Asus P8P67 Pro issue - Getting very close to returning it

I am having the very same freezing issues descibed in this thread. I first got my build together Monday night and installed windows 7 64 bit. I woke up during the middle of the night to the screeching noise as descibed here. I rebooted and woke up to a froze screen. I thought it might have been the Catalyst Control Suite so I uninstalled that. Still got random freezes all morning. I finally did a secure erase of my SSD and reinstalled Windows 7 only installing the Windows recommended driver for my Radeon HD 5750. Still got the freezes. I have tried all the BIOS on the Asus website. I have just flashed to the 1253 posted here. I will see what happens overnight. Next I guess I will try disbling C3/C6 as someone else has said. After that I'm returning this board back to New Egg. I'm going on 48 hours of straight frustration. I havn't even been able to try to overclock yet.

My specs are:
P8P67 Pro
i5-2500K
Corsair HX 1000 PS
Gskill Ripjaws 2x4GB (Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL)
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe MKNSSDCL120GB
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100284VXL Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Edit:Well that didn't take long. Just got another freeze. Going to try the C3/C6 thing but I don't forsee that working either. Board's going back to NewEgg tomorrow.
 
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pro7070 said:
I am having the very same freezing issues descibed in this thread. I first got my build together Monday night and installed windows 7 64 bit. I woke up during the middle of the night to the screeching noise as descibed here. I rebooted and woke up to a froze screen. I thought it might have been the Catalyst Control Suite so I uninstalled that. Still got random freezes all morning. I finally did a secure erase of my SSD and reinstalled Windows 7 only installing the Windows recommended driver for my Radeon HD 5750. Still got the freezes. I have tried all the BIOS on the Asus website. I have just flashed to the 1253 posted here. I will see what happens overnight. Next I guess I will try disbling C3/C6 as someone else has said. After that I'm returning this board back to New Egg. I'm going on 48 hours of straight frustration. I havn't even been able to try to overclock yet.

My specs are:
P8P67 Pro
i5-2500K
Corsair HX 1000 PS
Gskill Ripjaws 2x4GB (Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL)
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe MKNSSDCL120GB
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100284VXL Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Edit:Well that didn't take long. Just got another freeze. Going to try the C3/C6 thing but I don't forsee that working either. Board's going back to NewEgg tomorrow.
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i hope its not the ram..cause i have the same ram....

update on result on c3/c9
 
running into similar issues. random full system lockups. I haven't had my sound hooked up, so I'm not sure if im getting that or not. It's really intermittent. I've had it run for almost 2 hrs playing Elder Scrolls 4, and I've had it lock up within 5 mins doing nothing. I've already RMA'd the CPU, and got a new sealed one, so I'm assuming its either some setting I may be missing, or just a bad board. I am using all of my old AM3 components other than board/cpu. My other system was perfectly fine, so I'm doubting it has anything to do with the memory, unless there was some really weird compatitbility issue going on.

I've tried about every suggestion on this forum. If anyone has anymore insight into this, it would be gladly appreciated. If I don't hear anything tonight, im just going to RMA the board, and consider something different. Seems like theres been way too many issues with this board.
 
pro7070 said:
I am having the very same freezing issues descibed in this thread. I first got my build together Monday night and installed windows 7 64 bit. I woke up during the middle of the night to the screeching noise as descibed here. I rebooted and woke up to a froze screen. I thought it might have been the Catalyst Control Suite so I uninstalled that. Still got random freezes all morning. I finally did a secure erase of my SSD and reinstalled Windows 7 only installing the Windows recommended driver for my Radeon HD 5750. Still got the freezes. I have tried all the BIOS on the Asus website. I have just flashed to the 1253 posted here. I will see what happens overnight. Next I guess I will try disbling C3/C6 as someone else has said. After that I'm returning this board back to New Egg. I'm going on 48 hours of straight frustration. I havn't even been able to try to overclock yet.

My specs are:
P8P67 Pro
i5-2500K
Corsair HX 1000 PS
Gskill Ripjaws 2x4GB (Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL)
Mushkin Enhanced Callisto Deluxe MKNSSDCL120GB
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100284VXL Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Edit:Well that didn't take long. Just got another freeze. Going to try the C3/C6 thing but I don't forsee that working either. Board's going back to NewEgg tomorrow.
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Yeah dude, I have exactly the same issue! The same screeching freeze. OMG, it's frustrating. I even thought my GTX260 was causing it, but I guess not. I also disabled C3/C6. Will see what happens. This MB is expensive on what it offers. Seems like a rushed and flawed product. Should have went with cheaper AsRock.
 
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running into similar issues. random full system lockups. I haven't had my sound hooked up, so I'm not sure if im getting that or not. It's really intermittent. I've had it run for almost 2 hrs playing Elder Scrolls 4, and I've had it lock up within 5 mins doing nothing. I've already RMA'd the CPU, and got a new sealed one, so I'm assuming its either some setting I may be missing, or just a bad board. I am using all of my old AM3 components other than board/cpu. My other system was perfectly fine, so I'm doubting it has anything to do with the memory, unless there was some really weird compatitbility issue going on.

I've tried about every suggestion on this forum. If anyone has anymore insight into this, it would be gladly appreciated. If I don't hear anything tonight, im just going to RMA the board, and consider something different. Seems like theres been way too many issues with this board.
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Yeah, random lockups doing nothing. I can run prime/linx/IBT and it's fully stable and then BAH, freeze out of nowhere.
 
I just ran Prime95 in a live ubuntu enviroment, and it locked up after about 3 mins, which takes my OS install and drives out of the picture. It's pretty much just down to the motherboard, a setting, or some stupid little incompatibility issue.
 
shawnrussow said:
I just ran Prime95 in a live ubuntu enviroment, and it locked up after about 3 mins, which takes my OS install and drives out of the picture. It's pretty much just down to the motherboard, a setting, or some stupid little incompatibility issue.
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Try disabling the C3 and C6 sleep states in the bios, this worked for me after suffering for days with lock ups.
 
Disabling C3/C6 did not help me either. Just got another freeze. This time there was a strange noise coming from the case speaker. I've had enough. Going to give another board a try.
 
I think I have finally gotten my issue resolved. Before I had tried adjusting my memory clock speed, and the voltage, but not at the same time. This time I pulled a stick, dropped the speed to 1066, and bumped the voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 and it ran a Linx stress test for about 8 hours with 0 problems. I now have the other stick in, running the same speed/voltage, and it has been consistent so far. I feel kind of stupid on my end for not trying both of these at the same time, and wasting a week RMA'ing my CPU >.<

The strangest thing is that my memory is on the QVL, so I'm not sure why I was running into issues at stock speeds. I have some new memory on the way, so hopefully I will be able to run that at full speed without issues.

Thanks to everyone in this thread and all the others for all the useful tips.
 
Also having these issues along with the not waking up from sleep on 1253. I'm really getting annoyed with this board as well. I'm just poking around reading these threads which helps ease the notion that I'm not the only one. I'll have to try the newly released 1253.
 
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I woke up in the middle of the night to another "squeeling noise" freeze up. I ran Memtest for 4 hours this morning and no errors. Just flashed to the 1204 BIOS and also changed to XMP in BIOS and also upped my DRAM voltage to 1.525. We'll see how this goes today.

I also just ordered an Asrock Extreme4. Nothing but good reviews on it at the Egg.
 
I'll just reiterate again, memtest in no way guarantees real stability, unless you can run it at a higher memory frequency to guarantee some margin. If you can't run it at a higher frequency, run it with ram voltage like 10% low. Your pc normally isn't even close to running under worst case conditions during memtest.
 
I've been stable up running for 5.5 hours now. One other thing besides the 1204 BIOS and raising the memory voltage to 1.525 is I left my Seagate USB 3.0 external drive unplugged. If I'm still running with no freezes come morning I'll plug it back in and see if that's the cause.
 
pro7070 said:
I woke up in the middle of the night to another "squeeling noise" freeze up. I ran Memtest for 4 hours this morning and no errors. Just flashed to the 1204 BIOS and also changed to XMP in BIOS and also upped my DRAM voltage to 1.525. We'll see how this goes today.

I also just ordered an Asrock Extreme4. Nothing but good reviews on it at the Egg.
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Lockups with a squealing noise are probably the absolute worst ones possible. The only time I ever had a lockup with a noise like that on a modern system, was once when Linpack rose my QX9650 over 90C on a Tuniq Tower, years ago.

I had other random lockups on that system (Even at stock speed) which may have been caused by 4 pin 12v scorch damage due to excessive power draw, (noticed when I was getting these problems, Prime blend was failing at stock speeds); and I think reseating the cable completely fixed that problem (it was damaged anyway though). But I never had a screeching sound during any of those lockups...it was either no sound at all, or looping sounds (if I was in a game).

I don't know how a computer would make a screeching sound if the soundcard isn't playing sounds :( The only computer I remember that consistently did screeching sounds during crashes like that, was my Pentium 4....

I can't believe a system would crash like that when it's NOT being overclocked...hope you get a board that works fine next time...tell us how your new board does....
 
pro7070 said:
I woke up in the middle of the night to another "squeeling noise" freeze up. I ran Memtest for 4 hours this morning and no errors. Just flashed to the 1204 BIOS and also changed to XMP in BIOS and also upped my DRAM voltage to 1.525. We'll see how this goes today.

I also just ordered an Asrock Extreme4. Nothing but good reviews on it at the Egg.
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Yeah, this issue is annoying as hell though. I disabled C3/C6 yesterday and today flashed the 1204 BIOS and haven't had the crash yet. Seems like C3/C6 didn't help you, so I guess it isn't working for me either... How many crashes do you get per day? Will leave the PC idling during the night and will see what happens.
 
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hmz said:
Yeah, this issue is annoying as hell though. I disabled C3/C6 yesterday and today flashed the 1204 BIOS and haven't had the crash yet. Seems like C3/C6 didn't help you, so I guess it isn't working for me either... How many crashes do you get per day? Will leave the PC idling during the night and will see what happens.
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Until today..I was having freezes anywhere from every couple hours to a couple in 20 minutes. Oddly, the screeching freeze has only been in the middle of the night while the computer was idle 3 times. I have the power options in Windows to stay on 24/7 and I run the default Windows screen saver.

I have been freeze free since updating to 1204 and bumping dram voltage to 1.525. I did both about 8 hours ago. If I can make it through the night without the screetch freeze, I think I may be ok now. If I do I'm going to run Prime all day tomorrow while I'm gone (I'm still running stock speeds) and see how that goes.
 
Woo hoo, Been freezeless since 4:30pm yesterday and have ran prime for the last 7 hr 40 min. Temps got to 48C at stock speed and voltage. Is that acceptable with an aftermarket cooler (Corsair H50). Gonna try some overclocking this weekend. Maybe this board got jealous after I ordered the Asrock :)
 
4LC4PON3 said:
I guess I know which board to stay away from at the moment.
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I thought that too until micro center had a combo too good to pass up. Been running at 5ghz with a 2600k for several days without a single issue on my p8p67 pro.
 
Hey guys, just wanted to add some input. My system has been ROCK solid since I built it on 1/14. Yesterday I slapped in 2 Samsung 1 TB FR3's onto the Intel SATA ports 3 and 4 and gave them a RAID 1 array. Guess what happened? High- pitched noise, stutter, then freeze.
 
skyra said:
Just updated to 1204, reenabled c3 and c6. We'll see how it goes =\
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Already tried that. Didn't work though :(. If you have Aida64 Extreme Ed, please open and go Report > Submit Report to FinalWire. It always crashes with C3/C4 enabled.
 
My P8P67 stopped booting/posting after 2 weeks of stability. I tried turning it on and nothing. Fans would spin for 1/4 second, then nothing more, no post even. I tried swapping every component I could with a working PC (PSU, VC, HDD). I tried clearing CMOS, swapping memory slots, nothing worked. I RMA'd it to Newegg on Thursday. Hopefully the new one I get works.
 
Here's an odd suggestion for anyone having the freezing problem. Try unplug the HDD LED power connector from the Easy Connector. I never had the freezing issue until tonite after i noticed my HDD "working" led wasnt on, so i turned the HDD LED connector upside down, which then made the LED work, but the system was freezing and locking up and having all sorts of troubles. Turning the connector back upside down, i no longer have these problems. Not sure if its just a coincidence but seems like it could be related maybe.
 
I spoke too soon. Woke up to a froze screen. I''m going to order some more memory too try. No board is this bad. Any recomendations?
 
pro7070 said:
I spoke too soon. Woke up to a froze screen. I''m going to order some more memory too try. No board is this bad. Any recomendations?
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I dunno. I have the same issue. Definitely not the memory.
 
After days of troubleshooting on my own, I found this forum.

I guess it's nice to know I'm not alone, but man is this frustrating. I last built my own system in 2005, so this new system quite an upgrade for me.

My system specs are as follows:

Intel Core i5-2500K processor
Asus P8P67 PRO motherboard
2 x 4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 RAM
Corsair CMPSU-750HX power supply
2 MSI N460GTX Hawk video cards in SLI
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD drive
Corsair 600T case

I have not done any attempted overclocking at all, everything is running at stock set-up.

Ever since I've put my system together I've had freezes / lock-ups at inexplicable intervals.
- I can play games for hours on end without a problem and then overnight while I'm sleeping my system will lock up
- While watching video files during the day, everything stops, horrible screeching noise from my speakers, no response from mouse or keyboard
- I've seen it lock up when almost nothing is running on the system

It's definitely not a system load issue for me ..

Before I found this forum, I'd tried narrowing down my problem to a bad component by removing / replacing / moving each item from my system at different intervals -- all without success


Today, after finding this forum, I loaded the 1204 BIOS and then removed my CMOS battery to do a CMOS clear and I'll keep my fingers crossed that I will have some stability with this system

I haven't made any changes within the BIOS yet, I'm pretty much at my wits end and am seriously considering returning this motherboard and shopping for a different one
 
JBlowinsky said:
After days of troubleshooting on my own, I found this forum.

I guess it's nice to know I'm not alone, but man is this frustrating. I last built my own system in 2005, so this new system quite an upgrade for me.

My system specs are as follows:

Intel Core i5-2500K processor
Asus P8P67 PRO motherboard
2 x 4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 RAM
Corsair CMPSU-750HX power supply
2 MSI N460GTX Hawk video cards in SLI
Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD drive
Corsair 600T case

I have not done any attempted overclocking at all, everything is running at stock set-up.

Ever since I've put my system together I've had freezes / lock-ups at inexplicable intervals.
- I can play games for hours on end without a problem and then overnight while I'm sleeping my system will lock up
- While watching video files during the day, everything stops, horrible screeching noise from my speakers, no response from mouse or keyboard
- I've seen it lock up when almost nothing is running on the system

It's definitely not a system load issue for me ..

Before I found this forum, I'd tried narrowing down my problem to a bad component by removing / replacing / moving each item from my system at different intervals -- all without success


Today, after finding this forum, I loaded the 1204 BIOS and then removed my CMOS battery to do a CMOS clear and I'll keep my fingers crossed that I will have some stability with this system

I haven't made any changes within the BIOS yet, I'm pretty much at my wits end and am seriously considering returning this motherboard and shopping for a different one
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Have you tried upping the voltage on your ram, or try clocking it down to 1333? I was able to get stability by upping my memory voltage from 1.5 to 1.6.
 
Hey all. Been having the same issues. As of two days ago, I have not had a frozen screen since installing 1204. I also set my monitor to never turn off the display. Another thing I did was I found that I had two sets of audio drivers installed. I disabled all but the realtek ones and updated the realtek ones to the most current. I will post back if anything changes. My specs are as follows:

i7-2600k
p8p76 PRO
8GB Gskill Ripjaws X
Corsair HX850
Samsung Spinpoint 1gb
Crucial C300 64 GB
eVGA GTX 570
Windows 7 Ultimate 64

Of course the Power-Kernal error can mean anything.

Just a side note which I found important. Before I did any of these things, I ran my computer overnight in safe mode with no freezing. This led me to believe it is either a driver issue or a setting that is causing this. It does not seem like a hardware issue.
 
If you bought yours locally, just go and exchange it for different board. Worth a try before giving up on this board. Mine runs rock solid on stock speed.
 
shawnrussow said:
Have you tried upping the voltage on your ram, or try clocking it down to 1333? I was able to get stability by upping my memory voltage from 1.5 to 1.6.
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No, like I said, I haven't played around with ANYTHING in the BIOS at all yet. I want to eliminate any potential variables that could be causing this freezing problem

Maybe I'm being naive, but I wouldn't think any of that should be necessary for a stock system without any tweaking, over-clocking, etc.

Now that I just installed the 1204 BIOS and cleared the CMOS, I don't want to make any other changes to my set-up until the stock set-up proves to be unstable as my previous attempts have been.
 
JBlowinsky said:
No, like I said, I haven't played around with ANYTHING in the BIOS at all yet. I want to eliminate any potential variables that could be causing this freezing problem

Maybe I'm being naive, but I wouldn't think any of that should be necessary for a stock system without any tweaking, over-clocking, etc.

Now that I just installed the 1204 BIOS and cleared the CMOS, I don't want to make any other changes to my set-up until the stock set-up proves to be unstable as my previous attempts have been.
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Agreed. I am leaving my system at stock for about a week to make sure it is fine.
 
Wtf is this anyway?

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G_Sup said:
Hey guys, just wanted to add some input. My system has been ROCK solid since I built it on 1/14. Yesterday I slapped in 2 Samsung 1 TB FR3's onto the Intel SATA ports 3 and 4 and gave them a RAID 1 array. Guess what happened? High- pitched noise, stutter, then freeze.
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NVM, was for Intel SSD's specifically.
 
Just got home from a friend's house -- guess what?

My system was locked up / frozen again with no video / keyboard / mouse response

Really freaking frustrating
 
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