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    General issues with the Maximus Vi Formula

    Hey guys,

    I have a Maximus VI Formula, one issue is that i have the clock freeze issue. Comes around once every 2 or 3 months. Even with updated bios and drivers.

    Second issue. This one was a surprise to me. I use to run 2x 7970 and now run 3x 7970. The problem was first noticed when i was about to move from 2 to 3 cards.

    When disabling Crossfire between my 2 cards, the rig would blue screen. I spent days on this issue. Since i have watercooling its not JUST a matter of pulling out one card.
    The problem was a BSOD everysingle time i went to disable or enable Crossfire. I was running 13,9 drivers and i have done a few Bios flashes on the 7970's, i thought that was the issue. I am keeping this short, is Asus staff want more details, contact me!

    It was NOT. I got my 3rd 7970, installed it, figured i would do a format do remove the driver issues BSOD. I did a format, installed all motherboard drivers and so on, then i went for the 14.4 drivers for the 7970's, during installation i got BSOD, i formatted again, did the same, but went for 13.9 drivers, this worked, and i got all my 3 cards in tri-fire.

    Then i tried to disable, wham, BSOD. This went on for days, trying different things, reset of bios via the bios (not the clear cmos on the back)

    I updated to bios 1503 no change.

    By the end i went loco ripped apart my loop and moved the cards around, spent a few days doing this, tesitng swapping cards around. No change, i could without a doubt provoke the BSOD just by doing the simple disable or enable of crossfire. 14.4 drivers straight out refused to install, only 13.9 "sort of worked"

    After a week of this, i hit a point where i was about to RMA all 3x 7970's. Before i did so, i tried one last thing. Clear Cmos.

    I cleared the Cmos, used the bios for fully format my SSD, did a clean install, and suddenly, all worked perfect! 14.4 drivers installed, i could disable and enable as i wanted.

    A few days went and i had no issues. Then suddenly, BSOD during a crossfire change from 2 to 3 cards. Cleared CMOS, and then we were back in business.

    Basically, this issue is within the BIOS firmware or chip. Just like the freeze clock issue.

    Now lets move on to my 3rd issue, which can only be within the Bios, a very ignorant Bios.

    As far as Rog light goes, i dont like it, i dont want it. So its turned off while the pc is running.

    Thats all good, when the rig is off, i have the Rog light pulsing away, no matter how the Rog pulse is set in the bios, enable or disable, it pulses! Why have a feature that does nothing?

    Now, this last issue is a minor one, but the first 2 issues are getting on my nerves.

    I am sure people will understand thats its f'ing annoying to spend days overclocking and fine tuning the rig, just to get a BSOD or clock freeze (i can provoke the BSOD CFX issue easy) and then having to clear cmos and start all over again!

    What are Asus doing to fix these issues? No bios updates have helped so far!

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    Bios clock issue and it sometimes throwing windows clock off is a known issue with the board, no real fix just temporary ones

    As for you video card situation I'm not sure there, it sounded like a driver issue first but then idk lol, as long as the cards are in the proper slots idk what would be up


    As for the Rog logo, the pulse setting your talking about in the bios I believe says its the bios logo pulse or glow meaning the logo in the bios top left corner not the actual on on the board, although I believe there is another setting listed as board led or something





    Me and a few other have gotten our windows clocks to stop going outta wack by playing with win32time and allowing it to always run and also playing with windows sync time settings

    Me personally my bios clock began ticking again a bit after I fixed the windows clock, but others haven't had the same luck
    Last edited by Tokens210; 06-04-2014 at 01:30 PM.
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    Well thats no good. Doomed to spend for ever scared of overclcoking with a motherboard made for it. Great

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    The bios freeze isn't directly related to over clock, meaning even if you never enter the bios it will eventually freeze anyway

    But many ppl have been able to recreate it by blue screening from an overclock
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced/ Maximus VI Formula/ I7-4770K 4.5GHz 1.45v/Swiftech H320/ Corsair HX850/ G.Skill Trident X (2x8) 16gb 2400MHz/ 2x 840 EVO 120gb(Raid 0)/ WD 1TB HDD (Backup/Storage)/ EVGA GTX 1gb 560 TI/ Asus 12x bluray combo

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