Maximus Formuls to Rampage mod!!!

[Nitro-Max]

i did the mod, i got to 3.75 on my Q6600 at 1.48 v. with the maximus bios i cant get it.

Well done m8 things just get better

Kinda makes your money more well spent.

 

[Whilhelm]

This is the best news I have heard all day. And to think I was just getting used to my Maximus. Oh well Rampage here I come.

 

[Nitro-Max]

Good luck m8

 

[Nitro-Max]

Well i dipped my toe in the water and the water was FINE!!!

Ive had rampage about a week now and it rocks!!

 

[erocker]

Without a removable bios chip. No way I'm doing it. If the flash f's up and you can't get back into the bios, might as well throw the board out. Perhaps I'll do it when I get a new board or something. Perhaps my reluctancy is coming from a bad flash on this board when i initially got it, but kudos to you guys for being the brave ones.

 

[Nitro-Max]

But Does a failed flash viod warrenty? after all asus does supply updates.
So how would they know what bios you used lol even if you used the right one for the board.they have no way of knowing if its a bad flash they simply replace the bios chip.

But yes you are right my board was 2 days old when i did the flash and as it happend time seemed to stand still i could feel my heart beat hitting my rib cage i was scared lol not brave.

 

[rangerone766]

just did this mod a few minutes ago. very promising results so far.

on the maximus 0907 bios i could run 450x8fsb all day long but it took 1.55 vcore to keep from getting instant crash in p95. now i'm at 455x8fsb with 1.44vcore. unfortunately my good lanfest ram is on rma and i only have a set of standard performance adata's that max out at about 950mhz. going to order a new set of ram on monday and really see what this rampage can do.

i have a set of performance adata's with d9's in another rig i may pull and experiment with later this weekend. but i tried them in this rig when i first got them, they ran and oc'ed to almost 1100mhz. when i tried pushing them over 1100mhz i ended up corrupting my boot sector so i don't want to do that again. i have a feeling this x38 board just doesn't like d9's.
I'm running the d9 adata's in a abit p35-e at almost 1200mhz and they seem quite happy.

if anyone i thinking of doing this mod, yes it is scary. there is a risk of bricking your board. i am a noob when it comes to all the switches and such you use in dos. but if you read and follow the directions exactly, it will work.

 

[rangerone766]

you can flash back if you need to. also if you do need to rma it, i'm sure something could be done so asus wont know what was done to the bios.

 

[Nitro-Max]

Ive found the board overclocks great if you leave the memory preformance level alone but then again this is like going back to maximus or my old giga board.It takes alot more time and effort to tweak the preformance levels and voltages to get max preformance and get stable but when you find the right settings its awsome and well worth the effort.

Some people simply try the bios for a few hours without giving it a chance or the time to find this out.

For instance my memory READ/WRITE/COPY Speeds on the maximus bios were around the 5000/mb mark some below.

Rampage bios with some time and effort tweaking there hitting nearly 9000/mb and is very stable and this is only @900mhz lol.

Being an overclocker this is a great result reclaiming lost preformance and getting ya moneys worth thats what its all about!

 

[rangerone766]

just did this mod a few minutes ago. very promising results so far.

on the maximus 0907 bios i could run 450x8fsb all day long but it took 1.55 vcore to keep from getting instant crash in p95. now i'm at 455x8fsb with 1.44vcore. unfortunately my good lanfest ram is on rma and i only have a set of standard performance adata's that max out at about 950mhz. going to order a new set of ram on monday and really see what this rampage can do.

i have a set of performance adata's with d9's in another rig i may pull and experiment with later this weekend. but i tried them in this rig when i first got them, they ran and oc'ed to almost 1100mhz. when i tried pushing them over 1100mhz i ended up corrupting my boot sector so i don't want to do that again. i have a feeling this x38 board just doesn't like d9's.
I'm running the d9 adata's in a abit p35-e at almost 1200mhz and they seem quite happy.

if anyone i thinking of doing this mod, yes it is scary. there is a risk of bricking your board. i am a noob when it comes to all the switches and such you use in dos. but if you read and follow the directions exactly, it will work.

well i did it again. killed my windows install trying to overclock with these d9 adata viesta's. lolz.

was reading around on XS today at it seems asus has removed crucial ballistix and ballistix tracers. i wonder if all d9 based chips have problems in this board? or am i that big of a noob overclocker. maybe a combo of both.

doing a repair install now

 

[Solaris17]

sticky? im sooo getting a maximus and flashing to this cheaper and more stuff with the hit of a key!!!

 

[philbrown23]

does this mod support ddr3?? if not then it does not support the mx extreme. I'ma read up on it to see, if so, I just got a rampage!!!

 

[erocker]

you can flash back if you need to. also if you do need to rma it, i'm sure something could be done so asus wont know what was done to the bios.

The less flashing the better. I never want to send my motherboard anywhere unless somebody gave me a good chunk of change for it. I can achieve any OC I want with the 1004 Maximus bios that I would achieve with a Rampage bios. I am lucky though and have great ram.

 

[Nitro-Max]

The less flashing the better. I never want to send my motherboard anywhere unless somebody gave me a good chunk of change for it. I can achieve any OC I want with the 1004 Maximus bios that I would achieve with a Rampage bios. I am lucky though and have great ram.

This is true m8 indeed the maximus overclocks well but some have found after flashing that there cpu can run stable on slightly less voltage and are able to push the fsb more 45nm chips and ddr3 get the best out of it but pushes 65nm chips potential too.

But you are loosing out on the extra preformance tweaks like been able to manually set the preformance levels etc... its made my ram run like a new higher spec set lol i couldnt get this preformance from the maximus.

But each to his own I really dont blame you if you dont want to make the move its somthing new and has risk but so far so good for many people.

 

[erocker]

Nah, I'm not losing out at all, not according to my benchmarking results anyways. Upgrading from 0907 bios to 1004 allowed my high OC'd voltage to be lowered too. I already sent this board back once for RMA due to a bad flash (done correctly) not again, and not at risk of losing my warranty. Plus, I hate dealing with Asus on RMA's.

 

[Nitro-Max]

I fully understand m8 i did the flash when my board was 2 days old and i was litrally scared lol time stood still my heart beat raced i thought it was the end but now i have a rampage hehe.
But yes dont do it m8 flashing is risky even with a official updated bios things can go wrong.

 

[rangerone766]

i got windows up and running again. unfortunately i only have some mediocre ram so i cant really push it. when my lanfest was new, i was getting 1199mhz out of it at 2.12 volts in bios which read as 2.22 in windows. as time went on it either needed more volts or lower speed. almost like the ram was slowly dieing. monday is payday i'm gonna order some of those 1200mhz axerams, hopefully this board likes them, if not i'll just pick up a set of non micron and see how those work out.

 

[trt740]

I fully understand m8 i did the flash when my board was 2 days old and i was litrally scared lol time stood still my heart beat raced i thought it was the end but now i have a rampage hehe.
But yes dont do it m8 flashing is risky even with a official updated bios things can go wrong.

was gonna try it but cannot get the usb stick to load the dos files

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

You can apparently do this with a DFI LanParty LT x38. (Flash it to the x48 variant)

 

[trt740]

I put my usb in the computer, using the usb boot program tell it to create a boot disk ,using the boot files , it formats the stick says it puts the files on the usb but it's blank?

 

[Nitro-Max]

I just installed the hp program pointed it to the setup files for creating dos eviroment threw the flash program and rampage bios plus maximus 1004 bios on the stick just incase.

and booted from the stick everything went fine.

 

[trt740]

I just installed the hp program pointed it to the setup files for creating dos eviroment threw the flash program and rampage bios plus maximus 1004 bios on the stick just incase.

and booted from the stick everything went fine.

did you use the boot files they listed and did you use easy flash or set it as a removable device?

 

[erocker]

I used the Asus flash utility in Windows. Twice now it worked fine. I just saved the bios .rom on the desktop and had the program flash from that. Just be sure you are running stock and stable settings when you do it.

 

[trt740]

I used the Asus flash utility in Windows. Twice now it worked fine. I just saved the bios .rom on the desktop and had the program flash from that. Just be sure you are running stock and stable settings when you do it.

I tried to flash it with windows asus update it tells me it's the wrong bios

 

[rangerone766]

did you use the boot files they listed and did you use easy flash or set it as a removable device?

How to do it then?

For starters you should get a usb memorystick or a cardreader with a memorycard. All of the data on the stick / card will be destroyed, so backup the data first if necessary.

This mod requires accessing the bios chip several times so make sure that your computer is running with settings you have found to be stable.

Plug in the memorystick / card and download following files:

Bootable USB Stick Creator

Boot Files

Extract both of the archives to desired location.
Open HPUSBFW folder and start the program

Select the correct USB device from the drop-down menu, set filesystem to FAT32 and tick Create a DOS startup disk.

Then browse for the extracted boot files.
Press Start.

After few seconds your media is formatted and bootable.

all of this cut and pasted from this thread in XS forum. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=179580

all the files you need are in that thread, also the OP has updated the rampage.rom to the newest bios no need to flash to rampage then flash again to newest bios.

i followed those directions exactly and it worked just fine