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This is a great board... mine has only hung once, and that was when I tried to boot the RAM at 1200Mhz+ without fiddling with the timings... had it in for 10 days, hasn't missed a beat.

Oh, and I have a Noctua NF-12 heatsink on there, which is not small.. the clearance is pretty good despite the amount of copper on the board.
 
Just set-up mine last night with 2 WD in raid 0 for system drive and 2 x 1tb hitachi drives for storage and seems fine. But when playing hl 2 e2 just now the computer crashed with a BSOD and I heard the hard drives spinning up. do you think thats down to the controller or a faulty drive?
 
have you only just set them up nick? any chance you can benchmark the two hitachi's in raid0 as well? there arnt any good benchmarks anywhere. the bsod could be anything. what was the error?
 
Hi guys,

I ordered one of these boards (should have it tomorrow) and was wondering the best way to have a seamless transition with XP SP2 installed. From experience, Windows usually does things automatically if the hardware change is known tech, and I just tweak things/set up drivers a bit afterwards. But since this board is brand new tech I'm wondering what is the best way to do this. I don't have raid, just 3 normal sata drives running.

At any rate, looking forward to oc'ing this bad boy, gonna put the fusion block into my water cooling loop as well. Only got the cpu wc'ed atm. Was gonna stick with the SLI route as far as mobos go ( like the one I currently got) but have decided not to bother now.
 
Ozzie Dave said:
Hi guys,

I ordered one of these boards (should have it tomorrow) and was wondering the best way to have a seamless transition with XP SP2 installed. From experience, Windows usually does things automatically if the hardware change is known tech, and I just tweak things/set up drivers a bit afterwards. But since this board is brand new tech I'm wondering what is the best way to do this. I don't have raid, just 3 normal sata drives running.

At any rate, looking forward to oc'ing this bad boy, gonna put the fusion block into my water cooling loop as well. Only got the cpu wc'ed atm. Was gonna stick with the SLI route as far as mobos go ( like the one I currently got) but have decided not to bother now.
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I had a DFI RD600 before and it worked fine or seemed to, I always install a fresh copy of XP as sometimes I've seen other people having issues later on.
 
It is always good practice to do a clean install....but.....I mapped my Vista across :rolleyes:

Thing to do is to remove any and all current motherboard drivers as thoroughly as possible before installing the new board, the most crucial being drivers involving IDE/SATA - essentially those affecting you HDDs and optical drives as these are where the new drivers for the new board will come from ;)
 
Ozzie Dave said:
Hi guys,

I ordered one of these boards (should have it tomorrow) and was wondering the best way to have a seamless transition with XP SP2 installed. From experience, Windows usually does things automatically if the hardware change is known tech, and I just tweak things/set up drivers a bit afterwards. But since this board is brand new tech I'm wondering what is the best way to do this. I don't have raid, just 3 normal sata drives running.

At any rate, looking forward to oc'ing this bad boy, gonna put the fusion block into my water cooling loop as well. Only got the cpu wc'ed atm. Was gonna stick with the SLI route as far as mobos go ( like the one I currently got) but have decided not to bother now.
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Hi, if you are changing chipsets, i.e. from NV to Intel, then XP will certainly blue screen at start up. However there is a way to keep all your programs, setting and files intact by following this method http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1755
Of course the purists will say this isn't a good idea, however, as an IT Techie I have had to use this and have had no problems with it....
ChrisC
 
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Cheers for the advise guys! and the link.

Will let ya's know how I get on. First time in a while I've replaced a mobo thats totally different (chipset, etc) on a system I'm using heavily for things. Normally I do a complete new build.
 
frustin said:
have you only just set them up nick? any chance you can benchmark the two hitachi's in raid0 as well? there arnt any good benchmarks anywhere. the bsod could be anything. what was the error?
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I have seen a few benchmarks not in raid 0 though the hitachi's are raid 1 backup with my data and I have just transfered 600GB to them so I am not in a rush to set them up again :(. Thought it could be a one off, but the exact same thing just happened :mad: with the hard drives stoping and spinning up while in game then crash. I might be able to benchmark them if I have to reinstall again :(.
Do you think it could be a power drop out? My PSU is a beast but I think some water got in it during the setup :( but I left it in the airing cupboard to dry it out for a day. I would have thought that the 8800GTX would die out before the hard drives though if it was the PSU. Might try swapping the PSU and see if the hard drives are still dropping out.

Error report here:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 8086
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini101507-02.dmp
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-94146-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WER8FB1.tmp.version.txt

Do you think there will be any useful info in these files?

Edit I removed the Raid 1 array on the hitachi's and it didn't help I think the problem is either to do with the hard drive controller or the hitachi drives.
 
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andyr said:
I think its fair to say that this board at present needs better bios but thats not a new problem with first release is it , here is a balanced review in my opinion http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=124
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That was a good read :)
I asked a question earlier on in this thead about the sound card, and I see Clunk said...

Next up is the SupremeFX II card - It certainly looks impressive, with its fancy black and silver cover, and it is PCI-E, which is great if you need the PCI slots, but how does it sound? I will test it later.

I didn't find it anywhere, and I guess most on here are using Creatives :(
 
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An excellent read and test review thanks for a great link,


What is worrying i quote from the review http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=124


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"I have been testing some more this afternoon, and I'm quite concerned about the Maximus now, or at least mine.

Aside from the flakey BIOS I mentioned earlier, have been having RAM problems, in so much as, I have been unable to get stable with anything other than 5-5-5-15. Now the worrying thing is that the Maximus over volts the RAM by around 0.8v, and earlier this afternoon, the board wouldn't restart without physically unplugging the PSU. Again, these are exactly the same symptoms as on the Commando when it went on it's RAM killing spree, not once, but three times, and you can imagine that I wasn't too pleased when my first set of Ballistix suddenly died.

I have replaced the ballistix with another set, and I am still having some strange issues.

One issue is that even with 11 hours stable settings, a restart to change some BIOS settings, results in no post, and the PSU has to be unplugged, or turned off and on for a few seconds before it will post.

I tried a different PSU - different brand, a Seasonic S12 and the same thing happens.

I am going to try a few other things and I'll report back with any findings....

Flashed back to the 04 BIOS, slightly better, but still cant restart without it hanging at any settings.

RAM clocking is a bit better with this BIOS as well".

Asus do have a kinky thing for killing ram modules. Its Literally quite shocking really.
 
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