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

[abeeftec]

Yeah I know, I remember from my previous setup that I had to dop all that. However, after I select the driver and load it, it sees the array but then tells me it's not suitable for installing windows 7 onto. So I split it into 2x 2xdrive RAIDs but still no joy. Used the drivers from the website and again, no luck.

SSD's and 4x Crucial M4 128Gb with firmware 9 on them. The setup worked fine on my previous AMD setup so not sure what if anything I'm doing wrong...

You dont have to load the Raid drivers from a thumb drive. You can load it from the DVD that comes with the Board. Thats how I did it. It does say something about the Intel ports not recognizing the Optical drive but I eliminated that issue by installing the Optical drive on the Asmedia ports. It saw my optical drive and I was able to load the Raid drivers via the Install DVD, You just have to remember to put the Windows Disc back in after loading the drivers.

The reason it says it is not suitable is because at that time you need to put the Windows Disc back in and hit refresh. Then it will be Suitable!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

You dont have to load the Raid drivers from a thumb drive. You can load it from the DVD that comes with the Board. Thats how I did it. It does say something about the Intel ports not recognizing the Optical drive but I eliminated that issue by installing the Optical drive on the Asmedia ports. It saw my optical drive and I was able to load the Raid drivers via the Install DVD, You just have to remember to put the Windows Disc back in after loading the drivers.

The reason it says it is not suitable is because at that time you need to put the Windows Disc back in and hit refresh. Then it will be Suitable!

that will work perfectly, but I find a USB install a bit easier than swapping out discs midway.

[Viss]

My first run on R4E with CPU @ LN2, in love with this board

[owikh84]

I got slow 512k & 4k writes with Crucial M4 raid0 on RIVE...

raid0 on MIVE-Z / 2600K @ 5.0GHz 2133 7-9-7-20


raid0 on RIVE / 3930K @ 5.0GHz 2400 9-11-10-28

[sprayingmango]

Awesome scores! I'm running SuperCache5 w/ a 10GB RamCache on my 32GB of ram, getting 4GB/sec read/writes is friggen awesome.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

@ owikh84

speeds don't seem to far off

heres mine with Corsair Force GT 240GB r0

[sprayingmango]

I've had a few BSODs at stock clocks since I added 32GB of DDR3 1600 Vengeance. Anyone know why? It seems to happen randomly. Should I increase any voltages now that I'm running 8 sticks of ram? I set the XMP profile in the BIOS and that's it so far.

[Mad222]

To: Asus Experts

I’ve another X79-Rog which couldn’t power up at all with no reasons. Everything’s plugged & the all LEDs were on. CPU was properly attached. Had tried Jumper & got no response. My best guess would be a power circuit issue. Anyone can provide the measure point & possible solution? Appreciate it & Merry X’max !

BTW…Started to familiarize myself with the board under cold & found it quite impressive though !

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/...dtse/test2.jpg

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

To: Asus Experts

I’ve another X79-Rog which couldn’t power up at all with no reasons. Everything’s plugged & the all LEDs were on. CPU was properly attached. Had tried Jumper & got no response. My best guess would be a power circuit issue. Anyone can provide the measure point & possible solution? Appreciate it & Merry X’max !

BTW…Started to familiarize myself with the board under cold & found it quite impressive though !

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/...dtse/test2.jpg

looks like you sir have found yourself a very nice chip

[Raja@ASUS]

I've had a few BSODs at stock clocks since I added 32GB of DDR3 1600 Vengeance. Anyone know why? It seems to happen randomly. Should I increase any voltages now that I'm running 8 sticks of ram? I set the XMP profile in the BIOS and that's it so far.

Set the sub-timings like this to start off with, you can tighten one setting at a time. VCCSA most CPUs should be able to run this at 1.10V easily.



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[Olvik]

It's official BIOS 1005
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...ge_IV_Extreme/

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A greeting.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

It's official BIOS 1005
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...ge_IV_Extreme/

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A greeting.

no different from the current 1005 that was posted earlier is it?

[sprayingmango]

Set the sub-timings like this to start off with, you can tighten one setting at a time. VCCSA most CPUs should be able to run this at 1.10V easily.

Thank you Raja!!

[Olvik]

no different from the current 1005 that was posted earlier is it?

No, just that it appears on ASUS server, the date is the same, proven.

A greeting.

[OC Nub]

Added a second rad to the loop today. I already had it so thought I would put it to use. Cant really tell if its doing any better than before. Wonder if it needs a second pump? Bottom rad has 3x scythe 133cfm's, second has the same but installed the in the front, too much crap to move to get behind the rad. Will fix this soon.
Ran this with a little AC blowing on the rads. Temps go up to around 53c when AC kicks off, high 30's low 40's with AC running.


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[christefan]

Thought i should bring this to your attention Raja---had the system running fine with bios 1004 gtx580 in slots 1 and 4, Areca 1680ix in slot 2, and gtx 560ti in slot 5. Tried a boost in the clock to 5065 which booted into windows but locked up after a short time. When I rebooted the system hung on code 66. I cleared the bios and then restored last working settings and it again hung on 66. Since I was having bios resets i updated to 1005 and tried again with settings that had worked fine with the established hardware and access. ; that again didn't post and hung at code 66. I went into the bios and tried a setting that had been suggested with PCIe problems of moving the setting to Gen2 instead of Gen3 the default--poof the system posted with that adjustment and I've now restored the working settings and then modified those up again to a higher frequency and I'm still OK. I have to wonder what would be up if I went out and got 2 or 3 7970s thought and the Gen3 was needed, there still seems to be some type of weakness with the bios related to PCIe and USB equipment--this is a great board and you guys are doing a fabulous job with getting it working perfectly

[OC Nub]

^After you clear cmos do you go into the bios and load Optomized Defaults and reboot again before loading your working profile/settings?

[vmanuelgm]

I also found slow write in my lsi 9750 with 2 vertex3 raid 0, 550 mb/s, both in rive and gigabyte x79 ud7. But after tweaking bios I had normal values of 1000 mb/s...

@ owikh84

speeds don't seem to far off

heres mine with Corsair Force GT 240GB r0

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

I also found slow write in my lsi 9750 with 2 vertex3 raid 0, 550 mb/s, both in rive and gigabyte x79 ud7. But after enabling in ud7 vt direct i/o, dma and other features, I had normal values of 1000 mb/s...

my ss are on the intel ports, no raid controller.

are those settings (direct i/o and dma) in the r4e bios?

[vmanuelgm]

my ss are on the intel ports, no raid controller.

are those settings (direct i/o and dma) in the r4e bios?

Well, I have been testing and slowness on raid0 can be randomly solved disabling erp support, prochot (giga boards), c1e halt, and speedstep, cpu thermal monitor and c3/c6, and putting windows to high performance... Possible has to do with pciex bandwidth...

Vt-d seems to work well with my stepping c1 3930k...

[Skully]

I found the answer to my slow shout downs and slow boot ups. It was the Asm1061 storage controller.
Disabled it in the bios, and bingo now 20 second boot ups. Instead of over a minute boot ups.
Also fast shut downs.

Sorry just checked this, now I'm back to slow shout downs and boot ups.
Strange this worked yesterday, but not today, again disregard the above...

[Skully]

Ok, I went back in bios and instead of disabling Asm1061 storage controller.
I enabled it, and set it to IDE mode, now again fast shut downs and boot ups.
21 sec. I'll keep an eye on this and report back if its only temporary...

[Boulard83]

I just made some quick testing.

Vcore 1.275 (med LLC)
VCCSA 1.185
Dram 1.605 / 2133 / 10-11-10-28-1T

100x42 is Linpack stable but anything higher crash very fast. I think that my 3930k need more volts for higher than 4200mhz. My best bench clock is 5ghz with ~1.475vcore.

[Eldonko]

Thanks, updated OP

It's official BIOS 1005
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...ge_IV_Extreme/

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A greeting.

[abeeftec]

Does Anyone know why the CPU Ratio vanishes whenever you try to set a 1.66 strap? I am using 1005 Bios.