Cold boot with R4E and Sleep issues

[HiVizMan]

Yeah that does not sound like a successful Memtest run at all. Time to do a stick by stick and ram slot by ram slot memtest mate.

Do all the sticks one at a time in a single slot. Then when you know which sticks work perfectly, that one of those 100% sticks and run memtest in each ram slot on the board. It could just be you have a dodge ram slot. Often dust or some stuff gets into the slot and can cause havoc.

[bdazla]

I have done the memtest again with version 4.0 straight after a reboot and it has run thru successfully twice. I then ran memtest again straight after a reboot with version 4.0a which is the one that has failed with all the jargon on the screen and it has run succesfully 3 times now too.

I think I am back to a motherboard issues again. What are your thoughts?

[Shamino]

try disabling clockgen filter or enabling it

[bdazla]

Tried all the combinations for Clockgen filter too. Still no joy.......

Starting to regret buying this board. It seems that I am not the only one that has these issues. It appears to me that the computer needs to be turned on for a few minutes and just left in the bios or at the F1 prompt before it will boot correctly. It is like it is charging something and until that component is fully charged it won't boot correctly. Once you leave the computer on for a few minutes you can reboot and hopefully the system will actually boot. Sometimes you still have to change a value in the bios for it to boot again but it seems it doesn't even matter what value you change. As long as you change something it tries again. Really weird.

Surely after that amount of compaints from people about this board that ASUS have worked it out by now????? I'm really at my wits end with this and can't believe that yet again another vendor releases their product prematurely without the proper testing and excpects the consumer to do the testing for them. This statement doesn't just belong to ASUS but Intel too. There have been more that enough bios updates to prove this for ASUS and there is documentation that support Intel's rush for release of the new CPU's which also meant it had major flaws in it.

From here ASUS could then come back and say it is your RAM because it isn't on the QVL. The only RAM that appears to be on the QVL that is quad channel in the 2000Mhz and above is 2 from G skill. Of which only 1 works in 8 slots and is the X series Ram designed for the X58 boards. If you want to put in the Ram that is for the X79 it isn't on the QVL. So what is the point in buying a high end overclocking board if you can't get memory from the QVL that is high end performance Ram that is even designed for the X79 boards????? The board supports 64GB but the most I can see in the QVL in 2000Mhz and above is 2 x Gskill X58 Ram to make 32GB? I can't understand why 8 Ram slots are available in quad channel if you only can use 4 slots or Ram that is dual and tripple channel. Shouldn't there be more quad channel Ram listed that is designed specifically for the X79 boards????

Is my problem because I run 8 sticks of ram? Is it because I run dual video cards? Is it because the CPU has issues? Or because I run RAID? How can you find the single issue that is causing all the trouble when each of the vendors have faults and with blame the other?

/end rant

[bdazla]

I don't spose there is any news on a bios update to fix the cold boot issues?

[Shamino]

not sure if you can take hearing the honest truth, but theres something wrong in the rest of your components and no bios update will fix this for you.
I've had one half dead cpu behave similar. i would rma the cpu first

[bdazla]

Seriously I would be happy to hear it. ;-)


I just have no hard proof that points to it. It just that I can't tell if it because I have RAM that isn't listed on the QVL or if it's because I have all 8 slots filled or if there is a fault in the motherboard or the CPU. I did run prime95 and everything was ok from that point of view. Same with memtest for multiple versions and multiple passes with the exception of the first run where the screen went funny.

Is there a way I can test or prove the CPU has a fault other than prime 95? I would love to have this sorted. I may seem like some douch just ranting but unfortunately we have had a number of ASUS boards between us here and have had more than our fair share of blown boards and issues with them. I was really hoping this new setup would be different.

[kaiserspark]

I'm glad I found more people having the same problems as it proves I am not crazy. I have a similar configuration and I am experiencing very similar issues. My configuration is:

- Rampage IV Extreme with the 1101 BIOS update (Jan 11 2012)
- Intel Core i7 3960X running at stock 3.3GHz
- 16GB of G.Skill F3-17000CL9-4GBZH kit (same as yours), but only 1 kit
- 2 x OCZ Vertex 3 240GB in RAID 0
- 2 x Velociraptors 300GB in RAID 0
- 2 x Seagate Barracudas 3TB
- 1 x EVGA GTX 580 3GB
- Windows 7 x64
- Watercooling on the CPU and chipset

I have the following similar issues:

- Memory is only detected as 1600MHz, not as 2133MHz. I have everything on "Auto" and have not yet tried the configurations mentioned in this thread.

- Cold boot almost always fails to recognize either one of the OCZ drives (my boot drives) or one of the Velociraptor drives. A simple CTRL-ALT-DEL usually fix the problem and boot proceeds normally.

- Sometimes even after recognizing all the hard drives correctly, the BIOS will fail to pass the boot procedure to Windows, and will report that no bootable media is present. I initially thought it was a MBR corruption and ran Windows Recovery to re-write MBR and bootsectors but that didn't help. I realized it was a BIOS issue after changing stuff in the BIOS seemed to fix the matter, although the changes I have to do each time to recover from this condition seem somewhat random. I have also noted that, when the BIOS reports such errors, having a pendrive inserted (even a non-bootable one) also allows the system to boot from the main hard drives, although I will always have to do some random tweaks to the BIOS to allow it to boot without the pendrive installed.

- I also noted that the BIOS insists in checking the CDROM drive many times every boot, despite the fact that I have all CDROM boot options disabled in BIOS.

- Once Windows is loaded, then Sleep issues begin. If I try to sleep immediately after booting, it works just nice. If I let 1 minute pass and then try to sleep, I get the same problems as you did: screen goes off, power lights starts blinking, but coolers and pumps remain active. I can also see that CPU remains turned on because the total system power consumption remains exactly the same before and during sleep. (I have the system pugged to a KILL-A-WATT unit)

- Stability issues within Windows. Sometimes I can work for hours without any problem, but sometimes Windows will just freeze.

I'm inclined to think that the sleep issue may be a software issue because sleep always works if I try it immediately after boot, but not after about more or less 1 minute. Maybe some driver is being loaded that interferes with the process.

As for the boot issues, I don't know.

I'm was originally running the manufacturing default BIOS version when these issues started. I updated the BIOS to 1101 as well as all the ASUS drivers to the latest version on their website but all the problems remain the same.

Any ideas?

[GetMax]

When I say sleep issues, The system has gone to sleep at time and woken up correctly. But typically it nearly gets to sleep as the light is blinking to say it is sleeping but the fans are all still on the system is unresposive.

The latest sleep issue is that it won't even sleep at all. When I hit the sleep button, after a few seconds it presents me with the logon screen. Kind of looks like it goes to sleep and wakes instantly to me.

I ran the RAM test overnight and the screen is actually full of jargon and you can't read anything excep the first few lines. The screen is full of a symbol that looks like the @ symbol. Really weird. Never seen that one before. That was with Memtest 4.0a

I did notice 1 red line in the jargon however so there definately could be a RAM issue. I will try again loater today on another version of Memtest and try to take some RAM out. I really don't want to take RAM out but I guess I will have to. :-/

I also have this issue. A couple of days ago it goes to sleep for a couple of seconds and wakes up again. And the fan issue where it won't turn back on seems to happen when it goes to sleep the third or so time. Right now my sleep issue (without OC) is that turbo boos won't turn on when the computer has been in sleep mode for an hour or two. Only a reboot will fix it. I use intel speed step haven't tried without it. It's kind of painful to try every aspect because if I put it in sleep mode and turn It back on there are no problems right now. But if I leave it in sleep mode and resume it after an hour turbo boost won't work and the cpu is resting at 1200mhz all the time until I reboot.

[coldair]

it is absolutely imperative that you test one stick of ram at time, I had a set of vengeance ram that past as a set but one stick kept failing when tested alone, Corsair took very good care of me but still had I not tested each stick I would never have found it