Striker Extreme locking up advice on stable settings much appreciated!

[kajan]

Hi all,

Recently bought a Striker Extreme mobo after reading some very positive reviews of the board, but have since read some horror stories about it!

I have not been able to get the board to run reliably at all, the longest I have been able to run it before it locks up is about 2 minutes, so I haven't even been able to install an OS on it. It's water cooled running a Q6600 CPU and a BFG 8800GTX GPU. I've tried two types of RAM, 1GB OCZ 800MHz (CL3 can't remember exact timings ATM) (2.1V) and a 512MB Geil 667MHz CL5 stick (1.8-1.9V).

I've played around a little with voltages and memory timings, but it is very difficult as the system generally tends to lockup within 30 seconds or so, often before even making it to the BIOS screen, making changes very difficult!

One interesting thing is the BIOS temperature monitor reports the CPU temperature sitting between 13 and 14 degrees C... Yeh it's water cooled, but ambient is generally above that, which sounds impossible.

One suggestion I've had is to gradually increment CPU voltage to see if it makes it more reliable. I will try lowering RAM FSB and possibly CPU FSB as well, but this is difficult due to the lockup problems.

Any suggestions for what to try with BIOS settings to try and achieve stability would be MUCH appreciated! Should I RMA this board? Is it worth trying a cheap Celeron CPU?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[nrage]

What other system components are you using, i.e. What power supply? What graphics card(s)?

Is it giving any sequence of beeps when it locks up or does it just freeze and sit there till you reboot?

 

[Mr. Smith]

Did your w/c leak?

Try updating the bios?

I'd RMA it...

 

[ionicle]

sounds like your board's shot, rma methinks.

 

[kajan]

Power supply is Enermax Galaxy 850W, Graphics is water cooled BFG 8800 GTX. Nothing when it locks, just freezes until I reboot, sometimes reset works, sometimes requires power cycle.

Have updated BIOS to both 1303 and 1305, no change. Have read some people have had to go back to 110x BIOS, but not convinced it will help in this case.

Been very careful with W/C, leak tested for hours, definitely no leaks.

 

[fadz23q]

Power supply is Enermax Galaxy 850W, Graphics is water cooled BFG 8800 GTX. Nothing when it locks, just freezes until I reboot, sometimes reset works, sometimes requires power cycle.

Have updated BIOS to both 1303 and 1305, no change. Have read some people have had to go back to 110x BIOS, but not convinced it will help in this case.

Been very careful with W/C, leak tested for hours, definitely no leaks.

if i was you id go back to the old BIOS and at least give it a try,i had probs myself while trying to o.c on the latest Bios update. goodluck.

 

[kajan]

Thanks all, general consensus seems to be an RMA...

I tried going back to air cooling with a low spec video card, it lasted a little bit longer, getting to formatting the drive in windows install, but still crashed.

Interestingly enough, on air cooling the CPU temperature in BIOS went up to around 43-44 degrees, more what I was expecting. 30 degrees difference with W/C wow!

 

[Pat123]

you were getting 13c temps with your w/c?? thats really low.. lol..