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Crash on cold boot
Hi there, about a month ago I decided to get myself a new rig. I ordered the parts online and put them together myself. At first everything worked fine, I got Windows 7 up and running and drivers were installed without error. Then I decided to try and overclock my i5 2500k, since I have little experience with overclocking in general I googled a little and read up on a few step-by-step tutorials on how to go about with this. I'm not sure wether or not it's something I've meddled with that caused this problem, but in the middle of clicking around in my BIOS my computer suddenly dies. On reboot it halts and crashes after a few seconds only to reboot again before it even gets to the initial boot screen. It keeps going like this for 3-4 consecutive crashes until I pull the power. I open up my case and since my motherboard has a "mem-ok!" button which, according to the manual is used to reset BIOS and allow a safe boot. I press and hold for 5 seconds and it boots correctly and lets me undo any changes I've done to the BIOS. Everything seemed to be in working order, but now whenever I do a cold boot it still halts and crashes once or twice before it does a succesful boot. The problem has persisted for a few weeks now and it's bugging me because it means there's a problem somewhere. I'm clueless as to where exactly, though. Anyone with experience or input that have ran into similar issues? Feel free to share your thoughts.
Oh, and if it helps I thought I'd add the full specs of my computer:
ASUS P8-Z68V
Intel Core i5 2500k
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 8GB CL9
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB PhysX (Twin-Frozr II)
Corsair TX V2 750W PSU
Corsair SSD Force 3 120GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
Thanks!
Thomas