ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[cstkl1]

I think 78 might be cpu related, something with the DMI/PCI subsystem maybe as when I was getting this code on the M6E, the vga light was on as well.

I swapped cpu's and no issue so might be a degraded damaged cpu, best to swap with a known good cpu and verify.

Oh man got a not bad cpu. Yup exact samething. Which bios was that on??

[cstkl1]

Ty asus. Got a new cpu slightly better. So far testing 4.5ghz@1.2v

[owikh84]

3000MHz 12-14-14-25-2T @ 1.65v



RAM clock looks good for 24/7 and priming but CPU clock is nono.

[Phaseshift]

I can't seem to get her stable when using Aida...could it be my temps? I get bsod x124 using h100i cooler

All settings on auto, vcore is 1.265

[DavidNJ]

Question: Are the dual Thunderbolt ports and NFC device on the Deluxe/Dual worth the $60 premium over the Deluxe? Otherwise the boards are identical.

While Thunderbolt devices are rare, I do a fair amount of video work and BlackMagic Designs, a major manufacturer in that space, is using Thunderbolt on many of their products. This includes their new $4k 4k camera with S35/APC sensor and Canon EF lens mount. That camera has a Thunderbolt port for their PC/Mac based video scopes. The other advantage is in very high speed external disk access. So far that hasn't been an issue; both Deluxe boards have 10 SATA III 6Gb/s ports.

While I have a Galaxy S3 with NFC, NFC is limited and I'm not sure it would have a meaningful purpose. Does it have have meaningful purpose?

[owikh84]

I can't seem to get her stable when using Aida...could it be my temps? I get bsod x124 using h100i cooler

All settings on auto, vcore is 1.265

BSOD 124 and 101 are related to insufficient vCore. Give it a bump.

[TysonM]

Hello!

I have an ASUS Z87-A.

I ran fan tuning on AI Suite and found that it was able to adjust the speed of my 3 case fans... but it wasn't able to adjust my CPU fans (both on CPU and CPU_OPT). Is there something about certain fans that prevent them from being adjusted? I looked them up on Newegg where I bought them yet there were no details listing "controllable" vs "noncontrollable" or something similar.

In AI Suite the options for adjusting the speed for my CPU fans is greyed out, and there is a ! background.

I thought that controlling fan speed would simply be that the motherboard reduces the voltage to the fan, making it run slower... no controller chip or anything needed. What am I missing here?

Edit/Added:

Thanks Raja! I had to re-do fan tuning again after changing that in the BIOS and it works perfectly! Now my CPU fans should last a lot longer, running at high speed only when necessary.

[ChrisB17]

Hi, I am having the hardest time getting the Maximus VI Hero to boot from UEFI for windows 8 install. The board refuses to boot with a UEFI flash drive I can see uefi flash drive in boot options but when I click on it it just reverts back to bios. I have confirmed it isnt the USB flash drive, I have tried 2 other drives, and have tried all the USB ports on the board. Still nothing. This is very frustrating and help would be appreciated.

[Raja@ASUS]

Hello!

I have an ASUS Z87-A.

I ran fan tuning on AI Suite and found that it was able to adjust the speed of my 3 case fans... but it wasn't able to adjust my CPU fans (both on CPU and CPU_OPT). Is there something about certain fans that prevent them from being adjusted? I looked them up on Newegg where I bought them yet there were no details listing "controllable" vs "noncontrollable" or something similar.

In AI Suite the options for adjusting the speed for my CPU fans is greyed out, and there is a ! background.

I thought that controlling fan speed would simply be that the motherboard reduces the voltage to the fan, making it run slower... no controller chip or anything needed. What am I missing here?

Go into UEFI and set the CPU Fan header to Advanced and you should be able to change the speed options.

[Raja@ASUS]

Hi, I am having the hardest time getting the Maximus VI Hero to boot from UEFI for windows 8 install. The board refuses to boot with a UEFI flash drive I can see uefi flash drive in boot options but when I click on it it just reverts back to bios. I have confirmed it isnt the USB flash drive, I have tried 2 other drives, and have tried all the USB ports on the board. Still nothing. This is very frustrating and help would be appreciated.

Is your flash drive NTFS or FAT32 formatted? Format with FAT32 and it should work.

-Raja

[ChrisB17]

The flash drives are indeed formated in fat32. The board refuses to boot anything uefi for some reason? It wont boot uefi win8 dvd also.

[Praz]

The flash drives are indeed formated in fat32. The board refuses to boot anything uefi for some reason? It wont boot uefi win8 dvd also.

Can you post a screenshot of your CSM settings page in the UEFI? I have a Deluxe board here and it boots Win8 as UEFI from a USB stick. It takes 20, maybe 30 seconds to do so though.

[owikh84]

3000MHz 12-14-14-25-1T @ 1.65v primed for 7 hours

[XBrytanX]

That's a beast of IMC owikh

[Fosco]

Testing high cpu and mem clock on Maximus VI HERO , with Team Xtreem LV 2666



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[owikh84]

Compression performance on Haswell is awesome. Now you can cut the time of unrarring by half.

[Phaseshift]

Compression performance on Haswell is awesome. Now you can cut the time of unrarring by half.

hey owikh you got any 5ghz 4770ks?

[owikh84]

hey owikh you got any 5ghz 4770ks?

Currently i have one 4770K only, and it needs at least 1.55v for 5.0 with 2 cores. 5.0 HT is not booting or stuck at windows logon screen without CPU PLL OV enabled.

[christefan]

So I got my vi extreme yesterday and worked on it today--disappointed to find that you have to use slot 1 as the primary graphics slot, I wanted to run an areca raid card there and put my 780s in slots 2 and 3--after installing a fresh win8 64 i loaded a lan driver and then went to load the latest nvidia driver when the driver goes to check the cards and connected monitors the board locked up-required a powering off the main power supply as all buttons were unresponsive and now it wont post or boot. I left the power off for awhile on both my power supplies and the power,reset,and direct buttons are unresponsive and swithing the bios to the second bios doesn't change anything either---can't anyone actually make hardware that works in other than the most limited configuration choices? what now--rma? or is there a solution out there besides gee take the board completely apart and unmounted the processor? to start over and hope it will respond.

[cstkl1]

Tested this already for few hours.

This is the setting for PSC kit for 2133C7. The bandwidths are high. Arnd 33k on read/write copy

[owikh84]

Run some LinX w/ AVX (10.3.7) this early morning...

4770K @ 4.6GHz 1.344v | RAM: 3000MHz 12-14-14-25-2T @ 1.65v



* note that the GFlops is going down slightly as I've opened some background apps ie. CPU-Z etc.

[Raja@ASUS]

So I got my vi extreme yesterday and worked on it today--disappointed to find that you have to use slot 1 as the primary graphics slot, I wanted to run an areca raid card there and put my 780s in slots 2 and 3--after installing a fresh win8 64 i loaded a lan driver and then went to load the latest nvidia driver when the driver goes to check the cards and connected monitors the board locked up-required a powering off the main power supply as all buttons were unresponsive and now it wont post or boot. I left the power off for awhile on both my power supplies and the power,reset,and direct buttons are unresponsive and swithing the bios to the second bios doesn't change anything either---can't anyone actually make hardware that works in other than the most limited configuration choices? what now--rma? or is there a solution out there besides gee take the board completely apart and unmounted the processor? to start over and hope it will respond.

What POST code is it hanging on?

[christefan]

There is no post code it is hanging on--the machine locked up loading nvidia drivers, so the code then was a normal operating one with all buttons being unresponsive. After shutting the power supply off and turning it back on after a short time out--all the buttons are still unresponsive-power button does nothing, direct button does nothing. Last time I had this happen with an Asus extreme board after i took the board apart by removing all cards and removed and reseated the processor and had removed the battery for awhile then it posted as it normally would but required a disassembly and battery removal to clear the hang and none of the operating buttons working

[Raja@ASUS]

If this has happened to you more than once, have you had your PSU checked out? A board that stops working when a driver is installed points at something deeper to me. If what you have seen was common, all of us would be running driver free.

[cstkl1]

raja can i have 0503. found that as the best bios. need a backup. its for m6e

btw is there a way to backup the whole bios into a usb stick??

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