ASUS Rampage IV Formula - Issues

[ZeroChill]

Have a couple odd things happening with my new motherboard.

1) From a cold start (powered off) a USB keyboard is not always enabled in time to enter the BIOS during the 10 second (maximum setting) interval during boot. I basically have to quick press RESET to have it cycle booting again. The second time works. Warm resets always work. Probably a BIOS bug?

2) Once or twice a day the motherboard temperature suddenly becomes 123c or -60c. I am using ASUS AI Suite II to monitor the sensor.

For #2, has anyone else had the problem or heard of the problem? Wondering whether it is a failing sensor, a bios error, an AI Suite bug, or what. Not sure whether to ignore it or RMA the board.


EDIT: Evidently not an AI Suite bug since AIDA64 also seems to report the sudden jump in temperatures. So either a failing sensor or BIOS bug.

I am still interested in hearing back whether anyone else has experienced this kind of problem before ...

[realneil]

I have not had it happen with my ASRock boards yet.
Have you D/L'd the latest BIOS for it yet? You can flash it through the EUFI BIOS's pages with the new BIOS loaded onto a USB flash drive.

[ZeroChill]

Yep, I upgraded to the latest BIOS (3404) last week-ish when I put it all together. Your post prompted me to check for an update ... guess what ... they removed all download links for the motherboard!!!

[realneil]

Yep, I upgraded to the latest BIOS (3404) last week-ish when I put it all together. Your post prompted me to check for an update ... guess what ... they removed all download links for the motherboard!!!

That is not good,.........

It's considered to be at end of life?
If you already got the files, keep them by all means! Yikes!

[ZeroChill]

End-of-life? Not to my knowledge. Perhaps they are reworking the web site (fingers crossed). I grabbed all of the downloadable files last week, so am set in that regard.

[Deton]

#2, I've seen this problem with some of my Asus boards, it's sensor faulty, it's not software.

[ZeroChill]

#2, I've seen this problem with some of my Asus boards, it's sensor faulty, it's not software.

Ahhh. Do you think its okay to simply be ignored, or better to RMA the board?

[realneil]

I would RMA the board since I have other PCs to use while it's gone.

[Deton]

RMA if you can, the tricky part is only happen occasional, it's come and go.
First you should request a tech support from Asus. The technician will advise you all the troubleshooting tips, then report back that you've tried all his/her suggestions but no luck. Now request RMA ticket and provide them the tech support case #, this way you can avoid them to send back your old board if they can't find the problem after they test it.

[Alpaca]

Hi,
Having issues booting from USB device from BIOS on the RAMPAGE IV FORMULA.
Anybody else have/had same issue? Thanks in advance.

[Cyberburnout]

Hi,
Having issues booting from USB device from BIOS on the RAMPAGE IV FORMULA.
Anybody else have/had same issue? Thanks in advance.

Well it depends on what you are trying to boot. Is it a "UEFI" bootable device or a standard windows or dos type "Legacy" device. Those two words means a lot when booting newer boards. The bios settings for booting to a USB drive needs to be correct. Also try to only use USB 2.0 instead of 3.0 (especially for Windows 7 installs). If it is an UEFI bootable device there can only be so many files in the root of the drive or it will get ignored.

Give us a bit more detail about what you are trying to do. Does the USB ports work with mouse and KB?

[Alpaca]

Hi,

thanks for getting back to me.

Im trying to usb boot a windows 7 black from my passport ultra.

I have the usb setup all fine and the windows install files that goes on it.

The setup then tells me to then reboot computer to BIOS and boot from USB.

Everytime I have told the RAMPAGE to do this, it just boots to my usual hard disk

drive and loads my present windows 7 ultimate.

Any ideas?

Thank you

[Alpaca]

Hi,

thanks for getting back to me.

Im trying to usb boot a windows 7 black from my passport ultra.

I have the usb setup all fine and the windows install files that goes on it.

The setup then tells me to then reboot computer to BIOS and boot from USB.

Everytime I have told the RAMPAGE to do this, it just boots to my usual hard disk

drive and loads my present windows 7 ultimate.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Its on USB 2.0 not 3.0.

[Alpaca]

Its on USB 2.0 not 3.0.

USB ports A1

[Solara2xb]

Go into the BIO and make sure the HD Boot Priorities are set up to see the USB HD first and not your Internal drive.
If you have already done that, then that means your USB boot Drive is not set up to be a bootable drive.

From what I remember, for USB drives to be bootable, they need to be formatted to FAT32, and not NTFS. The system will NOT see NTFS as a bootable device on the USB side.
Double chk that and let us know.

[Cyberburnout]

Sounds like an issue I just had with a Windows 8 disc. Supposed to have been bootable. did the same exact thing your dealing with. Something was wrong with the Windows boot section on the disc. tried it in other system same problem. Used a different boot disc and it booted perfectly. Try another disc and the current one in another system