P5N32-E long continuous beep, no boot.

[Funky]

Hi guys.

ONe of my friend just bought this board and put together the system with with Xeon 3040, Gskill2GBHZ and Zeus 520watt.
The board is refusing to boot. All it gives is long continuous beep when you power it on. Its long beep, pause, long beep cycle.
The board had 0302 bios.
I built a P5N32-E system yesterday with my E6600 and did not face any such problem and the manual has no error codes ( its given look below for bios beep error codes below but nothing printed below in manual :slapass: :slapass: )

Does 0302 has any issues with Xeon processors?

All possible ram configurations are checked. Both dual and single stick in all the ram slot. 2 GPUs and still same thing.
Any pointers?

[zemzelett]

I had the same problem with my Striker Extreme, the problem was that the default voltage for the memory is 1.8v, which was to low for my Gskill memory, using a generic stick of ram, it booted, changed voltage in cmos and then replaced memory with my Gskill.

I dont know if this will solve your problem or not, hope it does though.

P.S. Everytime i clear the CMOS for a bios update, i have to do the same thing all over again, not a big deal, but annoying.

[zerolise]

Hi guys.

ONe of my friend just bought this board and put together the system with with Xeon 3040, Gskill2GBHZ and Zeus 520watt.
The board is refusing to boot. All it gives is long continuous beep when you power it on. Its long beep, pause, long beep cycle.
The board had 0302 bios.
I built a P5N32-E system yesterday with my E6600 and did not face any such problem and the manual has no error codes ( its given look below for bios beep error codes below but nothing printed below in manual :slapass: :slapass: )

Does 0302 has any issues with Xeon processors?

All possible ram configurations are checked. Both dual and single stick in all the ram slot. 2 GPUs and still same thing.
Any pointers?


If my recall correctly, this means either Graphic Card or (in some cases) Memory problem. Suggest that he take out the Graphic Card and the bar(s) of memory and re-insert them firmly. Also, check that he has connected the additional (12V) power cable to the Graphic Card, if there is a connector (4 pin molex or 6 pins for some models) for it on the power hungry Graphic Card.

[Funky]

Nah, he is no noob :P
He is XS member himself (Harshal) and very experienced. Its just that his pc was down so i posted here.
He tried even 7300GT standby card still same.
Tomorrow i am gona lend my corsair value select to him and lets see what happens. He tried resetting everything 3-4 times. but same thing happens.

[zerolise]

Nah, he is no noob :P
He is XS member himself (Harshal) and very experienced. Its just that his pc was down so i posted here.
He tried even 7300GT standby card still same.
Tomorrow i am gona lend my corsair value select to him and lets see what happens. He tried resetting everything 3-4 times. but same thing happens.


lol... don't tell me it is another ASUS motherboard quality issue ...

[G H Z]

No it's not board quality, ASUS is very specific about requiring memory that is tested/approved for this platform. If you ignore that it's quite possible you will have an issue.

[Nilson]

Put only one stick in B2 slot. Check it. Known issue for Striker and P5N32-E. New bios doesn't solve it.

I have no answer from Asus about it. Looks like memory channel A dead or unstable due to the HW or SW reasons.

[zerolise]

I have no answer from Asus about it. Looks like memory channel A dead or unstable due to the HW or SW reasons.

Yep, it seems that Asus not only produce crappy products nowadays but their support sucks also. :slapass:

See also: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128503

[Amey]

I was facing the same problem with my Crucial Ballistix 8000CL5, i put single stick in the third [blue slot] from the CPU, it booted,finsihed OS installation with it.Then installed the other stick in the remaining Blue Slot and it worked perfectly.

So far no issues at all. Just that when i try to install my X-Fi, the driver says no compatible hardware found.....lol Any known issues ?

SO i guess its just that Gskill needs more Vdimm to boot up and the board sadly cant give that,so its happening.

[Omastar]

I was facing the same problem with my Crucial Ballistix 8000CL5, i put single stick in the third [blue slot] from the CPU, it booted,finsihed OS installation with it.Then installed the other stick in the remaining Blue Slot and it worked perfectly.

So far no issues at all. Just that when i try to install my X-Fi, the driver says no compatible hardware found.....lol Any known issues ?

SO i guess its just that Gskill needs more Vdimm to boot up and the board sadly cant give that,so its happening.

Hey, as for the X-Fi, try setting your PCI Latency in BIOS to 64 from the default 32. It should be under Advanced Options somewhere. I had the same problem with my DS3, and changing the PCI latency fixed it, but then I just flashed to new F8i BIOS and that fixed it without needing to manually set PCI latency.

[Lestat]

this is sooo frustrating guys, your spewing nonsense about the gskillz
the GSkill 6400 HZ's DO NOT need more than 1.8v to boot.
people keep saying this and its 100% not true.
the 6400 HZ's boot 100% on 1.8 and 1.9v @ 800mhz. and some boards even defualt to 667 or 533 which is even easier for the ram to boot at.
i have had my HZ's in ,, god, what, 5 boards now? DS3, P5W DH, DFI M2R/G, P5N-E SLI, eVGA 680i and they all boot up just fine at minimum voltage. the DS3 is especially known for having low vdimm at boot and the hz's work 100%.

Now if he has Gskill 1000 HZ's menaing 1000mhz. and not ddr2 800 then ok that could be an issue. but even then the defualt bus/dram speed on ALL boards is 800mhz with 800mhz ram or higher.
boards dont even technically support anything higher than ddr800 even though we all know it works, but thats why it defualts to a lower speed when using 1000.

anywho the ram doesnt need more volts to boot. its the boards fault.

now one long beep, hhmm i cant recall what that was on my 680i, its either Ram or CPU, but i think its ram,

one thing you have to know about, atleast the NON asus 680i is that if you use the bios "load setup defaults" the board wont boot, you actually have to reset the bios using the jumper in order for it to boot properly.

loading defualts causes the board to not read the ram SPD properly. but a full reset of the bios makes it read properly again.

so try doing a full reset with the jumper. and also try 1 stick at a time. and if you can get in then increase the voltage to 1.9 or 2.0

now if none of this works. then well, yank the cpu, its possible, however unlikely that the baord doesnt like that cpu.
this is why i always have a super elcheapo Celeron Skt 775 handy, this will get me into the bios where i can change voltages or other settings then swap out cpu.
also possibly a bios update is needed ???

[pigDESTROY]

Put only one stick in B2 slot. Check it. Known issue for Striker and P5N32-E. New bios doesn't solve it.

I have no answer from Asus about it. Looks like memory channel A dead or unstable due to the HW or SW reasons.You just confirmed my board problem. Everything was working fine for a month, then I decide to lap my CPU and now Channel A is completely dead.

How did you come about this and why was my board fine, now it's showing the same symptoms you broach?

Here's my thread on the problem.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2063944#post2063944