Hello,
I have an issue which has stumped me. I just built a new computer with a Core i7 950, 12GB of Corsair DDDR3 1600 RAM, and a ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme motherboard, Corsair HX1000w power supply and an H50 water cooler. I've done no overclocking as of yet, my goal was to jsut get a working stable computer before tinkering with the OC settings. My situation is odd because as of last night my setup was running and running pretty well, I had rebooted numerous times after doing Windows updates etc and everything was great, and then I shut down as I normally would, Start --> Shutdown. I was going to bed, no more updates to install. Win7 installed, all my programs updated and running, everything was fine. I had done a few reboots after the last install and update I did to make sure everything was fine on rebooting and everything was, no problems, I expected no issues and a normal working computer in the morning.
Then today I go to turn on my computer and I get stuck at the BIOS POST screen. I was like WTF? I get the following on my boot screen and then the BIOS just stops, no more anything, just frozen:
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American Megatrends
AMIBIOS(C) 2010 American Megatrends, INC
ASUS Rampage III Extreme ACPI BIOS Revision 1102
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz Speed : 3.06 GHZ
Press F8 for BBS POPUP
Press ALT+F2 to execute ASUS EZ Flash 2
DDR3-1066MHZ
Initializing USB Controllers..Done.
12228MB OK
(C) American Megatrends, INC
65-1102-000001-00101111-092310-TYLERSBURG-A1545000-Y2KC
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After that the screen is just stuck, I get nothing else. Everything else is working as normal, fans, cooler, PSU, All other LED's are green and the POST LED's all cycled through except "Boot Device". Like I said this is weird because everything was fine before, seems like it reset itself somehow.
The LED's on my Rampage 3 Extreme are all cleared except now the "Boot device" LED is stuck lit up. Definitely weird since it was all working smoothly when I shutdown, now I can't get it to POST BIOS.
** This may or may not having something to do with it but the audio connector was starting to pickup and then disconnect the audio cable I had connected to the stereo system. This was interesting because it only started happening last night. I wonder if the audio driver was failing and then cause something in my BIOS to fail? Either way I can't get to the BIOS at all, I can't use the DVD that came with the motherboard cause I can't even get into the BIOS to change the Boot sequence. frustrating!
I've cleared the CMOS by using the clear CMOS switch on the back of the I/O panel as well as using the Q-reset switch, I've used the Reset button I think 100 times already. and I've switched from BIOS 1 to BIOS 2 and tried all the same again and still I cannot get past the initial BIOS POST screen.
My issue seems to be the same as this guy had but no one ever answered it:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/286892-31-rampage-extreme-boot-problem
I'm stumped. HELP PLEASE!!
Thanks,
Brian
I have an issue which has stumped me. I just built a new computer with a Core i7 950, 12GB of Corsair DDDR3 1600 RAM, and a ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme motherboard, Corsair HX1000w power supply and an H50 water cooler. I've done no overclocking as of yet, my goal was to jsut get a working stable computer before tinkering with the OC settings. My situation is odd because as of last night my setup was running and running pretty well, I had rebooted numerous times after doing Windows updates etc and everything was great, and then I shut down as I normally would, Start --> Shutdown. I was going to bed, no more updates to install. Win7 installed, all my programs updated and running, everything was fine. I had done a few reboots after the last install and update I did to make sure everything was fine on rebooting and everything was, no problems, I expected no issues and a normal working computer in the morning.
Then today I go to turn on my computer and I get stuck at the BIOS POST screen. I was like WTF? I get the following on my boot screen and then the BIOS just stops, no more anything, just frozen:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
American Megatrends
AMIBIOS(C) 2010 American Megatrends, INC
ASUS Rampage III Extreme ACPI BIOS Revision 1102
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz Speed : 3.06 GHZ
Press F8 for BBS POPUP
Press ALT+F2 to execute ASUS EZ Flash 2
DDR3-1066MHZ
Initializing USB Controllers..Done.
12228MB OK
(C) American Megatrends, INC
65-1102-000001-00101111-092310-TYLERSBURG-A1545000-Y2KC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After that the screen is just stuck, I get nothing else. Everything else is working as normal, fans, cooler, PSU, All other LED's are green and the POST LED's all cycled through except "Boot Device". Like I said this is weird because everything was fine before, seems like it reset itself somehow.
The LED's on my Rampage 3 Extreme are all cleared except now the "Boot device" LED is stuck lit up. Definitely weird since it was all working smoothly when I shutdown, now I can't get it to POST BIOS.
** This may or may not having something to do with it but the audio connector was starting to pickup and then disconnect the audio cable I had connected to the stereo system. This was interesting because it only started happening last night. I wonder if the audio driver was failing and then cause something in my BIOS to fail? Either way I can't get to the BIOS at all, I can't use the DVD that came with the motherboard cause I can't even get into the BIOS to change the Boot sequence. frustrating!
I've cleared the CMOS by using the clear CMOS switch on the back of the I/O panel as well as using the Q-reset switch, I've used the Reset button I think 100 times already. and I've switched from BIOS 1 to BIOS 2 and tried all the same again and still I cannot get past the initial BIOS POST screen.
My issue seems to be the same as this guy had but no one ever answered it:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/286892-31-rampage-extreme-boot-problem
I'm stumped. HELP PLEASE!!
Thanks,
Brian