[Strix x99 Gaming] QCODE 00 over night after several small issues

[mulderfox]

Hi!

I had my new build die on me over night.
I left my PC on for the night, and when I got up I found that it seemed to have been turned off.
Only it wasn't. When I turned it back on, all I got was a momentary power and then shut off.
After another attempt or two, the board would get power and the components too, but there would be no post, and no boot.
All the while, the QCODE alpha-numeric display would only show the numbers 00.
I've searched and found that this issue has happened to others with the same board and other x99 asus boards and may mean faulty board or faulty CPU
- due to a power surge.
I've already replaced the board today, but sadly the issue is still there.
The only change is that there is no more momentary power, but the power starts and stays, but all the rest is the same.
I've concluded that the CPU was fried, and started an RMA process with Intel.
The CPU is a brand new i7-6850k and all the other parts (aside from a couple of mechanical hard drives) were bought at the same time about two and half months ago.
This is an unacceptable issue with a top-of-the-line board from ASUS - especially after two months of use - and especially as it happens in more than one x99 motherboard model.
I am certain the blame is with the board, as I had other small issues with it before:
1. long post time (the time it takes between pressing the power button and till you hear the beep and see anything on the screen)
2. no network connection from within the bios meaning I could not perform a bios update from there.
On previous builds I had, my PC would stay on for months at a time, and in this one the cooling is much better so there is no reason for anything like that to happen,
not to mention that's what thermal (and electrical) protection is there for. power fluctuation is not expected or accepted phenomenon with a high grade gaming motherboard.

Has anyone else encounter this issue? My PSU is also brand new with 750W of power that are more than enough to drive my system, even with the GTX1080 Graphicds card I have
installed.
I am quite worried that replacing the CPU might not help even with the replaced motherboard.. what would I do then?

[mulderfox]

Squall Leonhart wrote:
I'm convinced that everyone who had a system power off and cpu suddenly was dead were mixing utilities that hit the Asus EC in a dangerous way (Corsair Link/icue, and those that failed across shutdowns had never bothered to change the Bootup vcore from Auto.

Even on ivy bridge, failing to do the latter could see vcore hit 1.6v+ at auto once starting to overclock.

Actually, no, I wasn't mixing any utilities like you mentioned. The issue, also according to Asus, was a design flow that may cause a short in the motherboard itself. As somewhat of a proof, the CPU was not affected. The thing is, it shouldn't happen - especially in a flagship series such as strix gaming which is supposed to be built for OC.

[Squall_Leonhart]

There was no design flaw in the Strix X99, you're attributing a launch flaw with a specific motherboard (X99 Deluxe) to all asus x99 boards.

[scuzzycard]

Squall Leonhart wrote:
There was no design flaw in the Strix X99, you're attributing a launch flaw with a specific motherboard (X99 Deluxe) to all asus x99 boards.

It's an 8-year old platform about which you know nothing. Please stop posting this nonsense to every single tech forum.

[Squall_Leonhart]

scuzzycard wrote:
It's an 8-year old platform about which you know nothing. Please stop posting this nonsense to every single tech forum.

Considering i've performed deep diagnostics on countless "over voltage" scenario's across a wide spread of platforms and motherboards, i have a deeper understanding of where the failures lay then you ignorant hobbyists that try to disassociate your own faults in the matter.

mulderfox wrote:
The thing is, this thread and this issue (as far as I know) relates to strix x99 gaming, and not x99 deluxe.. so why do you insert yourself into it when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about? Plus, I've encountered several people with the and qcode 00 death over the years. Some were with the same board I had, some with other Asus x99 boards.

You invalidated your comprehension of the issues at hand when you claimed that Asus themselves attributed an issue.

There is only 2 motherboards that asus have accepted fault and acted on a solution for, the x99 Deluxe which had a partial vrm balancing issue during POST, and the Maximus z690 Hero which had a component installed backwards.

Your false presumption and attempt to change the narrative after that baseless claim was proven wrong, not to mention that there is actually less than 50 unique claims of this issues indicates that you're either incompetent, or acting on behalf of the marketting department of another vendor.

I assume this is just a mistake on your part though, never post the claims of an RMA agent to a forum as gospel, they aren't engineers and they won't share anything engineers have said without being authorised by the managers of either department,

[scuzzycard]

Squall Leonhart wrote:
Considering i've performed deep diagnostics on countless "over voltage" scenario's across a wide spread of platforms and motherboards, i have a deeper understanding of where the failures lay then you ignorant hobbyists that try to disassociate your own faults in the matter.



You invalidated your comprehension of the issues at hand when you claimed that Asus themselves attributed an issue.

There is only 2 motherboards that asus have accepted fault and acted on a solution for, the x99 Deluxe which had a partial vrm balancing issue during POST, and the Maximus z690 Hero which had a component installed backwards.

Your false presumption and attempt to change the narrative after that baseless claim was proven wrong, not to mention that there is actually less than 50 unique claims of this issues indicates that you're either incompetent, or acting on behalf of the marketting department of another vendor.

I assume this is just a mistake on your part though, never post the claims of an RMA agent to a forum as gospel, they aren't engineers and they won't share anything engineers have said without being authorised by the managers of either department,

Can I ask why we're digging into a problem that ASUS fixed 5 years ago with such ferocity? While we're at it, can we investigate why Intel 740 graphics cards were so flaky on the P5A?

[mulderfox]

Squall Leonhart wrote:
There was no design flaw in the Strix X99, you're attributing a launch flaw with a specific motherboard (X99 Deluxe) to all asus x99 boards.

The thing is, this thread and this issue (as far as I know) relates to strix x99 gaming, and not x99 deluxe.. so why do you insert yourself into it when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about? Plus, I've encountered several people with the and qcode 00 death over the years. Some were with the same board I had, some with other Asus x99 boards.

[Squall_Leonhart]

We're not talking about the single well publicised failure, we're talking about End users killing their cpu and blaming Asus for it.

[mulderfox]

Squall Leonhart wrote:
We're not talking about the single well publicised failure, we're talking about End users killing their cpu and blaming Asus for it.

I don't know about others, but personally for me (the guy who initially started this thread), my CPU was not killed at all. The Motherboard did. CPU (luckily) was left unharmed. That's why it was a design fault on Asus part. And Asus did take responsibility for it and replaced the motherboard (the new one also did not last more than a few years, but that does not matter any more).
As for why people keep digging into it - probably because It's not an isolated event, and possibly this issue affects more than just that specific Strix x99 model mentioned. Also, maybe, because X99 and X299 are the latest HEDT platforms (until Intel decides to bring it back already), and as such - they provide the highest number of PCIe lanes for the consumer market. That's why so many people are still using them.