Wont Post: Code B6 shown

Codes beginning with "b" seem to be either memory or USB related by your manual. Have you tried powering up the system with only the essentials connected? 

30GHz wrote: AMI Bios  documentation says b6 means "NVRAM Clean-Up"   I tried with diff RAM in diff slots, no USB plugs, and replacing the GPU and even the entire motherboard.   Even without a GPU it syas B6.   It seems like my CPU must damaged, weird that it isn't completely dead, just non-functional.

If the CPU were dead or missing, the code displayed is "00".

To be absolutely clear, are you seeing B6 or b6 in the Dr Debug display? You've used B6 or b6 in the thread title, and other posts.

The Dr Debug display is a seven segment character LCD display, using only straight bar segments for each part of a character. That means it is unable to show any curves in a character.

Therefore, how does this type of character display differentiate between the digit 8 and capital B? It can't.



The character 'B' must be displayed as a lower case 'b'. The same is true for '0' and 'D', lower case 'd' is used.

So if we see "86" in the Dr Debug display, that is the number eighty six (or eight six.) Hexadecimal "B6" is shown as "b6". "D6" is shown as "d6".

So which is it, b6 or 86?  

One odd thing that comes to mind given your question about the NVRAM and b6 meaning NVRAM cleanup, is the 1.40 UEFI has in its description, "Improve Clear CMOS function.". That would be rather ironic if you get the code for NVRAM cleanup, whatever it is, b6 or 86.

Code 86 is the wonderful "Chipset initialization error", whose fix is "Press Reset or clear the CMOS". I have seen Reset do amazing things.

Your first post said you've used UEFIs 1.30 and 1.40 fine for some time. Plus you used the 'B' UEFI, which is whatever version number on the B BIOS chip, which is likely 1.10. So the UEFI version itself makes no difference it seems, correct?

Any reason beyond it seems to be the CPU, that you think the CPU has failed?

AF is a problem related to a SATA device. The chipset is where the SATA support is located, so possibly why the chipset error code. Any drives connected to the board currently?

Asus really seems to have trouble with their X99 boards, from the OC socket seemingly frying processors with high voltage, to that weird thread wardog linked above.

I wonder about the AF code in that thread. Notice his board had the CPU failure LED on.

The AMI 2.2 BIOS POST code list shows AF as: System boot initialization

How the board could get to System Boot initialization if the CPU was shot makes no sense... unless POST was not really run since it couldn't, and the last POST code is displayed, which would be System boot initialization.

Nothing like changing my mind in the middle of a post... sudden CPU death syndrome?

Yes, 1.5V for a Haswell-E processor is rather high. That is usually 0.02V below the maximum VID that those processors are programmed to use.

Some over clockers would call that a "suicide run" at 1.5V. Meaning they would let the PC boot at that speed for a screen shot of CPU-Z for their high OC, and then immediately restart into the BIOS to reset to a lower voltage.