Anyone know where I can get my xeon 2690v2 checked?

[my4keys82]

Hi guys, I wonder if anyone can help me.

I believe I have a faulty Asus z9pe-d8 motherboard. the damn thing wont post. I've verified the RAM, PSU and graphics cards on another system so I know these are fine. RAM passes memtest on the other system and is also on the QVL for this board.

I've tried several graphics cards on every pcie slot combination to no avail.

I can't enter the bios unless I clear the cmos each time and then wait for 3 post fail attempts at which point I can then press F1 to enter. After doing this and rebooting the system tries again 3 times and then halts with my only option being to power cycle.

b2 error q-code - "Legacy Option ROM Initialization" I believe is the main fault area, though ultimately after the 3rd post attempt halts at code 78.

When I can enter the bios I'm able to run the flash tool and change bios versions but it's always resulted in the same failure.

I've noticed that when in the bios the cpu temperature climbs to 60 degrees C which sounds high under what should be an idle state. All the power rails look correct in the bios.

So I can only hope the Xeon 2690v2 cpu is ok but I don't want to buy another motherboard just to test that theory.

Does anyone know somewhere in the uk that could verify if the cpu is ok?

Thanks for any help,
Mike.

 

[tribz]

What BIOS version are you on? It looks like you need to be on 5103 and above for it to be supported.

I think the temps might be a red herring, they normal run at full clock speed at post / bios and 10 cores 20 threads might be a tad warmer than other CPU's.

Its probably more likely to be the board than the cpu. Just a side note, I didnt realize you could run just 1 CPU in a dual CPU board.

 

[my4keys82]

Unfortunately yes I saw that bios fix that was related to the gpu and have actually tried all versions available for download bar the very early ones where I'm unable to flashback to (unsupported past a certain version). I've even tried a very old quadro fx gpu but still get the same problem. Even without any gpu connected I see code b2.

Thanks for replying.