ASUS RAMPAGE IV EXTREME wont power up at all now !

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CYT41

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Hi,

Here is my computer spec:

(1) Asus Rampage iv extreme
(2) corsair dominator 64gb ram
(3) seasonic 1250w
(4) dual gtx690 cards.
(5) i7-3930k

cooling: Ram, cpu, motherboard, gpu waterblocks, etc..

build the system about 6 months ago. i first test my system on my testbench to check everything was working properly, overclocked the system to 4.5ghz and ran a wide range of stability test softwares. The system was working and stable. Next came the waterblocks installation on cpu, ram, gpu and motherboard in the switch 810 case. power up the system when the loop was filled and sytem was running flawlessly for two months before i was posted overseas for three months. before i left, i shut down the system and moved it from my study room to my bedroom and left it there. after i came back from my overseas posting, the system wont power up anymore. however, the start and reset and bios led lights are on. suspecting the psu might be at fault, i took out the 24pin cable and tested it with a psu lcd tester. the psu fired up fine and ran my radiator fans, and pumps and fan controller etc and the voltage readings on the tester are fine. this ruled out the psu is faulty. google the web and found that some have experienced the same issue as me and solved it by changing the cmos battery. bought a new cmos battery, but no go. The system just wont power up at all, no diagnostic codes displayed, fans wont turned at all. Had a spare new seasonic 1250w psu and tried it, still it wont power up. decided to do bios flashback to the latest version by copying the bios file and renamed it to r4e.cap to fat32 formatted usb drive, slot it into the white USB port and pressed the rog connect button until it flashes. it flashes about 5 times and it stops. The asus bios flashback method fails to complete.


is my board dead ? i cant do an RMA as i have lost the stock chipset and vrm cooling block. it was working flawlessly before i left for my overseas posting. the only thing i have done to it is i had it moved to my bedroom. Can anyone out here suggest anything else that i can do to revive it before i tear down my water loops and blocks and test the board outside the case on my testbench. there is no leakage after careful visual inspection that might cause a short.
 
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Yes. i built the rig myself and spent quite a fortune on it. i just shut down the pc normally, plugged out the psu cable and left my pc on my bedroom desk before i left for my overseas posting for 3 months. When i came back, it wont fire up anymore as if no power is being delivered to the board to jump start it when i press the start button. The start, reset and bios leds lights are on though and i could see my keyboard and mouse led light flash for a second the moment i switch on my psu. The psu is definitely working fine as i have mentioned on the outset that i have tested with a lcd psu tester to see if the voltages supplied are good. Tried a spare new psu, and no response from the board as if it is in deep 'sleep' mode. Hope you guys can give me any unorthodox advice that may help to revive it. Google the web and found someone with similar issue as me but he managed to revive by changing cmos battery. it does not work for me. i just get the feeling that the board is likely bricked after reading others having similar symptoms as me on the rog forum. The last thing i want to do is to tear the water loops and blocks down and test the board outside the case to check if the board is somehow shorted when inside the case, but this is unlikely as it was running fine for 2-3 months before i left for my overseas posting. Hope any experts here will give me some ideas to revive it.
 
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No dust build up. Looks like I have to tear everything down and the watercooling loop and test it outside the case to see if it power up. Very likely the board is bricked.
 
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Hi,

I had the same problem after leaving power unplugged for some time, tried all the suggested answers on forums including removing everything ram, graphics card etc. Replace cmos battery (was low on volts). ended up leaving plugged in/ power lights on motherboard lit up, left it overnight and started up by itself. been running fine for over 6 months then unplugged due to storm and now am being patient wait and see if it will start up eventually

Update 10:32 pm Sunday, it was about 7:30pm Thursday I unplugged due to storm,3 days ago, around lunchtime today pc was powering on then shutting down straight away, stuck in a loop doing this. Held down power button until shut down and no restart. Have just pressed power button and pc fired up and running sweet.


Here is my computer spec:

(1) Asus Rampage iv extreme
(2) ripjaws 32gb ram
(3) seasonic 1250w
(4) gtx670 card.
(5) i7-3930k

cooling: Ram, cpu, motherboard, gpu waterblocks, etc..


 
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I have had the same problem several times. After disconnecting psu this happens to my rampage iv extreme also. Replaced the bios battery several times but this issue return every single time when disconnecting power. Cleaning dust once a while is good thing to expand the lifetime of the rig but Asus really has to fix this I believe its a bug somewhere in the bios. LEAVE THE POWER ON AND DO CONNECT YOUR CPU FAN ETC BECAUSE WHEN PRESSING POWER IT MIGHT JUST BOOT SUDDENLY AFTER 30MINS OUT OF THE BLUE.
 
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CYT41

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Hi,

You are absolutely right. Your symptoms match mine exactly. if i were to switch off power to the psu, the board will not power on at all no matter what i do to it. The only way i find out it could power on is pull out the 24pin motherboard connector and jump start the psu (using a psu jumstart tool provided by xspc) and let it run for a few minutes, remove the jumstart tool and plug the 24pin mb connector back to the board and try to power on. if i were to do this sequence for suffiicent enough times (roughly 10 - 30 times ) the board will mysteriously power on. When it does, i will have to reset bios settings and when booted into windows, the date and time is set back to 1st Jan 2005 (9 years behind!) and there will be no icons in the notification tray. but upon windows restart, the system works flawlessly. As you have mentioned, i will have keep my psu switched on at all times by connecting it to a ups in order for it to power on when i want it, not when the board decides to power on on its own accord. very spooky board indeed. This is just a temporary solution, decided not to rma the board and will wait for the rampage v etreme board to hit retail store and get one and migrate my componnets to the new board.
 
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Having this exact same issue. I left for 3 months, came back to my system not powering up. Motherboard LEDs for bios, start and reset were illuminated, but nothing turned on. No fans, disks, nothing. I did some googling, reset the BIOS, applied power, and then after a few minutes it turned on, and was able to boot into windows (after a handful of tries, progressively plugging more things in). I got excited, put everything back in my case, and when I tried to turn it on, the fans came up, it started to poast, and then turned off after about 2 or 3 seconds. It kept doing this, so i unplugged it, unplugged everything connected to the case, and tried again. Nothing. Back at square one... Anyone get a solution to this? I'm hoping it's a BIOS glitch or something, and not a faulty board. It worked for a year and a half prior to this...
 
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I'm having a similar issue with my system. The system was powered on 24/7 and was running flawlessly since March of 2013. One day last week, I came into my office to find it powered off for some unknown reason. There were no errors in the system logs other than events that seemed like an abnormal shutdown from losing power. I tried to power the system back on with no luck. Then I unplugged everything thinking I would need to tear it down to troubleshoot. After removing the system from my office, I plugged it back in on my work bench. Everything fired up fine.

The system has been running fine since then (4-5 days) and I performed a Memtest which came back fine. This morning, however, found the system powered off again and it took a 2-3 hour unplug for the system to come back up. It is running right now but I'm afraid this will happen again in a few days.

For what it's worth, the system is behind an APC Smart-UPS so the power is clean and I never lose power. I called ASUS and they will be RMA'ing my board which I don't think will permanently fix the issue as I've read that other on the ASUS ROG forums have RMA'ed their board multiple times only to have the problem resurface at a later time. Has anyone come up with a permanent solution?

 
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Hey el-el1,

I got my system working 100% in my case today... for about 3 hours. Then it just shut off. I had successfully updated the bios, and everything seemed to be working great. I was really disappointed.

I've got a new board coming in tomorrow (hopefully) and as soon as I have my system working again, I'm sending the old board in to be RMA'd. I'll likely end up putting it up on craigs-list or possibly keeping it for a later project.

I hope that it is in fact the board that is causing this issue; As you say though, there are several people with the same issue, and from the sounds of it, the only thing we all have in common is the motherboard.
 
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Julesleos, thanks for the update. I'm sorry to hear that it gave you false hope as it is a bummer having experienced that myself. Good luck with the replacement board and let us know how it works out for you.

My system contains a few common factors as the OP of this thread.

(1) Asus Rampage iv extreme
(2) [strike]corsair dominator[/strike] 64gb ram (Mine are Kingston HyperBeast 2133mHz)
(3) seasonic 1250w
(4) [strike]dual[/strike] gtx690 cards. (I have a single GTX690 in SLI)
(5) i7-3930k (OC to 4.4ghz)


This is extremely disappointing with having the RIVE last only 18+ months when my Rampage II board lasted 5 years. I really don't want to start from scratch and may just bite the bullet to buy a new RIVE BE to retain the same RAM and CPU if the RMA board doesn't work out. I need the system to last me another 3.5 years as it is being depreciated for business purposes!


 
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el-el1,

I've got different components than both of you (for the most part):

-32 gigs of G.Sill Ripjaws Z series DDR3 2133 ram in my machine
-EVGA Supernova 1000W (Replaced my Antec HCP 1000W when this all started)
-An AMD R9-290X (replaced my GTX-680 about a year ago)
-An i7-3960X (not currently overclocked)

I guess it's possible that the ram has something in common, (perhaps the speed?) but I don't know how/why that would be causing the issue. I think the power supply is fine as well, since for my system 1000W seems more than enough, and I've now used 2 different PSUs. I also doubt that the problem is the GPU or CPU. But, I am interested in any theories you might have.

I'll update you as soon as I get my new board in this afternoon. I'm also going to be installing a closed loop water cooling system (my fan is huge and makes maintenance a hassle), but I don't forsee that being an issue.
 
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julesleos

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Hey,

I've got my system put together with the new board. It looks like it's working 100%. I'm probably going to wipe my drive and do a clean install, but I do that once in a while anyways, I don't really feel like I need to..

Hopefully you can get your board fixed, let me know if you want any other info. I plan on getting in contact with asus later this week to have my old board RMA'd.

Cheers
 
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