- Nov 20, 2013
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Hello there!
After months of having an inoperable PC due to a faulty CPU fan, I finally got round to purchasing a new one. For the past few days it's worked fine so I thought I'd have a go at giving the ASUS EZ Mode overclocking feature a go. About five minutes after booting into windows, I got a BSOD. I thought nothing of it as it's happened before about a year ago when my other CPU fan actually worked, this happened every time I tried the 'Optimal settings' on the EZ Mode so I just restarted my PC. That's when the trouble started, it would take about ten minutes to get past the first ASUS screen, another five before going through the Marvell initialising then stay at a black screen for another five before I could finally get into the BIOS settings. Even then the mouse movement was incredibly laggy and I could barely do anything. After fiddling around for an hour or so, removing sticks of RAM, disabling USBs, all the standard stuff I was ready to give up as I thought I'd never get into Windows.
I decided to give it one last chance and started up my PC. I left it to it's business while I did other tasks around the house. To my surprise when I returned, it had managed to get to the windows log in screen. After logging in, everything seemed fine, it was running at normal speed then the little driver hardware alert popped up in the bottom right, announcing that it had successfully installed drivers for my hard drive. Seemingly the BSOD I received uninstalled my HDD drivers. I was glad that my PC was up running again so took the plunge of risking to restart it to see what the boot was like now. It was slow but not 20 - 30 minutes slow. My PC's boot consists of the ASUS 'Press DEL to enter EFI BIOS' screen on which pressing delete does nothing, then the Marvell initialising, then back to the 'Press DEL to enter EFI BIOS' which then responds if I press delete. This has always been the way so that bit doesn't concern me. What does concern me is that the first 'Press DEL' screen hangs for about five minute now then boots fairly normally albeit quite slow in comparison to how it normally is.
Apologies for the blocks but I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suffered a similar problem in the past?
Here are my specs:
ASUS P8P67-M Pro
Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8GB RAM (2x 4GB RAM Sticks)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
iCute 1000w PSU
After months of having an inoperable PC due to a faulty CPU fan, I finally got round to purchasing a new one. For the past few days it's worked fine so I thought I'd have a go at giving the ASUS EZ Mode overclocking feature a go. About five minutes after booting into windows, I got a BSOD. I thought nothing of it as it's happened before about a year ago when my other CPU fan actually worked, this happened every time I tried the 'Optimal settings' on the EZ Mode so I just restarted my PC. That's when the trouble started, it would take about ten minutes to get past the first ASUS screen, another five before going through the Marvell initialising then stay at a black screen for another five before I could finally get into the BIOS settings. Even then the mouse movement was incredibly laggy and I could barely do anything. After fiddling around for an hour or so, removing sticks of RAM, disabling USBs, all the standard stuff I was ready to give up as I thought I'd never get into Windows.
I decided to give it one last chance and started up my PC. I left it to it's business while I did other tasks around the house. To my surprise when I returned, it had managed to get to the windows log in screen. After logging in, everything seemed fine, it was running at normal speed then the little driver hardware alert popped up in the bottom right, announcing that it had successfully installed drivers for my hard drive. Seemingly the BSOD I received uninstalled my HDD drivers. I was glad that my PC was up running again so took the plunge of risking to restart it to see what the boot was like now. It was slow but not 20 - 30 minutes slow. My PC's boot consists of the ASUS 'Press DEL to enter EFI BIOS' screen on which pressing delete does nothing, then the Marvell initialising, then back to the 'Press DEL to enter EFI BIOS' which then responds if I press delete. This has always been the way so that bit doesn't concern me. What does concern me is that the first 'Press DEL' screen hangs for about five minute now then boots fairly normally albeit quite slow in comparison to how it normally is.
Apologies for the blocks but I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suffered a similar problem in the past?
Here are my specs:
ASUS P8P67-M Pro
Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8GB RAM (2x 4GB RAM Sticks)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
iCute 1000w PSU
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