No devices found, CPU fan error, and Windows not loading!!

[Retired]

hey all,

I have been reading a lot of the messsages here on the fourm and nothing really addressed my issues.

First I had the dram red light issue but I fixed it by just pressing the ram module in further, seems like it was lose from the end which doesn't have that holder/clip to keep it in place.

Next I get these three issues:
When I start the pc the first error I see is: "No devices found" and then it switches in an instant to the next screen, not sure on how to fix this. I would really appreicate any help with this. (it seems to pass through fine, but it's annyoying)

Next after the first error comes up and switches to the next screen, it tells me "CPU FAN ERROR" and it just sits there telling me to enter the bios to reset it and fix it (tried holding the rest button for 3 secs but it was of no use, I read somewhere that resets the bios) so I can't get around this either

Third funny issue is that through the bios there is this link which if you click it, you can override the boot and boot from the hard drive that you have yoru OS on, which is the correct on that I set it to boot from. So when I click that, it goes into windows but only until the windows loading screen, after that it just restarts and goes through the entire 3 issues that I brought up.

Not sure on how abouts to approach this.

I would really really appreciate any help with this as it doesn't make much sense, esp cause none of these issues were brought up on this fourn.

just an fyi, i tried the clear cmos button on the back, the tiny red button for the ram, the start, restart button on the MB, removed the battery, tried one ram module at a time. nothing helped gettin rid of those monkey msgs. And I also played around with the fan settings, but nothing helped, even did ignore, but it didnt ignore it.

PC:
AMD Phenom ll x4 365
16gb Gskill ram 1333
Of course the Asus crosshair formula V
Rosewill PSU 850
ATI HD5830 1GB
Around 3TB of HDD split into 3 HD modules
40gb SSD Vertex 2

Please help

Thanks in advance

[TechJackass88]

I knew I saw it a while ago, here: http://www.xoxide.com/evercool-extended-cooling-system-gt365.html
I'm not sure if it comes with CPU PWM breakout, but you can start from here, however, I think it's a 3 pin config, instead of CPU 4,
again I'm not sure how that will work with the rest of the system, should be able to just put one aside but don't take my word for granted,
I will crack my super capacitor array open sometime today or tomorrow and use single cells for powering my controller board, just need to make a
little fail safe, if you want to, I might throw a little schematic together, anyone good with soldering iron should be able to hook you up.

[mudkip]

Hey im getting a fan error as well on first boot. just installed a cool master v6. plugged into the first cpu fan port. it will boot say the error ask me to enter bios and when i reboot no problem. its almost like the fans take to long to spin or something. any advice?

[xeromist]

mudkip wrote:
Hey im getting a fan error as well on first boot. just installed a cool master v6. plugged into the first cpu fan port. it will boot say the error ask me to enter bios and when i reboot no problem. its almost like the fans take to long to spin or something. any advice?

You could disable the fan warning or just for kicks you could try a different fan to see if another might be slightly faster and not cause the error.

[grok23]

Nice one, you've just advised him to risk frying his CPU by removing the warning.

...Or you could have paid attention to some of the posts in this thread and see that for some of us the fans aren't spinning up whilst the POST process is going on and are slow to start in the boot process. Changing fans will not make any difference to this, they're either powered and moving or not powered.

[xeromist]

grok23 wrote:
Changing fans will not make any difference to this, they're either powered and moving or not powered.

Actually I haven't seen anything which indicates whether the power is actually delayed or just ramping up slowly, have you? Fans have a minimum threshold required to begin spinning and that value differs between fans.

I agree that it should not matter what fan you choose to use but in the absence of an immediate fix from ASUS another fan might be worth a try.

[grok23]

xeromist wrote:
Actually I haven't seen anything which indicates whether the power is actually delayed or just ramping up slowly, have you? Fans have a minimum threshold required to begin spinning and that value differs between fans.

I agree that it should not matter what fan you choose to use but in the absence of an immediate fix from ASUS another fan might be worth a try.

I have actually run a multimeter off my CPU and chassis fan headers over the weekend after I started getting annoyed by this problem. I wasn't able to watch it closely enough to see whether it was a case of the voltage starting off low and then building and don't have the kit to collect data from it and graph it, but it did show that there was quite a big difference in timing for it to start delivering power to them at times and that the voltage wasn't consistent either no matter what settings were used in the BIOS.

Being fair though, seeing as my Mobo arrived in a faulty state anyway I'm not certain that I could give mine as an example that would remain consistent with the experiences of others.

So long as the shop I bought it from accepts it back and gives me a new one on Tuesday I'll hopefully get to investigate this further, otherwise I'll have the long tedious wait whilst I RMA it with Asus themselves. If that has to happen, I'll most likely end up buying another mobo from a different manufacturer just so I can at least keep my main gaming PC up and running.

[xeromist]

grok23 wrote:
I have actually run a multimeter off my CPU and chassis fan headers over the weekend after I started getting annoyed by this problem. I wasn't able to watch it closely enough to see whether it was a case of the voltage starting off low and then building and don't have the kit to collect data from it and graph it, but it did show that there was quite a big difference in timing for it to start delivering power to them at times and that the voltage wasn't consistent either no matter what settings were used in the BIOS.

Being fair though, seeing as my Mobo arrived in a faulty state anyway I'm not certain that I could give mine as an example that would remain consistent with the experiences of others.

So long as the shop I bought it from accepts it back and gives me a new one on Tuesday I'll hopefully get to investigate this further, otherwise I'll have the long tedious wait whilst I RMA it with Asus themselves. If that has to happen, I'll most likely end up buying another mobo from a different manufacturer just so I can at least keep my main gaming PC up and running.

Interesting. Well, if you tested it and found problems with the voltage then I definitely can't argue that. Hopefully this is just a bug and your replacement will perform better.

[TechJackass88]

Actually, xeromist is right, you only disabling fan warning, while your processor has it's own thermal protection, and will shut down in case of overheating, this way you will boot right in to a system, instead of being stuck in a mid post, I don't have this problem, because I use external controls, but I did notice, that while posting, or even tuning bios system runs CPU really hot, and power consumption practically doubles compared to OS idling, again, I prefer to use external controllers, mainly if I put high flow fan, motherboard might not be equipped with good enough traces to support it. for those who really want to use motherboard RPM meter, but has this issue, splice power to fan from any power molex from PSU and use a third PWM wire to connect to mobo, look up wiring diagrams, but normally they all same. grok, it's your choice, but read on with all tuning guides, it takes forever to tune it.

[grok23]

I've read the tuning guides here from end to end many times already and what I've seen from my own experience with this board so far and from many comments from other users is that it has a lot of issues as well as being a temperamental little sod to tune up in the first place, due to some of those issues.

Whilst you're correct that the CPU has it's own thermal protection it really should be the last line of defence and not one you should be relying on all the time. You then go on to mention that it runs particularly hot whilst in the BIOS, which kind of goes hand in hand with my warning earlier. I experienced this myself several times over the weekend and to be frank I'd still rather have the warning than ignore it and hope that the processors own fail-safes would kick in and save it from yet another failure to spin the fans up. After you've watched your processor do this a few times in a row you too would begin to feel a bit uncomfortable with being so lax about it.

The fact remains that more than a few people are experiencing problems with some very basic issues which you don't expect when you stump up for a "top of the line" motherboard nowadays. That I can and almost certainly will use my own fan controllers to be safe after I've RMA'd my board (faulty USB socket) is neither here nor there, the problem should not be happening in the first place.

[TechJackass88]

Grok, how is your SSD Raid performs? does it runs with TRIM or without?