Rampage VI & Strix X299 Series

NVMe SSD running at x2 (but plenty of lanes available)

I have recently bought a Hyper m.2 gen 4 card and moved my SSDs to here from the DIMM.2 slots (due to temperature issues - the SSDs were otherwise working normally in the DIMM.2 slots).The SSDs now run much cooler and faster - with the exception of ...

Extremely long boot time & long last BIOS time

Hi,Enjoying my new build, with one big exception. The boot time is ridiculously long - probably about 40 seconds to a minute from pressing power button, to working desktop. I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem, and hoping it's just eit...

Is it worth purchasing the R6EE etc or holding for the next CPU range?

Hi all,I'm looking at upgrading from my R4F hex core to the R6EE with a 10/12 core, I'm not looking for PCIe gen4 as I will move over my 2x 1070's for cost reasons. I will be running 2x M2 drives minimal and with a couple of sata SSD's.The reason I a...

ThunderboltEX 3 request new firmware download

helloi have ThunderboltEX 3 with firmware 18.5some people buy the card with firmware 21 22 26 on it. it depends on luck.asus does not respond to the request for new firmware.do you have any idea how to find and download it?the last one found on web i...

GTX 1060 card won't boot up on Rampage 6 Extreme Encore board!

Hi guys, I have 2 systems.1)Amd 5900X Asus Dark Hero VIII board X5702) Intel 10920X Asus Rampage VI Extreme Encore board X299I have 2 gpus: Nvidia 3090 FE and an old EVGA GTX 1060 Both the 3090 and 1060 cards work perfectly on the Amd system with the...

R6E - USB 3.1 E5678 not working on boot

Having a strange issue with USB ports E5678 (the top 4 just below the clear/flaskback buttons) where they no longer appear to work until Windows loads. Historically that's where I plug in my keyboard and mouse. Had been running FW 1902, but decided ...

Microsoft Officially add Kaby lake X and Skylake X support for Windows 11

Microsoft Officially add Kaby lake X and Skylake X all SKUs on Microsoft Windows 11 CPU support list.Running great on news applications and Microsoft Windows 11.Sadly AMD Ryzen and it ThreadRipper 1000 seriesfailed to meet minimum requirements. Micro...

Rampage Extreme VI encore no power after updating bios 1101

Hello allI just updated my bios to 1101It seem to boot fine to bios. After exiting bios it started up like 3 time and then went dark. No power, no lights, no nothing. I unplugged the power cable, press reset, pressed bios buttons, pugged power suppli...

Rampage VI Extreme bios 2002 issue

Well I took the plunge and flashed to bios 2002 from 1503, 1704 and 1902 plagued me with random system lockups so I was hoping that 2002 resolved the issue.How wrong was I well saying that all was good for 10 minutes then a random system lockup. I ha...

Blown MOSFET..

Hey, could anyone tell me what one of the MOSFETs does on ASUS X299 motherboards? It's the one marked in the attached photo of a Rampage VI Extreme. Only ASUS x299 motherboards seem to have a MOSFET like this. The Drain pin is connected to Vcore/Vcci...

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