Hello again forum,
I've had my Rampage IV since 2011 and it has been RMA-ed, had more support here, now I'm back with more issues. I'm at my wit's end with this thing but let's try to figure out what's happening with it now.
Symptoms:
Started having lockups in Windows a while ago while doing normal tasks, internet, playing games, etc. Would normally boot up fine when starting up again.
Locked up again today a bunch and now it isn't even posting with code 00.
Re-seated the CPU as the CPU LED was on, started it back up and it went into BIOS and froze.
Re-seated again, got a post hangup on 25, and now I can't get anything. Not posting with CPU_LED on and 00 code. Turned slow mode on (not sure what this did) then got hanging on 11, and 14 (CPU Codes)
I've tried resetting CMOS a bunch and got nothing. I'm afraid of it being the CPU but it looks like it is leaning to that - although I don't know the stats of failure of the sandy bridge (i7-3930K) and I have never overclocked the thing and I have had it watercooled with a triple rad - if it has failed I would be supremely surprised.
I'm looking to get a couple recommendations of things to try before I scrap this poor guy. Anyone have some ideas?
Thanks for helping me figure this out.
Edit: going to try to flash earlier bios to rule that out
Edit 2: Did what I assume is flashing bios: downloading and putting onto memory stick, holding link button. It started up and got to the "press f1 to enter setup" but I didn't have keyboard plugged in and it seemed to freeze and reset. Started up again with keyboard plugged in, booted normal but hung on 5A (internal CPU error) and shut off.
I think we are getting closer to the issue...
All signs seem to point to CPU issues - beyond popping another i7-3930 (wow they are expensive) in to troubleshoot, is there anything else I can to do rule more things out? I have a friend with another Rampage IV (suprisingly no issues for him of course!) so I'll try to get it popped in his mobo
Edit 3: Found an issue - 2 bent pins on bottom right of socket. I am ordering a set of things to fix this and I will report back if this was the cause of all the issues.