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POST failures on overclocked computer
I am running an overclocked system that will always fail the Power on Self Test the first time, when it asks me to restart the computer or enter the bios, I select to restart. It almost always passes the test the second time. The system runs beautifully once inside Windows 7 (it passed 10 hours of Prime 95 with flying colors). I can prevent the messages by disabling the fail-safe watchdog in the BIOS, but that results in another problem. Whenever I disable it, the computer will not be able to restart. I have to press the power button and then turn it on. Instead of rebooting, the screen just goes black and the DVD drive makes a loud grinding noise every few seconds. It normally makes this sound only once on start up, but it just keeps making the sound over and over again.
My system specs are:
Mobo: Intel DX48BT2 with BIOS version 2006
Processor: Intel QX9770 overclocked to 4.0 GHz (normally 3.2)
FSB: 400MhzRAM: 8GB OCZ Gold series Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333Mhz
Multiplier (at full load): x10
PSU: Rosewill Bronze Series 1000W
Graphics: BFG GTX 295 Single PCB
HDD: 1TB Samung Spinpoint F1 Series HD103UJ and External 2TB eSATA Phantom Drive
ODD: Hp dvd1140 burner