Strange boot problem...

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I've been having this same boot problem on and off, for about 4 weeks now.

What happens is, when I press the power button, the PC fires up, lights come on, fans start turning, but only for a second, where the power then cuts off.

3-4 seconds later, the boot resumes as normal? Now, before when this happened, I was having sound issues which I fixed by doing some driver cleaning, disabling this and that in BIOS. This boot problem was a symptom before I fixed it, but it has come back.

Could this be related to overclocking? I currently have my E6750 overclocked at 3.4Ghz, and my RAM at 850Mhz; maybe a power consumption issue? I'm lost anyway, so if anyone can suggest why I'm getting this problem then I'd be very grateful indeed!
 
I was thinking about doing that, however, I just checked my BIOS settings and realized that for some strange reason, the boot configuration was completely upside down (Floppy was Primary???) so I changed it, saved, rebooted into Vista, then shut down so to perform a cold boot. Cold booted it and it was fine?
 
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