Sriker II Formula: bios upgrade resets my fsb and memory to auto!

i wonder if there's anyone who knows about this, becuse i'm about to give up.

so here is the problem i'm having with my striker II formula;

with any bios revision after 1001, including the newest 1305 revision, i cannot alter my fsb and memory speed settings, not one bit. every time i do change the settings manually, they reset upon reboot. any other changes i make in the bios are still there though, such as memory timings and voltages. i have an intel q9300 w/1333mhz fsb and 4gigs 1066mhz of geil evoone memory (2x2gig sticks). the asus bios resets the bus and memory to "auto" though, and every time i boot up they run at 1333mhz and 800mhz respectively.

if i run bios version 1001, i can overclock my fsb and memory, no problem. however, this bios just plain sucks, i get blue screens after like 10 minutes of gaming or 3dmark, usually some kind of usb driver error-- this bios is just too early for me to use.

so right now i'm stuck running the newest bios and having to settle with stock fsb and memory speeds, and this is clearly not good. is there any sort of fix for this? it couldn't be my memory, could it? the way i see it, i'm just stuck sitting on my hands waiting for a working bios from asus, not a place i like to be.

i'm pretty sure i'm stuck waiting however i look at it. it's just rough because it's too late to get my money back on this board and i could be running an evga right now that i'm sure would be fine.

it's not like stock settings are terrible, i can still play crysis on pretty high settings (i do have dual SLI 8800gts cards to help with that), but this problem does affect performance noticeably compared to what i could be running at. i have water-cooling on the way and even if i was just running air cooling, the q9300 should overclock to near 3.5ghz without issue. instead i'm stuck a whole 1000mhz behind, at 2.5ghz. just not cool when i spend $250 on a board an get a faulty bios. i can only blame asus.

read my post 4 down dude!

1001 bios is the worst - i use the 1202 and the 1303 and spend alot time with all of them

USE THE 1303


ok prior to 1001 the sf2 was cake to oc

now the system is totally pro only oc job - first i thought the problem was only for 65nm cpu's i see your using the 45nm

you need to boot with low voltage ram - get and boost the cpu voltage up


read my settings:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ial-thread

post your questions on this thread - the official that mobo sucks thread

i had to hand tune and spend many many hours to get the system worked out for 3.15-3.5ghz

the problem is that the fsb and memory speed settings never stick.

no matter what i do, the fsb and memory speeds are set back to 1333mhz and 800mhz when i save to cmos and reboot. even if i leave the fsb and just try to raise the memory to 1066mhz, it doesn't stick. all the other settings stay the same; voltages, hard drive setup, everything else is fine.

ok thanks for the tip, i will give that a try.

just so i'm straight.. do i need to make these settings with 1001 bios, and then upgrade to 1303 after?

holy crap it worked. thank you so much!

never had so much trouble getting a bios setup, but really thanks a lot, i'm glad i posted here.

was very close to wasting money and ordering a new motherboard.

Disculpa, ¿Alguien me puede traducir la solución? No termino de entenderla.