PC sometimes not waking from sleep (E1 error)

[Ewan]

Hey,

 

So I've had this problem for quiet some time and I'm a little sick of it.

 

Sometimes when I press the power button to wake my PC from sleep the fans go full on and the PC doesn't wake, then I have to turn it off with the power button after which it will start up no problem.

 

When this happens my motherboard displays an E1 error code which stands for "S3 boot script execution".

 

Does someone have any idea how I can fix this?

 

Thanks,

 

Ewan

 

Full specs:

- CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k

- MOBO: ASUS Z97-PRO

- RAM: 4x4gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

- GPU: EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0

- PSU: Corsair HX850i

- Storage: 512gb Samsung SSD + 1tb WD Blue

[Razarza]

Has this always happened or did it start after some sort of hardware/software change? What are your power settings in Windows?

[Ewan]

It has been doing this since I had it, what part of the power settings do you need to know?

[Razarza]

It has been doing this since I had it, what part of the power settings do you need to know?

Press the Window Key and type "Power Options" and select high performance.

[Ewan]

High performance is selected 

[Daniel0898]

Hey,

 

So I've had this problem for quiet some time and I'm a little sick of it.

 

Sometimes when I press the power button to wake my PC from sleep the fans go full on and the PC doesn't wake, then I have to turn it off with the power button after which it will start up no problem.

 

When this happens my motherboard displays an E1 error code which stands for "S3 boot script execution".

 

Does someone have any idea how I can fix this?

 

Thanks,

 

Ewan

 

Full specs:

- CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k

- MOBO: ASUS Z97-PRO

- RAM: 4x4gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

- GPU: EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0

- PSU: Corsair HX850i

- Storage: 512gb Samsung SSD + 1tb WD Blue

A similar thing happened to my pc after a hardware update, I'll spare some of the details but basically what it came down to was that my system agent voltage was to low at stock.

 

So instead of 1.732v (stock), I turned it up to 1.2v and so far I've been stable in sleep mode for over 8 hour periods. You can modify this in your bios, It should say something like; CPU system agent voltage.

 

However, please note that my problem was that I would put it in sleep mode only to come back and it would be completely turned off. Once I turned it on I would get q-code bf and it would go into a boot loop until I flipped the power switch on my psu. Then it would boot back on.  

 

I know this is different form your situation, but maybe your voltage is not as low unlike mine, which was low enough to completely shut down when I went into sleep mode.

 

Hope this helped!

[Ewan]

So I tried turning PLL overvoltage off as I've read somewhere else but that didn't work.

 

 

A similar thing happened to my pc after a hardware update, I'll spare some of the details but basically what it came down to was that my system agent voltage was to low at stock.

 

So instead of 1.732v (stock), I turned it up to 1.2v and so far I've been stable in sleep mode for over 8 hour periods. You can modify this in your bios, It should say something like; CPU system agent voltage.

 

However, please note that my problem was that I would put it in sleep mode only to come back and it would be completely turned off. Once I turned it on I would get q-code bf and it would go into a boot loop until I flipped the power switch on my psu. Then it would boot back on.  

 

I know this is different form your situation, but maybe your voltage is not as low unlike mine, which was low enough to completely shut down when I went into sleep mode.

 

Hope this helped!

1.732v to 1.2v would be turning it down?

 

I've looked at it and mine is set to 0.854v to 0.999v. I can then manually set how much volts I want to add or retract.

[0x1e]

So I tried turning PLL overvoltage off as I've read somewhere else but that didn't work.

 

 

1.732v to 1.2v would be turning it down?

 

I've looked at it and mine is set to 0.854v to 0.999v. I can then manually set how much volts I want to add or retract.

I'm wondering if he meant

1.132V to 1.2V. Sounds legit.

Or 1.2V to 1.732V. Sounds like a big bump just to allow the computer to sleep.

[Daniel0898]

So I tried turning PLL overvoltage off as I've read somewhere else but that didn't work.

 

 

1.732v to 1.2v would be turning it down?

 

I've looked at it and mine is set to 0.854v to 0.999v. I can then manually set how much volts I want to add or retract.

haha sorry, i meant to say, 0.732

[Ewan]

haha sorry, i meant to say, 0.732

Oh ok, I've put mine up to 1.2v aswell, hopefully it works 

[Daniel0898]

Oh ok, I've put mine up to 1.2v aswell, hopefully it works 

Well, I am not sure if that will work, It is a tuning thing. It took me a couple of tries and about 2 hours to find that right spot. 

 

Here is the article where i learned to do this: https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?57411-Q-Code-bF

[Ewan]

Well, I am not sure if that will work, It is a tuning thing. It took me a couple of tries and about 2 hours to find that right spot. 

 

Here is the article where i learned to do this: https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?57411-Q-Code-bF

So did you just keep adding let's say 0.05 volts and testing with sleep mode inbetween? 

[Daniel0898]

So did you just keep adding let's say 0.05 volts and testing with sleep mode inbetween? 

yep, or maybe lower it in the same increments. Just don't go past your base voltage.

[Ewan]

I kinda forgot about this topic but for some unknown reason the problem went away, I tried changing the voltage before that but that only made my system unstable so it's back at stock.

 

Thanks for trying to help!