Asus p8p67 bios issues

edshee

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Hey,

So i recently built a PC with this motherboard. Having installed a new CPU cooler yesterday and run it fine with the new cooler all day, I thought i'd go into the BIOS and put the CPU onto turbo mode. (No real overclocking, just the asus preset turbo mode you can chose through EZ bios). I then restarted and everything ran as normal so i used the PC for a while and shut it down.

I've come to turn it on just now and at first it wouldnt start up. The PC would switch on, but then turn itself off after a few seconds. I noticed that the MOBO red light was on. Eventually it got going, after 3 or 4 self-restarts and said "overclocking error, please change settings in BIOS". Ok so i went in, turned it back onto the preset normal mode (rather than turbo) and restarted. Same thing happened again.

Eventually I found a restore all settings feature in the advanced bios and since then it seems to work fine. I'm worried about two things:

a) does this mean i shouldn't use the turbo mode on the asus motherboard?
b) might the perpetual restarting and attempted overclocking my motherboard did have damage any of my components? (CPU, gfx card etc..)?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but i don't know anything about overclocking it's affects but i just assumed that the mobo preset modes would be fine.

thanks,

Ed

EDIT: having thought everything was back to normal, I just recieved a blue screen of death. Something which has never happened on this PC before. This makes me even more worried.
 
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This motherboard does do self restarts at first, dont worry it has not messed any of your components up. Try do a manual overclock and not a automatic as i believe it sets the memory voltage above recommended settngs. If you dont know anything about manual overclocking i could post some pointers for you to get it to run at 4.4GHz hopefully stable just let me know by posting back.

BTW what CPU are you using ?
 
I'm using the i5 2500k. I thought that the memory might be the problem. When i looked in the advanced settings it had set my memory frequency to something like 1638hz (i'm using 1333hz memory anyway so it shouldn't have been anywhere near this).

Could my ram become damaged from this?
 
Im not sure if the memory could be damaged mate

Go to advanced mode and the Ai Tweaker

Try these settings

Ai Overclock Tuner - Manual
BCLK/PEG Frquency - 100.0
Turbo Ratio - By All Cores
By All Cores (Can Adjust In OS) - 44
Internal PLL Overvoltage - Disabled
Memory Frequency - DDR3-1333Mhz
EPU Power Saving Mode - Disabled

Load-Line Calibration - Ultra High
VRM Frequency - Auto
Phase Control - Extreme
Duty Control - Extreme
CPU Current Capability - 100%

CPU Voltage - Manual
CPU Manual Voltage - 1.350
DRAM Voltage - 1.40000

Then leave all the settings below that on Auto

See how you go with that.
 
Before i start overclocking it. I'm really sure there is something wrong at the moment.

Every now and then my PCI devices stop working. The graphics card seems to run fine, but the windows theme loses colour and the ATI raedon program crashes. My PCI network adapter also dies at the same time. What could be causing this?

Ed
 
Not installed any MOBO drivers directly. I did have to install a driver for the bluetooth adapter though.

I'm using a corsair 650W PSU.
 
I would install all the drivers thats on the cd that came with the motheroard for sure maybe except for norton but thats if you already have your own AV or you like norton :p
 
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