So last Friday I put my new system together
Asus Maximus Hero VIII
Intel 6700k
EVGA 1000 watt PS
Gskill ripjaw 5 3200 Mhz
EVGA SSC GTX 970
So I started noticing some weird behavior. I used the AI suite to overclock and I kept getting kernel power failure errors...weird thing is this only happened when the PC was idle. I gamed on it for hours, watched movies, never had a problem...but if I left the PC on and went to bed it'd be shut off when I woke up.
So I messed with that for 2 days, reset the CMOS and at least that part of it seems to be ok for now. However, I'm getting a weird issue at POST. If I restart from within Windows 10, the MOBO doesn't seem to want to post. The screen stays black, no ROG logo, and it sits there for a good 5 minutes or so. Then I hear a click and the system shuts down, reboots, and posts fine.
It always posts fine on that second time, but hardly ever on the first time when doing a start>restart from within Windows 10. I stress tested the system with realbench for about 20 minutes. I know that's not a long time to stress test but I wanted to see if any of this was being caused by a thermal issue.
I have XMP settings enabled in the bios, I doubt it's the psu but maybe I'm wrong. The PSU was rated highly that's why I got it, and it costs a good penny so I'll be pretty bent if that turns out to be it, but I tend to think it isn't since the PC was always fine under load and only seems to behave poorly on idle and soft reboots.
Things I've tried:
Pretty much every bios setting I can think of. I disabled fast boot, turned the boot settings to uefi, I tried giving the CPU a 1 volt input at boot time...nothing seems to help. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the 24 pin power cable and the cpu power cables, I tried turning off the power supply and unplugging it and leaving it out for a few minutes and then retrying, cleared cmos, etc. I also tried increasing the DIMM voltage slightly thinking maybe with xmp it wasn't getting enough juice.
When it halts like that on the restart from Windows 10, it "feels" to me like it's trying to turn on but isn't getting the juice. Don't ask me why I feel that way, it's just a feeling and yes I realize as I'm saying that I'm also saying it isn't the PSU...idk what to think. I'm not new to troubleshooting or building PCs by any means, I started building when I was 13....but this has me completely baffled.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it. The next step in my mind is to start RMA'ing parts...which if it's the PSU or CPU is really gonna suck because I bought those in Boston and that's a 2 hour drive.
Asus Maximus Hero VIII
Intel 6700k
EVGA 1000 watt PS
Gskill ripjaw 5 3200 Mhz
EVGA SSC GTX 970
So I started noticing some weird behavior. I used the AI suite to overclock and I kept getting kernel power failure errors...weird thing is this only happened when the PC was idle. I gamed on it for hours, watched movies, never had a problem...but if I left the PC on and went to bed it'd be shut off when I woke up.
So I messed with that for 2 days, reset the CMOS and at least that part of it seems to be ok for now. However, I'm getting a weird issue at POST. If I restart from within Windows 10, the MOBO doesn't seem to want to post. The screen stays black, no ROG logo, and it sits there for a good 5 minutes or so. Then I hear a click and the system shuts down, reboots, and posts fine.
It always posts fine on that second time, but hardly ever on the first time when doing a start>restart from within Windows 10. I stress tested the system with realbench for about 20 minutes. I know that's not a long time to stress test but I wanted to see if any of this was being caused by a thermal issue.
I have XMP settings enabled in the bios, I doubt it's the psu but maybe I'm wrong. The PSU was rated highly that's why I got it, and it costs a good penny so I'll be pretty bent if that turns out to be it, but I tend to think it isn't since the PC was always fine under load and only seems to behave poorly on idle and soft reboots.
Things I've tried:
Pretty much every bios setting I can think of. I disabled fast boot, turned the boot settings to uefi, I tried giving the CPU a 1 volt input at boot time...nothing seems to help. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the 24 pin power cable and the cpu power cables, I tried turning off the power supply and unplugging it and leaving it out for a few minutes and then retrying, cleared cmos, etc. I also tried increasing the DIMM voltage slightly thinking maybe with xmp it wasn't getting enough juice.
When it halts like that on the restart from Windows 10, it "feels" to me like it's trying to turn on but isn't getting the juice. Don't ask me why I feel that way, it's just a feeling and yes I realize as I'm saying that I'm also saying it isn't the PSU...idk what to think. I'm not new to troubleshooting or building PCs by any means, I started building when I was 13....but this has me completely baffled.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it. The next step in my mind is to start RMA'ing parts...which if it's the PSU or CPU is really gonna suck because I bought those in Boston and that's a 2 hour drive.
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