**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[71 (Bryan)]

yes but, it only asks me for a floppy, i tried putting in the cd but nothing....

ok i put the bin file on the floppy and now it just says insert systme disk or something like that, i know i have to put something on the floppy other than the bios but im kinda lost atm
pls help me

[71 (Bryan)]

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
my striker came back form the grave
im so happy, but i still have 1 dead pc on my hand =(, God my moms gonna kill me

[71 (Bryan)]

Marios, thank you so much, you saved my life, imgetting random bsods on 1305 but ill have to lower my clocks untill i flash again, i now have a recovery disk that i can use anytime something goes wrong so every thing should go much easier next time, thx again bro

[Guacamole]

I have to say that I am on bios 1202 with a QX9650 and 4gb of OCZ Reaper 1066 and I am pulling 11,000 read and 48 latency with awesome voltages... I am completely shocked at how well this board is OCing this Quad and the performance is outstanding!! The only problem with this bios is the half multipliers but I am linked and synced at 1680/840 at 4-4-4-12-2t at a 10 multiplier for 4.2 on my Quad and I am killing it... I have never had a better mobo experience this is my second Striker and the first one couldn't do squat but this one is out of control.. I can run 1800 FSB on my Quad all day long unbelievable for a 780i board.. In addition I am prime stable 3D stable and all is well.. And the best part is no corruption like the 790i with all of it's horrible hangups... I just defected from the 790i SIIE and it was the best decision I have ever made!!! Very happy!!!

[slim142]

Nice to hear that Guacomole, so thats the reason of your absence in the SIIE thread :P

[Guacamole]

Nice to hear that Guacomole, so thats the reason of your absence in the SIIE thread :P

Yeah man I am soooo glad to have sent that board back, I mean it was a real hard thing to do because the SIIE was such a great board to OC on and it just did anything you asked, but when it comes to functionality I couldn't do normal tasks which just ruins a borad that costs $450.00... Honestly for $250.00 I would totally put up with the SIIE but for $450.00n I shouldn't have to make any excuses EVER... Anyway Slim I know you have been rocking that board for a while did you ever figure out the video problem??

[spajdr]

Thank you very much guys with tips, mems runs alot better now

[slim142]

Yeah man I am soooo glad to have sent that board back, I mean it was a real hard thing to do because the SIIE was such a great board to OC on and it just did anything you asked, but when it comes to functionality I couldn't do normal tasks which just ruins a borad that costs $450.00... Honestly for $250.00 I would totally put up with the SIIE but for $450.00n I shouldn't have to make any excuses EVER... Anyway Slim I know you have been rocking that board for a while did you ever figure out the video problem??

Im almost sure I almost got it
At least now Im able to watch videos (sometimes) without freezes , but will still freeze sometimes, specially with 1080p movies. Its ironic cause I can run 20 hours prime95 but I will freeze in idle, then I could play a movie and will play fine, but if I restart the pc and play a movie it might freeze anytime.
This led me to conclude that is either LLC (Anandtech explained this and makes me think this is the responsable for my issues) or another component might not be getting enough voltage like the SB since I have all 6 ports in use and only at 1.50v.
Whatever the case is, I want to see if I can fix this board before RMAing it with ASUS. Many others including Tyke and OBR say that after RMAing 4 times, they finally got a rock solid board, well we will see how it goes with my testing.

Btw, once again congrats on getting that board working, you using 1401 I suppose right?

[molotov]

Just up to 1401 and set to 445x9 with ram sync linked (4-4-4-12 1T) for the first oc try in 1401. Seems very good because orthos (stress CPU) is stable at:
vcore 1.375 (cpu-z read 1.296) <- may be even lower, will try later
cpu pll 1.5
cpu vtt 1.2
vdimm 1.9
nb 1.4
sb 1.5
HT/Bridge 1.2
GTLs Auto
LLC On

Most of the above are the lowest values I tried set before. Core temps are both 53C and NB is 42C.
I feel this version got a better control on each device/bus/bridge at lower voltages. (Before I can only get stable by increase voltages)
Will start OC to extreme values and I guess better result will be yielded since this sweet bios version.

Do you guys agree?

[Marios]

In my case the problem is not the chipset.
The NB needs 1.34v only to overclock at 420 FSB.
780i SLI chip is great.
CPU PLL is not so important. CPU gtlref at +30 and NB gtlref at +20 are important though.
CPU PLL at 1.44v, HT at 1.3 and CPU VTT at 1.34 are enough to be stable at 420X8.
My Q6700 CPU needs 1.48v (1.44 real with no load line calibration) to keep up at 420x8=3360. This is too much.
On the other hand, I only need a vcore setting under 1.3v to overclock at 337.5X10=3375 (FSB 1350).
My FSB is definitely CPU limited.
Could I do something about it?

BIOS 1401
I found another "bug" on 1401 BIOS.
With all memory timings set manually, any tWR value (3, or 4 or 5) gives a BIOS reading of 4 and an Everest reading of 5.
When overclocked with the same mem timings, I get a tWR BIOS reading of 3 although I set it at 4.
This is strange. My BIOS knows better.

[71 (Bryan)]

lol, i got 1 extra mhz on the fsb with 1305 over 1303 lol
validations:
1303
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=382970
1305
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=383869
and apparently that just half a mhz =(

[Kevin1970]

I reinstalled the os. then ran sfc /verifyonly. it passed. i continued the install everything else. I got BSOD after i installed call of duty 4 and tried to run it. the same cause like before nvidia sata controler. My question is, is for some reason the files i am keeping on the pc(game patches and stuff) corrupted. I installed call of duty from disk but the patches are on the hard drive in another partition. Also while audio seems perfect with music and videos. i am getting issues when playing games. company of hereos has a slight static crackling sound, not all the time and not loud. I installed the brand new X-fi beta drivers that i heard where really good for vista.

[nugzo]

I reinstalled the os. then ran sfc /verifyonly. it passed. i continued the install everything else. I got BSOD after i installed call of duty 4 and tried to run it. the same cause like before nvidia sata controler. My question is, is for some reason the files i am keeping on the pc(game patches and stuff) corrupted. I installed call of duty from disk but the patches are on the hard drive in another partition. Also while audio seems perfect with music and videos. i am getting issues when playing games. company of hereos has a slight static crackling sound, not all the time and not loud. I installed the brand new X-fi beta drivers that i heard where really good for vista.

I was having file corruption with vtt over 1.2. My test was installing nero 7 or 8. i would get CFC errors with anything over the 1.2. Try lowering vtt and see what happens.

[Marios]

I reinstalled the os. then ran sfc /verifyonly. it passed. i continued the install everything else. I got BSOD after i installed call of duty 4 and tried to run it. the same cause like before nvidia sata controler. My question is, is for some reason the files i am keeping on the pc(game patches and stuff) corrupted. I installed call of duty from disk but the patches are on the hard drive in another partition. Also while audio seems perfect with music and videos. i am getting issues when playing games. company of hereos has a slight static crackling sound, not all the time and not loud. I installed the brand new X-fi beta drivers that i heard where really good for vista.

In case you get problems with stock BIOS settings you have a hardware problem. So try to find which device fails.
How did you install your nforce chipset drivers and which version? Did you install NAM or anything else besides the SATA drivers? You should not.
There is no way to get corruption on this board unless you have overclocked really bad or you have a defective hard disk.

[Guacamole]

In case you get problems with stock BIOS settings you have a hardware problem. So try to find which device fails.
How did you install your nforce chipset drivers and which version? Did you install NAM or anything else besides the SATA drivers? You should not.
There is no way to get corruption on this board unless you have overclocked really bad or you have a defective hard disk.

I agree completely with this statement there is no corruption, also I got a few crc errors Kevin when I was installing Crysis with the updates and 1.2 was corrupted but then I downloaded the update again ran it from HD and it installed perfectly.. Sometimes those files lose integrity after lots of tranfers from disk to disk with suspect stability... Also I am running a QX9650 still 45nm but I cannot run the VTT at 1.2 or I freeze I definitely need more voltage than that and also the board seems to undervolt this by about .1 so you might want to take that into consideration.. So maybe in the bios set it to 1.3 to get the actual 1.2... Otherwise I am having great success on bios 1202 and although the half multipliers are ruined on this bios I don't care becauser I am running on the 10X multi and I am rocksolid perfect and no video issues or any other issues to speaK of....

[Kevin1970]

I Changed vtt to 1.2, i was told if i wanted stock e8400 settings that the following is good.

loadline cal - enabled
pll 1.6
vtt 1.28
nb 1.36
ht 1.3

are these settings wrong. if so what should they be set at?

and would this be harming my audio?

and would the vtt be doing lots of damage to the tons of stuff i have on these hard drives?

edit
i changed the vtt to 1.2, still have audio issues in company of hereoes. i will try reinstalling it and redownloading the patches to see if that helps.

and what other settings should i worry about with stock e8400 speeds?

[Kevin1970]

So i installed these first apon reinstalling the os "nforce_winvista32_15.17_international" cause that was what the nvidia site gave me few days ago. Should i install 9.64? And what should i check to install?

[Kevin1970]

I had to reinstall the OS, not that i wanted to. i went to uninstall my sounds card drivers so i could reinstall older drivers. it crashed durring. went i went to reboot i got this brief bsod that said "a process or thread crucial to system operation" cant recall the rest. but the vista disk couldnt repair it. so i had to reinstall the os. i'm running on the pc now. and i did a few things different. not sure if it will help.

i installed the nvidia drivers from the asus disk. and only the sbus or whatever, the one the i couldnt uncheck, all else i unchecked.

i redownloaded x-fi drivers, older ones that i know worked. i was working with the new beta drivers which i heard great things about.

i installed 169.44 forceware VGA drivers. cause last i recall they worked just fine.

windows update i unchecked all nvidia downloaded and hide the updates. maybe that might help.

i dont thing the board is the issue. i think the software is. but time will tell. my old board was easy to figure out that it was to blame. this seems software related. anyone here have issue with vista sp1. i am wondering if i should install that. i am currently doing windows update.

let you all know how it goes with gaming in a hour or so.

[nugzo]

I had to reinstall the OS, not that i wanted to. i went to uninstall my sounds card drivers so i could reinstall older drivers. it crashed durring. went i went to reboot i got this brief bsod that said "a process or thread crucial to system operation" cant recall the rest. but the vista disk couldnt repair it. so i had to reinstall the os. i'm running on the pc now. and i did a few things different. not sure if it will help.

i installed the nvidia drivers from the asus disk. and only the sbus or whatever, the one the i couldnt uncheck, all else i unchecked.

i redownloaded x-fi drivers, older ones that i know worked. i was working with the new beta drivers which i heard great things about.

i installed 169.44 forceware VGA drivers. cause last i recall they worked just fine.

windows update i unchecked all nvidia downloaded and hide the updates. maybe that might help.

i dont thing the board is the issue. i think the software is. but time will tell. my old board was easy to figure out that it was to blame. this seems software related. anyone here have issue with vista sp1. i am wondering if i should install that. i am currently doing windows update.

let you all know how it goes with gaming in a hour or so.

You shouldnt be having so many problems. I'm dual booting vista 64 sp1 and Xp 64 and have never had any issues with the nvidia drivers on either OS. You shouldnt have to go through what your going through. I think you have some bad hardware somewhere.

[Kevin1970]

i agree i shouldnt be having so many issues. i didnt have these issues with the last board. but i should add i didnt install the x-fi beta drivers with the last board. thats why i am trying without the beta x-fi drivers. i believe the bsods are related to the sound issues in games. i will know in a few mins.

[molotov]

So far it can only run Super-PI, CPU-Z & Everest... If I wanna gain extra stability, fan has to be added in NB I guess...
Anyway will add fans later to complete 3dmark06 lolz...
I know it's not a good chip coz 1.58v is needed... but anyway, just like climbing mountains, I've been there and I am glad.

btw, still cannot beat the 10s-barrier at Super-PI 1M... kaka....

[nugzo]

So far it can only run Super-PI, CPU-Z & Everest... If I wanna gain extra stability, fan has to be added in NB I guess...
Anyway will add fans later to complete 3dmark06 lolz...
I know it's not a good chip coz 1.58v is needed... but anyway, just like climbing mountains, I've been there and I am glad.

btw, still cannot beat the 10s-barrier at Super-PI 1M... kaka....

1.58v sheez what kinda idle/load temps are u getting with air cooling?

[Marios]

So far it can only run Super-PI, CPU-Z & Everest... If I wanna gain extra stability, fan has to be added in NB I guess...
Anyway will add fans later to complete 3dmark06 lolz...
I know it's not a good chip coz 1.58v is needed... but anyway, just like climbing mountains, I've been there and I am glad.

btw, still cannot beat the 10s-barrier at Super-PI 1M... kaka....

Nice climbing
Which BIOS do you have?

[molotov]

Nice climbing
Which BIOS do you have?

Thanks Marios. It's 1401 now. Yes you reminded me. I changed to use this bios at 4.7G OC.
I just wanna prove that S2F is not that bad for overclocking especially when using new bios.
Kind of little contribution to this thread.

If my temperature readings are not wrong, my concern for further OC is not temperature but voltage (over 1.7v vcore). Is it dangerous?

[Kevin1970]

This might be nothing more then a slow isp. But should i have installed the networking controller when i installed the mobo drivers? i didnt and now the internet is alot slower then normal. But that could just be my isp.