#Maximus viii extreme formula problems windows

What voltage are you running the ram at? A lot of ram should be run at 1.35, but I don't think that is the default in the bios optimized settings. The ram will give the board a little more strength and rigidity and a better chance of having a solid connection being made. It may be worth putting in the ram before you put the CPU heatsink on, if you havent tried this already. Its possible that the board has been slightly bent if you really cranked down hard when tightening the cpu cooler, which can create issues with the RAM slots. (Little black frame that should have come with your case)? I have found that it helps to lock things in place pretty well and should also prevent pin damage. Any last ditch ideas are appreciate but I have already been through the common problems multiple times so don't want anyone to waste their energy!Ĭan you actually see any warping of the CPU when it is out of the mount? It should be pretty apparent if its that bad.Īre you using the ASUS cpu attachment. Just strange it worked fine for two weeks and nothing changed when it suddenly started failing. Guess I need to send the motherboard back to newegg as it hasnt been 30 days yet however I am worried about getting the same motherboard back or if I need to get a different cooler or if I just probably got unlucky with a bad mobo and a new one will be fine.

#Maximus viii extreme formula problems windows

If I remove the cooling it boots up happy and can even load into windows however my chip obviously starts overheating. Have ruled out any other pieces of hardware or peripherals being the problem. If I have ANY type of cooler on the processor, water block, heavy duty fan or even a stock intel one, it freezes upon entering BIOS. We did more testing at the shop (work at an electronics shop) and it definitely appears to be a hardware issue with the motherboard. I think RMAing is the only option at this point. I also tried changing those voltages as sugested by Nate but no change. Have already cleared CMOS and reset defaults, also flashed bios with newest version to no avail.

Thermaltake TOUGHPOWER 850W Platinum Power Supply Swiftech H220-X2 Prestige Liquid CPU Cooler And if that is the case am I now screwed when it comes to RMAing the mobo? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, sorry if the post is too long! Note, I read an article that third party coolers have been warping i7 Skylake chips due to them having thinner substrate than previous generations, it seemed like a viable answer to my problem but I do not see any 'warping' damage at all as the pictures associated with this problem show. I am now in the position of not knowing if my problem is the mobo or the cpu or both at this point. So now I am trying to determine how this waterblock is causing my cpu to fail until I realize installing a stock intel fan causes the same issue. However, of course my skylake was getting hot as hell so I shut it off quick. I booted it up after that and voila! it booted right into windows. That is until I removed my Swifttech H220 Prestige waterblock. I then went through removing hardware one at a time but nothing was making a difference. After some tinkering, I now notice that when I boot up and go into UEFI BIOS, it freezes up and will not accept keystrokes or mouse movements after about 5-10 seconds. I then read that turning up the VCore voltage may even correct this problem but that did not help and lead to me getting an overclockinh failed error. I read that, that error is commmonly associated with overclocking, however I have yet to overclocked this rig yet. From there it got progressively worse, happening pretty much right after boot up and then it got to the point where it was freezing before even loading windows. I built a new rig almost two weeks ago and it has been running amazingly until just two nights ago when I suddenly started getting 'WHEA_uncorrectable_error' bluescreen in windows 10.

Hi all thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and chiming in if you feel you can help.