Changed BIOS settings, Windows won't boot.

Maelthorn

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Sep 12, 2016
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Soooo, I was a little frustrated with some recent BSODs which I thought were caused by overheating, so I was trying to figure out how to underclock my CPU. On my ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 mobo, I went into BIOS and just did the F5 default settings which put my clock speed at 4.0ghz so I was like "hey perfect! it's slower now". And then windows wouldn't start. I opened up the case and popped out the battery on the mobo and waited a bit and put it back it, settings went back to where the were but windows still appears to be messed up. I get the "Starting Windows" screen for about 5 seconds, then a blue screen blips and it reboots, and asks me if I want to repair windows.

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-8350
 
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Pentium4User

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Jun 17, 2016
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Usually when it does this is that some window file is corrupted the only thing you can do now is reinstall windows or if you have a restore point or a backup because bsods can damage windows files after bsoding a certain amount of time. And overheating rarely causes bsod unless the cpu cooking is about to die out. I ran a cpu once my old p4 for few days because the plastic clip gave out on the cooler so only half was touching the cpu and it was running more than 90c
Also last thing if you change sata config that can also cause issues but I doubt you touch it when you installed windows.

 
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