Rampage IV stuck at BIOS splash screen

[KidKB]

I got a 101 BSOD after running Prime95 to find the lowest vcore possible on my 3960x. Now after rebooting the machine is stuck at the ROG splash screen (where it says to hit delete)...I have pushed the clear BIOS button, removed cmos battery, hit the BIOS switch, turn it off and unplugged it...Nothing. It continues to halt at the splash screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated please...

[KidKB]

More info, I am using Shammy's 0083b BIOS revision, and the code the board is stuck at is b2.

[sisco]

KidKB wrote:
I got a 101 BSOD after running Prime95 to find the lowest vcore possible on my 3960x. Now after rebooting the machine is stuck at the ROG splash screen (where it says to hit delete)...I have pushed the clear BIOS button, removed cmos battery, hit the BIOS switch, turn it off and unplugged it...Nothing. It continues to halt at the splash screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated please...

Have you tried to boot with the bios 2?

[KidKB]

I think so, I hit the bios switch button on two tries, one before powering on and the other after the machine powered up. Both ended up stuck at the splash screen.

[Raja]

Remove all USB devices apart from the keyboard and mouse, use a single memory module and see if you can make it into BIOS.

[KidKB]

That did not work unfortunately. This is quite frustrating, I had a very simple overclock, not sure what I did to mess things up. It is stuck at legacy option rom initiated- b2 on the post LEDs.

[Raja]

Switch the LN2 jumper to the "on" position and clear CMOS and see if the board will POST.

[KidKB]

Thanks Raja I will try that if it happens again.

I was able to resolve by doing the following:

1. Remove all DIMMs
2. Boot (obviously doesn't post)
3. clear CMOS with no DIMMs
4. switch to BIOS 2 and repeat
5. Insert 1 DIMM
6. Power Up

I was then able to get into BIOS 2. BIOS 1 would not, I have a feeling it was corrupt. I was able to use flashback to copy BIOS 2 over BIOS 1.


The bad news is something in Windows was corrupted, probably do to the past several weeks of BSODS toying with a 3930k then 3960x. Just a tidbit of info for those who have to reinstall Windows 7 on the LGA 2011. I have found that Windows 7 does NOT like 32GB of RAM. I kept getting 0x0000024 STOP messages and was worried it was attributed to my hardware. On a hunch I removed all DIMMs except one and it then would boot into Windows 7 setup. I repeated with all DIMMS (4x8GB) and got the same STOP BSOD. I tried 3 and was able to get in successfully and reinstall Windows 7.

[8_Pack]

If your getting the 0x000000024 error you need to raise VTT or and VCCSA. With 8 Dimms depending on there speed different levels of these voltages are required for stability. eg My board CPU at nearly 5.1ghz, RAM at 2250mhz 9-11-10-28 32gb it needs 1.3 vtt 1.35vccsa. with 16gb same settings require 1.25 vccsa and 1.2 vtt. It is almost certainly one of these settings and possibly PLL that needs adjustment. PLL for 4 dimms @ 2400 is ok at 1.8 but 8 dimms 2250 requires 1.95-2.0v. 8 Dimms can be stabalised at most but very high speeds you just have to get the voltages correct.

[Reefa_Madness]

I know that this thread is old as Hades, but it saved my butt a few days ago so I just wanted to confirm that the method described in post #8 worked for me on my Rampage IV Formula.