I recently purchased a Rampage IV Extreme and continue to have a few issues with this motherboard. I am seeking help and or advice on why these things are happening.
First of all let me add that everything is up to date. Bios, drivers, etc. I’ve even tried rolling back to older versions in hopes that maybe this is in part the problem. No good.
My primary problem is with the video. Right now I am running a single card located in the first PCI-E slot (per the book) and have tried moving this to other slots as well. The issue is that at least 50% of the time when I turn my PC on I get no video. The system always appears to boot into Windows (can tell by peripherals) however I have no display. No beeps, no error codes, etc. It may take 1, 2 or 3 three times (maybe more) of cycling the power before I finally get a display. Eventually, I can get into the system. As noted, this happens often. At least 50% of the time I turn on my PC.
Power is correctly applied to the video card in addition I have tried swapping this out with 2 other cards (3 different manufactures) and as noted; even changed PCI slots. The problem remains. All of the MB jumpers and switches seem to be properly in place (4-on) for the channels per the R4E manual.
While the system is active and I am gaming the video sometimes goes black like it lost connectivity however, this happens infrequently, say maybe once every few hours regardless of which video card or set of drivers. This most noticeably happens in Guild Wars 2. Likewise, the problem has occurred in both Windows 7 and 8 environments.
I can understand maybe power being an issue however I cannot understand how or why the CPU, Memory, Drivers or anything similar being a part of the issue. The power supply is plenty big enough and works flawlessly, at least so it appears. My only other thought is that could this be a bad signal going to my monitor?
I am seriously beginning to think that maybe I just picked a bad motherboard or maybe this MD is just no good.
First of all let me add that everything is up to date. Bios, drivers, etc. I’ve even tried rolling back to older versions in hopes that maybe this is in part the problem. No good.
My primary problem is with the video. Right now I am running a single card located in the first PCI-E slot (per the book) and have tried moving this to other slots as well. The issue is that at least 50% of the time when I turn my PC on I get no video. The system always appears to boot into Windows (can tell by peripherals) however I have no display. No beeps, no error codes, etc. It may take 1, 2 or 3 three times (maybe more) of cycling the power before I finally get a display. Eventually, I can get into the system. As noted, this happens often. At least 50% of the time I turn on my PC.
Power is correctly applied to the video card in addition I have tried swapping this out with 2 other cards (3 different manufactures) and as noted; even changed PCI slots. The problem remains. All of the MB jumpers and switches seem to be properly in place (4-on) for the channels per the R4E manual.
While the system is active and I am gaming the video sometimes goes black like it lost connectivity however, this happens infrequently, say maybe once every few hours regardless of which video card or set of drivers. This most noticeably happens in Guild Wars 2. Likewise, the problem has occurred in both Windows 7 and 8 environments.
I can understand maybe power being an issue however I cannot understand how or why the CPU, Memory, Drivers or anything similar being a part of the issue. The power supply is plenty big enough and works flawlessly, at least so it appears. My only other thought is that could this be a bad signal going to my monitor?
I am seriously beginning to think that maybe I just picked a bad motherboard or maybe this MD is just no good.
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