OH No not again. R3E Fail

[GFDuke]

Well i got my board all set up yesterday. I updated the bios to 704. I benched for about 1hr and the thing started acting up. On one bot Cpuz was reading the voltage and memory size wrong and on the next bot it was reading it right. Then all of a sudden it wouldnt boot to windows. BSOD. So i reset CMOS so it would boot up at defaults. Nothing...... black screen and couldnt get into the bios. I tried flashing the bios through Tweakit RC and it said the flash was succesful. But still nothing.
Ok now comes the fun part.
I get this when i boot into bios 1.
First picture. This just keeps scrolling down the screen. Even if i insert my USB.

I get this when i boot to bios2
Second picture. This dosn't scroll it just hangs there.


UPDATE: I just put my 920 in and it fire up int windows via both bios. Rut ro. gonna drop the 980 back in and see whats up. Keeping fingers crossed.

Confirmed 980 is dead. :offhead:

[Witchdoctor]

Ahhh .......... Man the Blows Duke ....

Intel RMA time I take it ....

[GFDuke]

I'm going to try. Man if anything can go wrong lately it will.

EDIT. Now IDK. I insulated up the 920. I went to the bios and setup some things rebooted and now this chip won"t boot. On either oone of the bios chips.Tweakit hangs on cpu_initial. Fuk i was just in wondows with this chip[ and my 5870. Now i'm gonnna wait until Tues for RMA and see if my Classified will boot these chips. Time to hang it up for the day before i toss this shit in the dumpster.

[Splave]

all that voltage caught up with her ;) hopefully you get a better one back

[DrNip]

Damnit man that sux! Hopefully the Rex isn't a chip eater.

[GFDuke]

Check my EDIT out Splave. I must have posted at the same time. Ive got the 704 bios on #1 and the 402 stock bios on #2.

[Witchdoctor]

I'm going to try. Man if anything can go wrong lately it will.

EDIT. Now IDK. I insulated up the 920. I went to the bios and setup some things rebooted and now this chip won"t boot. On either oone of the bios chips.Tweakit hangs on cpu_initial. Fuk i was just in wondows with this chip[ and my 5870. Now i'm gonnna wait until Tues for RMA and see if my Classified will boot these chips. Time to hang it up for the day before i toss this shit in the dumpster.


That sucks , but hey beatuiful day in the Northeast to kick the feet up, relax and have a cold one ....

Getting away form it for a bit may help ....

[GFDuke]

Ok Very weird. I took off my LN2 pot and all my chips boot now. This is totally off the wall. I have no clue now. I'm gonna go put up some siding.

[Jor-El]

Ok Very weird. I took off my LN2 pot and all my chips boot now. This is totally off the wall. I have no clue now. I'm gonna go put up some siding.

To much weight and pressure on the socket Duke? If the board boarks and 1 pin of the cpu is not touching properly may cause the issues you are describing, may be worth a try...

[GFDuke]

Confirmed. After to talking to Bren he said the same thing. I might have been tightening the pot down too much. I tried again tonight and didn't tighten the pot down as much as i usually do and everything worked out good. I'm a bit afraid of it (Gun Shy) so i didnt go to far. But, i had it down to -160 and 6.3 ghz so it looks like that might have been the ticket. I'll give it a go tomorow night and see. I also flashed back to the 602 bios. IDK if that made a difference or not. I think i'll put the 704 on bios#2 and see if its a go. But right now i'm a very happy camper. I don't mind killing hardware as long as i know it was me. But when shit dies and i did nothing to make it die that i know of, i get really, really pissed.

[Hondacity]

do you use the springs? success for me so far is 10mm compressed springs..i use a ruler to balance the springs...

[MaadDaawg]

I love it when a good plan comes together :D

Hannibal Smith - the A Team, which, they are currently turning into an ass kicking moviie :eek: Liam Nieson plays Hannibal :morpheus:

[Witchdoctor]

That is great news Duke.....

This waiting on RMA bullshit sucks balls ......

Just like BA does ............ ;)

[Splave]

Confirmed. After to talking to Bren he said the same thing. I might have been tightening the pot down too much. I tried again tonight and didn't tighten the pot down as much as i usually do and everything worked out good. I'm a bit afraid of it (Gun Shy) so i didnt go to far. But, i had it down to -160 and 6.3 ghz so it looks like that might have been the ticket. I'll give it a go tomorow night and see. I also flashed back to the 602 bios. IDK if that made a difference or not. I think i'll put the 704 on bios#2 and see if its a go. But right now i'm a very happy camper. I don't mind killing hardware as long as i know it was me. But when shit dies and i did nothing to make it die that i know of, i get really, really pissed.

Duke I got the bad boot block message with 704 last night when benching on ln2, I think that 5987 bios or whatever fucks shit up when you have it saved to one of the chips.

[GFDuke]

Well i never put that bios on my new board Splave and i ended up with the same thing monday noght. It;s now confirmed that my 980x is dead. I'm sending it out tomorrow, The 920 and the 5870 boot without a problem on the R3, but i'm getting the boot block thing with my 980X. Its gotta be my chip. But if you're gtting that message idk. Oh well we will see when i get the new cpu.

[Splave]

I think im going to try 702 instead, andre can do 6.9ghz on it so it must be okay ;)

[GFDuke]

I was on the 704 this weekend when the shit hit the fan again. I havn't tried the 702 yet,

[Jor-El]

Guys I don't bench since a little after Memorial Day and my R3 is full of spider webs. Reading this all is making me confused:

- Isn't the 5987 the bios that removes the CB?
- Does the latest bios (702 and 704) have the same CB removal function?
- Why the 704beta not as good as the 702?

Thanks!

[Splave]

we are having trouble with boot block corruption with 704 jor, I havent gotten to try 702 but 704 was making my chip CB at -166 for maybe 10 minutes then I had no CB, then it corrupted.

[V2-V3]

I flashed to 704 and im having memory issues, reboots and fail to post

[GFDuke]

What was very weird is that when i got the Boot Block corruption on 704, Bios#2 was giving me the same corruption and i still have the stock 402 bios on it. I left it on there just in case this happened. because on my last R3 i had flashed them both and i had nothing to go back on. And because of the failure i couldn't re-flash. But it didn't help. I am going to flash to the 702 and see. TBH i think the safest one is the 602 right now. Removing the CB isn't worth the trouble i'm getting with these bios's. Unless you're looking for 2D WR's and possibly ruining your cpu.