P8P67 Deluxe B3 occasionally fails

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Greetings,

While building my system a few months ago, I learned heaps by "studying" on the forum. A few months on, while really loving my build, one question remains as a problem crops its head every couple weeks or so.

About every two weeks, at boot time, I get an American Megatrends screen saying "Overclocking Failed". The odd thing is that I am not aware that the system is trying to overclock.

When this happens, I go to BIOS / Advanced / Tools and load my default profile, which is just a copy of the default profile with a couple adjustments for the hard drive.

Would any of you have an idea of where in the BIOS or the ASUS tools I might have gone wrong and told the system to try strange things behind my back every once in a while?

With gratitude,
Wishing you all a beautiful day


ASUS P8P67 Deluxe / unknown case / Intel i7-2600K / Corsair 750HX
16GB Corsair Dominator / Noctua NH-D14 / 128GB Crucial m4 SSD
2TB Seagate Barracuda Green / EVGA nVidia GeForce 9500GT
ASUS DRW-24B3ST 24X / Asus VH242H 23.6" / Logitech X-230
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM edition
Virtual OS: OSX Lion in VMWare, Linux Mint 11 (Katya) in VMWare

 

[Puppies04]

have you got your TPU switch on the mobo in the on posistion? Check your manual for its location but if you aren't overclocking it should be turned off.

 

[mikeymikec]

I've seen "overclocking failed" when no overclocking was being done. I think it's a default message when the BIOS realises that it has its knickers in a twist.

I would probably try resetting the CMOS and reinstating BIOS settings manually to see if that helps (there could be some bizarre issue with loading a profile). If that doesn't help, you could try replacing the battery.

I assume the machine doesn't do anything dodgy like freeze up before this BIOS problem happens.

 

[bankster55]

Yeah, o/clocking failed is a generic message, but usually means RAM. Standard on the chipset is 1066 1333 and 1600. If you look in your manual the other speeds over that say (O.C.) after their number

Since you are running dominator you are prob pretty high on the scale (you did not specify)
So the first thing you must do is find XMP profile in bios and set enabled. If you download the P8P67 manual from ASUS in pdf form you can do a search for XMP and find it immediately. If that still doesnt work, you can look in the manual also for instructions of using the mem OK button. It will mess around trying to find a good speed/voltage for RAM, and will prob declock the RAM a bit if you are on the edge.

Fwiw 4 sticks in a single 16GB pak are guaranteed to run well, but 2 paks of 8GB might not be suitable for ea other.

 

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Hi Puppies04, hi mikeymikec, hi bankster55,

Thank you very much for your thoughtful replies.
You have given me some exciting home work for the weekend.
I will have a look at all these directions.

Wishing you all a fun weekend

 

[Puppies04]

Hope you get it sorted Play

 

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have you got your TPU switch on the mobo in the on posistion?

Finally opened the box today and turned off the TPU. We'll see how we go.

Thanks again, and wishing you all a fun end of the year.

 

[lenjack]

How do you know it's the mobo at fault?

 

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How do you know it's the mobo at fault?

I don't know. But I'm glad to have somewhere to start troubleshooting.