Computer 'false starting' ???

[exia]

Heh, same thing happened with me and my Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5, your using the overclocked bundle I assume?

I had the boot failure screen once after upgrading to vista sp2 from sp1. Loaded last OC setting as you did and been perfect since.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Since this restart thing seems normal I'm not too worried

Hold on a sec,

are you disconnecting your PC from the mains inbetween booting? this includes switching it off at the PSU, switching it off at the wall socket or unplugging it completely from the wall socket?

If you are then the double reboot is normal when you first power up however if your just rebooting the PC or performing a Soft-Off (Start>Shutdown) then it should boot normally every single time, no double boot!

although I was pretty worried when I saw that "boot failures because of overclocking" screen.. Should I be worried or will I be ok on my last stable overclock settings providing I don't take the **** in future?

If your not disconnecting your computer from the mains and just pressing the power button and the PC has a problem booting then there is something wrong with your overclock settings!

Are they your settings or the ones provided by OcUK shop?

 

[gksdfjghe98]

The single restart before POST is from just turning the power off with the power switch after a "soft off", not turning it off at the PSU/Mains. The double was from after a crashed Prime95 run and holding the power button (no proper shutdown) I don't own an overclocked bundle, I'm just using my own OC settings.

To get it stable at 3948Mhz I need to use:

VCore: 1.30625V
QPI: 1.315V

And that ran for 10 hours of prime95 and passed the Intel Burn Test on maximum, although I have Turbo Boost enabled to use the x21 multiplyer.. So I don't know what the max voltage that's being used is.

 

[malachi]

Same happened to me on 3 of my p35 Gigabyte motherboard when they first came out. After a few months they failed to post at all. Same with my Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4 earlier in the year also till that died too. Dont know why either as I never had overclocked any of them.

 

[gksdfjghe98]

UPDATE:

I've just Start>Shutdowned the computer and turned it back on and there was no poweroff at all, although it did go through the usual whirring of the fans before it POSTed.

 

[PaulGreyhead]

I had a very similar problem as you with post/boot, but I also had 2GB of memory missing; the bios couldn't see it! I doubt you have the same problem, but I had a hardware fault that was causing the post/boot problems.
The thread is here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18031950 in case you want a read.

 

[PaulGreyhead]

Do the fans stay on full for 20 to 30 seconds, or is it more like five?

 

[AMG]

mine is overclocked, but it only does it if you take the power away only than, or if you changed something major in the BIOS

 

[Aod]

My Gigabyte P35 has done this from the day i built it, with or without overclock.