Sleep/Start/Restart with Overclocking Failure

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My initial problem was that my computer wasn't waking up from sleep right. It would go into an infinite restart, prior to boot. When I was finally able to get it to come up, it said that the previous overclocking had failed and sent me to BIOS.

Thing was, it wasn't overclocked.

I saw something while searching the internet that suggested it might have been a memory problem. I tested the memory and it came up alright.

Now it has decided that it doesn't want to boot at all.

It powers up, sometimes it restarts before boot, sometimes it does nothing at all. It just powers up and doesn't boot.

I am running
OS: Windows 10
Graphics card: GEFORCE GTX 970
MB: MS-7681
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
 
Solution
Have you made sure your BIOS is up to date? While looking through MS-7681 I'm coming across the P67A-GD65 motherboard courtesy of MSI, is that correct? To rule out your ram and the slots run memtest86 per stick of ram per slot to rule out both the ram and the slots on your motherboard. Run that test, mind you, for 10 passes each stick each slot. Can you please pass on your full systems specs inclusive of your am setup? Are you running your ram under an XMP setting?

Clear your CMOS and see if the issue is persistent. If the issue stems from not being able to wake up from sleep then one of your drivers is holding you back(=Nvidia display drivers me thinks) or a setting within BIOS. You can try and see if any .dmp...

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Have you made sure your BIOS is up to date? While looking through MS-7681 I'm coming across the P67A-GD65 motherboard courtesy of MSI, is that correct? To rule out your ram and the slots run memtest86 per stick of ram per slot to rule out both the ram and the slots on your motherboard. Run that test, mind you, for 10 passes each stick each slot. Can you please pass on your full systems specs inclusive of your am setup? Are you running your ram under an XMP setting?

Clear your CMOS and see if the issue is persistent. If the issue stems from not being able to wake up from sleep then one of your drivers is holding you back(=Nvidia display drivers me thinks) or a setting within BIOS. You can try and see if any .dmp files have been created.

By any chance did you upgrade the ram after an installation of Windows 10? Speaking of which is this installation of Windows anew or availed through the free upgrade path?
 
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