Computer Boot problems

+1 to Battlemarz

did you reuse this PSU?

PSU should go right off, you can get a AAA PSU for around 60 plus shipping. If you have a spare install it and see if the problem goes away. I have never heard of Okia, and thats enough reason right there that I would not install. Stay with the brand name, its priced that way for a reason. Although I have to say I have not had a logisys fail on me within the first two years.

I just bumped up to the list of parts you have, that PSU has got to go whether its failed or not. You are risking more than just a dead PSU. The crappy the PSU the more likely it is to take other components with it when it blows. Been there, done that. Recommend Antec 550, or corsair or even thermaltake....

Think of the children!!!!!

And also I just moved the ram to the other 2 slots. No luck, Took me one extra time to boot. When it doesnt boot properly the LED on the motherboard switches from 56, 46, 49, 32, and 60.

Ok, twoboxer. I just finished your steps. It booted fine the first time. I just shut it down, and im going to let it sit for a bit then try to boot it up and see if it works the first time. Some reason iv had this problem mainly after the computer has been shut down for a while... We will see if this fixed the problem. I will respond soon

Well, I just tried it again. It took me twice to boot it up. Its so random, it happens mainly when I let it sit for a while being shutdown. But when I shut it down then power it back up immediately it works 95% of the time the first time. Its like something just fails to initialize, and it keeps giving me the numbers on the motherboard led 60, 56, 46, 49, 32 over and over again when it doesn't boot.

Everything else works on the computer 100% when I get it running. I'm on it now, it never shuts off on its own or nothing. I might get my friend to come over with his graphics card to see if its the issue. I would hate to have to get rid of my GPU!

Thanks for the quick feedback, and saving countless others doing what I asked you to do lol.

Re-reading your posts, the same problem existed in your old build, and there are thre common parts. You've swapped out the psu now, no change.

There's not much magic here - you've got two parts left to swap and its the most reasonable approach. Wait . . . is the mouse also a common part? It doesn't come on when you have the problem, is that a cause or an effect. if the mouse was on your old system, try swapping it out or booting without it.

If that fails, you're back to gpu glitching when starting cold or your HD not spinning up from cold.

How old is your monitor? What type is it? Are you sure the machine is not booting or could it be a faulty mon. not displaying. There are capacitors that do go bad and not all at once. I have had similar things happen and it was the mon. in three of the cases. If you have a spare mon. about try it out and see if it makes a dif.

The monitor is about 4 years old... So i have thought it may be the problem. I dont have another, but i might go use my friends. But i still dont think thats it because of those error numbers. Hopefully ill have a better update soon

Its a 22" lg flatron- lcd

For a "non-pro", you're doing quite well so far lol.

It seems we're very close to determining that the problem you are having is NOT related to a re-used part. If I've followed along correctly, its likely you've already shown the gpu is not the issue and you'll confirm that shortly with a swap.

The next step would be to consider a mobo/memory issue, eliminating the psu since we have had the same problem with two different ones. Newer mobos have introduced a lot of timing adjustments and optimizations done by the mobo via its BIOS. I've seen them "get confused" or make mistakes. Sometimes they get caught in a reboot loop, or just fail to boot, or tell you an overclocking has failed when you didn't OC it. IOW, their "Auto" settings are a lot more complicated now. This is the area I'd explore next.

Assuming the gpu swap doesn't fix things . . .

What BIOS version is installed on your mobo? Press F2 repeatedly during bootup to enter BIOS' and check the main menu, or use CPUID's CPU-z to get that info from within Windows. Asrock's website shows an almost monthly release of new BIOS versions, the latest being version 2.10 dated 9/13/11.

If you do not have the latest BIOS, download and install 2.10. If you have a small flash drive, use the instant flash approach. That may solve the problem.

If not, we're going to work through memory settings and see if we can't get the mobo to believe in itself and just boot lol.

56 - Invalid CPU type or Speed
32 - CPU post-memory initialization is started
60 - DXE Core is started

I did not see listings for 46 or 49 in the manual, which I find odd. So i'm not sure if i'm looking at the correct stuff.

Why would it say invalid cpu type or speed??

Ok, So I just flashed the bios to 2.10 by instant flash while waiting on the other video card. It booted up the first couple times then I let it sit while shut down, and same thing. Only now it added two numbers to the cycle on the led motherboard 15 and 19. Looked them up and its

15= Pre-memory North Bridge initialization is started
19= Pre-memory South Bridge initialization is started

and still the other numbers, but it always pauses at 60 for a couple of seconds. Then continues to cycle through the numbers. Its like everything is initializing but gets stuck somewhere along the way.

Here is a link to full set of codes: http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16017

So, The update is I got the other GPU in, did the same thing to no suprise. I took the CPU off and put it back on, put some paste on and didnt do anything... Same thing. Im pretty sure what I have is a messed up board. Weird that it works 1 out of 5 times on boot then stays on perfectly. I have already contacted for a replacement. I think its the Motherboard and not the cpu. What do you guys think... I mean when it comes on, it works great. If it were the cpu wouldnt it be messing up when it runs?

WellI havbe another problem. I dont know if I killed my Western Digital boot drive or what, but now when I do get a successful boot it just goes to a screnn with a blinking line. No boot, and the lights on the motherboard go out, but fans stay on. Can still get into the bios after about booting 10 times. Bios is recognizing the hard drive, just not booting. And its getting worse on booting to the blinking line. HAHa one problem after another. Already talked to the seller, they are replacing. This thing has totally screwed up on me, I just hope i didnt kill my hard drive while starting that dang thing over so many times. I know thats not good for m components! Im suprised, I thought Asrock was awesome, they have great reviews!

First off, really happy to see you are up and running.

I don't know what your ambient temperature is, so its hard to tell. But clearly those temperatures are fine. And you're right - you probably won't find many if any circumstances where OCing that cpu gives enough benefit to offset the extra heat and fan noise you would notice.

back to temps: If your ambient is, say, 20C there are cooler/case combinations that would do slightly better at idle. As for your 48C gaming temps, I wouldn't comment because I don't know the game or the load. We would usually take a PCs load temperature when running Prime95 to create 100% utilization and a specific load profile. CPUID's Hardware Monitor is best to monitor temperatures, and Furmark works fine to torture your gpu. All those software products can be googled and downloaded free.

Actually I just figured out how to compare to a similar system. It seems my graphics card is getting about half the fps others peoples is with a hd 6850. Whats up with that?? There scores are seriously almost double mine!!