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BSOD resulting in a slow startup.
Hello everyone, before I continue I'd like to thank you all for your attention.
Recently I was playing a newly installed game called Battlefield 3 (which most of you might be familiar with), it's a rather demanding game but I figured I had a PC that could live up to the requirements.
I had a few problems seeing as my CPU and RAM memory were both overclocked and it kept BSoDing on me, after I clocked back I didn't have any problems until an hour ago.
I had 101 BsoD, implying that my vcore wasn't set high enough (to my understanding, anyway) - I got rid of the error but ever since that BsoD occured my PC remains in the BIOS bootscreen (the one that you press DEL to boot bios on) on startup (the first screen I get) for approximately 80 seconds which is a very long time, after that it continues and then when I get past the BIOS-boot/post screens, it stays black with a little cursor kind of thing (as if someone's typing in CMD or something) in the top left, stays like that for 30 seconds and then boots Windows which loads perfectly fine.
I have tried resetting factory defaults on my BIOS, I've installed a BIOS update, tried checking if C:/ was being booted first and I'm not entirely sure what else I can do..
My specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P67 Sabertooth
CPU: Intel i7 2600k
SSD: Corsair CSSD-F120GB2
HDD: Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black
RAM: Corsair 8 GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Service Pack 1
Any help would be appreciated, I'm not entirely sure how stable my system is right now but I'd rather that my system boots fast again like it used to.
Thanks a lot
Best regards