Crosshair III Formula LCD Poster

alex24

alex24

alex24

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Recently installed this awesome board in my new setup, but my LCD poster remains stuck on CPU INIT or RESERVED after boot. I haven't seen it show anything else.

My impression is that this is likely a BIOS issue, but I don't know for sure.

My question is, has anyone else encountered this issue, and does anybody know how to solve it?

Thanks in advance for any useful input.

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CPU INIT = CPU initiation
No idea what reserved is though, I also have this board myself. Sounds like it could be the BIOS, try flashing it to the latest one?
 
Thanks VK, I'll give it a shot.

Orcvader - You're correct, it's the first part of the POST process. I have the latest BIOS (1503) though I've noticed there's a newer one on the ftp site that isn't on the downloads. I'm going to wait for someone else to try that first!
 
-VK- said:
Try booting with 1 stick of RAM, :)
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No change unfortunately. Took one stick out to leave one in the first slot. CPU INIT is shown all the time, though the backlight does flicker several times as the machine boots, but eventually settles.
 
Still having this issue, even on the latest BIOS (which had to be flashed backwards after a few days as the multi got stuck on x4!)

I'd appreciate any more suggestions...
 
I had this on my old mobo, I'm unsure what fixed it but I took my PC apart and rebuilt it from scratch and it booted first time.
 
Well, another update on this - I tried removing the connector and booting without the poster, then putting it back in again - an attempt to recreate what Aedus did (though I now suspect his machine wasn't booting at all), but this didn't help.

I'm not too clued up on how this thing works, so is it likely to be a faulty poster or some sort of incompatibility?

Also added a picture, everyone likes pictures.
 
Still having this problem, going to just give up on the LCD poster, it doesn't seem to be of much use anyway to me.

I do have a new problem that I haven't troubleshooted yet, and it's that the BIOS freezes most of the time when starting the PC from cold (i.e. no mains power). It boots fine otherwise. Not sure what the problem could be, but I'm going to remove the overclock and test again as a first step, though I do know it's stable in normal circumstances.
 
I have now solved this problem....

By removing the LCD poster entirely. I don't need it really and it just doesn't seem to want to work, so I just unplugged it and put it in a draw.
 
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