Asus Striker II Formula bios not saving problems

Hi all,

I started to have issues with my machine last week when I had a power cut and the bios reset its settings. I was using an older 1101 beta bios that asus had sent me to solve an issue I was having getting my SLI Ready OCZ 4x1GB modules to 1066 as they are rated so I decided that this was a reasonable time to upgrade the bios since there had been something like 8 official releases since the beta version I was using.

I upgraded to 1701 and found that I could not make any modifications to the memory freq or fsb and also could not change from the Auto setting to Linked or Unlinked. When i changed them and saved the bios, it would revert to the default settings. This didn't seem to be too much of an issue until I noticed that the latencies were wrong and it wont keep those changes either.

Last night I upgraded to the 1802 bios which lots of people seem to be raving about and have the same issues where it wont save latecy and freq changes compounded with a new one.... they disabled SLI memory for more than 2 sticks. This wouldnt be a problem since I am happy to set the memory manually... But it wont accept any changes as I said before AND this bios drops the speed down to 667!

Grrrr.

When I flashed the bios I made sure that the default settings had been loaded first, save, power down and then power up and flash bios in Asus EZFlash. Then load defaults and save to ensure nothing awry before I start customising on the next reboot.

Any ideas? Setup in sig.

Thanks in advance.

no one have issues the bios not saving in the striker ii formula? can't be the only one!

can I?

reflash the bios. that's all we got.

Inciteful. Thanks.

It's very strange behaviour. Before I lost the settings in the beta bios I was using my memory worked fine at 1066 with 5, 7, 7, 22, 2T, 54 tRFC with 2.1v Now I cant even change the freq to 800.

As for voltages the only ones I have changed from Auto are the memory voltage to 2.1v which is what is needed for 1066 and the NB voltage to 1.42v for the same reason.

The voltages stick fine for some reason.

My only other course would be different memory, but I was hoping to be able to OC the Q6600SLACR up to 3GHz, something which should have been fine. But if I cant change the CPU from auto to linked or unlinked (thats not even changing anything else) then its not going to be possible.