Asus Motherboard stuck at Q-Code 23 when booting, even after clearing CMOS several times

Chickenator

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Greetings.
My MB (Asus Maximus VI Hero) is constantly getting stuck at Q-Code 23 when i boot up. No signal is given to my monitors. Otherwise it works normaly, just have to press the reboot button a few times.

I read that this code often occurs after a failed overclock, which is correct in my case, and it was instructed that i should clear the CMOS. I have done that, 2 times.

It works the 2 first times, but the it occurs again. The Stock speed as you probably know, is at 3.5GHz on the standard i7 4770K's. Mine automatically gets overclocked to 3.9GHz at startup. I think this may be the problem, but after hours of navigating through the BIOS, i can't find out how to disable it.

I have tried to turn everything to "optimized Defaults" which overclocks it. If i manually set it at 3.5GHz, the MB still gets stuck on Q-Code 23.

I haven't seen any other thread here or anywhere else with this problem, so please help me out here.

Thanks!
 

mgolus

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Yes i did exactly that. So that probably isn't the problem