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I have a Powerspec (Microcenter house brand) I am getting a white light on the motherboard from a cold boot. Rebooting is fine and restarts less than 10-15 mins from shutdown is fine. I guess the capacitors are still charged...?? This used to work fine even with all of add on's which I did when I got home from the store. Purchased end of September cold boot issues started mid November. Component list below ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ***I hate this board and I think this is the problem*** AMD Ryzen 5900x EVGA RTX-3080lhr FTW ***third choice for problem*** 96GB Ram (32GB Neo Forza 16*2, 64GB Crucial Ballistix 32*2. Both XMP to 3200 with same timings 2TB WD Blue NVME (windows) 2TB Samsung 970 evo plus in second m.2 slot (linux, used 99% of the time) 2TB Inland Premium in 16x/4x electrical expansion card Cooler Master 240mm aio Powerspec 750 watt gold ***this is my second choice for the problem*** Asus 2.5Gb nic in 1x slot 2 140mm front fans 1 120mm rear fan Lian Li Lancool 205 Full Tower Case I am thinking about replacing the motherboard with a MSI MPG X570S Edge MAX WiFi which frees up a 16x/4x electrical slot and will free a 16x/1x since it has three m.2 and 2.5Gb on the board. Any ideas from y'all would be wonderful!

Hi everyone, Long time LTT follower but new to the forums. I have the following config: Ryzen TR 3960X ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha 128 GB DDR 4 4000 ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3090 OC GAMING 24 G EVGA 1300W My issue is when the computer is running the ram works fine. I have tested it multiple times but when I cold boot the computer after a long night it does not boot. I have to let it stay on a couple of minutes and reboot it until bios goes in safe mode and then it boots normally. Any tips on how fixing this cold boot issue ? I can't seem to find a DRAM Training option in the bios... either that or i'm not looking for the proper name. I'm using DOCP but since i'm using PCIE 4.0 I down clock it at 3600 or 3533 to make sure I don't have any issues with it. If I run the ram at stock JEDEC speed 2400 I don't have any issues. Thanks,

Hello everyone! I have been wanting to make a post for quite some time. I built this computer a few years ago, and everything was perfect right out of the gate; except for a custom water loop with a leaky pump :(. I want to say about a year ago I started having this issues where when I press the power button, it does not POST. BUT if I hit the restart button on the motherboard, it will. I did not change any hardware prior to this. (I did change from my custom loop to an AIO, but I do not remember if this problem started before or after) I am hoping to build a new computer here soon and will be looking to sell this one and would really like to figure out this issue before-hand. I have: Cleared CMOS Re-seated all power cables Re-seated all ram Re-seated GPU Re-seated CPU/AIO Updated BIOS Checked all front cable connectors I've been off and on troubleshooting this for a year so I may not remember exactly what I have all done or not done. But ANY help and recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Windows 10 64-bit Intel Core i7 7700K @ 4.20GHz ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS IX FORMULA (LGA1151) 3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 32.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1098MHz (15-15-15-36) (Should be CORSAIR Vengeance RGB DRAM 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3466, not sure why it says unknown, could just be because I used Speccy to get the information) 465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SSD) 931GB Western Digital WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 (SATA) 20210721_064108.avi

I recently have switched over my atx build into an itx for college, and after moving all the hardware but a new motherboard and cpu cooler into the new case, it’s seems to boot only when it’s cold. The only way to post consistency is to flip the power supply to off for 3 seconds and then to power it. specs: Ryzen 2700x xfx rx580 gts xxx edition Aorus x570 I pro wifi 2 x 8gb corsair vengeance lpx 3000mhz Corsair cx650 sspud meshilous I really need help with this and I can’t think of anything to fix it

Hi guys, I am facing a strange problem since few days which I needed help with. Whenever I cold boot the PC my GPU is not getting detected by the PC and hence, I am not getting any display at all. Not even the bios flash screen is being displayed. The PC itself boots up perfectly though. I can use the computer itself without the display (using teamviewer). I can see that in device management that all the components show up properly except the GPU. The GPU is not detected at all in the device manager. The strange thing is if I restart the PC then I get the same issue of GPU not getting detected and not getting any display. But if I switch off the PC using windows shutdown & then power on the PC again the GPU gets detected and I get display as well. And now the PC works like nothing has ever happened. But this problem persists if I switch off the PC and start it again on a cold boot after 20-25 mins. To troubleshoot I tried the basic steps Tried running the system on 1 ram stick, interchanging stick/slots. Issue not fixed Booted PC without GPU, PC boots and works fine (using teamviewer) Uninstalling the GPU from device manager, using DDU to remove drivers and fresh install Nvidia drivers. Issue still there. Resetting the BIOS to factory settings, disabling XMP. Issue still there. Testing separate displays, issue still there. Now I am very confused as to what the faulty component is/what the issue is. If the GPU is faulty then why does it give display after tuning off the PC & again starting it? If its not the GPU then why does it not get deducted during the cold boot? Could the Motherboard PCI slot be faulty? I have recently bought a new PSU one month ago so I don’t think the PSU is at fault. Plus, the PC works fine without the GPU. My PC specs for reference. Ryzen 5 1600 MSI B450m Pro M2 Corsair 2*8GB RAM Palit GTX 1060 6GB Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro 750

Hi there guys! I'm having some issues with my MB/RAM/CPU whatever is from the problem... These issues are there that long that I don't remember how much time it is, but the things is I'm trying to fix it and would love some help since I'm runnning out of ideas. First of all my setup: CPU i7 7820X GPU MSI RTX 2080TI Trio 11GB WC Corsair H115i Case Corsair Carbide 600Q Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix X299-E Gaming PSU EVGA Supernova G3 750W 80Plus Gold Mod. SSD Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD PCI-e 500GB RAM x2 G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 4133 16GB x2 G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 4266 16GB (Got these on QuadChannel) Performance is really decent, but I can't keep my ram above 2133 without getting problems after long time without using the computer... I mean, I turn off my computer when I'm going to sleep so that few hours after that my PC won't boot at all, I need to press "turn on" button to hard shutdown, again turn on, then It will turn on (without any OC at all) after that I just restart my computer then everything is applied accordingly. 4000 is working perfect and no problem at all. My BIOS is up to date, everything is up to date and this problem has been there with every version. If I want that extra performance I need to do this everytime I turn on my computer, so... I'm getting tired of it. I've been researching whole internet, most issues that I've searched are related to boot voltages. My BIOS manual has some boot voltages stuff for RAM, but unlucky me when I'm going into my BIOS these options are gone. I'm using advance mode, just in case someone will ask. I just OC'd CPU with no problems but when I change RAM Frequency its a mess. XMP it's just the same issue, everything RAM involved turns into next day cold boot being a total failure. I've tried sleep mode/hibernate but after few mins, seems like when I want to use my computer again it's stucked just like a cold boot. I mean, I've been like this 3 years, I'm thinking about change MB but before I want to try everything, because I've already tried stick by stick, and everything is the same problem. If you wonder why do I have 2 pairs of different RAM it's because 4133 are the old ones, and 4266 are the new ones, same CL19 19-19-19-36 (If I remember it properly) so that shouldn't be a problem. I'm really frustrated and would like some new ideas :( Sorry if I just write something wrong, first time talking about this and I'm not native. If someone reads this and wants more info just ask for it ^^

Hi there, some time ago I've build a new gaming pc with the following specs(cpu,gpu and ram): CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x GPU: RTX 2080 OC 8gb RAM: HyperX Predator 1x16 GB, P/N: KHX3200C16D4/16GX My folowing problem is that I've tried to overclock the ram to 3200 MHz as described by the manufacturer and simply it doesn't work .. I don't know if I'm forgetting something.. Tried X.M.P., tried to manually set the timings and voltage, etc. None of the before mentioned work for me. After Save & Exit my pc boots into the windows with no problems, runs games very good, and doesn't get any blue screens. But after every cold boot my pc fails to boot 3-4 times, then the 5th time it boots withouth image and I need to manually shut it down. Ok so far so bueno, but after I turn it back on it resets all the timings and goes back to the stock freq. of 2400MHz I've tried "every" video on yt, every forum I've encountered, tried to ask Gigabyte support, I don't know that to do else. Could it be the problem that I only have one RAM module and not 2 ? idk maybe I'm dumb

Hi! So the problem is a very strange one. My pc was working fine until I swapped the gpu for a Sapphire rx580 8gb Nitro + The issue seem to be on the very first boot after beeing off for a while (8 hours maybe) and when I turn it on, the pc posts (the mobo speaker beeps once), the keyboard and mouse lights up but there is no display on both monitors. No leds on the motherboard ez debug light up. If I shut down the pc and boot it back up, it boots up fine with both displays on. Other than that, the pc works 100% fine. The specs Intel Core i7 6700 3.4GHz 8MB Sapphire rx 580 8gb nitro + Special edittion 2x 8GB DDR4 2133MHz CL15 RAM Samsung SSD 250GB Sata3 850EVO Toshiba 1TB 7200Rpm 32MB MSI B150M PRO VHD Aerocool KCAS 800W 80plus Bonze What I have tried - fresh install of windows with latest drivers - updated the motherboard bios to the latest available - flashed the stock gpu bios - tried to reset the gpu, ram and cpu, along with all power cables - cleard CMOS I`m all out of ideas. I think the problem maybe the gpu but it works fine besides this. No frame drops, freezes, artifacts... I can make a simple video showing the issue tomorrow if that would help! Thank you!

Hey guys, I've had this Asus G552VW for almost a year now and I'm pretty happy with it. Until recently. Every time it starts from a cold boot (being off for more than an hour) the screen flickers erratically between black and the actual image or colors of the image. If I wait long enough it will just go away, but it usually fixes itself as soon as I login and it takes me to the desktop. I can usually stop it by pressing the area just above the right screen hinge. So one could only assume it's a hardware problem. But I wasn't expecting this... I tried going in the BIOS setup and BOOM that fixed the flickering it does not flicker when I am in the setup. If I save and quit the laptop will reboot normally without flickering all the way through post->boot->login->desktop. I'm really at a loss. I tried updating to the latest BIOS, but that didn't work. I tried uninstalling my graphics drivers. But to no avail. Please troubleshoot gods, help a man in need. Sincerely, a desperate citizen of Belgium

Hi! New Ryzen build with a couple of recycled components. The new: Ryzen 3700x Aorus Elite x570 G. Skill Trident Z 16 Gb / 3200 Mhz / CL14 ( F4-3200C14D-16GTZR ) Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4. The old: Samsung 840 EVO Western Digital Green 1Tb Corsair PSU AX760 MSI 1070Ti (with a light OC) Running: BIOS ver F4i with AGESA 1.0.0.3 ABB Windows 10 64 bit, ver 1903. [Freshly installed on the SSD for the build] Newest chipset drivers from AMD (19.10.16) with Ryzen Balanced profile. My issue is that upon every cold boot the BIOS settings reset, after the PC cycles on/ off, 2-3 times. XMP on/off makes no differance. Flashed bios for every new update without help. Inside the OS everything works flawlessly. XMP works, Precition boost works. No BSOD's. Upon regular, powered reboots all the settings remain as set by me.

I just helped a friend build a new high-end system, and we have yet to see any video output or bios screens. The system is as follows: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Gigabyte Aorus X570 Ultra G-Skill Trident Z 32gb 3600 Gigabyte Aorus Nvidia RTX 2080ti EVGA G3 1000 watt PSU Samsung 970 Evo 500gb (OS, first m.2 slot) Intel 660p 2tb NVME (second m.2 slot) Seagate 3tb Barracuda HDD Enermax Liqtech 360 AIO Phanteks Enthoo Pro M The OS is not yet installed, but it will be Windows 10 Pro 1903 64bit. Current BIOS is F4i The parts assembled without any problems, no drops, no extra force needed, no signs of damage to any component. Once we got the system built, we hooked it up to a monitor via HDMI (old cable, not 2.0) from the GPU. When we turned it on, the memory lit up, all fans were spinning, but no post. The four debugg LEDS (why no Qcode display gigabyte??) showed that the DRAM led was lit, but would jump back and forth between CPU and DRAM. It never settled completely on DRAM. Steps attempted: Updated BIOS to F4i Restarted several times tried a different cable waited to see if it was just taking ages Added a mobo speaker, but it didnt produce any beeps Prior to assembly, I used a thermaltake PSU tester on the EVGA G3. All clear there. next steps: clear CMOS try an older bios try two Dimms try a different memory kit Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Ive seen that Aorus boards are having some bios issues on X570, but couldnt find more details.

Hello, Long time subscriber, just made an account for the site and this is my first post. Recently built a custom desktop and works fine but every time I boot from "shut down" it restarts itself after ten minutes of being on, whether I use it or not. After this initial restart, it works proper and does not restart itself ever again... unless I shut down and boot up from there. It does this constantly and I have not been successful in troubleshooting or researching online for solutions. (this is partly because I don't know what this problem is called and is too long to describe it in a search bar) Please help me come up with a solution. Little about my PC: Processor: Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz (too afraid to overclock with this rebooting problem, will after it’s resolved) Mobo: ASUS x99-Deluxe RAM: 16 GB Dual-Channel DDR4 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 EVGA Storage: 223GB SSD (Boot Drive) OS: Win10 PSU: CoolerMaster Silent Pro M 1000W Watercooling: Corsair H100i It doesn’t seem to cause any problems with performance but waiting ten minutes every time it boots from shut down causes unnecessary delay to workflow less I risk losing unsaved work at the start of the process. For now, I just wait and do menial tasks or walk away but I would like to reliably work from the very start. If you have any questions or need more information, do ask as I would like to find a solution. v/r Edit: grammatical errors

Hello folks. The computer with the specs below has started to only boot after hard reset, two weeks ago. CPU: 3770k MB: Sabertooth Z77 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB GPU: EVGA 780ti HDD (Windows): Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB HDD (Storage): 9 disks (Samsungs, WD Reds...) PS: LCPower - LC8850 I did a CMOS reset and turn off all hard drives but it didn't solve the problem. I also changed the power supplier a few days ago and it has been working properly but today it didn't boot again (only after reset). EDIT: I've tried installing the OS in another SSD.. Does anyone happen to know what it may be? Thank you for the support. Cheers.

I can only see my second hard drive (in the bios and in Windows 8.1) after I press ctrl + alt + del after pressing F11 to select boot option. This is the fastest way, but I could boot windows and press restart if I wanted too. Nevertheless, I can't see my second hard drive until I soft restart. If I do a cold boot, I can't see it. Once it shows up, the read/write is totally normal, and on any other computer, it works as it should. It's only on this one that it does this weird thing. Even if no other hard drive is in, It only works upon restart. any help is appreciated. Here are my specs: Intel Core-i3 4150 3.5 GHz Asrock B85M Pro4 Motherboard EVGA Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti 16GB DDR3 Ram (4x4GB by Hynix) (not official site) Hard drives (couldn't find official sites): Seagate ST3750528AS (working fine) Seagate ST3320613AS (the weird one) I tried other cables, but to no avail. Can anyone help me?

This experiment started two days ago when I got curious as to what the new Win10 BSOD screen looks like. After putting in an OC that I knew was unstable, I got the BSOD and was in the OC mindset at this point. As a background/history of my system specs/issues, I'm running a Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P (rev. 1.3; UEFI U1G), 2600K, NH-D14, with 8GB G.Skill Sniper (1600MHz, XMP), and Win7-SP1-X64; Gigabyte boards have had a really bad boot loop issue in Z68 platform, and it was present throughout the legacy BIOS & UEFI beta releases as well. My previous max OC with this setup was 4.5 GHz because I couldn't enable Internal CPU PLL Overvoltage. Enabling this option resulted in cold boot loops where the PC would seem to fail POST 3-4 times before booting into Windows. I even tried my luck to get 4.6 GHz without it enabled but was faced with BSODs at idle and light loads yet stable under 100% load (another infamous, well-documented issue). Discussions of idle BSOD pinpointed the culprit to be C-states settings. I'm not sure if it's because of how the BIOS/motherboard handles it or the OS (or the combo of the two). Now back to OCing with Win10. I got curious to see if the OS somehow made any difference with boot issues that I've had in the past. I went ahead and input my previously tested 4.6 GHz but with Internal CPU PLL OV enabled this time around. Surely enough, I passed 10 rounds of IBT on Max; to my surprise, I even passed Prime Blend (90% RAM) for 12 hours. I even shut down the system multiple times and manually powered it on to see if it would loop. No cold boot loops yet. The final test was to shut down the system, wait overnight, and see if it'll gimme a cold boot loop in the morning. Well, good morning! NO COLD BOOT LOOPS. After a full day of various load scenarios (light web browsing, video streaming, gaming, and benchmarks), I've had no BSODs at idle or load—and no cold boot loops at all. Today I got brave, so I started squeezing out a 4.7 GHz OC and after a few rounds of crashes/adjustments it miraculously passed 10 rounds of IBT Max and Prime under high RAM usage as well! This is after being able to undervolt my CPU PLL voltage lower than I ever could. I used to crash one minute after booting into the OS on 4.7 GHz, so today I was literally asking myself, "How the hell is this happening right now?!" I know that this system has ancient hardware, but all of this is incredibly surprising to me, since the boot loop issue for high OCs was never fully resolved. Win10 may be handling C-states and/or CPU PLL voltages a lot better than Win7, but I'm just taking a wild guess. I'm hoping that anyone with a Sandy Bridge Z68 Gigabyte system will find this a bit helpful and possibly try out Win10 for OC purposes.

Hi people, This is an issue that's been going on for quite some months now and I can't seem to narrow the issue down. Everytime I think I've found it, the issue re-appears. So I reach out to the more experienced to see if anyone else can shed some light on the matter. My Specs: PSU: Cooler Master V850 Mobo ASRock 990FX Extreme9 CPU: AMD FX-8320 RAM: 2x4GB AMD Radeon R9 Gamer Series (2400MHz) GPU: MSI GTX 770 Lightning Edition Storage: Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD + 32GB Sandisk SSD + WD Blue 1TB HDD + 320GB 2.5inch Hitachi HDD OS: Windows 7 64-bit The Issue: Intermittently during a cold boot my mobo has a fit and throws different POST debug codes. Each time I boot it hangs on a particular error code and will not budge until I turn it off and on again. It’s a case of keep trying to cold boot it until it eventually boots up fine. I once made a note of the POST error codes each time and I got: D7, 62, 0D, 00, 0D, D7 in that order WITHOUT making any changes to the PC each time. On ASRock’s website, here is what they correspond to on this board: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme9/?cat=FAQ I would also like to note when it does decide to boot, I get into the UEFI and sometimes it will hang and just freeze on the same screen. The time also stops counting too. The only way out of it is to turn it off and back on again. I've also had it where no debug code shows, but upon attempting to boot into Windows I get “bootmgr image is corrupt. The system cannot boot” screen. But again, this is an intermittent issue. Sometimes it will actually boot fine and go straight into Windows with no hassle, usually when turning off and on multiple times it gives up and lets me in. There isn't a pattern to this by the way, it doesn't happen after a certain amount of attempts. Sometimes it will actually just boot up first time, straight into Windows. Once it's in Windows it performs fine and I can browse and play games perfectly fine. No shut downs, no nothing. The issue only occurs when booting. Diagnostics performed: ¬ Cleared the CMOS several times (Tried both CLR CMOS button and jumper) ¬ Ran Memtest86 for 9 hours and no errors ¬ Purchased new RAM (Was using Avexir Core Series before) ¬ Updated the UEFI to the latest version ¬ Reseated the RAM, GPU and CPU ¬ Tried booting with 1 stick of RAM ¬ Swap tested RAM slots (reseating from DDR3_A1 and DDR3_B1 slots to DDR3_A2 and DDR3_B2 slots) as instructed in the manual ¬ Completely stripped the PC, took the mobo out and rebuilt again (not including the OS) ¬ Attempting to boot with only the OS drive (Kingston SSD) present ¬ Used different wall socket outlets including a Belkin Surge protector ¬ I've even had my motherboard swapped out under warranty ¬ Tried different PSU cables thinking it was a faulty cable (some spares were in the original box unused) ¬ Changed the mobo standoffs thinking mobo wasn't being grounded correctly ¬ Tried using a known working Sempron proccessor ¬ Purchased a cheap working graphics card (one that doesn't need dedicated PSU connections) ¬ Used a different PSU (a Corsair 600watt builder series unit) Results after diags: As this is an intermittent issue, it's hard to figure out the cause. For example, I swapped the RAM and my PC would boot first time, everytime, for about 4 days until it decided it wasn't going to do that anymore. No change to my configuration at all, I left everything stock. It also did the same when I tried using a different wall socket outlet. I tried booting about 10 times and it just wouldn't boot, then when I take out the plug and shove it into a different wall socket it boots first time! But that doesn't always fix the issue and I've had it where it will hang on a debugging code the next time I try and boot from that same wall outlet. I would also like to add, after all the diags, I do notice some of the debugging codes don't appear anymore. They still alternate, but only between 5d, 0d and numbers between 61-91 which on the ASRock Website states it's either memory or a chipset issue. This is on a brand new mobo too. At this point I don't think the issue is component related, but power related. I think there's a short somewhere causing the issue but I can't figure out where it is or how to fix it. Any ideas people? Many thanks for the people who do read through this massive wall of text and reply to this thread, your help is greatly appreciated. I'm pulling my hair out at this problem!