Strange Indeed

[nighthawk]

Ok so here's the problem and it's very strange as I've not seen this before. I bought an Asus Rampage IV Extreme x79 mobo, an Intel i7 3930K and a 16GB quad channel kit of DDR3 2133Mhz Corsair Dominator GT. My old rig was a x58 setup which I ran 3 years and thought it was a time to upgrade. I kept my graphics cards which are ATI HD5970s (two), but I only used one on this board. I got everything installed including Windows 7 64-bit, all my drivers and set my memory XML profile which set my CPU to 3.8GHz with a 38x multiplier. Everything runs fine except when I went into Windows 7 to run the WEI. Soon as I launched this it started running and about half way through it blue screens with an error that states "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval." It does this every time I run the Windows 7 WEI. Funny thing it it doesn't bsod on anything else. I even ran memtest to check the memory and it passed. The CPU runs perfectly normal and I can't get this to crash doing anything else. It only does this with the WEI pass. I even went into BIOS and set my 16x lanes to GEN2 and that still didn't prevent this from happening. It's very random too sometimes it's soon after the WEI starts and other times its closer to the end of it. I have never seen anything like this before, but I have seen others say it is also happened on the 3820 and the 2600K. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this bsod in WEI? Has anyone else had this problem with this combo? I called Asus support, but the tech told me he had no idea and to call back tomorrow. Problem is I spent $429 on this mobo and I don't trust it. I've read a lot of bad reviews about this board damaging CPUs and I don't want my $600 CPU blown to bits. Any help would be appreciated. By the way all BIOS settings are stock except for the XML profile switch and yes I even reset BIOS and ran everything stock spec and still no change.

[8_Pack]

It would be helpfull to know the Error code of this BSOD eg 101, 124 , 116 mate that will give us an idea of what is causing it and of possible solutions to try.

[HiVizMan]

And I assume your OS is a legit copy? I had this once with a version of OS that proved to be a pirated version. I was refunded by the retailer I might add.

[Zka17]

nighthawk wrote:
Everything runs fine except when I went into Windows 7 to run the WEI. Soon as I launched this it started running and about half way through it blue screens with an error that states "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval." It does this every time I run the Windows 7 WEI.

WEI has different sections, it tests multiple components (CPU, Memory, VGA, Storage) - at which particular section are you getting the error? That may be indicative if some of the components is having trouble (of course, if the Windows version is OK)...

Did you run other tests on your system? Stress tests or benchmarking applications?

I think, it could be system instability due to OC settings...

[nighthawk]

Okay to reply to a few that responded here. My copy of Windows 7 is legit I purchased it from the Microsoft store online. Anyway, the problem is sorted it's self out. I'm guessing it had something to do with a Windows 7 update which is weird because I've just never seen this happen before on Core i7s myself, but it now runs flawless so now I'll be able to OC this puppy real soon. The only thing I can guess is by default Windows 7 doesn't know how to utilize the 12 logical cores until it does an update whatever one it did that worked. Good news is my Core i7 at stock spec has a 7.8 rating shouldn't take much to push this to 7.9. My Core i7 920 I was able to push to 7.7 at 4.1Ghz OC so this chip already scoreing 7.8 at stock speed should hit 7.9 at around 4.4 - 4.5GHz. By the way this is the C1 stepping CPU not sure which one OC's better between this and the C2 stepping, but Core i7 920 D0 stepping was always the better OC'ing chip verses the C0 stepping, so hopefully C1 stepping is the same in comparison to C2 stepping. The ram scores 7.9 which isn't any more impressive then the 24GBs of 1600MHz DDR3 Corsair Vengeance I had on the x58 chip set board which too scored 7.9 in WEI. Otherwise the CPU really is an improvement and so far glad I did the upgrade. Anyway thanks for the advice guys and I'm totally surprised Asus Tech support I talked to didn't know the issue with this board and CPU combo involving Windows 7. Turns out this is a very common problem among a lot of the newer Generation 2 CPUs as I found out scrolling through Google.