ASUS Z77 Motherboards - Official Support Thread

[NoGuru]

So the Gene will not boot 8 series cards. That's pretty messed up considering on only bought this board for benchmarking.
The 570 boots no problem.

Where can I get mem TweakIT 1.01.5?

[Raja@ASUS]

Where can I get mem TweakIT 1.01.5?

Use 1.01.6: http://www.datafilehost.com/download-6760de90.html

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

So the Gene will not boot 8 series cards. That's pretty messed up considering on only bought this board for benchmarking.
The 570 boots no problem.

Where can I get mem TweakIT 1.01.5?

I just tested an EVGA 8800 GTS 320MB and it boots in to the bios just fine but I don't want to really install Windows to test fully, as for the latest memtweakit I believe it is in here somewhere.

Once again thanks for the X58 OC

[NoGuru]

I did not know that was you I sold it too, lol. Yeah board is way more fun then any other 1366.

Strange, I couldn't see the BIOS or anything, it was like it the LCD would not see the card. I will have to try it again now that I have the latest BIOS and all.

[Praz]

32GB ram at 2400MHz on the P8Z77-V DELUXE. LLC set to high, VCORE Offset +0.070V, memory voltage at 1.55V, 46x CPU multiplier and 2400MHz speed. All other setting at default using XMP profile #2.

4x8GB G.SKILL Trident X F3-2400C10D-16GTX
ASUS GTX580 SLI
OCZ 256GB Vertex4
OCZ ZX 1250W Power Supply


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[Leeghoofd]

So the Tridents can run below normal operating voltage...

[Praz]

So the Tridents can run below normal operating voltage...

Yes but 1.525V is not stable.

[Budwise]

Just finished putting together a 3570K and a P8Z77-v Pro board. It wont boot if I have my 6950/6970 plugged in, just gives me a VGA_LED. If i take it out and boot with onboard it works fine. This is from an X58 build where the 6950/70 has worked flawless. wtf....

Tried it with a 5450 and it worked fine, 6970, no go. Is there a compatibility issue?

Apparently the Asus board doesnt like the 6950 flashed to 6970. Flipped the switch to go back to the old bios and it booted right up. /sigh

[NoGuru]

Just finished putting together a 3570K and a P8Z77-v Pro board. It wont boot if I have my 6950/6970 plugged in, just gives me a VGA_LED. If i take it out and boot with onboard it works fine. This is from an X58 build where the 6950/70 has worked flawless. wtf....

Tried it with a 5450 and it worked fine, 6970, no go. Is there a compatibility issue?

Apparently the Asus board doesn't like the 6950 flashed to 6970. Flipped the switch to go back to the old bios and it booted right up. /sigh

I had the same problems with two different 8800 GTX+ and it would not boot unless I used the onboard HDMI. I did try a 570 GTX and it worked fine and a 7900 GS that worked as well.
Now my Gene is giving error 62 and I can't even get into the BIOS.

[DEFLORATOR]

Did anyone try installing LSI MegaRaid 9265-8i raid controller on ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe? The system cannot see LSI raid card at all. Raid controller bios is not initialized during booting, SAS disks are not listed and the system boots as if there is no raid card at all. Also, the card is not listed in Device Manager in Windows.
I tried ASUS bioses 0906 and 1050. 9265-8i has the latest firmware flashed. Tried intalling in both slots PCIEX16_2 and PCIEX16_3, that didn't help.
Will be awaiting for bios fix.

[banwell]

New P8Z77-V owner.

Installed motherboard yesterday and it hasn't been plain sailing. I am coming from a p67 board and using a 2500k. Nothing has changed but the motherboard. I am used to 4.6 with my mem at 1600mhz (Gskill @1.5v CL9)and a vcore offset of 0.035 (weak LLC).

Firstly the out of box bios was poor. I downloaded updates for everything else except the bios and did a freshing OS install and manually updated drivers. Also the system seemed much 'slicker' running without my GFX and soundcard installed. In fact seemed better without Lucix too. I still have that installed.

After a few hours I swapped out the bios. This at first seemed okay - could test 1hr stable at previously known settings and overclock. But on reboot started to noticed odd vcore loading - the CPU sits at 4.6 for no reason under no load at full vcore - this is on win7 balanced power settings and high performance so not a OS issue. Also the AI suite had become sluggish and unresponsive (lastest version) the idea of accessing this during a stability test is a no goer (I've since removed it for now). I wasn't happy overall and have since cleared the CMOS.

I hope this doesn't continues without improvement. I am back down to no overclock and stand mem settings 1333mhz while observing the system.

Is there another bios to try? Haven't seen anything listed for the standard V.

The only other thing that occurs to me is that the new motherboard is very picky about mem sticks. As I any running gskill CL9 of 2*4gb and 2*2gb kits with slightly different codes. I am running Memtest now on all available memory. Something my previous system had no problems with.

Overall I think the motherboard is very focused on Ivy and has poor support for Sandy.

[Raja@ASUS]

Newer builds should be up soon. Other than that, Z77 is more IB centric, these boards were designed to get the most out of the newer CPUs.

[Callsign_Vega]

For the love of god I am about to toss this Maximus V Gene out the window. What is the major malfunction with Asus and detecting a freaking USB keyboard on startup? Tried two different keyboards and only 1 USB port out of them all registers it. The huge issue is tjat when I press CTR I to get into the RAID config nothing happens. No matter how fast I press the keys it just blows right past the screen which only flashes for a second.

Using BIOS 0701, is this stuff ever tested? So here I sit unable to set up RAID and install Windows. The keyboard works in the BIOS but my mouse doesn't no matter which usb port. On my RIVE they both work fine and I could use them in the BIOS. So what voodoo majic do I need to perform in order to get into the RAID config?

[DEFLORATOR]

Newer builds should be up soon. Other than that, Z77 is more IB centric, these boards were designed to get the most out of the newer CPUs.

Raja, please pass to HQ problem with LSI 9265 raid card which I discribed two posts above. I think that the problem resides on ASUS side, not LSI side.
I really really don't want to abandon neither ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe board nor LSI raid card (which costs twice the cost of P8Z77-V Dlx) with a bunch of 15K SAS drives. Pls. help this problem fixed thru bios update. Thank you.

[Raja@ASUS]

For the love of god I am about to toss this Maximus V Gene out the window. What is the major malfunction with Asus and detecting a freaking USB keyboard on startup? Tried two different keyboards and only 1 USB port out of them all registers it. The huge issue is tjat when I press CTR I to get into the RAID config nothing happens. No matter how fast I press the keys it just blows right past the screen which only flashes for a second.

Using BIOS 0701, is this stuff ever tested? So here I sit unable to set up RAID and install Windows. The keyboard works in the BIOS but my mouse doesn't no matter which usb port. On my RIVE they both work fine and I could use them in the BIOS. So what voodoo majic do I need to perform in order to get into the RAID config?

First port of call would be to tell me which USB keyboard and mouse you are using (part numbers and revision number if any). Is the system at bone stock settings or OC'd? Does the mouse and keyboard show up again in UEFI if you AC power cycle the system (turn PSU off and let residual power drain)?

-Raja

[Raja@ASUS]

Raja, please pass to HQ problem with LSI 9265 raid card which I discribed two posts above. I think that the problem resides on ASUS side, not LSI side.
I really really don't want to abandon neither ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe board nor LSI raid card (which costs twice the cost of P8Z77-V Dlx) with a bunch of 15K SAS drives. Pls. help this problem fixed thru bios update. Thank you.

If you can tell me which BIOS version that card is using I will see if the HQ desktop teams have the card and can validate it. Will also need to know which option ROMs are enabled in UEFI (Intel RAID etc) when you are using the card.

There is a reason sever boards cost so much my friend - validation, which is what devices like these need. That's why they slip under the radar on desktop boards where their usage audience is incredibly limited.


-Raja

[Callsign_Vega]

Sorry about the rage but when you spend 3 hours trying to get into a simple raid config menu It tends to get to you. The keyboard gets power on startup, num lock turns on well before the raid menu flashes, it works in the bios, it registers as a keyboard on post, yet Ctr I does nothing no matter what I do. Never had any issues with this keyboard before in anu BIOS. It's just a generic.

The other keyboard is a mac usb that worked fine on my RIVE. The mouse is a lohitech M570 that doesn't register no matter is it is in the 2.0, 3.0, asmedia ports.

I just don't get how with a working keyboard Ctr I does nothing on the raid screen.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Sorry about the rage but when you spend 3 hours trying to get into a simple raid config menu It tends to get to you. The keyboard gets power on startup, num lock turns on well before the raid menu flashes, it works in the bios, it registers as a keyboard on post, yet Ctr I does nothing no matter what I do. Never had any issues with this keyboard before in anu BIOS. It's just a generic.

The other keyboard is a mac usb that worked fine on my RIVE. The mouse is a lohitech M570 that doesn't register no matter is it is in the 2.0, 3.0, asmedia ports.

I just don't get how with a working keyboard Ctr I does nothing on the raid screen.

do not use the Asmedia ports use the USB ports closest to the CMOS reset switch.

[Callsign_Vega]

I've tried every single Usb port. My mouse works as soon as I enter windows setup. I think there is something flawed with this 0701 BIOS, going to have to install win 7 non raid just to download another bios version.

[Callsign_Vega]

There is something wrong with this raid in this bios, config screen only flashes for about a half second. It would stay up for about 2 seconds on the RIVE. The funny part is I plugged in my old raid array from the RIVE and it works fine, I just cannot get in to configure the new drives.

[DEFLORATOR]

If you can tell me which BIOS version that card is using I will see if the HQ desktop teams have the card and can validate it. Will also need to know which option ROMs are enabled in UEFI (Intel RAID etc) when you are using the card.

There is a reason sever boards cost so much my friend - validation, which is what devices like these need. That's why they slip under the radar on desktop boards where their usage audience is incredibly limited.

Raja, thanks for reply.
I understand that P8Z77 was never qualified for compatibility with serious raid controllers (like LSI, Adaptec and Areca). But using hardware raid card with 1Gb onboard cache and fast processor is so temptating (both with SAS HDD and SSD).

LSI 9265-8i has the latest firmware available (version 23.4.1-0028 dated March 30, 2012)
I tried disabling all add-on controllers in ASUS UEFI bios: ASMedia USB, ASMedia SATA, Marvell, Intel, Realtek LAN and Audio. That didn't help. Also I played with bios menu item which allows selection priority between UEFI and Legacy option ROM. That also didn't help.
The systems passes post stage very quickly, not showing any sign that raid card is present (as you probably know, any raid card slows down post time significantly due to long initialization). In Windows, Device manager also doesn't show LSI card. Although AIDA64 and GPU-Z tell that Radeon 7970 is left with only 8 lanes of PCI-E. That is "invisible" LSI card occupied 8 lanes of native PCI-E (if installed in PCEx16_2 slot).
The card itself is 100% working and checked on another system (ASUS R2E).

[mav2000]

Am going to change over from a CH V formlua to the Gene. Do I need to reinstall Windows...basically moving from AMD to Intel.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Am going to change over from a CH V formlua to the Gene. Do I need to reinstall Windows...basically moving from AMD to Intel.

Yes

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

There is something wrong with this raid in this bios, config screen only flashes for about a half second. It would stay up for about 2 seconds on the RIVE. The funny part is I plugged in my old raid array from the RIVE and it works fine, I just cannot get in to configure the new drives.

try bios 0881

[dctokyo]

Am going to change over from a CH V formlua to the Gene. Do I need to reinstall Windows...basically moving from AMD to Intel.

The short answer is yes. I would save some time and tears and do a fresh windows install.