Formula Maximus CPU INIT Problem

pgrantha

pgrantha

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I hope there is someone out there that can help. I recently decided to upgrade my PC and settled with the following spec:

Intel Q6600 Quad Core GO
Asus Maximus Formula SE
4GB Geil Ultra Low Latency PC6400 Ram (2.1v)
2 * SATA 2 Drives in Raid 0

Much of the stuff i needed for this build has come from my old PC but the items above are all new. The issue I have is that the PC will not POST - the LCD display is giving me a CPU INIT error. I have tried clearing the CMOS several times to no avail. Interestingly all of the voltage LEDs are displaying the red "Crazy" setting - this is strange because its brand new and i haven't even been able to get to the BIOS yet (it could also be just because the board is firing up but i'm not sure).

I have read of some issues with other ASUS boards but has anyone come across this problem with the Maximus Formula?

Any help would be gratfully recieved as this is the first time i have ever had an issue getting a new build to post.
 
Thanks Chris,

I have re-seated it several times today and have cleaned and re-applied the thermal compound each time. It does seem to point to CPU heat as it seams to reboot quicker on subsequent cycles but I am also getting no beeps in parallel. These two facts seem to point to something else - what about the voltage LCD's? Should they read "crazy" when you first start this board?

For info - i was on water cooling for the first couple of attempts but switched to air cooling to try and resolve the issue, both methods have given the same results.
 
pgrantha said:
Thanks Chris,

I have re-seated it several times today and have cleaned and re-applied the thermal compound each time. It does seem to point to CPU heat as it seams to reboot quicker on subsequent cycles but I am also getting no beeps in parallel. These two facts seem to point to something else - what about the voltage LCD's? Should they read "crazy" when you first start this board?

For info - i was on water cooling for the first couple of attempts but switched to air cooling to try and resolve the issue, both methods have given the same results.
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Hi.

I've had some issues with Asus boards. The first thing that I'd try is building up outside the case, to make sure the board isn't shorting out. The problem I've been having is with the Asus A8R-MVP. The metal back plate on the rear of the board was touching the case due to using a freezer pro 64. I think it slightly bends the board and makes contact with the case.

Hope I've been of some help.
 
Thanks Bloodflowers,

All advice is helpful thanks - I have tried this but still getting the CPU INIT post message and no beeps from the system speaker.

This is really wierd - I am hoping that the MB hasn't stuffed my other hardware as well - i have tried both a E6400 C2D and a Q6600 with both resulting in the same message. It leads me to believe that either there is an issue with the compatability of my RAM and this board or the MB is faulty.

I think a quick call to OC tech support tomorrow might sort this out one way or another. I thougt paying for a top MB would guarantee some quality but this has caused me more issues than any other board I have owned! What a nightmare!

Did your A8R-MVP not post either?
 
No it wasn't, no beeps or anything. But I sorted mine out with some card stuck to the back of the case and that sorted it out.

Heart goes out to you dude. The more money I spend on PC's the harder my life seems to get. I had the Asus A8N32 Sli Deluxe board, 2GB Geil PC3200 RAM 2X 7600 GS's, 80GB HDD and an Audigy SE. I was running a Hiper 580w though that lot and every week someting would go wrong. The Hiper was righting everything off left right and centre. Although when I had it tested it was coming back fine. Only when I took it OC did they say it lit up their rig like an xmas tree. Nightmare.

Hope you sort it soon.
 
I had exactly the same problem - board shutting down on cpu init with no beeps. It was the cpu over heating as I had not put on the heatsink at this point.

A test you can do to see if it is over heating or not is to reboot twicw straight way after it shuts down. If it starts to shut down more quickly (before cpu init) then it is a overheating issue. If not then you need to start looking elsewhere.
 
I think this might be a Bios issue where the CMOS isn't clearing properly. I managed to sort it by putting in a Celeron CPU, saving defaults, into Windows, shut down, and then swapping CPU's.

I take it you are using the 401 bios?
 
pgrantha said:
I hope there is someone out there that can help. I recently decided to upgrade my PC and settled with the following spec:

Intel Q6600 Quad Core GO
Asus Maximus Formula SE
4GB Geil Ultra Low Latency PC6400 Ram (2.1v)
2 * SATA 2 Drives in Raid 0

Much of the stuff i needed for this build has come from my old PC but the items above are all new. The issue I have is that the PC will not POST - the LCD display is giving me a CPU INIT error. I have tried clearing the CMOS several times to no avail. Interestingly all of the voltage LEDs are displaying the red "Crazy" setting - this is strange because its brand new and i haven't even been able to get to the BIOS yet (it could also be just because the board is firing up but i'm not sure).

I have read of some issues with other ASUS boards but has anyone come across this problem with the Maximus Formula?

Any help would be gratfully recieved as this is the first time i have ever had an issue getting a new build to post.
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I had the same problem with my maximus, it would just hang on the maximus logo screen, I found out it was one of my Hard drives which was causing the problem had a dodgy internal controller, rma'd the hard drives, got the replacements, the board works ok now.
 
I had exactly the same problem with my asus crosshair last year, tried everything, read loads of forums. Found that a lot of people had the same trouble with that board. Turns out the board was DOA and overclockers replaced it.

Whats worrying me now is that i ordered this mobo last night and i'm hoping i dont get the same problem (again) like your having.
 
I have the same problem with the same board. I have had it boot a total of two times now but once you restart it it just goes back to the same CPU INIT error. The second time i got it to boot was able to update the BIOS from 0401 to 0903 which sadly didnt help at all. From what i have read this is a massive probelm with Striker boards but not so much so as the Maximus but seems a few are showing through.

My set up when it posted was:
Q6600
PC8500 Ballistix in the slot furthest from the cpu
8800GTS
Tagan 530W psu with 8pin and 24pin pluged in.

Just sent a webnote to OcUK in the hope of getting this board replaced or something as just now its sitting doing nothing. Not had it post again yet.
 
i've got my maximus forumula now, got it all installed and flashed the BIOS to 0907. PC Probe is showing the following temps not under load:

CPU:39-41c
MB:48-50c
NB:64c
SB:63c

Are these okay? Also whats the best utilities to monitor temps, as i currently have PC Probe II and Speedfan.

In terms of the BIOS settings, everything is pretty much default, i will overclock the CPU next week, but are there certian things which should be changed in the BIOS or certian things disabled? Any tips would be nice, for the following build:

Zalman CNPS9700-LED CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card

Thanks a lot guys.
 
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