temporalwar
Limp Gawd
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Anyone else tried the new flash?
I'm thinking about ordering a chip from badflash, and have a backup.
I'm thinking about ordering a chip from badflash, and have a backup.
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If I were you I would strip the mobo down to one video card, one stick of memory and the cpu only.. see if you can get anything from that... of have you done that already? If the bios flash went bad and there's a corrupt segment embedded now, it's going to be tough to undo that.. this is why mfg's should have dual bios.. really.. it would save us from nightmare issues like this... especially with enthusiast boards which people like to flash new bioses onto frequently.. at any rate.. can you maybe pull the bios chip out and get a new one? is that even a possibility? or get someone to force flash a good image into your chip? I have not done that before, but I have heard about people doing it.. I reckon you need a chip flashing device tho..
I tried 0802 and it killed my BIOS chip. Unfortunately, I used the Windows based tool ASUS Update. I've never had a problem with it in the past, and it worked well for me for two other BIOS flashes on that particular Striker Extreme board. So I had to order a new BIOS chip which should be arriving soon.
I have a RAID 5 question when using the ASUS Striker Extreme. Hopefully someone will know. I have two Maxtor 300GB SATA drives and I just ordered a Seagate 320GB SATA drive. I am pretty sure I can still set up a RAID 5 array with these three drives even though one is different and has 20GB more storage. I think I will lose the 20GB but owe well I couldn't find another 300GB drive at a good price. Anyone know for sure?
Also I already have information on the Maxtor drives and I do not want to lose it when setting up the RAID 5, currently I am running RAID 1 for data security reasons. When setting up RAID 5 can I set one drive as a Master and do a data copy while the RAID 5 array is being created with the NVidia chipset? Thanks!
Have you got your new BIOS chip from ASUS yet Dan?
If so, have you had a chance to try overclocking with the 0802 BIOS? I am wondering if you are going to get any better results.
I am still waiting for my board. I am officially in week 7 now...
I have indeed. Unfortunately I've been busting ass trying to get a review out and I haven't installed it into the board yet. I'm using my laptop to do most of my review work since my desktop is toast and I didn't have time to re-install the BIOS chip and re-assemble the machine. (The board is out of the case right now.)
Well at least you have a new chip..
I'm interested to see if this new BIOS helps with overclocking. I'm an Asus supporter but even I can admit for that amount of money the board should perform a little better than it has (or seems to have worked in everyone's benches / reviews). I'm praying this BIOS makes things a lot better.
I hope it works out for you mate. Let us know how you go when you get a chance. You sound busy..
I went back to the 0802 bios and my vCore settings were back to where they had been...1.36V in pc probe II, and 1.375V in nvidia monitor.
Correspondingly, my cpu idle temps dropped from 43C in 0803 down to 33C in 0802 (afternoon temps); the vCore was set to 'auto' in both.
Hmm, looks like the 0803 bios got removed from the Asus website. I'm using it and I'm not experiencing any Vcore problems at all.
I never opened my board, and still piecing my machine together
I'm thinking of selling my board that is in new/mint condition and purchasing the:
Abit IN9 32X-MAX
Reasons:
I like realtek audio (ADI Soundmax is the strikers)
The removal of the audio from the PCI-E slot, allows for a PCI-E wifi card, or something else
(Like HDTV Tuner)
The Digital controller on the board removes caps off the board for less heat, failures.
less giant heatsinks
most of the same features that are worth it, and cheaper.
Is the Realtek audio any good? People said the one on the reference 680i boards suck, or is that a lower variation of the chip?
I'm not big audiophile, but I think if we all wanted better sound, X-Fi is the only way
Whatever, I'm happy with my board, I just like the fact that is uses all solid state capacitors, and improved power so I can run Quad Core, and the newer 1333 MHz Core 2's later this year.
Might upgrade to the E6350, double up the cache, hopefully by then I can overclock my FSB to my 1800 MHz target, get a good beefy OC.
Ok, there are a lot of comments about this board.
What about for a user that does no overclocking, isn't using SLi and wants it for games? It is going to be paired with an e6600 and OCZ Platinum Rev.2 memory (which I'm assured by OCZ will work) for a gaming machine.
Do I go for it, or get something else?
Then you should choose an Intel chipset based board. In fact I'd recommend the D975XBX2 to anyone who meets the above criteria.
Dan, I see that you are using the Striker in your current rig. Does that mean the flaws have been fixed? When are we going to see an update to the review on the [H]?
most flaws are fixed since 0901 and 1002 bios though it's the chipset that remains buggy and sometimes erratic in beahviour, so some new stuff still could pop up. No 680i board sadly is 100% bulletproof...
All part of the marketing strategy , if noone bought these mobo's they would have to drop the prices lol.
See the link for a sort of user review of the Gigabyte board, clocks aswell as the rest of the 680i's it's all part of the bios revisions, normally to make testresults fairer, te reviewers should test all the boards with the latest or as known stable bios versions with the same cpu and ram. Boy would take months to get a review out hehehhe.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=134000
I'm glad to see someone finally got 4GBs of that RAM working.. You've done well. I'm sure Domenick will be glad to hear that. Let's hope you can get the rest of the the system stable..I've got good news and bad news.
The good news is I've got 4GB of Corsair 8500C5D Dominators running in my system. All four slots are full, and the memory is running at the advertised 1066MHz, 5-5-5-15-2T timings at 2.2v.
The bad news is that my FSB OC doesn't want to play nice, so right now I'm running stock. I had the NB at 400 MHz, which meant the 3:2 divider put the memory speed right on 1066 Mhz, running at 1.5v. But it wasn't stable in any game I fired up. So either I need more NB voltage (whats the safe limit, BTW?), or I need to start fiddling with the DDR termination voltages (WTF do they do, anyway??).
Tomorrow is going to be a full day of Memtest86. Fun fact: Windows Memory Tester can't test all four gigs; MS really needs to be put out a Vista 64 based version.
Yup - but DDR is "Double Data Rate" which means that 533 is actually 1066MHz. He's running 1600FSB with 1066MHz Ram..I'm not familiar with the Striker specifically. However, won't an FSB at 400mhz with a 3:2 divider cause your ram to run at 533?
Yup - but DDR is "Double Data Rate" which means that 533 is actually 1066MHz. He's running 1600FSB with 1066MHz Ram..
That's what I was referring too. When the FSB is at 400 the ram will at double data rate be at 800 with a 1:1 divider. Change that to a 3:2 divider and you get 400 * 2 * 2/3 = 566
Okay, I see what you mean now. It's funny how Everest also seems to be confused by which number the memory frequency is referenced too