Can anyone tell me where I can look up or download a Debug Guide for R4E?

[Xtreme-Performa]

I'm wondering if there are troubleshooters for Debug Guide for R4E? I don't see any in the websites. I'm currently having problems with my R4E with similar problems with AE debug code.

I've been reading a couple of posts about it and I do not think it's the other thread about not installing a vid card...

I pretty much got most PC parts except I didn't purchase ethernet card adapter and sound card adapter... I've got a heatsink single gpu, 8GB DDR3 2400mhz, Blu-ray optical drive. And also purchase a IC diamond paste for thermal and I purchase a DF-80 Antec ATX tower...

If from the previous posts that said AE and I heard that if you received a R4E and it's not sealed for authencity... I heard it was a open box motherboard... So should I get a refund from Amazon.com if they gave me a open box? Because on Amazon.com's website it did say "NEW" so I was hoping they'd give me a "New" sealed one... Although I did complained and asked them to replace it because I believe I didn't have a VGA hot-wire and a thermal sensor cable and a ROG connect switch... Although it did say some came seperately... I was hoping I could order a ROG connect switch because I know it would be unsafe if I press the button "Start" while it's running... lmfao...

But I was able to connect everything up just fine so far... it detect everything... It started to be a A3 then I press the reset on my Antec PC case then it went to AE afterwards.. It's strange to say... I do not have an IDE optical or a IDE hard drive since all of the purchase I made was SATA hard drive 1 TB and a blu-ray optical drive. Since this R4E is based on 3D motherboard I'd figure the Blu-ray optical SATA drive would help enhance the quality and also a Nvidia GPU 560 Ti... Although I did regret I did not know there were 3 types of 560 Ti... but then the budget was limited... but I did like the 256-bit GPU instead the 192-bit...

I thought at first I require additional jumpers for R4E... but as I skimmed through the manual I only needed one... although I noticed there was an unassigned 3 pin next to the DiGi chipset next to SATA socket... Which I'm kinda curious if I do need a jumper for that or not...

I thought AE says Legacy Boot Event... but when I skimmed through the manual on PDF online it said it's the HD Audio cable... which I hook it up with no problem...

I do have a previous Asus P5N-D and I enjoyed that PC but it was a little slow for other applications.

Too bad Thunder Bolt for Crosshair V Formula can't be purchased seperately because it does sound sweet to want to use for this type of MOBO...

But anyway back to the question... is there a website in Asus.com or in rog.asus.com for a Debug Guide so I can able to troubleshoot other scenarios if I can debug this Legacy Boot Event problem...

If this MOBO came from Amazon.com and they said it's "NEW" and I returned my previous Open Box and thought they'd give me a sealed authencity but then when I received my replacement it's basically the same thing... Which kinda sux... because I'm not sure if they took out the ROG connect switch from the R4E or other cables that came with it...

Weird thing is Amazon.com did NOT confirm to me if this was "NEW" they just replaced it and I got 2 R4E motherboard in my living room... and had to reship the other MOBO... otherwise I'd get charge for 2 R4E instead of one...

[HiVizMan]

It is in your manual and that is the only debug guide I know of.

Or are you asking what to do when each of the codes come up.

And do you have your issue with the AE sorted ?

[Xtreme-Performa]

Sorry It's sort of my first rig... I previously purchased a Asus P5N-D from ibuypower.com, so actually I'm not quite familiarized with the codes... Is there a website that I can glance at what to do if I ever ran into other codes besides AE?

So I'm kinda of a noob in the hardware/BIOS gig... I was able to upgrade the P5N-D with a few modifications since I noticed the P5N-D had some couple of flaws with wattage consumptions... So I wanted to purchase either R4E or Crosshair V Formula... Which I purchased R4E...

Yes I currently received my Blu-Ray optical from Amazon... and I turned it on just recently and it did say AE so I browsed through my manual yet it did not give me an idea whats a Legacy Boot Event... I'd like to be more familiarize with it because I invested this MOBO so I can self-learn more of the hardware.

Because I got fed up with purchasing office PC's that didn't perform what I wanted and some of the purchase like the P5N-D from ibuypower some componants wasn't my liking... I noticed even cyberpcpower is similar... So I've basically purchased most of the PC componants through amazon.com... And I've researched the correct hardware that can able to run with R4E...

And it was able to run ok but I just wanted to be familiarize with the debug codes so i'll know what to do next time I ran into those debug codes...

Btw... I couldn't find a good LED for R4E... the Antec Darkfleet-80 looks sweet to cool down most of it... but I wanted if do you know of any compatible LED thermal reader similar to NXZT full tower where you'd tape a wire to the hard drive and CPU etc... and it would show outside the PC the temperature. I know the BIOS for R4E can be monitored by DiGi but I guess since I put of an investment on the PC and the parts... I'd want to take an extra measures to protect it from heating up...

Much appreciation if you could let me know the definition for each debug codes. But if you require a descriptive hardware in order to guess my scenario of MOBO rig...

I wanted a i7-3960X but it was too much of a price for me... so I purchased a i7-3930 which I know I wouldn't think i'll able to OC the CPU. I have a minimum of 1000w PSU EVGA 560 ti OC version kingston 2400mhz 8gb and phantek 1366 heatsink and a blu-ray optical drive SATA and a Hitachi 1TB SATA drive...

I'd like to upgrade my CPU later on unless anyone thinks any prediction if there are other new CPU better than i7-3960X that might come later next year or so...

Any help is appreciated...

My knowledge of hardware is kind of outdated and software also because it's been awhile I used any of my knowlage in PC's in college back in 1996... But Asus is certainly want to get into PC's more than Macs... lol

[Xtreme-Performa]

I'm not sure what LCD I'm using I got my LCD from a friend that purchased an old PC from her workplace. It's a Dell LCD and I'm currently using it for internet/browsing only PC but that's the LCD that I'm using...

I was hoping I could use R4E for my AutoCad 2000 software because the Asus P5N-D was running too slow for graphics software including an old Adobe Graphic Suite. I was hoping R4E will help me with graphics but I don't believe the CPU for i7-3930 might not be able to overclock it enough but which I've purchase the 2400mhz 8GB that I can still upgrade later on with maybe another 8GB 2400mhz if I have the budget to purchase i7-3960X although the 990X looks cheaper but I lookedup the benchmark and it looks like i7-3960X might be better for the software I was using...

I'd thought it was a sound card problem because the only thing I did not purchase was a sound card and a ethernet card... Which I'd just leave it to the motherboard for soundcard and ethernet... Because i concentrated on affordable budget on video cards and SDRAM for more graphics which is why I chose R4E over Crosshair V formula which is more for ethernet speed quality then graphic quality.

[8_Pack]

Firstly mate I dont know of such a guide to download or on the web. It may be something that could be produced at some stage but would take alot of time to be definative as everysystem spec is different as is every CPU's carecteristics.

Whats your system spec mate maybe we can help you. What VGA card you using and in which slot?? what bios you on. What monitor and how you conecting it?? AE actually means post is completed usually!!

[8_Pack]

Ok. Start by plugging in one stick of RAM to one socket furthest from the CPU. Put your graphics in PCI EX 1 and plug in all the power connections, Plug teh monitor into a standard DVI port on the graphics. Connect nothing else. Reset the bios and start the board and report back.

The 3930 is a great CPU so you dont need to upgrade as you call it.

[Xtreme-Performa]

Thank you for the information... It did help a lot but I noticed I couldn't get the bios on the screen when I had the ROG connect but once I removed it I had 2 old LCD monitor one from a brother's friend donated it and another was dell from a friend's friend at there work place. I noticed it's the ROG connect that didn't show any... but I only plug an old LCD but the monitor is all green instead of black so I assume the LCD isn't good anymore...

I noticed I went to Bios and I clicked normal bios and disable overclocking... And I'm sorry I thought I had the i7-3930 but actually I purchased the cheap version of i7-3820 because I couldn't afford $1,100.00 for the i7-3960X which I'm impressed with the benchmark over the i7-990X...

But I noticed when it rebooted I noticed it kept shutting down and turning on and then shut down again. So I try to reboot or turn it off and then I turned it on... then I pressed Del to get back into Bios but I didn't see anything on the screen and it would constantly change debug guide number... for at least 5-10 minutes... because I went to the WC then I got back in 10 minutes it still kept changing numbers like 67 and kept going...

Since I was able to see the Bios I was able to reinstall the SDRAM from what 8 Pack suggested and thank you... but now I noticed that it kept going and I cannot seem to see anything on the screen.

I have a Dell SFF micro ATX which I usually use a delete hard drive software... I need to reformat my Hitachi 7200 HDD. It goes up to 8 passes for 2-4 hours to delete/reformat it's a U.S. government approve of defense... if I wanted to reformat the hard drive so I can erase and delete any files in the hard drive.

I'm thinking of like I did with my other hard drive was erase the HDD because I have a Win XP 32-bit installed in the Hitachi

then ill install the Win 7 OS and then ill install whatever drivers requires for the motherboard and the GPU drivers... then I can transfer the Win 7 OS... I purchased a full version of the Win 7 OS on Amazon... but I noticed this X79 motherboard doesn't install the WinXP 32-bit OS... and I got the Win 7 OS... I believe the full version has a 32-bit and a 64-bit...

My problem is that if I only have a full version of Win XP 32-bit and a Win 7 OS... if I want to install a WinXP 32-bit I'd have to install the Win 7 OS 32-bit?? But it did said in the papers that came along with the manual that this motherboard prefers 64-bit...?

I'm sorry for the multiple questions... I got a lot of family and friends spinning there head with the way I asked questions...

So my question is that if it doesn't stop the debug random number what is it trying to do? I know it shut down and restart and shut down multiple times when I change the bios to normal instead of overclock the CPU... because I believed that the i7-3820 isnt a fast CPU... which I prefer the i7-3960X but unfortunately I can't afford $1,100.00 on amazon...

And I'm sure intel is planning on competing against the 8 core AMD... Which I picked R4E over CrossHair V formula for the graphics then the soundcard/ethernet thunderbolt... I'm impressed with the i7-3960X because of the L2 15 mb cache and I picked i7-3820 because it had a 10mb cache and I've seen a i7-2600 CPU had only around 8 mb cache if I'm not mistaken.

And which is recommended OS... and if it's 64-bit... how much is the Win XP 64-bit version or does it include in the Win XP OS full version like the Win 7 OS both 32-bit and 64-bit...? Because I'd hate to purchase another Win XP just for 64-bit version... if I knew they had a different version I would pick the Win XP 64-bit version but I do not think the outdated version of ASUS P5N-D can take the Win XP 64-bit version thus I had a 32-bit version although I did purchase Win XP professional full Version in a local electronic store...

And I'm very quite sorry if I sound confusing... I'm living in a area where they speak different language and I kind of picked up their slang language by interacting with the locals so to speak.... LOL

But yeah I used to play online games like Final Fantasy Online... I don't think I would want to play an mmorpg in this PC though... mainly for autocad and adobe photoshop... and probably skyrim... lol Or else I would've picked the crosshair V formula for the MMORPG or probably purchase a new PS3 because my Blu-ray optical drive isn't working both the open/close gear box isnt working and it cannot read Blu-ray discs even with Maxwell Blu-Ray cleaner... Which the only MMO I'm really into is FF online or old diablo/starcraft games...