BIOS bootloop

benparker · 19 Sep 2015 at 03:00

OK I have a Asus Maximus VI Impact motherboard and its in a bios bootloop. It was working fine all this time but there seems to be a bent pin and due it most likely giving me a post error 55 if I try to make my cooler. This would mean one ram slot would be out of action unless the screws are slightly loose.

So I tried to straighten the pin and looks better than it did, tightened the cooler more than what I did it last, no post error but it keeps going in bios loop. I reseted the BIOS with the button at the back, removed the battery, flashed latest BIOS several times, unseated cooler, CPU, tried 1 ram slot but nothing helped.

Suggestions are welcome

FloppyPoppy · 19 Sep 2015 at 04:20

So wait.

The system was working fine, then started to "bios boot loop" ? If this is the case I struggle to see how a pin got bent inbetween

SamyBoy13 · 19 Sep 2015 at 07:21

Check if you haven't done already if you didnt bend any other pins when you tighter the cooler more?

Also just from a personal experience with straightening up the bend pins. I always unbent them slightly above all others so when I install cpu and put the retention bracket, it makes sure all pins touch cpu. Also be careful when doing so as pins are fragile and if you go too far it will snap off resulting in dead motherboard.

Hope this helps

benparker · 19 Sep 2015 at 09:40

No it worked fine but wouldn't let me secure the cooler firmly as it would post 55. I noticed there was a bent pin and after straightening it somewhat it bootloops

I'm gonna have another try maybe today and see if anything else is bent but I'm sure it's not

pastymuncher · 19 Sep 2015 at 15:17

Is this the same cooler that you were going to remove the vrm heatsink on the motherboard so that you could fit it? Did you remove the vrm heatsink against the advice you were given?

benparker · 19 Sep 2015 at 22:39

pastymuncher said:
Is this the same cooler that you were going to remove the vrm heatsink on the motherboard so that you could fit it? Did you remove the vrm heatsink against the advice you were given?

Nope didn't remove it because everyone was against it.

Anyway I straightened 2 more other pins, nothing major, and one pin had the tip or ball on top snapped off but tried to raise it a little further. So still boot loop and I thought I'll plug in a bootable win 7 USB and it started the setup process and now I'm on win 10, hopefully nothing else goes wrong.

Strangely though when I tested it out of the case it was about 32-33 idle so I tightened the cooler a little more and increased to 37-38. Just gonna leave it for now, too many hours wasted on different problems but a learning curve at the end of the day.