Long POST time

[tw1st3d]

Hello, prevousily I posted how I got a i7 4790k and a Asus ROG Maximus VII Hero. It worked perfectly fine till recently where I noticed it was taking very long time to post (around 20-30 seconds till I hear the beep). This did not happen before. I can‘t really remeber the thing I was doing the first time I got this long post time but I remeber I was selling my old i7 2600 without any memory so I took out one stick out of my PC to take pictures that it worked. After that my PC got stuck at Q-Code D5. After a reset it booted up however really long till I heard the beep. 
 

I‘m looking to find somebody who had expirience with this or knows a fix. My CPU is overclocked to 4.7 at 1.325V and the RAM are two Hyper-X kits (two sticks at 1866 and two at 1600 all running at 1600Mhz). I have a SATA SSD and two hard drives in RAID0 so I would like to not lose my data in the proces of troubleshooting. 

 

Thanks a lot

Sincerly, tw1st3d

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4 minutes ago, tw1st3d said:

Hello, prevousily I posted how I got a i7 4790k and a Asus ROG Maximus VII Hero. It worked perfectly fine till recently where I noticed it was taking very long time to post (around 20-30 seconds till I hear the beep). This did not happen before. I can‘t really remeber the thing I was doing the first time I got this long post time but I remeber I was selling my old i7 2600 without any memory so I took out one stick out of my PC to take pictures that it worked. After that my PC got stuck at Q-Code D5. After a reset it booted up however really long till I heard the beep. 
 

I‘m looking to find somebody who had expirience with this or knows a fix. My CPU is overclocked to 4.7 at 1.325V and the RAM are two Hyper-X kits (two sticks at 1866 and two at 1600 all running at 1600Mhz). I have a SATA SSD and two hard drives in RAID0 so I would like to not lose my data in the proces of troubleshooting. 

 

Thanks a lot

Sincerly, tw1st3d

Well I would start testing without mix matching the memory. 

You can try lowering your Cpu overclock and see if that helps. 

D5 AMI bios code is "No space for legacy option rom"

I'd only assume the board is on it's last legs and can't see the issues getting better.

Only because when it throws a D5 and you haven't updated bios recently makes me think this way.

Opinion only, you still have testing to do. Clear cmos and remove mixed memory is where to start I think.

[tw1st3d]

On 11/22/2020 at 6:27 PM, ShrimpBrime said:

Well I would start testing without mix matching the memory. 

You can try lowering your Cpu overclock and see if that helps. 

D5 AMI bios code is "No space for legacy option rom"

I'd only assume the board is on it's last legs and can't see the issues getting better.

Only because when it throws a D5 and you haven't updated bios recently makes me think this way.

Opinion only, you still have testing to do. Clear cmos and remove mixed memory is where to start I think.

I updated the BIOS when I got the motherboard to the BETA 3503 BIOS. I rolled it back to 3201 now and no change. Changing the overclock just makes the PC not boot. Gives out Overclock Failed Press F1 to enter BIOS. After that first time the board throwing out the D5 error code it never did that again. Only on POST it gets stuck at 63 but then makes the beep and boots without any problems into windows (except windows taking long time to boot as if I was booting of a SD Card and not a SSD). CMOS has been cleared about a tousand times during the troubleshooting why my PC wouldn't boot and the CMOS battery replaced. I still have to try the memory. I have a HP Microserver that also has DDR3 modules so I might grab them for testing and if it turns out to be a memory problem, which I btw, hope to God it is, then I'll just buy some new memory sticks. If I recall corectlly I think this all started when I took out a stick to turn on my old PC I sold (2nd gen intel only supported 1333Mhz on non K CPU's). Could it be something with that one stick of memory is causing issues? Anyways, I'll keep you updated on my findings. ( I hope it's that one stick of RAM..)

 

 

[tw1st3d]

On 11/22/2020 at 6:27 PM, ShrimpBrime said:

Well I would start testing without mix matching the memory. 

You can try lowering your Cpu overclock and see if that helps. 

D5 AMI bios code is "No space for legacy option rom"

I'd only assume the board is on it's last legs and can't see the issues getting better.

Only because when it throws a D5 and you haven't updated bios recently makes me think this way.

Opinion only, you still have testing to do. Clear cmos and remove mixed memory is where to start I think.

So I just lost my nerves and the will to fix this board. I changed two CPU‘s out, 4 different RAM sticks in the correct configuration. Nothing helped. Did a BIOS flashback that did not work but yet it fixed it and now it boots? I‘m selling this shit

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30 minutes ago, tw1st3d said:

So I just lost my nerves and the will to fix this board. I changed two CPU‘s out, 4 different RAM sticks in the correct configuration. Nothing helped. Did a BIOS flashback that did not work but yet it fixed it and now it boots? I‘m selling this shit

Lol. Yeah that's an Asus board for you. XD. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I've never been able to save any other board with similar issues. 

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On 11/24/2020 at 9:57 PM, ShrimpBrime said:

Lol. Yeah that's an Asus board for you. XD. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I've never been able to save any other board with similar issues. 

Answering kinda late. Board functions altho it takes 18-20secs till you see the Asus ROG logo. I‘ll try uplugging all SATA devices. Might be S.M.A.R.T check that‘s causing issues meaning one of my HDD‘s that are in RAID0. I‘ll keep you posted. I‘ll be keeping and if I come across a cheap Z87 or Z97 that ain‘t a ASUS board, I might go for it as the CPU is really a beast at 4.7Ghz (OC is not causing issues as without the OC the board behaves the same).