ASUS MAXIMUS Hero VII Q-Code 40

[NoahBE1998]

I have recently installed this open box motherboard from Newegg. I had put the memory, G Skill 8GB 1866Mghz, initially in the wrong slots, A1 and B1, while receiving A4 I think, then 40. I read in the ASUS forums that this happened to another person. They had done the same thing on it was in B1 and B2. Their Q-code was there 20 minutes, but mine is there til I shutdown. Now, with the memory in the right slots, A2 and B2, I still get the Q-code on some startups and coming out of sleep mode. Its about 70/30 for this to happen. Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it. My specs: i5-4690k, GTX 760 SLI, G Skill 1866Mghz 8GB, ASUS MAXIMUS HERO VII, AX 760 PSU, PNY Optima Series 120GB SSD, WB 1TB Blue, ASUS DvD Drive.

 

[Mugglensu1984]

Just did a search on bing with your topic and found these:

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?34454-Hero-Motherboard-Q-Code-40
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2394345/error-code-asus-hero-vii.html <<< this one was solved.

Asus Q-Code 40 means your PC has awoken from S4 sleep. What happens is in Windows 8/8.1 a feature called Fast Startup is on by default, it works by saving system info to a file upon shutdown so when you start your PC again, Windows uses that system info to resume your PC instead of restarting it.

To disable this, right click your start menu and go to Power Options, then select Choose what the Power button does, then under Shutdown settings you can disable Fast Startup. Also, disable Fast Boot in your BIOS as well, it will be in the boot section.

 

[NoahBE1998]

So it has nothing to do with the ram? The person on ASUS forums saw the code disappear after moving the ram

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It's a misread of a sleep state , not harmful , has nothing to do with ram.

 

[NoahBE1998]

While playing GTA V on pc I had cpu z on. It says my dram frequency is 799.6MHz. Why is it that instead of 1866

 

[sls2002]

cpu-z is famous becuase of this frequency error, for an accurate reading check the BIOS