Help! My computer now drastically takes longer to boot up!

ScatterVolt

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Here is the scenario:
After overclocking my system, it all seemed fine and dandy, untill I tryed to increase the speed of ram. Then things got all crazy. So after oc'ing my cpu, to fit along with it I choose to increase the frequency of my ram to 2133mhz (kingston hyperx red ram at 1600mhz) with a 4.3ghz overclock on an i5 2500k. Then when I saved my changes and rebooted up my comptuer started randomly turning on and off for about 5 times. Then on the sixth time it notified me that the settings have been changed on the bios. So I went there are selected my ram to 1866mhz to ease it up. Then it got worse and did the same thing. But once my computer actually turned on, before I see the msi military quality star logo before windows 7 loads up, at the bottom right corner of the screen shows a 99, then an a1, then finally an b2 then the msi logo shows up. On this occasion after I set the ram to 1866mhz that 99 was on the bottom right of my screen for about a min instead of a few seconds (I have a 120gb samsung 840 ssd). Then after going to "a1" I quickly hit delete once I saw the msi logo and then went to the bios. I then changed the ram back to the default 1600mhz and booted up once again. My computer booted up on its first time, then showed that "99" on the screen for about a minute again! Then it "a1", "b2", then the mis logo preceded it and went onto windows 7 to my start screen in seconds. Windows 7 was normal, it was just that 99.

I am hoping you tech experts can help me out on my problem, it tryed booting up my system a few more times, and that long period of the "99" at the bottom right corner of the screen still showed up, but then booted up to windows 7 instantly. Before the "99" went straight to "a1," but now it takes forever and I want to change my system back to normal for the booting times. How do I fix this, and my i5 2500k is still at 4.3ghz.
 

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:p Nice offer... But I think I'm going to have to rethink my strategy of tabbing all pages that interest me... This was the second post in a row :p
 

YES there should be a clear cmos jumper, if that does the trick (easier) GREAT! But it might not remove the fatal error recorded. Give it a go.

 

ScatterVolt

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Is there any possible way to just reset it in the bios?
 

drtoast

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You said you returned your settings to what they were, and the problem persisted, so obviously either its something else, or the settings didnt overwrite. The popular choice is, the settings didnt overwrite. Just get down and dirty and give it a physical reset. It's not the end of the world.
 

ScatterVolt

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So after a while of my computer on, I shut off my computer before I went to bed, then the day after when I turned it on that drastic boot time on "99" was now shortened to only a few seconds. So I don't know if my comptuer did something overnight, but my i5 2500k is still at 4.3ghz and my ram is at 1600mhz.