Rampage IV Black - Updated BIOS, computer shuts down

[icewolf69]

Hi all,

I just put together my new build. Everything is on air at the moment, and I was going to make sure everything is running good before moving it to water.

I've been having pretty poor performance in games and I decided to update my BIOS to the latest version. Since then I've had seemingly random crashes. There's no error, no BSOD, nothing in event viewer, it just shuts down. I could be starting a game or browsing the web.

Computer specs:

i7-4930k
32 GB Gskill 2666 MHz
Rampage IV Black
GTX 780 ti x4

CPU is on a Corsair H80i

The main objective here is just to get it running solid, stock clocks with the RAM running at the specified stock/manufacturer's speeds. I've tried running the RAM in XMP and manually setting it, both still crash.

Any info is appreciated, thanks.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Hi icewolf69 🙂

Your PC wasn't doing this before? How did you update BIOS?

The reason I ask is that I have been through something similar recently and might have cured it with a good BIOS flash...

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?46139-Rivbe-shutdowns&p=393519&viewfull=1#post393519

[icewolf69]

Read your post, it's very interesting. I will probably try to do that tomorrow and report back.

I'm going to go to bed, and while i sleep I'm going to run MEMTest on the ram in XMP profile speeds and see what happens.

Thanks

[Arne_Saknussemm]

OK...there are some other ideas in that thread too....hope something helps...

[Menthol]

What power supply are you using, 4x780ti requires a heap of power

[icewolf69]

Menthol wrote:
What power supply are you using, 4x780ti requires a heap of power

I'm using two Corsair HX1000 PSU's. 2 video cards and the CPU on one, and 2 video cards on the other


So i ran MEMtest last night, interesting results. First of all, MEMtest isn't reporting the correct memory speed or timings. For either XMP or stock BIOS settings. It reports them as a lot faster speed, and looser timings. I'm not sure if this is a problem, or if MEMtest is just giving wrong results.

When set to XMP profile, MEMtest threw a lot of errors. Over 250 in a few minutes. When running at default BIOS speeds, there was no errors. I can't test ram in another computer because nothing will clock the RAM at the speeds it's supposed to run at. Could be bad memory, bad DIMM slots on the mobo, or if MEMtest is reporting correct speeds, then something is pushing my RAM speeds a lot faster than what i set them at in BIOS.

[icewolf69]

Arne I tried re-flashing the BIOS with your method, but i think since i already had that version it wasn't flashing. It was significantly quicker than the first time i flashed it.

One of my sticks of RAM was bad, so i pulled it out. But i'm still getting random shut offs. Still no BSOD or anything in event viewer

[Arne_Saknussemm]

icewolf69 wrote:
It was significantly quicker than the first time i flashed it.

How long? If it the BIOS lights flashes for a few seconds there is something wrong. They should flash for round about/just over a minute; slow at first and then quicker and quicker towards the end.

If you followed the steps properly and still no go you need to use a different pendrive. Don't use a USB3.0 ports use USB 2.0 and preferable a small USB 2.0 pendrive.

Also, of course, use only one GPU for troubleshooting etc.

[Melting_Point]

Arne Saknussemm wrote:
How long? If it the BIOS lights flashes for a few seconds there is something wrong. They should flash for round about/just over a minute; slow at first and then quicker and quicker towards the end.

If you followed the steps properly and still no go you need to use a different pendrive. Don't use a USB3.0 ports use USB 2.0 and preferable a small USB 2.0 pendrive.

Also, of course, use only one GPU for troubleshooting etc.

Not sure if this is the same with the RIVBE, but on the RIVE, you're supposed to use the white ROG USB port.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

OK maybe that's not clear...thanks MP...

Yes, the ROG connect is where you plug the pendrive for the flash...though it's not a USB port. I meant the port for cleaning the pendrive and loading the renamed BIOS file to the pendrive....is best if it's done on USB 2.0...