Computer turns on when I press the button for the second time

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I built myself a computer over a month ago. Never had a problem until the last week. I have to press the turn on button twice to boot up the computer. When I press it the first time LEDs light up, fans start up only for a second and then turn off. When I press the second time it boots up flawlessly. I don't have got any issues while the computer is running.

My PC specs are:
fx 6300 OCed to 4ghz
Gtx 760 2gb
8gb Kingston hypermemory 1600mhz
CS 650 power supply
Gigabyte 970A D3 REV 3 mobo
1000GB HDD
Samsung DVD

I would really appreciate if someone told me what the problem is. I am not sure if it is normal.
 
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smorizio
on newer mb they added a overclock fail protection into newer cmos and motherboard. started on the 775 mb by gigbyte. if you set the ram or cpu timing wrong instead of trying to clear the cmos to get back into the pc. most newer mb when you change or over clock your mb..power off for a few sec...test the over clock if it fails it power back on to default settings. on some mb and ram you see this issues with a mb at post powering up...down..up....then running fine.
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I haven't played around with the memory timing. I only OCed the CPU and it is on stock voltages so I haven't played with the voltages either.

Never heared of mini loop boot before.
 
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on newer mb they added a overclock fail protection into newer cmos and motherboard. started on the 775 mb by gigbyte. if you set the ram or cpu timing wrong instead of trying to clear the cmos to get back into the pc. most newer mb when you change or over clock your mb..power off for a few sec...test the over clock if it fails it power back on to default settings. on some mb and ram you see this issues with a mb at post powering up...down..up....then running fine.
 
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You are right. I restored optimised defaults and my PC booted up without a problem again. I guess I will have to press the button twice if I want to use overclocked CPU.

Thanks for the help. I am going to ask more about this in the overclock section.
 
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I have the same issue, FX-8320E @4Ghz on 1.35v on a GA-970A-UD3P, only occurs when overclocking. The system is stable at 4ghz on second bootup and does not have any bios settings reset, like you mentioned.

The issue does not persist when I put the CPU back at stock voltages/clock. Very odd, and a rather useless feature.
 
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No, you guys have motherboards that aren't good enough to overclock. The FX6300 might be able to get away with it, but your FX8320 is going to tax the mosfets on your 970A so hard, it'll fail to initialize with that voltage, resulting in the hard reset back to stock clocks. If you want to overclock that 8320E, you'll need a better motherboard.
 
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I know this post is totally dead, but I fixed this problem by disabling "CPU Unlock" under CPU Frequency settings on my Gigabyte Motherboard... For anyone wondering. I could then overclock normally.

 
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