SABERTOOTH Z77 I53570K voltage issue and more problems.

[domfather]

Hello fellow Non ROG intel motherboard fans. 😄 im in need of some help and possible guidence. this is my first time doing an intel build and cpu/motherbord installation on my own.Its been a nerv rackin experince to say the least but in the end iv set it up and its been running for 4 days now but with problems.

first problem. i can not get my HD TV to display the post or bios for the motherbord.once it boots into windows though the display comes on and i see windows and everything is fine. i tryd plugin it into the motherbord HDMI but i get no picture at all even in windows . and iv tryd connecting it with my grpahics card witch is the only way it will be viewd at all. but again its only once im in windows. so as an alternativ i have to plug in a second moniter to my graphivs card with a dvi cable and its curently been the only way i can access the bios.

second problem. so meny drivers on the asus website for this motherbord and a bit lost.despite this i did my best and downloaded what i could but some of the drivers would not install and said i had insafient hardware..very lost about that. iv installd the asus suit II and it seems to be workin correclty though.

final problem. Iv started to try overclocking. at first i tryd using the auto tuner in the bios but that only gave me 4.2ghz and it raisd the BCLK and downclocks my memory and the voltage seemd rather high for that speed. so i tryd to do it myself. by just changing the turbo clock and leaving everything els alone saving and rebooting .I thoght everything was ok since my pc did not crash or anything so i continued to raise it once and try agian till i got to 44 (no crashes) but then i noticed hardware moniter was reporting a max value of 1.42volts on the vcore from just browsing the web. tempratures were not a problem though.so I turnd the turbo back down to 42 but the volt was still around 1.31 and from what iv read you should only need to start increesing voltage once u hit 4.3ghz. but why is it that when i change the turbo clock the voltage dosent stay at stock? so anywaz i tryd another aproach this time manule setting the cpu offset to its lowest value possible and loading into windows. but i noticed that the voltage was allready hitting 1.2 and it was going up slightly in hardware mointer under max value and this was at stock clocks. 3.5 with turbo 3.8 .the only way i can seem to get the voltage low (0.098)is if i just leave it on system defults or use the turbo evo overclocking software in the suite II to do it in real time.but it dosent save and it dosent seem full proof for an overclock. so im askin how do i go about having an overclock were its set as stock voltage (0.098) at 3.5ghz with a turbo of 4.3? I could do with some guidence.thanks

[X-ROG]

Hi domfather,

Firstly - some TVs don't power up until they receive certain commands from the graphics card unfortunately, this is just a difference between them and normal PC monitors.

Secondly - start from installing the drivers from the included disk. This will include everything. Then Windows update will provide any essential upgrades. You shouldn't need any from the website unless you're stuck for an update to fix a problem.

Try this overclocking guide: http://rog.asus.com/184142012/maximus-v-motherboards/guide-overclocking-the-core-i5-3570k-to-4-5ghz-... the principles are the same between M5G and Sabertooth Z77 🙂

[domfather]

thanks for replying but iv sorted my overclock and got it stable at 4.5ghz did alot of research and got some help on fourms.(8 hours prime 95) i no most people wil disagre and say 12 hours is needed but im confident its stable enough. as for the tv issue. no luck though there is one thing .why can i not get a display singnal if i plug it directy into the motherord hdmi on the I/O plate? and if i have a 7970 dose having the lucidlogix virtu MVP installd help with performance in games..i think i instald it correctly thogh. turnd on multimonitor in bios and instald the drivers and it works.but i duno if its needed .can u tell me if im right or wrong..thanks

[Mankz]

Just make sure you run 4 sets of prime 95, one on each core to fully stress test it.. Or at least thats what I remember being told to do when I was back on 939 Dual Core systems.

But, having said that, it sounds like your system is nice and stable. I've got a Sabertooth Z77 as well, but I only ever go straight out of the GPU into a monitor, and don't have any issues... sorry!

[GRML4D]

try latest driver http://www.lucidlogix.com/driverdownloads-mvp.shtml
and use win8 x64 .
my sabertooth x79 was making a lot of vga errors and else with 7 but no-one with 8

here is a good article in French : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/858-1/lucidlogix-virtu-mvp-pratique.html

[HiVizMan]

Enjoy your system. If your system is stable doing the things you want it to do then it is stable. Prime only means it can run prime, we have had heaps of people with prime stable for 24 hours and more only to fail after 10 mins of WOW.

But you seem to be doing every thing right. So simply enjoy your system.

[cyricc]

The TV thing happened to me too.

This is with a video card with 2 DVI outputs, one is DVI-I and the other is DVI-D.
This is what I noticed: My TV uses a VGA so I have a DVI to VGA adapter I put in my VGA cable and plugged into my card, adapters are specifically setup for only DVI-I use, so I had to plug my TV into that port, and my monitor into the DVI-D port. For some reason the DVI-I port is seen as the "default port" for boot, bios and post and are all seen on my TV and then the image swaps over to my monitor once windows is loaded (because my monitor is set as the 'main' screen).

So sounds to me like the opposite is happening to you. Which port is your HDTV plugged into? Chances are which ever port it is, it is listed as "secondary" for boot, bios and post screens. Try having it as the only screen plugged in, then try plugging in a screen into the DVI-I port, play around with it and more than likely you will see these same results.

[domfather]

i ony have one hdmi connection in my graphics card and im using an hdmi to hdmi connection since my tv is hdmi and with 2 hdmi ports ...but iv tryd both..no picture will view on the tv at post at all so both dont work. same with dvi to hdmi. v just given up with tryng to get bios to show on my tv and living with using a smal monitor to view bios. nothing els i can think of doing.im totaly clules. so i just have my hdmi viewing in wndows and use my smal monitor to view bios.having it connectd to the dvi port on the graphics card.

[GRML4D]

do you have a recent tv or not ? the hd7970 is hdmi 1.4 .
by the way , may be you should try to use a dvi2hdmi plug

to prevent some conflicts .

for the rest , may be you should ask sapphire to learn what connectors are ON at boot .
I have an hd5450 that have an hdmi out and it displays boot-bios
I also have an hd5970 that has 2 dvi and a display port . I have two dvi or one dvi + displayport screen on at boot-bios .