[Update from Asus & Intel] Asus P9X79 PRO + XFX 7970 xfire

[bankster55]

I found lots of tips in this thread from the hardcore guys over there. Good advice on running 2133 RAM
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...ficial-X79-Motherboards-Support-Thread/page12

 

[nanaki333]

wow. after i switched pcie to 2.0, the problem is happening even faster. 45 minutes of left 4 dead 2 killed it after a fresh reboot.

i've also been noticing my my mouse and keyboard lights flicker like i unplugged them and plugged them back in. i think going forward, i'm never buying an asus product again. especially since they continue to point fingers elsewhere and refuse to acknowledge a problem exists with their hardware. guess my work will buy a bulk motherboards of another brand. hellloooooo MSI!

 

[silvrhand]

I resolved my issue I do believe, how many of you have MSI afterburner installed? Once I removed MSI afterburner my issues have gone away.

 

[dajeepster]

I resolved my issue I do believe, how many of you have MSI afterburner installed? Once I removed MSI afterburner my issues have gone away.

guilty.. i do.

i'll try uninstalling it.. .i'm running beta 15 right now...what version were you running?

have you tried with trixx?

 

[AdamK47]

I'm using MSI Afterburner. No problems here. I use it only to apply overclock settings at startup and never leave it running during actual game play (I'm a minimalist with my system processes). I do use it from time to time to check GPU usage and temps though.

 

[bankster55]

AMD 3-2012 drivers out today

 

[silvrhand]

guilty.. i do.

i'll try uninstalling it.. .i'm running beta 15 right now...what version were you running?

have you tried with trixx?

Was good for about 3 days.. then now bam the hardlocks are back while playing LOTRO.. yet still no hard locks while playing BF3.

- upgraded to latest ATI drivers too..

 

[silvrhand]

ok have been playing fine for about 6 hours on LOTRO, then noticed how jaggied the indoor settings where and said oh hey.. let me turn on AA. soon as I turned on AA in the game it hard locked. Which makes sense cause I had turned AA off on BF3.

Seems like disabling AA may stop the hard locks for me.

 

[silvrhand]

ok have been playing fine for about 6 hours on LOTRO, then noticed how jaggied the indoor settings where and said oh hey.. let me turn on AA. soon as I turned on AA in the game it hard locked. Which makes sense cause I had turned AA off on BF3.

Seems like disabling AA may stop the hard locks for me.

Nope.. now trying to play with crossfire disabled.. and so far it's ok.

 

[dajeepster]

mine hasn't rebooted in a week. i don't have the new bios installed yet, but i do have the official 12.3 catalyst drivers installed.. it rebooted last night because i forgot to take it off auto update.

 

[bankster55]

BIOS 1009 out today for all but ROG X79
Changelog:
P9X79 DELUXE BIOS 1009
1.Improve system stability.
2.Improve memory compatibility.
3.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.
4.Fix PCIEx16 VGA card HD 7970 cannot be detected when the temperature of VGA less than -40.
File Size
3,27 (MBytes) 2012.04.06

Help in detecting when temp is -40?
How bout detecting one or two 7970 when temp normal????
Is that all ASUS thinks about - extreme overclockers?

 

[AdamK47]

BIOS 1009 out today for all but ROG X79
Changelog:
P9X79 DELUXE BIOS 1009
1.Improve system stability.
2.Improve memory compatibility.
3.Enhance compatibility with some USB devices.
4.Fix PCIEx16 VGA card HD 7970 cannot be detected when the temperature of VGA less than -40.
File Size
3,27 (MBytes) 2012.04.06

Help in detecting when temp is -40?
How bout detecting one or two 7970 when temp normal????
Is that all ASUS thinks about - extreme overclockers?

Thanks for the rant. It gave me a heads-up on the new BIOS.

 

[BrightCandle]

Any one noticed a difference with these bios? I notice my overclock is -200Mhz from before, but I am also not getting crashes in Crossfire anymore. They might have fixed my problem. I'll keep "testing".

 

[AdamK47]

Nothing changed here. Same great stability. Same great performance.

I don't put my overclocks on the edge of instability, so I rarely ever have anything to worry about.

 

[dajeepster]

BIOS 1010 for the P9X79 Pro released yesterday. .. going to update my system now.(not the one i'm currently typing on)

 

[MisterVito]

I had the issue with hardlocking with my computer. I run a GeForce GTX 560Ti and sometimes it would lock up after an hour of playing, other times 5 minutes. It was crazy frustrating and dealt with it for a month now. Then I needed to screen record some things and it would instantly lock up right when I started the screen capture, EVERYTIME!

Now I just updated my BIOS to the 1010 and I was able to screen capture over and over again! plus I have not locked up all day! So it fixed my issue! Just giving a heads up to those having the issue.

 

[bankster55]

New bios 4-18-2012 for all ASUS X79 except WS
The Pro has 2 now - 1104 on 4-19-2012
Plain X79 also (1103)
(quickly fixed a boo boo?)

 

[AdamK47]

Thanks. I have the new BIOS installed.

The first thing I notice is that when I select 100MHz for the base clock it isn't exactly 100MHz anymore. It's 100.30MHz. Previous BIOS versions had it at exactly 100.00MHz. I guess Asus wanted that slight edge in motherboard reviews.

 

[readymix]

New bios 4-18-2012 for all ASUS X79 except WS
The Pro has 2 now - 1104 on 4-19-2012
Plain X79 also (1103)
(quickly fixed a boo boo?)

bunch of new drivers scattered among the x79's too.

 

[bankster55]

Thanks. I have the new BIOS installed.

The first thing I notice is that when I select 100MHz for the base clock it isn't exactly 100MHz anymore. It's 100.30MHz. Previous BIOS versions had it at exactly 100.00MHz. I guess Asus wanted that slight edge in motherboard reviews.

On my mobo, setting XMP now makes BCLK 100.0
As long as you dont live near a cell tower or power station, 100.0 is always much better/stable.
BCLK variations is not an overclock, its an EMI solution.

Depending on mobo/bios, CPU spread spectrum on/off (if its not greyed out) makes the 100 or 100.3-103.0 spread

ASUS keeps changing what auto or enabled does with ea bios

 

[AdamK47]

On my mobo, setting XMP now makes BCLK 100.0
As long as you dont live near a cell tower or power station, 100.0 is always much better/stable.
BCLK variations is not an overclock, its an EMI solution.

Depending on mobo/bios, CPU spread spectrum on/off (if its not greyed out) makes the 100 or 100.3-103.0 spread

ASUS keeps changing what auto or enabled does with ea bios

Ah yes, you are correct. It is XMP. I had forgotten to set it after flashing the BIOS. The clock is now an even 100MHz. All spread spectrum settings are disabled as it was before.

 

[M Farkus]

I won't go to great lengths here, but I've had a couple lockups with my P79 Pro running 5870's in Crossfire and a 3820 - Not even OC'd. I brought up the Asus Ai program to find my motherboard temps are in red. WTF? I have NEVER had a mbd flagged as overtemp. I always run with the case side off, two fans in front bringing in fresh air on a giant Lian Li case with a Corsiar h60 cooling off the CPU. The heatsink on the mbd between the first PCIe slot and the CPU was so hot I could not touch it. I stood a fan up on the first 5870 blowing onto the mbd. It doesn't seem to interfere with CPU cooling at all and keeps the mbd temps in check. No lockups since. I wonder if the heatsinks are inadequate in this mbd design? Anyone ease have temps off the scale?