Turning off when restarting

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I've got my E6400 running at 3.2GHz atm (Orthos stable for 5.5 hours so far) and everything seems to be running perfectly, but whenver I restart the computer it turns itself off for a few seconds and then powers back up. Should it be doing this?
 
I think thats the memory strap changing iirc. A bios revision should have sorted this problem out. Are you using the latest bios?

It was a problem with Asus boards and early bios revisions.
 
It deffo sounds like the dual-boot problem tbh. I honestly thought they had solved it with new bios releases though so perhaps it aint that :confused:
 
mine does it when i change overclock setings, but not everytime, depends how much i change. i have had it a few times when ive restarted. i believe its common on the DS3 and DS3p
 
Sorry, I couldn't reply as I've been suspended for a while :o

Can anything be done about this, or is it just a motherboard issue that I'm stuck with? :/

I've had to turn down my overclock now because whenever I do a hard restart, the computer refuses to POST and I have to switch off at the PSU for about 15 minutes to get it to work again :(
 
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RaiderX said:
mine does it when i change overclock setings, but not everytime, depends how much i change. i have had it a few times when ive restarted. i believe its common on the DS3 and DS3p
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Same here and its ****** annoying :mad:

Doesn't happen to often though !
 
I thought there was something wrong with my DFI-965S Infinity motherboard but found this post over at "The Tech Repository"

Question: My board always cycles off and back on right after I try to cold boot, is something wrong?

Answer: Contrary to what you may believe, no! You're board is performing as expected. This feature is somewhat by design, more of a result of Intel chipset performance. At initial cold boot, BIOS initially programs the board for default settings, to include memory strap, Northbridge (MCH) strap, and any other strap-associated timings (Example: MCH-ODT Delay when set to Auto). After POSTing the BIOS then programs any changes to these settings, as well as overclock values. Since straps can only be latched once without cycling the board, there must be a hard power-cycle in order to program new values. Next POST is then at the overclocked settings and straps. These same settings retain their values at soft-reset, which is why this functionality is seen only during a cold boot.
 
It does it even when soft-resetting the computer though :confused:

Like I said above, it causes real problems if I have to do a hard reset for whatever reason :(

The funny thing is that it doesn't do it when I do a normal cold boot; only when I do a soft reset :confused:
 
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