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ASUS M5A88-V EVO and 1100t (Phen x6) MASSIVE help needed
I'm brand new to these forums - I need some help.. :-\

System specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDE00ZFBGRBOX

ASUS M5A88-V EVO AM3+ AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-60G 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Rosewill Xtreme Series RX850-S-B 850W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V
v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9

Sentey Arvina Extreme Division Tower Case 6x Fan LED/ 4 x USB / Multi Card Reader / 4 x Fan Control / E-SATA / 6 x Removable Aluminum Bays / Screwless

ZOTAC AMP! ZT-40102-10P GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

!!!! STOCK CPU COOLER !!!!!

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Alright, The problems I'm having : I can't overclock over 3.755ghz. When I do windows freezes on boot animation or it bluescreens right after. Auto-clock managed to get it up to 3.8-4, but it wasn't stable (temps were stable, but using the stability test on AMD Overdrive bluescreened it within seconds.)

Also.. I'm not sure if this means anything but CPU Levelup is grayed out and bios says something about the cpu not being valid for levelup.

When I get it above 3.8, the bsod says something about a "secondary" core clock not responding in time :-\.

I greatly appreciated help :-)

(NOTE : I would like to just get the CPU running at 4ghz, and.. I would like to figure out what's wrong with it, if anything :-( )

PS. Windows 7 - 64bit - Ult.
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September 27, 2011 8:37:49 PM

And Update : While I can't push it above 3.8 or so without changing coolers, I have been getting bsods and freezes while playing league of legends :'( , the temps are warm, but not enough to freeze ( I think )... I'm sure I'm dealing with a faulty motherboard. After the freeze or bsod, If I press the restart button (not the shutdown button) it fails to load (find?) the AHCI drives. I have to press and hold the shuttoff button for it to boot up properly, and even then I have to unplug my wifi dongle (-- I don't have to when I bootup from a normal shutdown or restart).
September 18, 2011 10:42:17 AM

I can get mine up to 3.8*??* (??'s are.. some number, I forget lol) without bluescreening, I can get it up to 4ghz, but it's unstable. (mostly because of stock cooler - probably..) But I wouldn't recommend this board to anyone :-\... unless you're planning a budget build.. - I'm regretting not getting a little pricey-ier one.

But... 1.5 vcore.. Whoa.. I didn't have it that high when I went to 4ghz :-O (though I forget what I had it at :-\... But certainly not that high.) - Furthermore - until I (finally) get some watercooling solution to my heat problems, I probably won't go past 3.8 :-s.

But I'll see what if I can get 4ghz for yah :-)

-EDIT-

I guess 1.5 is required? :-\, Bluescreened everytime under 1.5... Though 1.5 seems kinda high? ( I think? )

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-Though I did change a few other things too - Hopefully it's stable - I'll report what I find.

-EDIT2-

Hehe.. That was fast :-\... Ran a malware scan while watching some youtube and temps went from a resting at 47c to 58-59 then bluescreened.. I'm gunna guess it was a rapid-temp-rise-auto-shutdown or something... *Maybe clueless?* Anyway - DEF not stable on a stock cooler lol.
September 12, 2011 11:45:10 PM

I have this same board & the most I got on O/C was 3792, and that was with 1.50 Vcore, 1.65v on the Ram, 1.35v on HT & Cpu NB, NB, etc (basically just about all the voltages was bumped up).

I lowered it back down to 3720 (201x20), where the only voltage I had to use was vcore (1.47 & Dram 1.65).

I'm wondering if there is an issue with the board overall, as I was able to get to 4 ghz on my 1090t on my gigabyte board, but I wanted to switch to DDR3

xjustelevenx said:
Do you have the m5a88 -v evo? (I know that I def need to upgrade cpu cooling - just waiting for a paycheck that doesn't have to go to bills) (Also - I'm thinking.. maybe... the motherboard just fails? Idk.. :-\)

September 7, 2011 3:53:42 AM

Do you have the m5a88 -v evo? (I know that I def need to upgrade cpu cooling - just waiting for a paycheck that doesn't have to go to bills) (Also - I'm thinking.. maybe... the motherboard just fails? Idk.. :-\)
September 7, 2011 3:41:50 AM

Turbo V didn't work for me either, It froze my computer.

I have it running at 3.6 with very simple manual changes.

1.- Make sure the memory has the right latency http://www.corsair.com/vengeance-8gb-dual-channel-ddr3-...

Why did you choose that latency?

Based on my tests the temperature is the main issue here with the stock fan.

I was able to go through the Intelburn test reporting a stable system with 203 Mhz and an 18 ratio for a total frequency of 3654 MHz and 66 Gflopps

It ran at around 65 C.

When I increased to 210 Mhz x 18 the CPU shut up very quickly over 75 C and the Intelburn test reported instability.

I even reduced the CPU Voltage to 1.3 V.

So It seems obvious to me that temperature is the core factor here. If you want to overclock, Get a decent cooler.
September 6, 2011 10:46:12 PM

So I still can't use any of the Auto-Overclocking features, And TurboV doesn't work right either. - When I use the "extreme" setting, it freeze-crashes while changing the voltages :-\ Maybe one of my settings doesn't allow voltage-changes? idk.
August 24, 2011 3:23:55 AM

Something else in my case, I don't know if it is the motherboard or the PSU (which is also new) but it seems that two of my DVD drives are not functional anymore after working earlier.

I will update the BIOS and see how it goes
August 23, 2011 10:00:50 PM

Maybe the motherboard is just ... weird? And no one else has noticed the weirdness?

But I would like to use the BIO's AutoOC option :'(  and if my Seagate dies... then my computer is dead, because it won't allow me to install windows 7 anymore :-\.

So.. Hopefully... there's a bio's Update or something... I should probably inform Asus's customer support about this problem, because I'm guessing it's just a bio's problem.

Buuuut, Do post something if you find anything out :-D

*Edit*

*head-desk* Lol... There's an update right now :-O

-http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3Plus/M5A88V_EVO...

"Fix the issue that the size may be incorrect when build RAID with 3TB HDD.
1. Backup all the data in the RAID partition before updating the BIOS.
2. Use EZ-FLASH to update the BIOS after you have confirmed all the data is backup.
3. Re-build the RAID partition.
4. Remove the data back to the new RAID partition.
5. After updating the BIOS, please use latest AMD SB850 RAID driver 3.2.1540.92."

Doesn't sound like any of our problems.. but maybe it'll help? I'll check it.

*Edit 2*

The Booting has been fixed, But... Still no AutoOC utility working. upon flashing Bio's is default, I made a few changes (disabling options that are no good for ocing.) then saved and restarted. Upon restart (leaving all most CPU OC options auto, except for turbo (off)) I was greeted by a 3.8ghz speed and 232 cpu/ht reference clock.

I tried using the OC tuner... and... nothing. :-\... Atleast it boot rights now.. :D 

*Edit 3*

(Swears... alot..)

Arrrrrrg... Apparently It didn't fix the boot, after the last restart.... I now have to select the seagate drive on boot options.. for windows to boot.. FML :'( 
August 23, 2011 9:14:15 PM

I'm glad I found this thread.

I am quite experienced with computers (HW/SW) but have never overclocked.

I just bought a very similar setup yesterday and was stumped. (AMD 1100T Black, M5A88-V EVO, RAM 1866MHz, OCZ 60 GB SDD )

My impression is that to use this CPU/MOBO/memory combination you must overclock

I found similar issues as you:

1) The overclocking does not work, it just reboots and then benchmarks show it as running at 800 MHz!!
2) Trying to boot from an IDE drive does not work, Trying to boot from the IDE DVD "sometimes" works but most of the time just freezes. Booting from the SATA sometimes works but most of the time just freezes. Booting from USB worked fine.

I will try some of the suggestions here and elsewhere, but if you find a set of settings that work please post them here.

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