Asus P5K Premium Boot problem.

[LegomyKTM]

Right, I AM NOT going to sit there for the rest of the evening trying to figure this out I crashed the car (not too badly though) today so I'm a little in shock anyway. I don't need this
Just put a new build together. All the lights are flashing nicely, fans spinning bla bla....but no post. Not a beep. Monitor stays on standby.
Is it the memory? Is the Crucial Ballistix Tracer voltage of 2.2V to high for a first post? I haven't got any lower voltage memory knocking about to enable me to enter the bios so will have to buy a cheepo set if that seems likely.
I just dont want to spend hours on this. I could try a couple of this like re-seating the cpu, memory but a gut feeling is that its the volts.

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[mr griffin]

reset the cmos, its a little jumper behind where your gfx card will be sitting, about half way along a 8800gtx if thats any help. Move it to the other pins leave for 30 seconds and put back on the ones it was on.

 

[Zirax]

Got exactly the same problem. In the end I gave up and I am RMAing the board.

What CPU are you using? There has been reports of the non-booting with the Wolfdale chips (before you update the bios). Check that you have the additional 12V plugged in the board.

edit: Have the manual infront of me, goto page 2-14. Check that the ram is in the correct slots.

 

[LegomyKTM]

reset the cmos, its a little jumper behind where your gfx card will be sitting, about half way along a 8800gtx if thats any help. Move it to the other pins leave for 30 seconds and put back on the ones it was on.

Nope, tried it but thanks

Got exactly the same problem. In the end I gave up and I am RMAing the board.

What CPU are you using? There has been reports of the non-booting with the Wolfdale chips (before you update the bios). Check that you have the additional 12V plugged in the board.

edit: Have the manual infront of me, goto page 2-14. Check that the ram is in the correct slots.

Its just an E2200. I do have the 12v plugged in. Was sure to after reading the 'it wont boot if you don't' bit in the manual. Having done a few searches (heres an example -bottom 2 posts http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.asp...Premium/WIFI-AP&page_size=10&page=6&count=379) it seems the possible memory swap solution could be the direction to go. Maybe.
What memory do you have?

 

[Jonnygrunge]

Is your processor properly seated? Try just one stick of RAM, I think the ballistix should be at 2V1, what PSU have you got? the GTX is a power hungry beast!

 

[Zirax]

I tried with OCZ ram which apparently needs 2.2V to boot. So then I tried with some crucial 2gb standard kit and this was a no go. Attempted with a E2160 and E8500 (would need bios update) and neither would have it.

 

[LegomyKTM]

I tried with OCZ ram which apparently needs 2.2V to boot. So then I tried with some crucial 2gb standard kit and this was a no go. Attempted with a E2160 and E8500 (would need bios update) and neither would have it.

Well its all sorted
This is what I did. I took one ram stick out leaving just one left in the yellow DIMM socket.Booted immediately. I then tried the same stick in all the DIMM sockets and it booted up each time perfectly. I did the same thing with the stick I'd removed. Again all worked perfectly. So nothing wrong with the board or the ram sticks. It had to be the volts. So via the Bios (obviously) I could see it was configured on auto at 1.8 volts. I disabled the auto, set the DRAM volts manually at 2.2 volts, saved and exited the bios and rebooted with both sticks in the yellow. Worked perfectly. Tried them in the black. Worked again. if you haven't adjusted the volts you might want to give it a try

 

[Zirax]

Yep tried that one the other day. One stick of OCZ and then with one stick of Crucial. Neither would have it. I'll have another go this weekend.