Asus P8P67 Rev3 not booting
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I had the same exact thing happen to me! My Asus P8P67 EVO was just humming along fine & then boom sudden power off. I tried to restart, the CPU fan would light up for a half of a second & then NOTHING!
I tested all my parts as good except for the CPU & the MOBO. I RMA'ed the CPU because I was convinced that it was the dead part - but now I am not so sure!
TheMightyTen, what was the final verdict in your situation? Was it the CPU or the P8P67 MOBO that was FRIED (or both?)! Thanks for the update!
I tested all my parts as good except for the CPU & the MOBO. I RMA'ed the CPU because I was convinced that it was the dead part - but now I am not so sure!
TheMightyTen, what was the final verdict in your situation? Was it the CPU or the P8P67 MOBO that was FRIED (or both?)! Thanks for the update!
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My new board did this 1 second of fan then nothing out of the box. Took it back to the shop and when they tested it it started straight away.
I tried for about 5hrs moving memory around, GPU around, resetting the bios, taking battery out etc.
The only difference when the shop got it to work was that they took the battery out with no memory on the board, inserted memory and then put the battery back. That was something that I hadn't done and the chap in the shop said that they had had very few broken boards returned, but they had a lot of boards like mine where users thought they were broken.
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I've had this no post red CPU light / restart cycling problem on a combination of two CPUs (i7 2600k) and 3 ASUS MBs (regular, evo and sabertooth). [16Gb Vengeance RAM, 570 Graphics card]
First board p8p67 regular - no post (tried everything for about 4 hours). Took it to my local low end repair shop; they tried everything including flashing the BIOS told me that on another board everything worked so I got another board.
Second board EVO - posted first time. It was all running great for a while, so I tried to overclock it to 4Ghz (a conservative first overclock): all the temps were fine while running prime 95 for about 30 mins. Then the screen went black and we were back to the red CPU light 1 second boot cycle again... Tried everything again and again nothing worked. I really need a decent machine at home for work, so I went and got another board and CPU.
Third board sabertooth + new i7 CPU. Posted and then crashed in the BIOS setup.
I want to qualify this by saying at this point that I think that all of the parts probably work individually. But together there is something odd going on.
I've build and clocked my machines for the past 5 years and have never known anything like this; a CMOS clear always gets thing up and running again.
I've wasted about £450 more than I had planned to spend so far on trying to get this rig working; not to mention the time and stress of it.
Finally I've got to the stage where I'm taking everything I've bought to a good computer shop that specialises in high end parts and am swallowing the cost and pride of them building it for me.
So the point of this post is basically to say: If you have an ASUS p8p67 board that is red light cycle booting (I guess you do as you are reading this forum).
1. First try everything like clearing the CMOS, booting with one stick of RAM, etc... for an hour or so.
2. When that doesn't work pack everything up, swallow your pride and go to a good computer shop and get them build it for you. This will save you both time and effort in the long run.
That might sound a bit defeatist, but there is just something incredibly flakey about these boards and I wish someone had given me that advice two weeks ago.
First board p8p67 regular - no post (tried everything for about 4 hours). Took it to my local low end repair shop; they tried everything including flashing the BIOS told me that on another board everything worked so I got another board.
Second board EVO - posted first time. It was all running great for a while, so I tried to overclock it to 4Ghz (a conservative first overclock): all the temps were fine while running prime 95 for about 30 mins. Then the screen went black and we were back to the red CPU light 1 second boot cycle again... Tried everything again and again nothing worked. I really need a decent machine at home for work, so I went and got another board and CPU.
Third board sabertooth + new i7 CPU. Posted and then crashed in the BIOS setup.
I want to qualify this by saying at this point that I think that all of the parts probably work individually. But together there is something odd going on.
I've build and clocked my machines for the past 5 years and have never known anything like this; a CMOS clear always gets thing up and running again.
I've wasted about £450 more than I had planned to spend so far on trying to get this rig working; not to mention the time and stress of it.
Finally I've got to the stage where I'm taking everything I've bought to a good computer shop that specialises in high end parts and am swallowing the cost and pride of them building it for me.
So the point of this post is basically to say: If you have an ASUS p8p67 board that is red light cycle booting (I guess you do as you are reading this forum).
1. First try everything like clearing the CMOS, booting with one stick of RAM, etc... for an hour or so.
2. When that doesn't work pack everything up, swallow your pride and go to a good computer shop and get them build it for you. This will save you both time and effort in the long run.
That might sound a bit defeatist, but there is just something incredibly flakey about these boards and I wish someone had given me that advice two weeks ago.
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Have had the same issue with this board as per a previous post of my own.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19128861#post19128861
Was built for my bro and he has literly just called me saying that the thing wont boot at all.
Im now off round there, wish me luck
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=19128861#post19128861
Was built for my bro and he has literly just called me saying that the thing wont boot at all.
Im now off round there, wish me luck
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[Solved for me - faulty PSU]
Update on my last post: after taking the parts back to a decent computer shop where they could test everything it turned out that there was nothing wrong with the boards or the CPUs, or any of the other "obvious" components it was the PSU (Antec True Power 650 Watts) that was defective; which was odd because I'd have thought that that was the least likely to fail part.
I want to point out that for a period of time the computer was working.
So anyway the red light of death - power on for a second, red CPU light comes on and then everything restarts - might indicate that the PSU is faulty.
Update on my last post: after taking the parts back to a decent computer shop where they could test everything it turned out that there was nothing wrong with the boards or the CPUs, or any of the other "obvious" components it was the PSU (Antec True Power 650 Watts) that was defective; which was odd because I'd have thought that that was the least likely to fail part.
I want to point out that for a period of time the computer was working.
So anyway the red light of death - power on for a second, red CPU light comes on and then everything restarts - might indicate that the PSU is faulty.