cold startup resulted in infinite reboot loop with error code 32.

Wilson Yu

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This issue has been happening for about a week. After a failed RAM overclock, I tried to revert the setting back to default and I am still having this issue. What can I do in this case? This only happen when I turn on my pc after a shutdown and there is no issue after I login.

i7 4790k
corsair vengence 16gb
gigabyte z97 ud5h
samsung 850 evo
 
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I actually called Corsair and Gigabyte about my issue with the same problem and neither could provide any help. I had upgraded to two 850 evo ssds and I put them into RAID 0 on the intel controller. I had left the other controller (marvell?) set to AHCI. I upgraded my RAM at the same time. I had just installed Windows 10. Add in the fact I was trying to overclock too and I quickly became confused as to what might have caused the problem.

After fiddling around with the PC for a while, I set both of my hard disk controllers to RAID mode. I think that for some reason, having the Intel controller on RAID and the Marvell on AHCI, it was screwing up the boot process. I can't explain why and to be honest, I have not tried overclocking the...

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I actually called Corsair and Gigabyte about my issue with the same problem and neither could provide any help. I had upgraded to two 850 evo ssds and I put them into RAID 0 on the intel controller. I had left the other controller (marvell?) set to AHCI. I upgraded my RAM at the same time. I had just installed Windows 10. Add in the fact I was trying to overclock too and I quickly became confused as to what might have caused the problem.

After fiddling around with the PC for a while, I set both of my hard disk controllers to RAID mode. I think that for some reason, having the Intel controller on RAID and the Marvell on AHCI, it was screwing up the boot process. I can't explain why and to be honest, I have not tried overclocking the machine again. I am using it for things that I cannot afford to have it down for even a day, so I am just happy that it is booting up consistently again.

I would try setting the controllers to RAID or at least make sure they are both on AHCI. See if that helps. Let me know, I am curious.

Good Luck!
 
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Wilson Yu

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Thank you for replying to this post! I talked to the gigabyte tech support today and finally narrowed down to corrupted main bios due to bad overclock... Luckily it's only the bios or bios chips that got corrupted and not the memory or CPU that got killed and thankfully gigabyte is willing to approve my RMA. So right now I am running at the secondary bios, with no issue rebooting after cold startup, and in a process of RMA. After this I will most likely not do any overclock since I am not to good at it...