Strange booting issue thingy.

HecFam

HecFam

HecFam

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Evening,

By no means is this a life or death issue, its just a bit of strange behaviour. When I cold boot my PC up, it loads the BIOS screen, then heads into windows. When the four colours are mucking about, flying around about to form the windows logo, it crashes and reboots.

Sometimes this happens the once, irregularly twice. After that it boot into windows fine, no issues. I can be as heavy on it as a I like. I have tried increasing vcore, raising the ram voltage. Even bough a new PSU. (More because I was border lining it with my old 650w one).

Its not a huge issue, it keeps all the BIOS settings after the crash, so its not as though they are incorrect as such.
My case is rather cool now after adding some spot fans also, so I certainly can't see heat being an issue.

My specs:

8350
As rock 990fx extreme 4
A gigabyte 7950 wf3, and a MSI 7950 TF. (The MSI one has slight increases to match the gigabytes stock settings)
4x8gb corsair xms3 (one set is newer and runs at 1.5v as standard rather than the old sets 1.65v.)
New (for me) corsair ax850
Sandisk ssd,
2tb HDD,
Fat load of fans.

I have everything at stock at the moment. I have over clocked previously, but not sure if I really need it yet.

The ram is set at 1600mhz c9 I think. I've set the voltage to be 1.65v to match the older set, though it works fine at 1.5v.

I've tried chkdsks, no issues. I've done a SFC /scannow. Came back with Nada.

I updated the BIOS to the latest version, strangely though, my ssd is set to ahci but it wouldn't boot in ahci after the update, however ide is fine. Might look into the windows reg edit you can do for existing windows installs on ssds, see if that tells a story.

Sorry for the load of text. Any ideas, I would be thankful.

Ta.
 
maybe a touch more cpu northbridge voltage? not sure what its labelled as on amd (memory controller voltage)
 
joeyjojo said:
Clean install of Windows?
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I'm a bit too lazy to be fair. Its not a huge amount of hassle. I have a feeling its not windows related, feels like a hardware thing.

wazza300 said:
maybe a touch more cpu northbridge voltage? not sure what its labelled as on amd (memory controller voltage)
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I shall have a butchers, I think I know exactly what you mean. Its set to 1200mhz at default I think. I'll add a tad more voltage to it. How much do you think I should add? .5?
 
joeyjojo said:
Every time it crashes you're risking corruption on your disk though, so I would try and get it sorted ASAP.
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Everything I care about is on my 2nd hard drive. Surely that wouldn't corrupt since the boot isn't on there. Its just the hassle of reinstalling programs. If it happens it happens. Fair play. I'm just lazy.
 
The memory controller voltage should be listed as 'CPU/NB Voltage'. I think by default its around 1.1 but will be easily fine for up to 1.3. Doing it bit by bit will give you the best success rate as my chip sometimes just doesn't like any more voltage on core or CPU/NB whether it is super cool or not.
 
Seems as though you may have hit the nail on the head with the NB voltage. Raised it from 1.2v to 1.225 and it seems fine so far. Only tried it the once, so i may have to give it a couple of days, but ta very much for helping out.
 
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