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Strange stucks at boot, cold-boot bugs or overclock? [SOLVED]

Hi guys,I'm expecting some troubles with my brand new VIII Hero MB w/ 6700k CPU.After installing a clean ISO of W10, doing a reboot or powering it on after a shutdown will fail POST and says the message "Overclock Failed".This happens very regulary i...

Z170 HERO VIII and SM951 AHCI dissappearing after screensaver/power saving mode

I am on the latest Bios 508 and I have a Intel 750 PCI card as my main HD (bootable) and a Samsung MZHPV256HDGL as my 2nd Disk.If I let my computer go to sleep, or power saver mode - It never comes back on! I have to reboot.Is there any settings I c...

TPM Chip for Maximus Hero VIII

Hi guys,I recently bought a Maximus Hero VIII and added a TPM chip for enhanced security.Unfortunatly, the ASUS one features a 20 pin style header will won't fit anymore the ROG series (the old one fits).Now, the header have only 14 pin.How can I fin...

Clicking nosie whenever I turn off system or whenever sytem starts up after post

Hey guys, new to the forums, also to to Asus Rog motherboards.I recently purchased the new z170 asus Hero motherboard and every time after computer POST there is a mechanical click noise and every time I turn off the sytem, it also makes the same n...

Delay POST, system works but...

If I cold boot or reboot I need to wait about 18 seconds for obtaining the "beep" confirming the boot.With my older Gene V the process completed within 3/5 seconds... maybe it's a news of UEFI firmware?I remember a similar behaviour with old Z77 syst...

Maximus VIII Gene - CPU VCore Offset Mode Does Not Work Correctly

Hi,When set on "Auto", my VCore is 1.35V. As soon as I put it in offset mode and set the offset to even 0.005, the VCore jumps straight to 1.45V. I discovered this the hard way when I originally set the VCore offset to 0.050 and the VCore jumped to 1...

Maximus impact VIII avaibility ?!

Hello,do you have any information on the next diponibilité maximus VIII impact?Thank you in advance

Can we talk Z170 and NMVE SSDs?

Like many, I'm trying to make sense of this new wave of NVME SSDs before selecting the appropriate Asus board. As far as I understand there are two implementations of NVME, the PCIE card (Intel 750) and the M.2 (or U.2?) interface (SM 951). I can't s...

motherboard doesn't detect sata 2

Hi I just joined the forum today, I am facing a problem with my new desktop. I have a maximus viii ranger, and I was trying to install an old hd drive sata 2 but the bios doesn't recognise anything. All ports are set as enable, I tried different sata...

using Intel 750 SSD

I'm planning a new build on the Maximus VIII Hero board along with the Intel core i7 6700k.It will include the new Intel 750 SSD add in card for Windows 10 64 bit.If I put my video card (980Ti) in the PCI slot closest to the CPU, and the 750 in the s...

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