In the past 7 days, my pc has randomly crashed twice. Both times I was just watching a stream on twitch, the pc froze, audio gave a loud bzzzzzzzzzz and the screen went black. The first time, the screen stayed black, no audio from speakers, mouse and k/b lights dead, but motherboard showed qcode b2 and had a white LED illuminated (next to that LED says VGA). I had to reboot the system w/ the power button and its been all fine since then, until today. About 10 minutes ago, the exact same thing happened, except right after the screen froze and the audio buzzed, the pc rebooted itself normally. No qcode.
Neither times did I get a blue screen. In my manual, qcode b2 is - Legacy option ROM initialization.
a quick search brings this response in the asus rog forum from an asus service rep:
The B2 usually means Legacy ROM has an error or Graphic card problem
Try to remove the Sapphire Radeon 7850 or switch the iGPU , Let us know if this helps.
What is Legacy ROM?
Where should I go from here to test things to see what the problem is? Is there any other info you guys need that could help?
System is 8086k, maximus x hero motherboard, 16gb trident z ram, gtx 1070.
Thank you!
*edit* Wanted to add that this system was built in ~ September of 2018 and has actually had 0 issues so far, no new hardware has been installed either.
Neither times did I get a blue screen. In my manual, qcode b2 is - Legacy option ROM initialization.
a quick search brings this response in the asus rog forum from an asus service rep:
The B2 usually means Legacy ROM has an error or Graphic card problem
Try to remove the Sapphire Radeon 7850 or switch the iGPU , Let us know if this helps.
What is Legacy ROM?
Where should I go from here to test things to see what the problem is? Is there any other info you guys need that could help?
System is 8086k, maximus x hero motherboard, 16gb trident z ram, gtx 1070.
Thank you!
*edit* Wanted to add that this system was built in ~ September of 2018 and has actually had 0 issues so far, no new hardware has been installed either.
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