Maximus II gene boot problem

Boozebeard · 25 Jun 2010 at 02:30

I don't know if anyone else has used this board but there seems to be a problem with it booting when it's got a manual overclock on it (not because it's unstable). If I restart my pc it will reboot fine but if I shut it down and turn it on everything will power up but nothing will ever post. The only way I can fix it is by reseting the cmos. Just wondering if anyone else has had experience with this board and if they found a way to fix it? There are a few threads on the asus support forums but they seem totally dead and were never resolved.

Maybe VK has some insight on this issue?

Here's a thread from another forum

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=639027

I'm abit confused about his second post. He makes it sound like he found a soloution but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Boozebeard · 28 Jun 2010 at 10:55

OK, I think I've narrowed it down to manually setting the northbridge volts. It will boot fine if thats left on auto, not sure what I can do about it though; need to increase it from auto to make my oc stable.

Edit: I've isolated it further. It seems to only do it if the NB is set above 1.35. Any Ideas? I suppose the obvious answer is not set the NB above 1.35

Temi_D · 28 Jun 2010 at 11:44

I used to have the same problem as well. I discovered that it's because my RAM was at the wrong settings

Boozebeard · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:02

When it was first doing it, it displayed DET DRAM on the little lcd poster but it hasn't been doing that recently. Maybe I will try putting the NB over 3.5 and then fiddling with ram settings to see if I can get it to work that way. The rams definately within it's limits though.

-VK- · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:14

Picked up your mail and been trying to figure this one out myself and come to very much the same conclusions - I think it's a RAM issue but can't be sure what exactly

Boozebeard · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:20

Maybe it's worth trying some ram that's actually on the compatible memory list. Don't really wanna fork out for something that might not make any difference though. I'm using some Transcend aXe 1200 at the moment.

I think one guy said it works if you don't run the memory in dual channel (so single channel

). So instead of having your two stick in slot 1 and 3 put them in 1 & 2. Aparently that fixed it for him but it doesn't sound very ideal and I will have 4 sticks anyway once I get the rma for one of the kits sorted.

Temi_D · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:41

It might have something to do with the 4x1gb 1200mhz ram you are using. Most of the motherboards I know only support 2 sticks at that speed not 4

Boozebeard · 28 Jun 2010 at 12:44

Well at the moment I am only using 2 sticks because one kit is faulty. So it's definately not that. Maybe it will cause me problems when i get them back though. I might sell them and just get a 2x2gb kit.

I'm only running them at 1066 right now anyway. Or 1081 when at FSB 450.