Ran into a little problem with my current build. I've been building systems for over 25 years and I'm not sure what exactly may be wrong here. I've been pretty lucky with hardware over the years and usually when something goes wrong it's fairly obvious, and I currently lack spare parts to swap out in order to test. It's pretty obviously either the CPU, motherboard or memory, but exactly what I'm not certain of. I've been building AMD systems for years and decided to go Intel for the first time in nearly 20 years so I lack the parts needed to test many of the components save for an old video card from my last build that I can use.
Z270 Asus Maximus IX Hero
i7-7700k
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200mhz (2x8)
MSI GTX 1080ti
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 850W
Thermaltake Water 3.0
PNY CS1311 480GB SATA SSD
Windows 10 OS
The issue began when I attempted to wake up my system. My screens immediately turned on from sleep mode but both screens were black with the white Windows pointer on the screen. Windows didn't respond to any commands so I hit the reset button and tried to reboot, getting stuck in POST with the DRAM LED turning on and halting at code 32, "CPU post-memory initialization" before seemingly resetting the POST and getting stuck in this loop. For visual reference I took a video below in order to see the loop it's stuck in.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJOpK5-_a4
First thing I did was start and strip down the system. Took the video card out and tried the onboard video. Next I took out the RAM, testing each stick in slot A2 as per the manual instructions for one stick, then attempting all the slots, alternating sticks for giggles to no avail. Next I tried popping out the CMOS battery for a while, no effect, then tried used their BIOS flash USB update feature in order to update to the most recent BIOS and nothing changed. I suppose the next thing to do is pop out the CPU and check for physical damage but I'd like to see what professionals think before I do this.
The system has been stable for 2 years. The only problem I ever had was in the first two months the motherboard died and I had to RMA it but since then it has been silky smooth. Worth noting the system has not ever been overclocked and I've had no cooling issues what so ever.
Thank you for your time!
Z270 Asus Maximus IX Hero
i7-7700k
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200mhz (2x8)
MSI GTX 1080ti
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 850W
Thermaltake Water 3.0
PNY CS1311 480GB SATA SSD
Windows 10 OS
The issue began when I attempted to wake up my system. My screens immediately turned on from sleep mode but both screens were black with the white Windows pointer on the screen. Windows didn't respond to any commands so I hit the reset button and tried to reboot, getting stuck in POST with the DRAM LED turning on and halting at code 32, "CPU post-memory initialization" before seemingly resetting the POST and getting stuck in this loop. For visual reference I took a video below in order to see the loop it's stuck in.
First thing I did was start and strip down the system. Took the video card out and tried the onboard video. Next I took out the RAM, testing each stick in slot A2 as per the manual instructions for one stick, then attempting all the slots, alternating sticks for giggles to no avail. Next I tried popping out the CMOS battery for a while, no effect, then tried used their BIOS flash USB update feature in order to update to the most recent BIOS and nothing changed. I suppose the next thing to do is pop out the CPU and check for physical damage but I'd like to see what professionals think before I do this.
The system has been stable for 2 years. The only problem I ever had was in the first two months the motherboard died and I had to RMA it but since then it has been silky smooth. Worth noting the system has not ever been overclocked and I've had no cooling issues what so ever.
Thank you for your time!
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