Hi all, I'm having some trouble with my Maximus Formula board. Here's the scoop: I run overclocked at 3.2 GHz (400x8) with 1.45v set in the BIOS. This is enough for me to fold rosetta@home on all four cores stably for weeks on end. However, getting the system to successfully cold boot is always a challenge. At every cold boot one of two things happens: either 1) it just sits there with the fans spinning and no video, or 2) the POST gives me two beeps with a message on the screen stating "Overclock failed". At this point when I go into the BIOS I find it has reset my FSB to 266, if I change it back to 400 and then save and reboot it will warm boot into Windows successfully and run quite happily at 3.2 GHz with full load.
Here's some further details:
It's cooled by a TRUE with a 2K rpm Kaze, average load temps during rosetta@home are in the low 60s celsius. In the BIOS I have enabled Loadline Calibration and have set the FSB strap to 400. I'm running regular old DDR2-800 and have the memory set to that setting in the BIOS.
I am at a loss why I always have trouble cold booting this rig. I will be connecting the LCD Poster to the board this evening to see if I can get some detailed error messages out of it when it errors out during the cold boot. Any suggestions you can offer to me on how to resolve this issue are appreciated.
Here's some further details:
It's cooled by a TRUE with a 2K rpm Kaze, average load temps during rosetta@home are in the low 60s celsius. In the BIOS I have enabled Loadline Calibration and have set the FSB strap to 400. I'm running regular old DDR2-800 and have the memory set to that setting in the BIOS.
I am at a loss why I always have trouble cold booting this rig. I will be connecting the LCD Poster to the board this evening to see if I can get some detailed error messages out of it when it errors out during the cold boot. Any suggestions you can offer to me on how to resolve this issue are appreciated.