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- Dec 19, 2012
I'm making this post as a last ditch effort before I declare my board busted. Actually I'm having trouble with two boards a Crosshair V Formula and a Z version of the same. Two different issues but ironically they both happened when trying to run PCMark7 with a 4x SSD Raid 0 .
The Formula
Itried to run the bench with 2600 memory and the bench finished but the score out put was 9xx compared to 5xxx where it should be so I rebooted. That's when I noticed only 1 stick of ram was showing in the bios. So the problem solving began, I know for certain in both cases it's the board and not the CPU just to get that out of the way. CPUs tested and functioning normally. Tried different BIOS first, no change. Tore it down and let it sit overnight without battery and CPU removed just incase of moisture. No change , have flashed BIOS multiple times with different methods , no change. Tested RAM slots and found that only A1 and B1 are functiong. If A1 and A2 are populated only shows half the ram. If only A@ or B2 are populated =no boot..
Formula-Z
This one may have been moisture related but not definite. Running bench and score comes back at half what it should be. Find that my multiplier is stuck at 7x. Different CPU same thing. Different BIOS same thing. Sat overnight w/o battery still the same multi stuck at 7x. No it's not power saving or similar under stress test multi will not change and output for benches shows that it's not running full tilt. I even uninstalled the driver through device manager re-install ,reboot no change.
One other thing, I broke the array and tried a fresh vanilla copy of windows on both boards as well with no luck.
Any ideas, I'm all ears. I just find it very coincidental I lost 2 different boards running the same benchmark with raid.
EDIT: at this point I think the CHVF is done for , I still have some hope for the "Z"
The Formula
Itried to run the bench with 2600 memory and the bench finished but the score out put was 9xx compared to 5xxx where it should be so I rebooted. That's when I noticed only 1 stick of ram was showing in the bios. So the problem solving began, I know for certain in both cases it's the board and not the CPU just to get that out of the way. CPUs tested and functioning normally. Tried different BIOS first, no change. Tore it down and let it sit overnight without battery and CPU removed just incase of moisture. No change , have flashed BIOS multiple times with different methods , no change. Tested RAM slots and found that only A1 and B1 are functiong. If A1 and A2 are populated only shows half the ram. If only A@ or B2 are populated =no boot..
Formula-Z
This one may have been moisture related but not definite. Running bench and score comes back at half what it should be. Find that my multiplier is stuck at 7x. Different CPU same thing. Different BIOS same thing. Sat overnight w/o battery still the same multi stuck at 7x. No it's not power saving or similar under stress test multi will not change and output for benches shows that it's not running full tilt. I even uninstalled the driver through device manager re-install ,reboot no change.
One other thing, I broke the array and tried a fresh vanilla copy of windows on both boards as well with no luck.
Any ideas, I'm all ears. I just find it very coincidental I lost 2 different boards running the same benchmark with raid.
EDIT: at this point I think the CHVF is done for , I still have some hope for the "Z"
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