redeye said:
I've just got my hands on one of these after four weeks of getting nowhere with an EVGA 680i SLi board (trashed one set of RAM, slow boots, unpredictable stability). Specs as follows:
QX6700
2GB OCZ Gold Edition 1100Mhz (PC8800) OCZ2G11002GK
2x EVGA 8800GTX
1x 150GB WD Raptor
1x 500GB WD Caviar
CPU & GPU's water cooled
Win XP Pro SP2
So last night I set it up, installed 0803, got the latest Nforce/Geforce/Ntune drivers. Got the QX6700 at 3.2Ghz nice and stable, GPU's at 620 Mem at 2Ghz. RAM wouldn't run at anything above 1066 even if I set it in the bios at 1100Mhz with correct 2.2v. In Windows CPUZ, Nvmonitor etc displays 1066Mhz. I can't o/c the FSB at all without it crashing, only the multiplyer is possible. So I left it as was.. thinking it was fast enough and most importantly stable.. unlike the EVGA.
So this morning comes round, boot up the system and ta da it crashes on first boot. Get's into windows blue screen flicks up then the system restarts. I've fiddled with the bios, specifically the Linkboost/ NvidiaEX settings and it seems slightly more stable but it freezes on startup for anything upto 20secs then continues to load. 3DMark 06 runs ok but all games are unpredictable, sometimes they are fine sometimes they crash and the system restarts. Almost identical problems to the EVGA board.
I've spent so much time over the past month trying to get a 680i board to work it's a joke. I've tried all the fixes on the ASUS forums, as I mentioned have tried an EVGA one but no joy. Think I need to get something else but they question is what. It seems these boards are brilliantly fast if you can get them working.. if you can't it's a nightmare.
Sounds very much like my problem!
My kit:
QX6700
2x BFG 8800GTX
4x 150gb Raptors
2x 750gb Cavi
XFI Music
2x 2GB OCZ FLEX (only using one kit atm)
Striker OBV
Tagen Z 750 OR/AND Galaxy 1kw
CPU on Phase
I had the Galaxy first, had 3 YES THREE strikers sat on my bench as i thought i was having problems with them! so i bought two EVGA boards, same problem!
I went out and got the new PSU (only one i could find off the SLIZONE list)
Put it in and wallaha! it works! so first problem was iron out!
GALAXY = Scrap metal!! (anyone WANT it)
OK! windows on! (no raid ATM) it booted no problems appart form the CPU FAN FAIL warning.
Time for OC, NO DEAL! i have bios 0701. i thought that was the latest (more fool me)
I get RANDOM issues on boot, can work ok for day then just reboot, FSB changes = instant dirt (no boot) i can boot into windows with Multi at 12 and stable on 3.19. the ram is strange one min it is at 1T the next at 2T
I can not change the FSB without failing.
VOLTAGEs changed etc.
I score 16k in 3d06 once stable.
HELP PLEASE
thanks
PS, i dont have all 3 strikers here, got one spare though.