ASUS Sabertooth X99 - 'No Memory Error' - plz help

[Romulus Tiberius]

Hi there, wonder if anyone can help. I have built a new system with a ASUS Sabertooth X99, an i7 6900k, a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 and 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 4x4GB 3000MHz, and the ram it's not on the qualified vendor list for ram, and my board won't boot up. I get the 1 long beep follow by 2 short beeps, which indicates that 'no Memory was found', according to the manual. I've tried flashing BIOS and the flashback button doesn't work when I just have the board connected to power. I presume I must use some sort of software to update it, however, I can't boot up anything and MemOK! doesn't work either... keeps going back to same loop... What to do?... Pretty lost..

 

[Tanyac]

For flashback to work the USB stick must be a USB 2.0 stick, formatted as FAT32 with the binary file only on the stick, and must conform to a specific name, which is either specified on the website or in the manual. You then have to put the USB 2.0 stick into the flashback USB port and then press flashback button. It takes about 3 - 4 minutes to flash.

Note that ASUS X99 boards are notorious for chipset booting issues.

Good luck.

 

[Romulus Tiberius]

Ah crap, didn't know they have issues... :-< Been using ASUS for more than 15 years now... never had issues with them, maybe I was just lucky...

Yeah, I've tried to do all the BIOS Flashback update as specified by ASUS, renamed it correctly, on FAT 32, on USB 2.0, just 1 file, all of it.. The board is just not having any of it... Called SCAN, where I bought it from, so now I'm sending back MB, CPU and RAM.. so hopefully it will get sorted soon.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Tanyac]

I feel for you. I just went through a similar issue with an ASUS X99-Deluxe/3.1. This motherboard would just refuse to cold boot unless I cleared the CMOS and went into BIOS and press F10 and reboot. ASUS Refunded the board.

I also had a Gigabyte X99 Phoenix SLI which had exactly the same issues you describe in the OP. I went through the same process, and eventually had to concede the board was faulty. The reseller refunded the motherboard without question.

I too took the CPU, motherboard and two RAM kits to the reseller - all from a working system. In the end they just refunded the board, and it's unlikely to be the CPU. RAM, quite possibly, but when it's listed on the vendors QVL I guess there is just no point arguing the matter

With vendors pushing memory speeds and the ever increasing variety of timings, and the slow pace at which BIOS firmware is released, and the drop in manufacturing quality it seems there are a lot more problems and it's not going to improve any time soon 🙁