ASUS Z77 Motherboards - Official Support Thread

[DEFLORATOR]

P8Z77 WS Beta Bios 0703 fixed my LSI Problem on my P8Z77 WS some days ago

Wow, what is the date of that beta bios?
Wonder if the same fix is coming for Deluxe.

[therealJMC]

It was build on the 14th (the day i got it from the support) - just forgot to post it here

[jp7152]

Hopefuly the fix is coming for the sabertooth also

[Bitgod]

So what's the best way to turn off polling in AI Suite? I prefer to AIDA because I have it showing info on my G19 screen, but I always want to make sure Fan Xpert is able to work correctly.

Is there some info about the Anti-surge "feature" somewhere? How does one know if it's activated? I've been having some issues with my system shutting down over the past week (mentioned it in the HOCP thread), and I was thinking maybe it was the new PSU I have, so I've swapped back my old one to see if the system still shuts down. The first time I had this happen, the system restarted, but all the other times, the system turns off and it won't turn on any way I try until I power off the PSU and turn it back on (which is why I was looking at the PSU at this point). But since I use AI Suite and AIDA too, maybe I'm looking at a SW issue? Well...I'd think it'd still power on though?

[Praz]

Go to settings in AI Suite and disable everything but but Fan Xpert 2. When Anti-Surge is activated normally a message stating so will appear on the next boot. If you are not seeing this message something else is most likely the problem.

[theix]

Is it normal to have VCCSA automatically set to 1.1000 in auto setting for 2600MHz DRAM? It's P8Z77-v Deluxe BIOS 1015.

[plane501]

Is it normal to have VCCSA automatically set to 1.1000 in auto setting for 2600MHz DRAM? It's P8Z77-v Deluxe BIOS 1015.

yes

[Bitgod]

Go to settings in AI Suite and disable everything but but Fan Xpert 2. When Anti-Surge is activated normally a message stating so will appear on the next boot. If you are not seeing this message something else is most likely the problem.

Ugh, ok, I haven't seen those messages. I know it's not my first PSU because it's shutdown on me using my previous PSU. I've gone ahead and reflashed BIOS, cleared cmos, set to defaults, disabled a few on-board devices I don't need, and for the heck of it turned off the anti-surge. Fingers crossed that something magical happens, I guess if something still happens I may have to look at the mobo itself? Only other non-mobo things that changed a week-ish ago that I can think of is going back to the 1050 BIOS I was using to see if it still happens and the talk about AIDA vs AI Suite made me remember I had moved up the refresh rate on my AIDA to every second a week or so ago, I think it was at 2 seconds previously.

[Nico]

Just build a new system on a M5G, but it will not startup at all, with a videcard installed. Tried a 4870x2 and a 9800gtx but I can only ocassionally get the fans to spin a bit then stop. If I pul the videocard out, the fans spin up and the post sequence seems to be going thru ok, but I don't have a HDMI connection to check it out. By default it should boot fine from either GPU or iGPU, and I have reset the cmos to no effect

Is the motherboard stuffed?

[Raja@ASUS]

Ugh, ok, I haven't seen those messages. I know it's not my first PSU because it's shutdown on me using my previous PSU. I've gone ahead and reflashed BIOS, cleared cmos, set to defaults, disabled a few on-board devices I don't need, and for the heck of it turned off the anti-surge. Fingers crossed that something magical happens, I guess if something still happens I may have to look at the mobo itself? Only other non-mobo things that changed a week-ish ago that I can think of is going back to the 1050 BIOS I was using to see if it still happens and the talk about AIDA vs AI Suite made me remember I had moved up the refresh rate on my AIDA to every second a week or so ago, I think it was at 2 seconds previously.

Check system temps. Have you overclocked in any way? Shutdown like this suggests something is very unstable or you are hitting a thermal or current shutdown (both of which would be due to OC unless case airflow is an issue).

[Raja@ASUS]

Just build a new system on a M5G, but it will not startup at all, with a videcard installed. Tried a 4870x2 and a 9800gtx but I can only ocassionally get the fans to spin a bit then stop. If I pul the videocard out, the fans spin up and the post sequence seems to be going thru ok, but I don't have a HDMI connection to check it out. By default it should boot fine from either GPU or iGPU, and I have reset the cmos to no effect

Is the motherboard stuffed?

Try updating to the latest UEFI using USB BIOS flashback with a Fat32 fortmatted drive. Rename file to M5G.CAP

If no start up at all, check all power connections and that memory (clicks in on both sides) and GPU are firmly seated, also check socket for bent pins and reseat CPU.

-Raja

[Hondacity]

there could be a short in the pcie slot, use another pcie slot.

[Nico]

Try updating to the latest UEFI using USB BIOS flashback with a Fat32 fortmatted drive. Rename file to M5G.CAP

If no start up at all, check all power connections and that memory (clicks in on both sides) and GPU are firmly seated, also check socket for bent pins and reseat CPU.

-Raja

I'll give it a try, but seems like it should work alot easier than this. tried different PSU's, RAM and Videocards, and I'm very careful about installing CPU's so I pretty sure there are no isssues there and as I pointed out, seems to be related to having a Videocard installed.

there could be a short in the pcie slot, use another pcie slot.

Yeah tried that, same story

[Hondacity]

rma with the seller, hopefully they replace it with a working board.

[Nico]

Try updating to the latest UEFI using USB BIOS flashback with a Fat32 fortmatted drive. Rename file to M5G.CAP

If no start up at all, check all power connections and that memory (clicks in on both sides) and GPU are firmly seated, also check socket for bent pins and reseat CPU.

-Raja

Ok, updated to 0813 and still seems to boot up ok with no videocard. No joy at all with videocard installed, absolutely nothing happens when you push the Start button

Will strip it down and if nothing obvious then it lloks like RMA time.

[Bitgod]

Ugh, ok, I haven't seen those messages. I know it's not my first PSU because it's shutdown on me using my previous PSU. I've gone ahead and reflashed BIOS, cleared cmos, set to defaults, disabled a few on-board devices I don't need, and for the heck of it turned off the anti-surge. Fingers crossed that something magical happens, I guess if something still happens I may have to look at the mobo itself? Only other non-mobo things that changed a week-ish ago that I can think of is going back to the 1050 BIOS I was using to see if it still happens and the talk about AIDA vs AI Suite made me remember I had moved up the refresh rate on my AIDA to every second a week or so ago, I think it was at 2 seconds previously.

Check system temps. Have you overclocked in any way? Shutdown like this suggests something is very unstable or you are hitting a thermal or current shutdown (both of which would be due to OC unless case airflow is an issue).

Purely stock settings at this point, in terms of CPU and RAM. I talk about it more in the HOCP thread, but basically after apply defaults, the only changes are to disable a few of the on-board stuff. Which temp would you like me to go by, CPU or motherboard? Unfortunately, I am in a bit of a hot room, and spent a few hours playing games tonight, so that my mobo temp was at 51, though it's low 40s now that I'm just web browsing. Ideally I'd wish it to be a little cooler, but I don't think those temps are issues, are they? And really, as far as on Sunday, the one time it shut down it was within the first 90 min of use, don't know what time for sure, and it wasn't too hot yet and idling. And then it was fine the next 12 hours, including playing games when the system was definitely hotter.

[Raja@ASUS]

Purely stock settings at this point, in terms of CPU and RAM. I talk about it more in the HOCP thread, but basically after apply defaults, the only changes are to disable a few of the on-board stuff. Which temp would you like me to go by, CPU or motherboard? Unfortunately, I am in a bit of a hot room, and spent a few hours playing games tonight, so that my mobo temp was at 51, though it's low 40s now that I'm just web browsing. Ideally I'd wish it to be a little cooler, but I don't think those temps are issues, are they? And really, as far as on Sunday, the one time it shut down it was within the first 90 min of use, don't know what time for sure, and it wasn't too hot yet and idling. And then it was fine the next 12 hours, including playing games when the system was definitely hotter.

Are you still using two memory kits together (4 sticks) or a single kit? Keep posts in one place I think, helps with debugging not to have to chase back and forth for info.

[DEFLORATOR]

Raja@ASUS

therealJMC reported that he received bios 0703 for his P8Z77 WS resolving issue with LSI raid cards.
I believe that the same fix has been prepared for other Z77 boards. Could you please provide me with the fix for P8Z77-V Deluxe? I really apprecialte it.

[Raja@ASUS]

I have not received it, otherwise I would have posted it. From what I hear still in test, don't have an ETA yet.

[ChronoDog]

I'm a proud owner of a brand new P8Z77-I Deluxe, and I've got a couple of questions about it.
Perhaps this is a bit offtopic and/or has been asked before (I couldn't fine any info on it), but...
1) Is something similar to ASRock's "Good Night LED" ever going to be implemented on the latest Asus boards?
(It's a feature that simply turns all of the PC's LEDs (Power, HDD, Lan, Keyboard locks) off during Sleep mode)
2) Is there a way to make the board turn the PC on with a random keystroke or mouseclick? Because I haven't found one

Thanks in advance

[DEFLORATOR]

I have not received it, otherwise I would have posted it. From what I hear still in test, don't have an ETA yet.

Anyway, thank you for response, as usual.

By the way, do you have any idea if this kind of error in System Log is CPU-related or MB-related?

A corrected hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Corrected Machine Check
Error Type: Internal parity error
Processor ID: 1

The details view of this entry contains further information.

The error (warning, to be correct) is generated by WHEA-Logger, Event ID 19. Seems that parity error occurs, and then is corrected by ECC of CPU cache.
Processor ID every time changes from 0 to 3, it is not that exact core is failing.
I constantly receive such warnings when I stress my overclocked CPU (by Prime95, for example). At stock frequency there are no such.
I tried 3 different 3770K (BOX and OEM), and all of them generated such warning when overclocked. I even started to think mobo is the reason (RAM is 100% Memtest86+ stable).

Could you guys please look into your System Log and check if there are such warnings generated by WHEA-Logger? Though the parity error was corrected by CPU logic, I think that such overclock cannot be considered stable.

[Nico]

Ok, updated to 0813 and still seems to boot up ok with no videocard. No joy at all with videocard installed, absolutely nothing happens when you push the Start button

Will strip it down and if nothing obvious then it lloks like RMA time.

Ok, I relented and borrowed an HDMI cable and wheeled my LCD TV round to the PC. It did indeed work fine with iGPU/ HDMI, and after trying to set PCI-E and GEN1 it still failed. Going back to iGPU again and checking everything I could see, I decided to load optimised defaults and give it one last attempt.

It worked lol

Now running on PCI-E and starting to play, still a little cautious but seems to be holding up so far and all ready had to cmos clr once lol.

Fingers crossed its fixed now

[Raja@ASUS]

Anyway, thank you for response, as usual.

By the way, do you have any idea if this kind of error in System Log is CPU-related or MB-related?

A corrected hardware error has occurred.

Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Corrected Machine Check
Error Type: Internal parity error
Processor ID: 1

The details view of this entry contains further information.

The error (warning, to be correct) is generated by WHEA-Logger, Event ID 19. Seems that parity error occurs, and then is corrected by ECC of CPU cache.
Processor ID every time changes from 0 to 3, it is not that exact core is failing.
I constantly receive such warnings when I stress my overclocked CPU (by Prime95, for example). At stock frequency there are no such.
I tried 3 different 3770K (BOX and OEM), and all of them generated such warning when overclocked. I even started to think mobo is the reason (RAM is 100% Memtest86+ stable).

Could you guys please look into your System Log and check if there are such warnings generated by WHEA-Logger? Though the parity error was corrected by CPU logic, I think that such overclock cannot be considered stable.

That means the OC is not stable (IMC reports memory parity error), so peg back to where it is or tune settings for stability.

[Raja@ASUS]

I'm a proud owner of a brand new P8Z77-I Deluxe, and I've got a couple of questions about it.
Perhaps this is a bit offtopic and/or has been asked before (I couldn't fine any info on it), but...
1) Is something similar to ASRock's "Good Night LED" ever going to be implemented on the latest Asus boards?
(It's a feature that simply turns all of the PC's LEDs (Power, HDD, Lan, Keyboard locks) off during Sleep mode)
2) Is there a way to make the board turn the PC on with a random keystroke or mouseclick? Because I haven't found one

Thanks in advance

1) Go to APM section of UEFI and enable ErP, depending upon how your PSU supports ErP this will limit current to or switch off all SB devices.

2) This should be in the APM section too.

[ChronoDog]

1) Go to APM section of UEFI and enable ErP, depending upon how your PSU supports ErP this will limit current to or switch off all SB devices.

2) This should be in the APM section too.

1) I've enabled ErP, but unfortunately the Power LED is still blinking annoyingly during Sleep. Isn't it possible to add a BIOS option to just keep it off?
2) Here's everything the P8Z77-I Deluxe has in the APM section:



Note: when enabling ErP, the last two "Power On By..." options get automatically disabled and vice versa, but no "Power On By Keyboard/Mouse" option in sight