Background:
Last November I finally got my rig running again after I got around to RMA'ing my piece of crap Agility 3. The new Vertex 4 they sent me seems to work great.
However, for about the past month during the UEFI screen it would show the usual "American Megatrends Copyright 2010" blah blah, and then seconds later under that it would say "system has failed to boot several times before". After a 10 second timeout, Windows would start normally. When this occurs the PC does not detect the CPU running at the OC levels I set for it, but instead the CPU runs at 3615mhz and the RAM runs at anywhere between 800-1000 (its specced at 1333). I've had this issue for at least a month but it has not caused failures while the system was functioning so I did not resolve it.
Problem:
Not sure where to start. This morning I tried some new OC settings on my FX4100, part of my test to see if I can get it stable before buying an aftermarket cooler. I finally managed to get the OC settings to stick, with the cores running at something around 4300mhz (don't remember exactly). CPU-Z showed everything checking out OK, so I ran Windows experience index and this caused my GPU to crash (typical gray screen). This wasn't very disconcerting considering it's done that maybe 15 times since I've installed as I've been trying to find a good setting for it.
However, after powering down and restarting, instead of going into Windows it flashed a blue screen with text and then the video signal cut out (no signal detected).
Went back into BIOS and reset all to mobo defaults. Keep in mind GPU is still at AMD Overdrive levels, umm 1075/1375 I believe.
All attempts to start system now crash two seconds after logging into Windows. There is not a wide enough time frame for me to reset AMD Overdrive to default before this happens, but because the crash causes complete loss of video signal and not a typical gray screen, I'm worried there might be something more sinister going on.
I'm looking at getting a new power supply so I can upgrade some more hardware, but I'd like to be able to understand what's going on in this situation first.
I appreciate any help or recommendations, thanks!
Last November I finally got my rig running again after I got around to RMA'ing my piece of crap Agility 3. The new Vertex 4 they sent me seems to work great.
However, for about the past month during the UEFI screen it would show the usual "American Megatrends Copyright 2010" blah blah, and then seconds later under that it would say "system has failed to boot several times before". After a 10 second timeout, Windows would start normally. When this occurs the PC does not detect the CPU running at the OC levels I set for it, but instead the CPU runs at 3615mhz and the RAM runs at anywhere between 800-1000 (its specced at 1333). I've had this issue for at least a month but it has not caused failures while the system was functioning so I did not resolve it.
Problem:
Not sure where to start. This morning I tried some new OC settings on my FX4100, part of my test to see if I can get it stable before buying an aftermarket cooler. I finally managed to get the OC settings to stick, with the cores running at something around 4300mhz (don't remember exactly). CPU-Z showed everything checking out OK, so I ran Windows experience index and this caused my GPU to crash (typical gray screen). This wasn't very disconcerting considering it's done that maybe 15 times since I've installed as I've been trying to find a good setting for it.
However, after powering down and restarting, instead of going into Windows it flashed a blue screen with text and then the video signal cut out (no signal detected).
Went back into BIOS and reset all to mobo defaults. Keep in mind GPU is still at AMD Overdrive levels, umm 1075/1375 I believe.
All attempts to start system now crash two seconds after logging into Windows. There is not a wide enough time frame for me to reset AMD Overdrive to default before this happens, but because the crash causes complete loss of video signal and not a typical gray screen, I'm worried there might be something more sinister going on.
I'm looking at getting a new power supply so I can upgrade some more hardware, but I'd like to be able to understand what's going on in this situation first.
I appreciate any help or recommendations, thanks!
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