Strange problem with Asus Maximus Formula

[saxile]

My Formula is Rampage flashed and was working perfectly up until yesterday when I rebooted my system, it wouldn't post. I've had slight problems since the get-go with it due to my ram requiring 2.3 to boot at it's highest settings and the mobo always defaults to 1.8v :screwy: so I have to jump start it with another stick then swap to run my ram. But after that reboot it will not post past 2.24 in bios, any higher and I get get a boot block screen and it wants to flash my bios, I have tried to reflash and all with no luck :bang head. This is the first problem like this I have ever encountered so I'm kinda clueless, also this is the first mobo this ram won't boot with out setting the volts in the bios before I can put it in.

[visseroth]

very strange, the only thing I can think of is maybe another PS or RMA. It may be a bad BIOS.

Have you tried removing all the extra stuff attached to it and clearing the CMOS then checking to see if it will boot correctly?

[meionm]

Try relaxing memory timings, to recommended ones by manufacture. Increase norhtbridge voltage. Run memory through memtest86 test 5 for about 3 hours.

[saxile]

I've tried all of that, three different sticks of ram, anything above 2.24v is that bootblock message, just started it out of no where. Only thing I can think of is the memory voltage regulators are going bad, have tried numerous different bios flashes with same results.

[freeagent]

did you try flashing back your your reg. maximus bios?

[saxile]

not yet, think I'll just say the hell with it and stick some lower voltage ram in the system. Hard to beat 5-4-4-4 @ 1066 tho.

[freeagent]

i have some gskills that do 1115 at 5-4-4-12, 2.2v, so i know what your saying ;)

[saxile]

could still pull that easily as 2.24 is my max, gonna just stick my patriots in my wife's rig along with my phenom course for some odd reason the max I can get em to run on that board is 910ish when they're 1066 sticks 790fx and phenom's just hard to work with tho. Oddly enough tho, I get better graphic benchs with that system with 1.3 less ghz than with my q6600