ASUS Maximus Formula - bad BIOS?

[GavX]

Well I finally got around to flashing my BIOS, was getting sick of "unknown CPU detected" but now my PC can't overclock! Before my Formula and Q9450 could hit 3.48Ghz and had not hit the wall yet, but now with these BIOS it seems I cant even get a FSB of 350... something is up, before I was hitting 430! Can anyone shed any light? Is this justs a bad BIOS or have I brokeded something

 

[Toxcity]

What version of the bios are you using?

 

[GavX]

whoops sorry, 1201 at the moment, the latest one. I updated them as I was BSODing alot and figured flashing the BIOS might fix it, it has sort of, but I have lost the overclocking-ness a touch... I hit 3.44 in XP, switched to Vista 64 2 weeks ago and havev only really got it sorted enough to start OCing again.

 

[Toxcity]

Well I can say from experience that this bios rocks/doesn't make much difference from the older ones.

Have you got something enabled which wasn't before that could effect the overclock?

 

[GavX]

THe only real difference is the BIOS change, everything is the same from when I changed frmo XP. I try to post at 400FSB and nothing displays on the screen, so I enter the BIOS and set it back to 350, and same again... I try upping VCore (as it normally is on auto, maybe the latest update sets it too low). I know my memory can do up to 1150Mhz as it has been up there before, so that should not be the bottle neck. As for cooling I have never had a heating issue before and I have a quad-rad set up (x1 240mm x2 120mm, all on an ntec 900 ) I will try more accurate overclocking tomorrow when I have had some kip, ta for the help and I will return tomorrow!

 

[Bungral]

He means with the new bios flash it will more than likely have set all the Intel CPU throttling settings back to enabled.

If you've already switched them back to disabled then no problem and maybe try a reflash.

 

[GavX]

Having another go now as sleeping just didn't sound as fun as overclocking. Rather than going the lazy "auto" I have set most voltages myself (1.5 through the northbridge :S doing the job...) and I am siting here at 3.6Ghz. I BSODed first time but the memory was running faster than 1066Mhz so I dropped it down to 900Mhz and it seems to be doing ok, annoying the fact that for some reason it couldnt handle 1090Mhz or somemthing