Confused and I've only just started

[Sativa]

Hi all

Finally have my pc up and running.

The only setting i have made is to set the xmp in the bios for my memory to 3200 other then this i have not touched any other setting.

Having an Asus board I decided to run there AI suit 3 and see what came back. I dont intend to keep this but was interested to see what software would give me.

Edit - why does this show windows 8 when I am using a clean install of windows 10?

Unsure why cinebench only shows 4.01ghz even tho cpz does show x8

But i am new to all of this

Set up
hero viii
Gskill trident Z 3200 16gb
360 aio
matrix 980 ti at stock & oc mode


I do not see any option to return to default within the ai-3 - is there? Does anything look out of place with these settings? I would like to do everything myself in the bios.

where do i begin lol

 

[AlienALX]

Windows 10 is just a facelift for Windows 8 tbh, that's probably why it's being detected as Windows 8. Did you upgrade from 8-10 or do a clean install? Either way it's nothing to worry about.

Cinebench hardly ever gets the CPU clock speed correct, and again I would not worry about that either.

Your score seems OK too but I'm not terribly clued up on the 6700k.

 

[Sativa]

OMG something has gone wrong. the post above was made at 3pm after this I started playing a game. about 2.45hrs later my pc crashed now nothing I do will get it to work.

I am stuck in an endless cycle of BSOD with different messages

I cannot enter safe mode F8? as this brings boot mode up and never enters safe mode if clicking F8 after selecting the boot drive. It always trys to load windows but fails.

I cannot boot from a disk too it loaded up one time then failed and since then has never entered the recovery section again. I cannot even get to a option to re install windows again.

My ssd also shows up twice in the boot option

What the hell has happened???? I had cpuz / gpuz / open and was checking them though out my gaming and nothing seemed off or overly high in temps.

I can enter the bios... this works okay I have reset everything and still issues even when I click boot from cd nothing happens. If I could get into safe mode or launch the cd I would not feel so bad.

Spent the last 2 hours going round and round

Suggestions on what to do?

Lucky I have this old pc hopfully can get this sorted I don't care if it means a reinstall Id just like to get to this option everything was okay till I ran AI-3 I played the same game yesterday for over 6 hours strait without any issue



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[Sativa]

This is my thread over on the asus site , to save explaining everything I have done. I am having a nightmare here and could really use some help. I just keep going round and around always ending with an error. If you read the first post (11.15am) my only issue was the fan header placement which I solved myself when I was going to post here having had a quick look at the manual to say what headers I had plug the fans into and realised it was on the wrong header.

A few hours later I used the AI-3 posted my results here and then 3 hours later it has screwed everything up and I am unable to even reinstall an os

Everything was running fine.... why did I have to tinker :mellow:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?81851-First-Build-complete-but-having-a-few-issues

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I tried the auto OC thingy on my 990FX sabertooth motherboard -for the lols- and the PC wouldn't even load windows. Never use built in OC utilities...

 

[Sativa]

I tried the auto OC thingy on my 990FX sabertooth motherboard -for the lols- and the PC wouldn't even load windows. Never use built in OC utilities...

I am finding this out the hard way

when it showed 4.8 I was like great, delete this and do it myself maybe get it a little higher. but I wanted to test a game before. temps were fine while playing mid 60s for gpu 50s for the cpu the motherboard around 25-30 I was paying attention to a few monitoring programs. Had I seen anything that looked "hot" I would have stopped.

just cannot understand why the pc would shut down and then cause me so many issues afterwards.

I even made this thread for a kinda help option for myself to start asking questions to redo all the setting manually. right now I would just like to get an OS installed but even this is proving hard.

 

[Kushiro]

Are you sure everything is at stock? All the switches right? It should enter recovery after 2 failed attempts to start. Are you saying that its BSOD in the recovery as well?

 

[Sativa]

I got half way through installation once then it crashed, tried again crashed, tried again and it got further that time to the point it would install but then crashed when it rebooted.

1230am I gave up after hours of going round and round

 

[Noz_God]

but you had a OS installed

 

[Sativa]

but you had a OS installed

As soon as it crashed that has been it goodnight.

I never not got back into windows. I've been unable to install windows again despite trying almost 20 times (no joke there) using both the ssd and a harddrive.

Trying cd and usb installs which always worked right up to the restart where it failed again. I have re flashed the bios back to an older version all using stock settings, I have formatted both ssd and harddrive using diskpart.

1 stick of ram tried in each slot, then the other

I have installed a free copy of window on both ssd and hardrive on old pc (both work)

I have tired so much now and the end result is the same

I am up to 4 pages on the rog site above with tons of photos to back me up along with the errors and still un able to work out what the hell has gone wrong.

All the errors point to missing files but how can a newly downloaded trial of windows which worked on an old pc ssd and hd not install 15mins later on the new pc.

Been pulling my hair out here its driving me crazy Big lesson here don't fk about with software learn to do things yourself. But if anyone cares to take a read and may know of an answer feel free to chip in and help me out

 

[NeverBackDown]

I'd check your cable connections at every point and make sure they aren't pinched. Also make sure to use the cables that came with the psu. Sometimes if you don't it'll randomly stop everything from booting because it detects a connection error

 

[Asperatis]

Yeh check the cable connections and such, I'm not quite sure it's gonna be a software error that's causing your issues here

 

[Sativa]

I am in bits here, Ordered a new mobo off amazon (£170) last night just to take this out of the equation it arrived late this afternoon big happy face as I set everything up only for the bsod to strike again

after an hour or so of doing different things (mostly fail restart ) I some how made it onto the desktop, but it crashed with in seconds. tried again and spent another hour trying I am so peed off it seems nothing happens the same way twice but everything results in a bsod. I only have the memory left but this could take time and hassle to get replaced.

 

[AlienALX]

I would run memtest next.

Out of curiosity what SSD are you using if any?

 

[Davva2004]

OK let's go back to basics.

Remove everything off the motherboard apart from one stick of RAM and your CPU and cooler, use the onboard video and remove your GPU. Only have one drive connected for you to install your OS onto and make sure it's plugged into the first SATA port.

Now before you install anything, you need to reflash the latest BIOS file from a USB stick using the ASUS EZ Flash in the BIOS.

Once this has completed and the system has rebooted, try installing Windows again. Let us know how this goes.

 

[Sativa]

I would run memtest next.

Out of curiosity what SSD are you using if any?

Crucial BX100 250GB also tried a 2tb hard drive. When in the bios I tried to wipe the drive and it said it was frozen so could not complete this option. I then ran diskpart from shift/f10 and then reinstalled windows.

If there was a way to run memtest I would but I believe you need to be in the OS to do this? My problem is getting into the OS

 

[Sativa]

OK let's go back to basics.

Remove everything off the motherboard apart from one stick of RAM and your CPU and cooler, use the onboard video and remove your GPU. Only have one drive connected for you to install your OS onto and make sure it's plugged into the first SATA port.

Now before you install anything, you need to reflash the latest BIOS file from a USB stick using the ASUS EZ Flash in the BIOS.

Once this has completed and the system has rebooted, try installing Windows again. Let us know how this goes.

New motherboard today... First thing I did was flash to the latest bios without anything other the power plugged in via the bios update button on the back.

motherboard, cpu and cooler, ram and gfx <only due to out the box I could not get a signal so added the card

Spent 45mins going round and round different bsod every time never loading twice with the same msg.

I then tried to erase the SSD but the bios said it was frozen.

Added disk drive, loaded cd got to the start of windows and then shift/f10 and used diskpart on the ssd transferred to my old pc and reinstalled windows then added it back to the new pc without disk drive attached.

I installed the OS on the ssd on my old pc and as im fed up of trying to install windows and it always fail on the reboot... every time this happens.

I even re flashed the bios back to the 2nd newest via the ez flash in the bios this completed no problem just like the first.

This when I made it to the desk top but like 30 seconds after it crashed. I have even seen the start screen where it shows your name but has always crashed too.

I then spent another half hour trying different things, but I could never complete the same thing twice. like using the recovery one time I could enter options on cd ita crash then id struggle to get back to the options.

I must have spent a good 2-3 hours trying.

 

[AlienALX]

How long have you owned the SSD?

 

[Davva2004]

I think your SSD is borked, especially when you tried to wipe it and the BIOS said it was frozen. If you try installing Windows onto a different drive, does it work?

Oh and the reason it's failing to boot up when you install Windows on the SSD on a different PC is because you've installed Windows on a different PC!

 

[Sativa]

I am using the ssd on my old pc so I don't know why the asus bios says its frozen. (only when I try to erase it) I have had a look (while installing again) and other people seem to claim they also have had trouble doing a clean install of windows if the bios says frozen.

But the SSD works I'm using it now On my old pc

After replying I set it all up again. (why I dunno) disabled gfx and used on board. Installed windows again to my hard drive on this pc and loaded it up on the new, first time an error message the second just like the ssd it got to the windows screen with a user name on it before crashing.

Both SSD and hard drive work on this pc.

If this was a memory error would the board not show a code? Would it have aloud me to even attempt to install windows or the one time get to the desktop.

This is so frustrating