Working on my first build in a few years, and am having continuous freezing issues at different times during the initial setup. Sometimes I can start loading win 7 until the freeze, other times I can't even get 2 seconds in the boot.
I have removed everything except the basics. Onboard video, cpu, memory in the slot furthest from the cpu. 90% of the time it will lock up before allowing me to enter bios.
I have updated the bios on bios A and have left bios b alone. I have tied both numerous times with no success.
The only consistency is that it is never consistent. In 4 boots I received 4 different Q codes…64, 99 x2, A2.
The Q LED is often lit on “Boot_device_led”.
If anyone has any ideas I would be grateful. It may be time to RMA this bad boy.
Case: Thor V2
CPU: Core i7-3770K.
Board: Asus Maximus V Extreme.
VGA: Nvidia 680
Ram: 32GB Corsair Vengeance
SSD: 1x 250 GB Samsung and 1x 3TB Western digital