Rampage IV Extreme - Intermittent Shutdown Problems

[mikeblunt2020]

Hi all, I was wondering if you could offer me any insight. I just recently obtained a R4E board. I'm running a 3960X @ 4.7 on it, with some slight adjustments to VCore, VCCSA, clockgen filter, etc. All the standard tweaks that most people seem to be making on this board.

The system is rock solid stable with one exception. Intermittently, it fails to shudown gracefully (it effectively hangs at a black screen without actually powering down). After this occurs, when it comes back up it gives the "overclocking failed" message. Note that this does not always happen, as it frequently shuts down properly. It seems to happen more frequently when I bring the system up from sleep mode and then power it down quickly thereafter. Also note that the system always goes to sleep and wakes up properly - the intermittent shutdown hang is the only problem I am currently experiencing.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any suggested tweaks that I can make?

I should note that I do have all the CPU power saving options on (speedstep, C1E) and would prefer to leave them on if I can find a solution that enables me to.

Thanks for your assistance.

[mikeblunt2020]

Hi Shamino,

I tried flashing to that BIOS, but it put me into "BIOS recovery mode" every time I tried. At that point I couldn't do anything other than flash to another BIOS. I flashed back to 1305 for now. Please advise.

Thanks

[Uberbob102000]

I'm having the same problems here, with G.Skill DDR3-1333 4x4GB. I think the board isn't correctly handing off the DTS info from the CPU to whatever monitoring program is doing the monitoring. It's very intermittent, sometimes it'll happen after 1 S3 sometimes after 5.

I'm having the same shutdown and other sleep issues as well. (3820 in here for the moment, was thinking it was the 3960X).

EDIT: I'm having the same problem with that BIOS Shamino. I'm assuming it's a newer RIVE beta BIOS.

[Perplexer]

Hi guys. This is my first port here. I have been having the same problems listed here (PC not resuming from sleep, temps report 91 after wake up with CPU throttled at its min speed) but i believe i have found the solution. So i went through every page in the BIOS in search of a possible solution to the sleep issues. In the RAM's settings at the very bottom there is a setting called warm boot or something like that. I disabled that and since then my PC has not given me any issues. My memory is running at 2400MHz and i am using XMP. I hope that this fix finds its way to the other people that have this problem.

[cx-ray]

Perplexer wrote:
In the RAM's settings at the very bottom there is a setting called warm boot or something like that.

RC Warm Boot Fast [Disabled]

[HalloweenWeed]

My BIOS (1404) and older doesn't have that.