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New build issues. Was working, now is not. Q code 8

PakRatJR
Level 7
Got my new system put together today. Seemed to be working quite well for several hours......right up to the point it stopped working. Hard stop like.

Running windows 8 with 1403 bios. 1700x and 16 gig corsair vengance on water cooler.

No overclock really. DOCP? standard and that's it.

Booted right up, installed the relevant drivers,did a few restarts, and carried on with playing with things. Ran a few gaming benchmarks, stress test on CPU to check water cooler...etc. Running great for several hours. Even had Aura working great. Played on the net for a bit. Watched a couple vids on youtube. Ate some dinner, checked the emails, read a bit on the forums, went back to youtube to watch a couple more vids. Watched one no problem, started watching another one and.....windows froze, keyboard and mouse went off. Had to kill the power to the power supply to get things to turn off.

Powered back up, started to boot and froze again with keyboard and mouse going away again. Never got to desktop. Killed power, reset bios, started back up. Bairely got to desktop befor keyboard and mouse went away again and had to kill power again.

Powered back up and now am getting no post and code 8 and won't go past it. Flashed back to 1401 and got to bios but couldn't get any farther. After reboot, straight to code 8. Flashed back to 1403 and straight to code 8. Been sitting for a bit over a half hour before I killed power again and now I am getting ready to pull everything and put my previous parts back in and send the new parts back.

Anything else I can try, any thoughts, suggestions before I take it apart?

Thanks
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elguero83
Level 7
Hi, I had a similar problem to you, I would get random code 8 post even at default settings with no overclock, even with a fresh windows installation, then someone suggested to me ,on the overclok.net post for this motherboard, to disable performance bias, and I haven't had a code 8 in over a week now, I also disabled fas boot for good measure.

booseek
Level 7
I went through a nightmare with code 8 myself. Two identical 1800x Ryzen systems, one with code 8 after a few weeks of running fine, the other working perfectly the whole time. I even tried swapping CPUs, etc. Sometimes it would boot up, but usually, it wouldn't work. These times that it did boot up sent me chasing after possible fixes, none of which worked permanently.

Do yourself a favor and RMA the board. This is what did it for me. No code 8 for over three months now.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?92134-Q-Code-8-for-20-40-minutes-from-cold-boot-and-wakeup...

elguero83 and booseek, thanks.

I did end up returning the board to amazon as faulty. They didn't have another one to replace it so I just returned the processor and memory also as I didn't know how long it would take to get a replacement board and didn't want to run out of return days on them.

I still have the itch to upgrade tho and will most likely be reordering and trying again fairly soon.

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