehosting.net/82d2f