Striker II Formula

Had enough!

Right,

This was the final straw.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I set the NVIDIA stability test running stressing all components for 6 hours or so, went out, came back to a PC still on, but screen in power save mode, and nothing would wake it up.:mad:
Therefore, am thinking that a BSOD, crash, freeze, whatever you want to call it, occured!:mad:

Therefore, I am sick and tired with this dodgy board, and RMA'ing it!:mad:

Are there any alternative boards out there that work fine with a QX9650, PC2-8000 and can support SLI? (a different brand 780i, or are they all crap?)

Cheers,
Matt
 
Prob all crap same as 680I, I would never have bought any 680/780 for running a Quad.

I have that bad cold so not been at PC much, I was supposed to rip Mobo out and RMA it.

And BTW, the issue with the X-FI you posted about on MS site is out of date, its old news and aint the cause now, the MSI even comes with a X-FI card.

I have had it at defaults for 2 days now and the NB/SB temps are still high, nearly as high as when I ran 4GHZ with 500x8 and thats applying artic Ceramic like Asus asked me to.
 
Wait for future BIOS update or ditch it for a Maximus Extreme?

helmutcheese said:
And BTW, the issue with the X-FI you posted about on MS site is out of date, its old news and aint the cause now, the MSI even comes with a X-FI card.
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Well, ever since I have ripped it out of my PC, I haven't seen one particular type of BS. I don't know what to think regarding this problem!?


I really need to make a decision quick about this whole RMAing business. I have wasted too much time sorting out this PC, and need to get back to some more productive things in my life!

Therefore, do people think that a future BIOS update will solve all of these problems, and its worth waiting, and putting up with all these problems until then? Or is it worth getting a none nForce chipset, and going for something like the X38 - Asus Maximus Extreme?? (I really wan't SLI in the future though! that's my only dilema)
 
nantucket66 said:
I've been out of the overclocking game for a little while so I've been very slowly tinkering with the many bios settings and so far I am stable at
2.93GHz and happy (Q6800 setting)
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If you are feeling charitable, I'd be very grateful if you'd let me know what settings you changed to achieve this. Since we have the same mobo, processor and memory I figure what works for you ought, in theory, to work for me :)

Drop me a line at roaduk(at)googlemail(dot)com or post here.

Thanks mate.
 
I doubt any future BIOS will address these issues, there are just too many of them, and too many different causes.

As far as I can tell, the 780 is actually the 680 with a few extra bits crudely integrated to enable - supposedly - better compatibility with all 45mn CPUs.

When one considers that the 680 can actually run wolfdales and ES x9650s, it begs the question whether 780s are merely "handpicked" 680s with heavier duty cooling - in theory:rolleyes: - and the capacity to endure higher FSBs when set against lower multipliers, problem is, they can't.
 
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We have had virtually no trouble with the MSI P7N Diamond since its release last week...I would strongly recommend this as an alternative
 
I seem to remember showing reviews of the MSI's and peeps here inc 1 of the Dons laughing at it, now its all good lol. :rolleyes:

I dont like a few things about the MSI and so far nobody has given info we have asked for multiple times like FSB OC etc etc.

Posting saying you have this Mobo is not really any good to us, we need somone who knows that they are doing to push the mobo far and take Temps etc.

I think its a fair guess to say the 780i is as buggy/bad as the 680i apart from the few peeps who get lucky or just dont have a clue and are happy with stock running and all the bugs esp the Asus.
 
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I've read about a lot of problems here with BSOD, artifacts on the screen NIC issues etc etc.

I've been ******* about with this board now for a few weeks trying to get the thing stable and finally managed to get Vista 32 installed early this week and it appears to be running prety stable at stock settings.

However, I can shut the damn thing down OK from Vista, but when I try a reset from either changing settings in BIOS, Ctrl-Alt-Del or a Vista restart it gets stuck at DET IDE, I then have to hold the power button for 4 secs to turn off, isolate at the mains supply switch back on and then off again with power button then isolate at the mains again before I can get the damn thing up and running again. It's driving me insane.

I've RMA'd the board once only to be told that it's working OK (Vendor tested with Q6600 and PC2-6400), I'm running with QX9650 and PC2-9136 but have tried with 8500 and get same problems.
 
sniffsunder said:
I've RMA'd the board once only to be told that it's working OK (Vendor tested with Q6600 and PC2-6400), I'm running with QX9650 and PC2-9136 but have tried with 8500 and get same problems.
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Annoying isn't it?

As far as motherboards go, I'm afraid we're now in an age where the retailer really ought to test supposedly faulty hardware with as close a setup to the customer's as possible.

Sticking in completely different memory, a completely different CPU and running a completely different set of tests - presumably with the components on an open bench rather than installed in a case - is hardly likely to replicate the errors in question, for obvious reasons.

By the way, watch that memory extremely carefully, it uses Micron D9MGH chips. Keep the voltage below 2.2 or it will very likely fail.
I cannot for the life of me understand why manufacturer's continue to distribute modules that use these chips, confidently claiming to have tested them on Nforce 680/780 boards, successfully, at voltages of <2.3. The fail rate is unbelievable.
 
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balth_dire said:
Annoying isn't it?

By the way, watch that memory extremely carefully, it uses Micron D9MGH chips. Keep the voltage below 2.2 or it will very likely fail.
I cannot for the life of me understand why manufacturer's continue to distribute modules that use these chips, confidently claiming to have tested them on Nforce 680/780 boards, successfully, at voltages of <2.3. The fail rate is unbelievable.
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Thanks for the tip on the memory, I'll keep my eye on it, I currently have voltage set manually at 2.1v so should be OK.

I've had enough of this board so I'm gonna send it back, I can't keep messing about with it it's giving me grey hair.

I'm unlikely to upgrade to SLI anyway so I'm considering the Maximus Extreme or Formula. Has anybody got any experience with these boards using an Nvidia 8800 Ultra.
 
BIOS UPDATE!!! 0101 - released 17/01/2008

Hi everyone,

After getting in touch with Asus technical support, they have suggesting installing the latest BIOS update, which I thought I had already installed (0902). It turns out that Asus have messed around with their BIOS revision numbers, and the latest one is in fact 0101.
(0902 was released a day earlier on the 16/01.)

Link to all the BIOS revisions showing the release date on the right:
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?modelname=Striker%20II%20Formula&SLanguage=en-us

Latest 0101 release:
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/Striker_II_Formula/S2F0101.zip

After you have updated, I would clear you're CMOS, and then enter all of the same settings you had before in. I didn't because I had a look in the BIOS briefly and saw that my settings were still in there. Well, when I loaded into windows, I got as far as the desktop, then FREEZE!

Anyways, cleared the CMOS, re entered the settings, then I am now currently writing this now!:)

I will leave a few stress tests running all this morning, to see how far they get; but I am remarkable optimistic about this! :confused:

This is also what the ASUS tech guy said to: "If the problem still remains, please change LDT frequency to 4X, test again. Please refer to the manual 4-24." - I haven't tried this yet, as everything seems to be running OK for now.

Good Luck,
and I will report back once I have given this latest release a bit of a test.


Matt
 
The LDT thing made no difference for me, but let us know.

One more thing aswell.

Go into device manager/scsi and raid controller and double click on whichever controller has your hard drive(s) on.

Find the tab that has the option to enable/disable NCQ (native command queueing), and uncheck the box - you'll have to to this for all three controllers if they have drives connected.

The function has a very bad history (all sorts of lockups and BSODs) when using certain drives with Nforce boards, even the newer Raptors. They seemed to have nailed the issue in XP, but in vista it might well be back.
 
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Quick update

Getting all these lockup's again! arhhhh..

balth_dire said:
The LDT thing made no difference for me, but let us know.
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Nope this didn't help at all - it even failed quicker than if it were set to 5x


balth_dire said:
Go into device manager/scsi and raid controller and double click on whichever controller has your hard drive(s) on.

Find the tab that has the option to enable/disable NCQ (native command queueing), and uncheck the box - you'll have to to this for all three controllers if they have drives connected.
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I don't appear to have a tab for NCQ, instead I have the windows Policies tab in which i can turn off "enable write caching on the disk".
Is this what you meant??

Cheers,
 
we don't have the time to extensively test every board with every processor so no we havent tested the MSI P7N with the QX9650.

What I can tell you is that of all the units sold so far we havent had a single faulty board returned to us :eek:
 
skippo said:
I don't appear to have a tab for NCQ, instead I have the windows Policies tab in which i can turn off "enable write caching on the disk".
Is this what you meant??

Cheers,
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I think you're looking under "disk drives", look under "storage controllers"/"Nvidia Nforce Serial ATA Controller" (this is listed three times)/then the "port 0" and "port 1" tabs.

Check all 3 controllers, as the option only applies to the one you have your drives connected to, otherwise it's greyed out.
 
I've been looking at the 780 boards for tri sli.
One thing i want is a PCI e slot above the top x16 so i can fit a soundcard.
With three VC's installed most of the boards have no PCI's usable.

Seems only the Striker 2 and the MSI fit the bill in this regard.
Comments in this thread have totally put me off the Striker.

So the MSI seems to be the 'one' to get. ?
 
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