Recent content by DuncanA

I increased my MCH voltage to +0.1 and my cold boot issues went away. 3 days in a row I've been able to have my PC off all night and boot into my stable overclock settings. Funny thing is, these settings are stable for 13+hrs in Orthos but fail under cold boot.. 3.2ghz (8x400) @ 1.325v...

That's what I'm saying. That speed is very much under spec for the Dominator's I have. But for some reason the motherboard gives me the cold boot issue when the ram is at 2x350 and above. I think I'm going to try upping the voltage from 2.1 to 2.2 on the ram and see if it gives me issues on cold...

No. By trial and error I found that my cold boot issue starts at 700mhz(350mhz x 2) ram. My stable overclock (13hrs + of Orthos) I've been using was 8x400 on my e6600 @ default voltage. Cold boot on this DS3 won't hold the settings Edit: updated sig for more info.

Eh, F10 was going great for me until this morning. I encountered the black screen of nothingness upon cold boot. I had to powercycle after the black screen and then speeds reset to stock settings. I then updated to my proven stable oc settings and booted back up. Yesterday I had shut my pc down...

You are correct. Using the F9 bios only gives me cold boot issues *if* I overclock. It's weird because it works fine on F7, not sure what the deal is with F8 and F9. :(

audscott, do you or did you ever experience the cold boot start issues? Are they gone in F10? Do you know of a bios that does not have the cold boot issue and detects X-Fi's properly?

yep. system specs E6600 @ 3600Mhz (9X400) 1.50V Tuniq Tower Gigabye DS3 rev2 F9 2GB Corsair Dominator 8500C5D 8800 GTX etc...

I'm in the same boat as you StopSign. With the F7 bios is seems that my X-FI isn't recognized in Windows roughly every 3rd cold boot whereas the F9 bios doesn't retain my overclock settings. The F9 also freaks me out every time I cold boot it. It powers on w/no POST and stays on indefinitely...