ASUS Official X79 Motherboards Support Thread

[Dumo]

1.75V for MFR and 2.2V for Samsung

[Shiranui Gen-An]

VTT and VCCSA?

[Dumo]

Both 1.25V on auto settings

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Man that ES 4960x has a strong IMC. I can boot with RAM at those speeds but not pass 32M.

[TASOS]

Yes, it appears you do need a SB-E, possibly 9XX (2011) socket CPU. Here is what didn't work for me.
Buy R4E MB
Put IB-E in socket and do the rest..
Clear CMOS
Power board... Nothing, no CPU start up.
When you can get USB 'connect' to power up, a laptop did clear CMOS and power it; but would say CPU locked.
I didn't know the BIOS level (After putting in my SB-E it was 36XX) was. This is a CAP style UEFI F/W. USB Flashback should I WOULD THINK load CAP files.

I tried everything I could think of available to me... NOTHING!!

WHAT WORKED
The only way I got the IB-E up and running was put in a SB-E, Flash to 4403. then drop in my IB-E.

After CMOS reset, powered board was the system able to initialize.

That was exactly my thought.

Thanks for the confirmation.

[Dumo]

Tests PSC



BBSE

[DisposableHero]

Upgraded my streaming PC with the new 4960x and had to update my Asus P9X79 DELUXE bios to 4302. Had some new 2400mhz Ram to go along with it.

Everything booted flawlessly. Easy OC to 4.4ghz. Then the boot problems. Put PC back to stock and still got these following issues.

Next day pc won't boot. Terrible bsod code saying boot loader is toast. Can't even get into safe mode or windows repair. Come back to pc hours later and it boots fine.

Next next day pc locks up, but not in the typical overclocking sense. HD light stuck on. Mouse is fine along with streaming to twitch.tv, but I couldn't right click or really make the pc do anything. But 1080p stream still going strong.

Put Sandy-E and old ram back and still get these boot/windows issues.

Bad Samsung 840 pro that's 2 months old at the same time as this upgrade??

tldr: Ivy-e + 2400mhz ram + bios update
boot loader error > pc locks up with HD light on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...xdvq48iOo#t=72
problems come and go randomly
put sandy-e and ram back to before
issues still here.

[Raja@ASUS]

Any uefi updates in the 4*** region I'd advise you use uefi bios flashback as the me won't be updated otherwise. Reduce dram clock if unstable and see how that goes for a few days.

[DisposableHero]

Any uefi updates in the 4*** region I'd advise you use uefi bios flashback as the me won't be updated otherwise. Reduce dram clock if unstable and see how that goes for a few days.

The what won't be updated? Everything back stock now. Only change is bios update.

[Dumo]

The what won't be updated?

Intel management engine

[Skrips]

Ummm....Raja? I was just on Newegg, checking on a few things, and I decided to check my wishlist. I had the R4G as my MoBo of choice for the new IB-E build I was going to get at the end of this month, but as of today Newegg is reporting something...strange?

According to Newegg, the R4G is listed as Out of Stock and Discontinued. Is this a Newegg glitch or some other type of problem? Because if I missed out on getting one of these boards by just a week or two, I would be highly disappointed...Or is ASUS up to something with them and you guys just have not given out any information yet?

Please give me some good news...


--Skrips

[christefan]

New Topic--I need some help asap. My Maximus VI won't boot in the alotted 300 second timeout for an Areca 1882 raid card as long as drives are connected to most of the ports, this wasn't happening when I was testing the same card on a z87 ASRock board. If I have 2 ssds attached it boots somewhat quickly, and it was booting with drvies attached but took around 120seconds when it booted on an ASRock in like 45 seconds. About a week ago suddenly it starting taking the entire 500 seconds and would maybe come up just before a restart warning from the controller and other times it goes all the way through the time and the controller forces a restart. I've had Areca problems with other Asus boards what is the bios issue and these raid cards? I tried gen 2, gen 3, auto, connecting one array and connecting all drives---the only thing that I can get to boot right now is just an array of 2 ssds, running Areca 1.51 frimware and previous Asus bios, not 0804. what's my solution? I need these drives up to access my files and mail--help Raj

[Raja@ASUS]

Wrong thread Christefan - and I gave you a response in the other thread as well.

[Skrips]

Wrong thread Christefan - and I gave you a response in the other thread as well.

Hey, Raja. What about my issue with the R4G availability? Any idea whats going on?

--Skrips

[Raja@ASUS]

Newegg does this all the time even when things are out of stock. I don't deal with stock movements so can't offer much else..

[Skrips]

Newegg does this all the time even when things are out of stock. I don't deal with stock movements so can't offer much else..

Hmm, I assumed as much. They are indeed notorious for this crap, but I just wanted to make sure. The only other thing I was thinking was that maybe ASUS was letting the old stocks run out so any new stock would be ensured of having the latest IB-E compatible bios. /shrug

Anyway, thanks for the heads up!

--Skrips

[TASOS]

I need some help here.

Got an R4E with old bios (unknown version)

I bought an Ivy-E

Can i flash the latest bios from rog usb and give it a go ?
Or do i need a Sandy-E prior to flashing ?

Use USB bios flashback with the latest uefi version. The flash will take a few minutes as the me will be updated.

It doesnt accept to flash a cap bios file.

So i assume it has an old rom bios loaded.

I downloaded the conversion bios (from rom to cap) and began flashing after renaming it to R4E.ROM
It flashes ok , but uppon restart , it shuts on-off repeatedly.

Do i need a sandy-bridge core at that point to finish the conversion ?

Yes, it appears you do need a SB-E, possibly 9XX (2011) socket CPU. Here is what didn't work for me.
Buy R4E MB
Put IB-E in socket and do the rest..
Clear CMOS
Power board... Nothing, no CPU start up.
When you can get USB 'connect' to power up, a laptop did clear CMOS and power it; but would say CPU locked.
I didn't know the BIOS level (After putting in my SB-E it was 36XX) was. This is a CAP style UEFI F/W. USB Flashback should I WOULD THINK load CAP files.

I tried everything I could think of available to me... NOTHING!!

WHAT WORKED
The only way I got the IB-E up and running was put in a SB-E, Flash to 4403. then drop in my IB-E.

After CMOS reset, powered board was the system able to initialize.

That was exactly my thought.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Issue solved !!!

Just for the record.

My board had bios version 1404.

Trying to flash the latest bios , was a no go.

So i needed a SB-E cpu , to flash the conversion bios 2105 first.
Then flash the latest 4403 with IVB-E support.

After that i could finaly use my 4930k.

[highspeed]

Issue solved !!!

Just for the record.

My board had bios version 1404.

Trying to flash the latest bios , was a no go.

So i needed a SB-E cpu , to flash the conversion bios 2105 first.
Then flash the latest 4403 with IVB-E support.

After that i could finaly use my 4930k.

Thanks for this information. I was thinking of getting the P9X79 with an ivy-e. But since i dont have access to a sb-e my plan was to use the usb-flashback to update to 4xxx bios. But i guess thats a bad plan then So if you dont have access to a sb-e, your only current option is to buy the new deluxe model?

[Raja@ASUS]

Current stock won't have a UEFI as old as TASOS had on his board.

[aussie-revhead]

I can't get my R4E to accept a bios via USB either, the cap converter seemed to run through but no matter what I try I can not get a bios into it. I have a 4930k I can't use, no other CPU to test or flash with and my shiny new 780 Lightning has not fired a shot in anger .... I can't even buy an "Ivy-E ready" mobo .... what a mess

[Raja@ASUS]

How long have you had this board? Contact ASUS Australia to either get you a bios chip or RMA the board for you.

All the boards we are shipping in NA are current UEFI builds - post CAP conversion. It seems there are some shops with old stock OR users have not updated their UEFI for some time.

[aussie-revhead]

I just bought it from a local forum, so I will have to pursue the first option.

Thanks.

[Raja@ASUS]

Yep, there is no issue with the retail boards we have been shipping. This is simply a case of users not upgrading their UEFI updates to the CAP builds, which they should have done several months ago. Or there might be some obscure retailers out there sitting on old stock they have not shifted. More likely the former than the latter.

[DualCpuUser]

Well then explain how having, what I say before 36XX (cap version) the USB Flashback didn't work? I used two different USB flash drives, formatted FAT32. It would read the flash drive, then halt and it NEVER would read the flash again, nor reboot after 5 mins (and we know it don't take that long).

Yep, there is no issue with the retail boards we have been shipping. This is simply a case of users not upgrading their UEFI updates to the CAP builds, which they should have done several months ago. Or there might be some obscure retailers out there sitting on old stock they have not shifted. More likely the former than the latter.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

4820K
3327A808

http://valid.canardpc.com/s32c5u



Cinebench R11.5 all @ cold air

c7


c8


IMC seems decent, 3000+ with Samsung, will post more shortly.