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

[grok23]

TechJackass88 wrote:
Grok, how is your SSD Raid performs? does it runs with TRIM or without?

I had to flash them all to the same firmware level to get things running smoothly at first. There were a few sleepless nights watching the RAID volume first slowing and then disintegrating before I realised that though I'd bought all 3 from the same place at the same time they were actually from two different batches and had different firmware revisions.

As they are running in RAID there is currently no TRIM support. This will probably change with my next array, so long as the chipset manufacturers start paying attention to all the calls for iSCSI TRIM commands to be passed over their RAID implimentations. The latest gen ones are able to do this, but it's mostly only a few Linux distros which support this currently iirc. It's not too much of an issue for me at the moment though as I've got more than enough space (most of my media is all stored on a seperate NAS system) to not have to worry about filling them up to any level where they're going to start slowing down appreciably, plus I'm able to backup and then reload an image of my install to them after Secure Erasing them in a relatively short space of time.

I've not done any proper benchmarking of them yet as I first had them set up on another Mobo and since moving over to the Crosshair V I've been more preoccupied with getting that running properly and trying to sort out the sound issues amongst others. What I can say though is that they do run better on the Crosshair V than they did on my old M4N98TD EVO, kudos to the AMD guys for their improvements with the SB. Also by buying cheaper "old" type ones I've been able to hit a price/performance point which is very attractive to me, ie: £1 /GB for faster speeds than the latest SATA III ones.

I will get around to benching them properly at some point once my system is stable on the Crosshair V (all being well that will be towards the end of next week after I've swapped this one on Tuesday). In the meantime though, the performance is roughly what I'd expected from them, ie: roughly 2.7+ times quicker than a single one and more than enough to put a big grin on my face and give everything that I run that touch of running on a nitrous mix fuel.

I'd go happily back to my old ways of running them off a PCI Express based RAID card to free up the CPU, but I don't have the spare slots on the Mobo to do that at the moment. That may well happen again though once I get around to water cooling my 580s.



/tldr, they've been great since I sorted the teething problems and by buying cheap last generation ones made for an "affordable" large SSD array at speeds that outstrip single current generation SSDs.

[grok23]

TechJackass88 wrote:
Grok, how is your SSD Raid performs? does it runs with TRIM or without?

Results from my first ATTO run:



I suspect that the results were slightly worse than I expected with small sizes due to me having selected the biggest possible block size when configuring the array. when I get a chance I might well SE it and rebuild again with the block size set a little smaller to see if it helps. As it is though, I'm more than happy with the results. 790+ Reads and writes hitting around 740+ = one happy fella here.



Apologies for the thread derailment. Move along nothing to see here.

[TechJackass88]

That's amazing, I was looking in to setting up a raid of 2x128 SSD's but decided on one, mainly tried to hit the budget and all, but I'm sorry that your board is fubar, hopefully next one will be better, knocking on the wood right now, I had little problems at the beginning with memory, but seems to be stable enough right now, my main measure was Prime95, and Starcraft 2, if mem wasn't running 100% it would error out =( I'm really thinking about getting some ECC ram, as well as rebuilding my cooling systems. still want to work on a reliable "turbo timer" for cooling off components after shutdown...
how about anyone that has a tip to make our CHV experience smoother post something, and we compile a flowchart troubleshooting guide, that addresses issues that are not in the books? anybody down for this initiative? I know there is ton of guides on OC and just hardware, but sometimes I just want to punch numbers and settings in an get it to work, without reading on overnight and hoping something would stick in the morning.
and if anyone figures out what the hell is going on with sound, I would appreciate it, otherwise, I'm ordering stand alone sound card.

[Raja]

Set the CPU fan header up like this:

[mudkip]

when it ignores it will it give a warrning if it fails?

[chrsplmr]

Great..1 & 2..

Any ideas on this part of the question??

"....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."

I dont have this issue..but I am curious.

[Retired]

I'm having this same OS problem. Very frustrating, windows starts to load, stalls, blue screens for a fraction of a second, then system restarts. really hope somebody knows a fix for this.

[xeromist]

Are you able to boot into safe mode? If so I would disable as much as possible running from startup and/or do a system restore to a time when it was working. Also if you are able to boot in safe mode you could disable restart on BSOD so that you can actually see the message.

[Thrasher]

The fan error is normal, I have a TX3 from coolermaster and I know people with V6 and have the same error, that is because the fan (I don't know really why, I saw a guy who call to CM support for this and they sayd "PWM compatibility is not guarantied for all the motherboards"), is normal that the fan starts to spinning 1second later on a cold boot, you justa have to disable the warning on the bios, is a very wird thing with this CPU FAN, I don't have this problem with a old motherboard but I don't have this problema with my crosshair V and the Stock Fan, so is just a incompatibility in the PWM from my Hyper TX3 CPU FAN.

[speed]

I had that same fan error as well. I am using a H-80. It powers it's fans off of the pump housing. So it is not using the cpu connection. I had a Stock AMD fan from a heatsink running from it to cool the NB. I removed that fan and put a rocketfish 120 in it's place and the got the warning. (brand new RF fan btw) I put back the other fan warning gone. Try another fan. it may do the trick.