New Build will not O.C. what so ever?

[IRQTOO]

Greetings, I’m new to the forum and looking forward to learning as much as I can about ASUS products and overclocking. I’m as green as they come and hope that some of the great forum members will be so kind and help me with my first build.
I’m having problems with the unit overclocking. To be specific, it will not overclock at all, not even a hair. I attempted to use the AI SUITE II software and the (EZ overclock in the UEFI) and after the initial failure, I attempted the manual over clock switch on the board; no change.

When attempting the overclock, the unit will shut down, begin to restart, and shut back down within several seconds (approximately 6 seconds each cycle). This will take place for several cycles. I stopped the process after 16 cycles or so in fear that damage may be done. Again, it does not matter which method I choose.

Some things that I’ve done were run memtest86, (OK) check connections, and re seated the memory. Same issue occurs.

Note, following one of the O.C. guides posted regarding non ROG boards, I attempted setting changes in AI Tweaker (manual, and XMP) mild changes. Interestingly enough the changes will take effect, say 4.4 overclock, but as soon as I run PRIME95, the process halts, with error warnings across the cores, process terminated, or a BSOD.

I’d like to start from scratch and attempt it again with the forum advice.

Interesting fact, the computer will run fine, boot fine, and do well with the torture test for hours under normal settings only. I’d really like to know what component or combination of components may be causing the problem if possible?

Here’s a list of items in the system.

Thanks for any help or recommended searches.



1. Intel Core i7-2600K
2. ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/GEN3 (BIOS 3202)
3. Samsung 830 series MZ7PC256D/AM 256GB SATA III
4. CORSAIR VENGEANCE (2X4GB)PC3 12800CMZ8GX3M2X1600C8B (X2)
5. ANTEC KULER H2O 920
6. MSI N560GTX-560Ti 448 TWIN FROZR III SLI CONFIG (X2)
7. HT OMEGA Eclario 7.1 PCI EXPRESS x 1 SOUND CARD
8. PLEXTOR PX-L871A Super Multi Drive
9. ENERMAX MAXREVO EMR 1350EWT 1350W
• Corsair 600T case.
• Seagate 1.5 TB storage drive.
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

[MarshallR@ASUS]

What are your CPU temperatures and what UEFI BIOS settings are you trying to apply? Are all your connectors plugged in correctly: power etc?

Have you seen this: http://rog.asus.com/76652012/overclo...n-easy-4-4ghz/

Have you also tried the OC Tuner function in AI Suite II?

[IRQTOO]

Hello Marshall thanks for the reply.

Yes, that was one of the links that I saw which looks great. I will try it again a little bit latter, but here are some answers to your questions.

According to the Antec temperature monitor, the CPU temp was around 32C when the over clock began, but stopped instantly (PRIME 95 halted the test). However, when it was holding, after the manual tweak (me making the UEFI adjustments) and before the BSOD, the temp was no more than 42C (about five minutes before I got the BSOD with PRIME running).

The mild settings I’m referring to was Turbo Ratio to 43x and memory set to DDR-1600, everything else auto, I believe.

Have you also tried the OC Tuner function in AI Suite II?

There is the problem. Forgive my initial lengthy post, but when I tried the manual O.C. switch on the board or if I tried the software (AI Suite II), I got the repeated reboot process where the computer would start and stop before it would post (6 second cycles, on and off, on and off, continuously) until I stopped the process. I thought that was normal, but after 16 repeats, I stopped the process.

Again the unit runs fine under normal conditions.

Here’s something I’m going to attempt this weekend, tell me what you think.

I was able to purchase a LIAN LI open air test bench from a person I know for little to nothing. My idea is to remove my Mobo and set it up on the test bench and work my way out so to speak with minimal ram, one video adaptor, etc. and see how that works. Before that however, I purchased some G.SKIL Ripsaw memory, and will try that first to see if that makes a difference.

I did a quick check of the connectors, but will check again, it seems that everybody is connected and in order, but you never know.

Thanks for any guidance.
Paul.

[IRQTOO]

Well, I decided to go ahead and pop in the G.SKILL Ripjaw memory, and give the old girl a spin. SUCCESS! So far, so good. I’ll run some stress tests with ADIA64 and PRIME95 this weekend and see how that goes. It seems the auto tune function (AI suite) is clocking the memory a tad over 1600 (1648) and the BCLK around 103.

Thanks Marshall for your input, and I’d like to also thank RAJA through the Newegg email response I got a week ago when I first started the build.