Question Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 is the Bios chip dead?

[LeJimmy]

Hi guys, few weeks ago my PC started to make some weird stuff. Random restart, variable overclocking, unable to boot or starting to boot and shutdown immediately.

So my I started to check everything, I do a clear cmos, changed the cmos battery, unpluged ram/sata/gpu, removed and replaced the cpu and thermal paste, and nothing changed.

And yesterday I notice that the ''Dr Debug'' makes some weird flashes on the little lcd. The LCD flash constantly, and stay stuck on ''00'' and ''10'' and never stopping flashing, even if I do clear Cmos and everything I wrote.

Sometime my PC agree to boot, for no reasons after 8-10 hours of shutdown, at this moment the ''Dr Debug'' do the job and check the classic ''numbers'', but the PC do some random reboots and I return to the starting point.

So after all the checks, I think it's a faulty Bios Chip, what do you think guys?

Thanks in advance.

Edit here's the specs :

Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
i7 - 3770k
2 x 8gb ddr3 1866mhz HyperX
gtx 1080ti Evga ftw3
500gb ssd samsung Evo Sata
1.5tb HDD Western Digital Green

 

[daveybrat]

It's hard to give you advice without knowing the hardware specs of your computer.

 

[LeJimmy]

It's hard to give you advice without knowing the hardware specs of your computer.

sorry, I have edited the first post :

Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
i7 - 3770k
2 x 8gb ddr3 1866mhz HyperX
gtx 1080ti Evga ftw3
500gb ssd samsung Evo Sata
1.5tb HDD Western Digital Green

 

[LeJimmy]

The PSU is a Seasonic G series Gold 750W, and the motherboard dates from 2010

 

[VirtualLarry]

Honestly, a 10-year old mobo, and you've been overclocking your CPU all of this time, I assume? If so, the board probably finally just "gave out", and you probably need a new one, although good luck finding one new for any price not approaching astronomical, because they are no longer being made.

This is a sign from your PC, time to upgrade to a Ryzen AM4 build.

 

[LeJimmy]

Honestly, a 10-year old mobo, and you've been overclocking your CPU all of this time, I assume? If so, the board probably finally just "gave out", and you probably need a new one, although good luck finding one new for any price not approaching astronomical, because they are no longer being made.

This is a sign from your PC, time to upgrade to a Ryzen AM4 build.

yeah probably , and I want a Ryzen build, but I just want to be sure I have done everything before change MB+CPU+RAM. I have ordered a chip bios for 15$US, this is the last chance for my old friend.

 

[UsandThem]

Hi guys, few weeks ago my PC started to make some weird stuff. Random restart, variable overclocking, unable to boot or starting to boot and shutdown immediately.

Sometime my PC agree to boot, for no reasons after 8-10 hours of shutdown, at this moment the ''Dr Debug'' do the job and check the classic ''numbers'', but the PC do some random reboots and I return to the starting point.

The PSU is a Seasonic G series Gold 750W, and the motherboard dates from 2010

Honestly, a 10-year old mobo, and you've been overclocking your CPU all of this time, I assume? If so, the board probably finally just "gave out", and you probably need a new one, although good luck finding one new for any price not approaching astronomical, because they are no longer being made.

Could be V Larry, but I'm going to say based on the description the issue is likely PSU related.

"Booting after 8-10 hours of shutdown", "random reboots". Sounds like a dead/almost dead PSU that is roughly 10 years old, and was a unit that only had a 5 year warranty.

 

[UsandThem]

yeah probably , and I want a Ryzen build, but I just want to be sure I have done everything before change MB+CPU+RAM. I have ordered a chip bios for 15$US, this is the last chance for my old friend.

That wouldn't have been my first guess/move when looking at your stated issues, but since you already ordered it, I'd say "sure, why not?".

 

[VirtualLarry]

Oh, I thought that when he mentioned a "G Series Gold PSU" that it was a recent purchase, and not that the PSU itself was also 10 years old. A 10 year old PSU could cause those problems.

 

[LeJimmy]

Could be V Larry, but I'm going to say based on the description the issue is likely PSU related.

"Booting after 8-10 hours of shutdown", "random reboots". Sounds like a dead/almost dead PSU that is roughly 10 years old, and was a unit that only had a 5 year warranty.

The PSU dates from 2014. I have to find another PSU to try it.

 

[UsandThem]

The PSU dates from 2014. I have to find another PSU to try it.

I would be testing out the PSU, RAM, CPU, and GPU first before replacing any of the components on the motherboard. In 25 years of building PCs, I've never had to replace a BIOS chip on a motherboard. Unless a person bricks their PC from a bad/wrong BIOS flash, the odds of that being the problem is way down the problem checklist.

 

[LeJimmy]

I would be testing out the PSU, RAM, CPU, and GPU first before replacing any of the components on the motherboard. In 25 years of building PCs, I've never had to replace a BIOS chip on a motherboard. Unless a person bricks their PC from a bad/wrong BIOS flash, the odds of that being the problem is way down the problem checklist.

I have already tried without GPU, RAM, SATA and CPU, and the motherboard do the same things, the flashing Dr Debug. The motherboard doesn't even have time to tell anything. It's stuck on the eternal number rolling.

BTW sorry for my English, it's not my primary language.

 

[LeJimmy]

Today the Pc run fine but for no reason. The 0-10/11 error code seems to be related to the Ram or a short somewhere (PEI Core is started ). That's weird because sometimes the PC won't boot at all (for 10 hours sometimes) and sometimes the PC without any problem and stay ok for few days (gaming etc...). I'm pretty lost -_-
But I have ordered my new rig (Ryzen) but I want to resolved that mystery first.

 

[Meghan54]

Did you reset the overclock of your cpu back to its stock settings? I have seen this work.....overclocked cpu/mb combo works for years until it doesn't...and un-overclocking the cpu seems to revive the combo back to working without issues.

If that works, it'll maybe give you a bit of time before the cpu/mb crashes completely with no recourse to reviving it.