***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[SkOrPn]

I just received a new 980x from an RMA by Intel Europe. The faulty one was 2 years old and worked mostly at 4400.4500 MHz with 1.45 V. I don't know if I was lucky or Intel don't test the RMA faulty processors.

Hmm, yeah they probably don't have the time or means to do such tests and unless the consumer is dumb enough to mention it in the RMA request that they had it overclocked Intel probably just looks the other way. Its probably bad practice to risk hassling a legitimate non-overclocking customer that got a dud, just on a hunch lol... However, if you lap your cpu I guess you can kiss any hope of an rma goodbye... haha

[playground]

Well my cpu was oced to 4,6Ghz but for a short time. For 24/7 i was run it at 4,2Ghz at 1,4v. My cpu is 2years Old aswell. Bought it from Overclokers UK. Where or how can i request RMA from Intel?

[Brama]

Well my cpu was oced to 4,6Ghz but for a short time. For 24/7 i was run it at 4,2Ghz at 1,4v. My cpu is 2years Old aswell. Bought it from Overclokers UK. Where or how can i request RMA from Intel?

Check on Intel web site the procedures. Normally you have to phone to a free number and explain your troubles with cpu. If you have a working cpu, you have to destry it in a not visible way. It is very risky and I suggest not to try.

My cpu was really faulty when I asked for an RMA.

[zoson]

New internal bios build 1601 available for the R3E. No word yet on what's new and changed in this new BIOS version.
HERE

LOL noobs at that site taking credit for the work done here, not to mention thieving my avatar like the pack of lying impersonators they are.

[Sylver123]

LOL noobs at that site taking credit for the work done here, not to mention thieving my avatar like the pack of lying impersonators they are.

What exactly did we steal from you?

The modded BIOS for the Asus Rampage III Extreme we made was from a
untouched BIOS downloaded from ASUS website and ROM modules that
are freely downloadable from the internet, you just need to search.

We then used MMTool to update/replace the ROM modules within the BIOS.

We would never use someone else's work (Existing BIOS mod that was made
by somebody else) and say it's our own work.

If we are using any of your contents, modules etc that you put into your own
work then we are sorry, we didn't know they were yours and someone had
shared them without your permission on other sites and not given you credit.

[zoson]

your 'hero' not only stole my 1601 bios, but he stole my avatar.
It has the exact same MD5 hash as my file.

[Sylver123]

your 'hero' not only stole my 1601 bios, but he stole my avatar.
It has the exact same MD5 hash as my file.

I am not sure what you're talking about.

ZioGTS didn't steal your 1601 BIOS.

It was a member breakdown234 that shared it first with us on the bios-mods
website and he specifically said he got the 1601 BIOS straight from ASUS.

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Threa...ules?pid=46917

If you look at the thread in the bios-mods website above you will see it was a
member breakdown234 that shared it their first.

[zoson]

I am not sure what you're talking about.

ZioGTS didn't steal your 1601 BIOS.

It was a member breakdown234 that shared it first with us on the bios-mods
website and he specifically said he got the 1601 BIOS straight from ASUS.

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Threa...ules?pid=46917

If you look at the thread in the bios-mods website above you will see it was a
member breakdown234 that shared it their first.

My 1601 modded bios is the same as the 'v1' bios. I gave it out to a few people, so I don't know where he got it from.
It's obvious he's a thief since he's BRAND NEW, it's even more obvious since he also stole my avatar.

Maybe he's figured out how to do it on his own now, but no small wonder since it's stupidly easy.

[playground]

What u gone say about 1long and 2 short beeps? Is it graphic card faulty?

[UrbanSmooth]

Anyone know anything about a full x16 PCI-e 2.0 quad/4-way SLI hack on the R3E?

[zoson]

UrbanSmooth, the X58 chipset does not have enough PCI-E lanes to do that, period. No 'hack' can get around that fact. It is a hardware limitation.

[UrbanSmooth]

UrbanSmooth, the X58 chipset does not have enough PCI-E lanes to do that, period. No 'hack' can get around that fact. It is a hardware limitation.

Translation: time to upgrade.

Thank you, it's what I needed to read.

[zoson]

You can do 8x8x8x8x with the rog expander... the pci-e interface isn't really a bottleneck at 8x.

[TreyWingbat]

Does the eSata port on the Rampage III Extreme support the port multiplier function, so that I can add a 5-port Sata hub?

[zoson]

Does the eSata port on the Rampage III Extreme support the port multiplier function, so that I can add a 5-port Sata hub?

http://www.jmicron.com/JMB363.html
• Supports Port Multiplier with Command-based Switching on SATA II port

[TreyWingbat]

So that is the black SATA port on the back, and I would need to buy a SATA to eSATA cable to connect to the hub?

With command-based switching, I can only access one disk at a time, right? Does that mean I cannot transfer files from one disk to another?

[SkOrPn]

So that is the black SATA port on the back, and I would need to buy a SATA to eSATA cable to connect to the hub?

With command-based switching, I can only access one disk at a time, right? Does that mean I cannot transfer files from one disk to another?

The Hub should come with the necessary cable to attach to the computer. Its just a normal shielded eSata cable (eSata to eSata). It connects to the eSata port on the mobo back-plate, and then to the hubs eSata port on the back. I would be surprised if the Hub makes you purchase a separate cable, lol... Unless, its using a standard sata port which you normally see on external sata drive enclosures, but not on eSata devices. On a eSata Hub, there should be an eSata port on the back with a eSata cable provided... The one I had came with a eSata port on the back and my RIIIE has an eSata port on its rear and it seemed to work great. However, I have no clue if it can transfer from one connected disk to another, as I never did get that far before giving the thing to my Father. He prefers using his older smaller disks and I just kept buying bigger drives and giving away my aging drives, lol. Oh and yes, you are required to furnish the cables you need to go from the hub to the storage devices, which can be both Sata or eSata devices... even a optical drive should work fine provided you have the correct cable.

Wish I would have stuck to what your planning instead of building a Home Server for my large storage/media drives. lol

[zoson]

both the passthru and the back panel support it. obviously easier to do with the back panel port.

This system is similar to a mechanical A/B switch or Ethernet hub. The controller can issue commands to only one disk at a time and cannot issue commands to another disk until the command queue has been completed for the current transactions. This also hampers the use of Native Command Queuing (NCQ). This means that the full bandwidth of the link will most likely not be used. This kind of switching is therefore used when capacity is the major concern, and not performance.

So yeah copying from one disk to another that are both on the same port will be very slow.

[TreyWingbat]

Ok, so I just use the green eSata port on the mobo then. Transfer files at a high rate of speed won't be too much of an issue for me... but it would be nice to transfer some files here and there if I had to. I'm going to order the hub then... and setup my monster storage system!

[SkOrPn]

Ok, so I just use the green eSata port on the mobo then. Transfer files at a high rate of speed won't be too much of an issue for me... but it would be nice to transfer some files here and there if I had to. I'm going to order the hub then... and setup my monster storage system!

Yes, it is the green eSata port on the back. You could also do what I do and connect the lone black Sata port on the bottom right hand side of the board directly to a eSata/USB expansion slot bracket as well. I believe the RIIIE came with that expansion slot bracket in the mobos retail box. However, the green port should do just fine

[Toritechie]

I was hot-swapping a couple of drives today, I really should have powered down the system. Anyway, now when I boot my computer I see this bios error:

'SATA port 2 device error'

But, there doesn't appear to be any problem. The drive works fine on that particular SATA port. In case it was a problem with my hard drive, I plugged it into a different SATA port on the R3E, and did not get the error message in the boot process.

Has anyone seen this error?

[SkOrPn]

Well I'm not sure I have ever seen that myself, however it does look sorta familiar, lol...

What you could do is simply save your current settings profile and then clear CMOS back to default and reboot. See if you still get the error after clearing the cmos, if its gone, then load back your original settings and see if it re-appears. If it does re-appear, then you need to just clear cmos and re-do your settings in the bios fresh. There is some testing a head for sure but it don't seem like a huge problem. Almost seems like you might have some corruption with the MBR on the drive itself that the hardware's firmware is recognizing and complaining about.

By the way, nice 3-way SLI setup and Monitors you have there. I'm envious, lol...

[fyromachine]

Hello everyone,

I have a Rampage III Extreme, i7 930, 6gb(3x2gb) corsair dominator gt 1866mhz 9 9 9 27...1,65v , gtx 580...

I have for long time an stable overclock 4.0, but now it became unstable... so I tryed that O.C. settings on the first page and when I go for stress test I got blue screen, maybe because I didn't change the timmings of my memory, because Im afraid to burn it out ;P

so what I can do? or someone can pass me a profile of ur bios configuration please?

and other issue I have is my ssd crucial c300 128gb doesnt work on sata 3 ports, only work on sata 2... that's because marvell controller sux or is other way to we use sata 3 on our bord?


thanks for help

[fyromachine]

So none wants help me?

[SOYLINDA]

Hello boys.

They know if we will have update of bios for Windows 8 ?