ASUS Rampage 2 Extreme Cold Booting Issue

[Harpwn]

OK, so I attempted an overclock, it has quite clearly failed (check out my other post in the overclocking forums for details of the overclock). I've been using a Rampage 2 Extreme mobo, and from browsing the ASUS forums, apparently theres some sort of notorious ASUS Cold Boot issue, only cureable by an EVGA E760.

Apparently this cold boot issue happens after you fail and overclock and are effectively locked out of the bios, as when you try to boot, the screen stays black, and nothing happens what so ever.

I've tried booting from the secondary bios via the jumper pins on the board, and clearing the CMOS and reconnecting the CMOS battery.

I'm effectively freaking out here. I just spent a few days setting this system up, and $620AUD on that mobo. No way I can afford to get an EVGA E760 anytime soon. What is worse is not knowing whether the problem I have described is this notorious ASUS issue, or something that I can actually fix.

Does anyone on these forums have any experiance with this motherboard, and restoring it to the default bios, when you can't actually access the current bios?

 

[Harpwn]

Problem Solved. Apparently I've fried my CPU. Thanks ASUS for the quality, intelligent overclocking tools!

 

[bbcake009]

Un-plug your P.c. from the wall then pull the cmos battery, reset the cpu, reset ram,, then put cpu and ram back then cmos batery and plug it to the wall if that dont solve anything u ARE SREWED BIG TYM

 

[Harpwn]

Will do. I hope this works. Thanks again for your help.

 

[Harpwn]

Worlds Happiest Man right now.

Just took the thing apart, and stuck it all back together. Booted it up, and it was fine. went straight through Post, and then went to Windows 7. Shut it down now, going to put the case and such back together soon, as it's in test bench "mode".

What was interesting though, was I think I applied too much thermal paste when I put my Xigmatek Red Scorpian on, and some of it had spilled over the CPU plate. I cleaned that up too. Interesting stuff, not sure if that had any impact on the performance, do you know if the stock thermal paste with Xigmateks is conductive enough to short a CPU?

Hmm...

Anyways, thanks so much for your help guys.

 

[monkey7]

It probably is, there are only a few really non conductive pastes.

Once you boot make sure to check the voltages on the BIOS, it should be below these values:

vDIMM (vDDR3): 1.65

vCore: 1.3750

vVTT (I remember asus giving it another name though :/): 1.35

 

[Harpwn]

Ah ok, interesting to note about the thermal paste. I'll remember that one for next time. All of the voltages were fine, those are nice guidelines. It's at about 1.12 on two of them and on about 1.21 for the last one.

Many thanks again

 

[Freak]

seems as tho u were lucky not fryin it.

6 numbers please?

 

[k4p84]

6 numbers please?

:d