Ok my last cry for help Asus P8P67

Efour

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This is my last cry for help. Im going to make this new thread as ive posted in so many now its just confusing me.

I Simply cannot get the board to boot from cold with 2x2gb set of Ripjaws F3-12800, the set designed for the sandybridge chipset, apparently hand tested.

If i insert 1 stick in the 2nd slot it will boot fine and detect as 1600mhz, when i try the 2nd stick in the 4th slot it will give me the solid red light error. I press the Memok! button and it will do its flashing cycle and rebooting but will sometimes hang.... When i do get into the bios it has detected now at 1066. At this point I have tried to manually do timings and run the XMP 1600 profile.

I can only use the 2nd and 4th slots as my Venom cooler cover the 1st slot and the heat spreaders on this ram are retarded tall. apparently 2 and 4 are the recommended slots anyway.

On the next cold boot I will be faced with a solid red LED and i have to do the whole thing again.

I have flashed the Bios to 1057? (the latest) reset the CMOS, taken out the battery left it for 10 minutes, walked away, had a coffee, screamed into a pillow.

I have cleared the bios about 20 times now in attempts to fix this... the major issue seems to be when 2 sticks are installed....

Also i have a c300 SSD and 2 1tb samsung F3s.. When i put them all on the Intel sata controller the boot time goes from 7s upto 2 minutes.... something is hideously wrong so i have to put the F3s on the Marvel sata 3 controller.
This cannot be right ???

I dunno what to do im fed up with wasting 10 minutes every boot to just get the damn thing to work.

Im 99% sure the ram is fine as individually it detects fine. But im willing to try another brand, ideally without the huge spreaders....

Ill go research the bloody issue again and no doubt spend the rest of the day trying to fix it again... looks liek ive missed the cut off for next day delivery now so arggggh

the most annoying this is that so many people have had the issue fixed by doing what ive tried 20 times :(

rant off. excuse my grammar rage
 
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If you could use 1 stick and run memtest on each of them to remove that variable, if you find a fault on one of the sticks then that's the best outcome, simple RAM replacement. if not, can you remove one of the fans and run in slots 1 and 3.

If none of that helps then yeah :( maybe a mobo issue.
 
memtest ram, reset CMOS (unplug power remove watch battery for 5 - 10 mins), check voltage and timings.?

Then buy better ram RipJaw memory is terrible. Your 3rd papragraph makes me think its a ram issue. You have the Vanilla board right?

Id go with Corsair and see if its better. Something like the Vengence series.
 
unfortunate that you cant use the other slots, as on my p67 PRO, I couldnt get it to post with the ram in A2+B2 (as the manual suggested). works fine in A1+B1, and has for 2 weeks now. do you have a smaller aircooler you could use for testing?
 
also, to be sure you're clearing the CMOS correctly:
power the computer and press your cases 'on' switch with the jumper in the CLR position, this worked for me (didn't even remove the battery). what this does is essentially re-flash the CMOS from a ROM chip on the motherboard.

If you've done it this way already then sorry, but I have seen several different methods floating about, and one of the asus guys on there forum said taking the battery out doesn't really help!

the method I used was just what I did on my old abit iP35 PRO XE (apart from that had a switch on the rear panel)
 
ok Mem tested both sticks individually.

first stick serial number ends in 1 auto discovered as 1600 and passed 100%
second ends in 2 started the RED LED of DOOM auto discovered as 1066 but also passed 100%

Sick of this ram will get some new and RMA this crap hopefully be ok.

yes its a vanilla board. im going to be a risky chap and take the fan off and try the other slots but my minds made up tbh RMA before i snap it
 
Ive just installed another 4Gb of the Geil stuff and its fine.

Id maybe try changing the ripjaws for the Geil stuff.
 
I chose to buy Geli RAM instead of the Ripjaws but I went with an MSI GD65 instead of the Pro. I dont suppose someone you know has some DDR3 dual channel that you could test?
 
Little update... ram in other slots and it seems to have worked.. Stupid cooler is so damn big though will have to come up with a better option.

So it seems it was user error by me and my choice of CPU cooler. Not sure why it wont work in the other slots but right now ill take this over the original issues
Finger crossed ill leave it off for another hour and see what happens later

HAs anyone else had an issue with the SSD taking ages to load when other HDs are plugged into the same controller.
 
Efour2 said:
Little update... ram in other slots and it seems to have worked.. Stupid cooler is so damn big though will have to come up with a better option.

So it seems it was user error by me and my choice of CPU cooler. Not sure why it wont work in the other slots but right now ill take this over the original issues
Finger crossed ill leave it off for another hour and see what happens later

HAs anyone else had an issue with the SSD taking ages to load when other HDs are plugged into the same controller.
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You mean boot into windows time? Mine takes about 10 seconds from button press to POST screen, but i think thats because it detects USB drives first as i can see the USB HDD light flashing away. But once its posted it takes less than 10 seconds to be at a usable Win7 desktop.
 
I dont know if it makes a difference but im running mine in IDE mode ( ACHI mode bluescreens as i havent reinstalled windows yet ).

I have the SSD, 2 hard drives an optical drive all on the 4 intel SATA2 ports
 
Efour2,
Try the C300 SSD alone on the Sata 6 Intel port, with your hard drives on the regular SATA 3 Intel ports and see if that resolves your boot up time issue.
 
i think thats what is causing the issue if i do that it slows down to a crawl unless im reading it wrong, my minds fried at the moment.

wait oh but then the SSD is on sata II ? id feel a bit robbed if i have to run it on Sata II after.

ill do it anyway to see how it goes.
 
I had the same / similiar issue with my ssd. I couldnt get it to boot at the right speed in any port with any combination of drives connected, both ahci and ide mode. In the end after about 3 cmos resets in a row it worked :p
 
I'm saying run the SSD on its own on the Intel SATA III port, with the 2 mechanical hard drives on the SATA II ports.
 
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