UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[BringerOdeath]

Well, with only 2 cards in SLI when gaming the problem no longer happens. If I run something like prime 95 100% load on the CPU the same thing happens as gaming with 3 cards. I noticed that sometimes when I turn my PC on it logs into windows with all 3 cards stopped due to windows seeing a problem. If i disable and renable the cards, everything works again. Very weird....

[vampalan]

Hey everyone, just reporting in, my R2E has given up on me. The CMOS ERR aka CMOS error, after init rom, I tried the obvious, remove hard drives, change graphics cards, check connections etc. It currently has an ATI 5xxx that doesn't need extra power connectors sitting in there.
So any suggestions? Can't RMA, lol, it's got an EK full cover water block, and it's been about 3 years. Will be replacing with an x58 sabertooth but if I can get life back into it would great!

[xpower]

did you test second bios chip? and are u overclocking may be?

[vampalan]

did you test second bios chip? and are u overclocking may be?

I did the second BIOS thing, it still didn't work. I don't think the BIOS is broken, I can even get to the controls via the LCD when its in the power off state with some power to select which BIOS to load.
So its not:
over clocking issues
raid, as i have none, no hard drives connected.
VGA issues, as i've changed over to another card that worked on another system. it requires no extra power.
bios 1/2 issues.

all very strange.. ROG boards apparently do have more issues than normals.

[vampalan]

I did the second BIOS thing, it still didn't work. I don't think the BIOS is broken, I can even get to the controls via the LCD when its in the power off state with some power to select which BIOS to load.
So its not:
over clocking issues
raid, as i have none, no hard drives connected.
VGA issues, as i've changed over to another card that worked on another system. it requires no extra power.
bios 1/2 issues.

all very strange.. ROG boards apparently do have more issues than normals.

Todays LOL is on me guys.
Last night I did a full tear down, removed the mosfet blocks, northbridge block, cpu block, etc, put the factory heat sinks so that the board can go back into the box, then I thought I would give it a try. Same error message, but I had the thing actually connected to the right DVI cable, this time it worked. It was sitting there on the floor on top of an anti static bubble bag. So the problem was that the CMOS needed setting, and I didnt have a screen to see the rest of the output because it wasnt connected to the right monitor cable.
Currently the motherboard is back in the case with the CPU water cooled, considering to leave out the northbridge and mosfet coolers. Good point news is the 7970 works with the board.
Now what I got to return the new motherboard to Amazon, which will be easy, glad I used them. Tempted to keep it, but it needs all the other bits.

[skogkatt]

Hi all,

Reviving this thread because I have troubles with RAID setup (the ICH10R).

Today I have two DVD on two SATA ports, and all other disks are linked to an Adaptec 5805 (two raid arrays: 2 SSD in R-0, and 2 HDD in R-1). Problem is that Adaptec drivers don't support TRIM, and I plan to change my backup solution (NAS). So I want to migrate the SSD to the ICH10R, and reinstall everything. For now the Adaptec card would still be there with its R-1.

So I plugged my SSD to two SATA ports (that's 4 occupied) , and changed the SATA config in BIOS to RAID. Problem: I can't enter RAID setup. CTRL-I doesn't do anything. I tried with and without the Adaptec card in. After the usual boot sequence system asks for bootable CD-rom...

did anyone have issues with this?

My rig: Rampage II extreme/i920/HD5870/SB X-Fi Fatality/Adaptec 5805/2*Intel X-25M 160Gb/2*Samsung 1Gb/Watercooled by (mainly )Swiftech/Win XP (upgrade to Win7 as soon as I can use onboard RAID)

I haven't update the bios for a long time, will come back tonight with running version if necessary.

(looks like I need to update my signature )

[theveteran]

My Rampage 2 extreme board shorted out and died, does anybody have one for sale please?

[gejmer]

It works flawlessly for 7 years. Water cooled NB/SB and mosfets.

[Ground]

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but maybe some of you'll still find this somewhat interesting. I've recently picked up one of these to replace an old MSI x58 board, and decided that it would only replace it if it could beat my previous top BCLK score of 250. After a couple hours of trying different CPUs, I've successfully managed 261.23 MHz BCLK - which beats the previous top BCLK by a bit
Has anyone here tried NB+CPU under Dice to see if that could get some more BCLK out of the board+CPU? I have another CPU that sadly maxes out at 253 BCLK under ambient and I would love to squeeze some more out of it...

[kromosto]

x58 was the last platform I enjoyed OCing. While I can't help you about your question maybe I can motivate you . Your BCLK is awesome .

[Ground]

x58 was the last platform I enjoyed OCing. While I can't help you about your question maybe I can motivate you . Your BCLK is awesome .

Well, I've since found out that the above configuration probably wouldn't have done much better under dice - given that neither GPU nor CPU were the limiting factor. I've moved to a different GPU (8600 GT) and managed to get another 8 MHz BCLK out of the board - now my board is in the top 5 for x58 on HWBot
https://valid.x86.fr/316if6

I've also picked up an x58a-oc, but so far I've topped out at "only" (haha) 266 MHz BCLK because my HDD dropped out. https://valid.x86.fr/n0v2ux

[Orion24]

Question for ASUS Rampage ii extreme owners:
Does the BIOS of this board have the option to set the legacy floopy disk to 1.2 MB or is 1.44 MB the only option?

[barnacle]

Are any of us still rocking our R2E boards?

I just had a windows reinstall and struggling fro solid drivers - Can anybody help get a good selection of stockk board drivers together or has anybody tried ? It's running but I think it used to be snappier on a new install but it has been so long!!

any help greatly appreciated!!