ROG Maximus VIII formula wont post

Marc_33

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I'm really hoping you knowledgeable lot can be of help here ;)

I have an ASUS Maximus VIII Formula motherboard and built it up today but I cant get it to post at all, all I get is the Q codes of 02, 03 or 04, this is driving me up the wall, the Q codes list as the following -

02 = AP initialization before microcode loading
03 = System Agent initialization before microcode loading
04 = PCH initialization before microcode loading

I have tried to start with using the onboard video and the following -

-1 stick of ram installed
-2 sticks paired in both pair slots
-Different DDR4 Ram (Started with Team Ram but brought Corsair Vengeance to try and replace)
-2 power supplys (first was a evo labs 850w which i wasnt 100% convinced by and replaced it with a Corsair 750w semi modular)

The kit i'm using is as follows

- ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Formula
- Intel i7 6700k 4Ghz 8Mb Cache
- Corsair H100 Watercooler
- 2x Corsair Vengeance LXP DDR4 2400mhz 8Gb

Nothing else is plugged in at all, I haven't even plugged in my Samsung 850 250Gb SSD yet
 
Solution
Have you also resetted teh CMOS after the BIOS update? If even after that it doesn't work, your next course of action is to RMA both the CPU and MB. Sorry mate!

Marc_33

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I have inspected the pins and all appear pristine and exactly where they are intended, if the microcode is on the cpu I must be the unlucky one to have picked up the 1 duff one in the batch!
 

Marc_33

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Hlsgsz, thanks for the reply, I don't actually have an Intel stock cooler available but I have tried with a cooler master hyper 103 with the same issue

 

Marc_33

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I would love to try this however the forum wont let me login and it wont let me view pages without being logged in