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I have had the whole system up and running for more than a week. All of a sudden when I boot it fails. I get the follwing error codes ranging on the QLED:
6C, E8, Ed, 32, EC, E2, E9
I have changed nothing in my system so I have no clue where to start. I get no Picture on the screen and it doesnt get as far as to the BIOS so I cant enter that, I tried to use BIOS FlashBack, it updated fine, but no change. I have cleared CMOS and pressed the MemOK button, but nothing changes.

My setup as follows:
Asus Prime X299-A
Intel i7-7820X
32gb Corsair LPX 3200mHz (4x8gb)
MSI Geforce GTX 1080
Corsair RM750X
2tb Seagate SSHD bootdrive

What the heck is happening? Fans are running, lights are on, but it doesnt startup. The QLED codes doesnt say anything to me where to start looking.

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Do any of your POST state LED's light up (e.g. CPU, DRAM, VGA, BOOT)?

If you see one lighting up, then that component is causing an error.

 

If you look at your motherboard's user manual on the Q-Codes (page 1-14 to 1-16 by the way), a couple of your codes are referring to S3 state errors.

Since Windows 10 doesn't fully shutdown, there is a chance that your OS is corrupted, or SSHD is acting up....fingers crossed it isn't.

 

Is everything detected within your UEFI BIOS (e.g. drives, RAM, GPU, etc)?

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15 minutes ago, MrMajestic said:

I have had the whole system up and running for more than a week. All of a sudden when I boot it fails. I get the follwing error codes ranging on the QLED:
6C, E8, Ed, 32, EC, E2, E9
I have changed nothing in my system so I have no clue where to start. I get no Picture on the screen and it doesnt get as far as to the BIOS so I cant enter that, I tried to use BIOS FlasjBack, it updated fine, but no change. I have cleared CMOS and pressed the MemOK button, but nothing changes.>My setup is following:
Asus Prime X299-A
Intel i7-7820X
32gb Corsair LPX 3200mHz (4x8gb)
MSI Geforce GTX 1080
Corsair RM750X
2tb Seagate SSHD bootdrive

What the heck is happening? Fans are running, lights are on, but it doesnt startup. The QLED codes doesnt say anything to me where to start looking.

Q-codes are located on page 30-32 of your Motherboards Manual

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Have you tried to perform a sudden temporary interrupt of the electricity flow to your computational device followed by a re-initialization procedure of the central processing unit and associated components?


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9 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

Do any of your POST state LED's light up (e.g. CPU, DRAM, VGA, BOOT)?

If you see one lighting up, then that component is causing an error.

 

If you look at your motherboard's user manual on the Q-Codes (page 1-14 to 1-16 by the way), a couple of your codes are referring to S3 state errors.

Since Windows 10 doesn't fully shutdown, there is a chance that your OS is corrupted, or SSHD is acting up....fingers crossed it isn't.

 

Is everything detected within your UEFI BIOS (e.g. drives, RAM, GPU, etc)?

The POST state LED do not light up, they just cycle through and turn off. I tried unplugging the drive but no change. I do not even get video on my screen so I dont get into BIOS at all so I cant tell whats detected or not.

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8 minutes ago, Changis said:

Q-codes are located on page 30-32 of your Motherboards Manual

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Thanks, I know they are in the manual, I just dont understand them :)

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6 minutes ago, NoobCase said:

Have you tried unplugging the computer completely and held down the power button for 10 secs?

Yes, didnt help.

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27 minutes ago, MrMajestic said:

The POST state LED do not light up, they just cycle through and turn off. I tried unplugging the drive but no change. I do not even get video on my screen so I dont get into BIOS at all so I cant tell whats detected or not.

 

If you don't get an video then, that could be a motherboard or GPU issue....

Do you have another video card you can try?

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2 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

If you don't get an video then, that could be a motherboard or GPU issue....

Do you have another video card you can try?

Im suspecting motherboard too, but I will try with another videocard.

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18 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

If you don't get an video then, that could be a motherboard or GPU issue....

Do you have another video card you can try?

Tried Another videocard. Made no difference.

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Tried removing all RAM sticks but one, no change :(

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Man this blows. Bloody thing worked for over a week and now all of a sudden this crap. 

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Tried unplugging the CPU power just to see what happened. The red led near the connector lit up and mb didnt pass 00 on the qled. 

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Could this in any way be related to the PSU? I have no reason to think so, its a brand new Corsair RM750X, but Im lost now. 

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Tested the PSU with a PSU tester. Nothing wrong there.

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Dropping the motherboard off at the store now. Im stuck.

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Finally got a new board back. Still the same issue. Must be  the CPU then :(

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Verified that it is in fact the CPU using an MSI X299 board. Strange that the Asus board doesnt clearly indicate CPU error.

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