ASUS Maximus VI Extreme Booting Problem: Error 55

[Seth Liebert]

So, I decided to build my first rig with the help of my older brother who is the "expert". I'm kinda new at this and I'm working through my problems one at a time. Everything is plugged in correctly but I am having trouble booting up my computer. I'm recieving a Motherboard Error 55 code even though all of my RAM is connected. My specs are listed below. Thank you for any help you can give me.

Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME LGA 1150 Intel Z87
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K
GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 770
RAM: CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866
Power: CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Error 55 = memory not installed

Connected where .... what slots ...is it as per the manual ? Asus standard was usually 2nd and 4th from CPU ... On Maximus VI Formula it was 1st and 3rd.

After verifying slots to be used, put 1 stick in in the left most of the two designated spots as per the manual. Boot.

If it doesn't work, try other stick. If it doesn't work try the other usable slot again one at a time. This should determine of you have a bad module or bad slot.

I have seen slots "killed" by over tightening a CPU cooler.

Is system on XMP profile, it so try standard.

Make a Boot CD for Memtest86+ and see if you can get far enough to test RAM in correct slots. If fails, again try on eat a time.

 

[Seth Liebert]

Hey Jack, thank for the reply. When I get home from work I will give your solutions a go and see what I come up with. Now I'm just counting the hours till I get off of work.

 

[Seth Liebert]

Jack, after thinking about it. If I over tightened the CPU cooler wouldn't I get a different error than the one I am currently recieving?

Also, I am using all 4 memory slots.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The overtightening warps the MoBo which can break the circuit traces in the board. Sometimes, loosening will restore contact but it's iffy. I have done three rebuilds in last 18 months from peeps who added Hyper 212's ..... one had a visible crack, one memory stopped working after swapping coolers (new MoBo Fixed) and the other I dunno what happened but again MoBo switch worked. two of them needed a CPU as they were1156 builds ... luckily OEM Windows still activated.

Again, start 1 at a time.

 

[sneaky999]

Hi, I just wanted to throw my own experience and solution to that dreaded error 55.

I had a perfectly working system with Asus Maximus VI Gene and upgraded it with a Cooler Master 240M Nepton. After that I got the error 55, which puzzled me greatly as the memory modules was probably the only component that I hadnt touched during that upgrade. In my case the issue was incorrectly installed cooler standoffs. There are apparantly a small layer of insulations on one side of the standoffs, which if you choose poorly will result in error 55. Luckily it was as easy as unscrewing the standoff and flipping it over to make my problem disappear.

A throwback to the blog that saved my rig https://major.io/2014/08/22/asus-maximus-vi-gene-error-55/

 

[fl_ow_de]

Time went by - experienced the Error 55 on my ASUS ROG Board as well...
It happened when trying to put an IVY BRIDGE CPU onto the Z68 Board:

No sound, no picture.

And sometimes it's really necessary to find out, what the booting process does "next".
It held at code 55, but the RAM was fine.
The error was the CPU MISMATCH, because the BIOS VERSION was too old. So the LED just stuck in the latest step before the error occurred.

Thank god, ASUS offers the USB BIOS FLASHBACK, which allows you to (re-)set your BIOS on a blank board (without CPU, RAM etc...)

Due to the fact that i found uncountable different hints for this:
a) Find USB Stick (max 4GB) and format it to FAT32
b) Download latest BIOS Version on ASUS Page
c) Download the Bios Renamer (Bios Tools) for the same Mainboard
d) Put Bios (.rom or .cap) and renamer on stick. Renamer does nothing than rename the file to a specific mainboard shortname (e.g. M4EZ.rom for the Maximus IV Extreme-Z...)
e) Find the ROG Connect/ BIOS Flashback USB Port on the Board and put the Stick in.
f) Push ROG-Connect / BIOS Flashback Button for at least 3 seconds.
g) The BIOS LED on the Mainboard should blink for about 3 Minutes, (if there is none, the button might blink) - BIOS Flash is finished.
h) No Blink means that there is a BIOS mismatch, filename mismatch or the USB Stick is broken/too large/wrong format.

And - to close this up:
Experiencing a blue screen when exchanging mainboard and cpu when restarting windows might be a result of a misconfigured sata controller. Open BIOS and make sure that the configuration sais IDE and not AHCI. After installing the matching ahci drivers for the mainboard, you can switch this setting back to default.

Hope that helps anyone with the same issue.