ASUS A88XM-A Boot Issues

[Inversion]

Hey, my ASUS A88XM-A motherboard with AMD's FM2+ socket and A88X chipset is having issues booting properly. Most of the time it's very quick to boot then other times it refuses to load windows 10. Anyone got a solution or any idea what's wrong with it?

[R3ep3r]

5 minutes ago, Inversion said:

Hey, my ASUS A88XM-A motherboard with AMD's FM2+ socket and A88X chipset is having issues booting properly. Most of the time it's very quick to boot then other times it refuses to load windows 10. Anyone got a solution or any idea what's wrong with it?

Other specs?

[myselfolli]

Any error codes?

[Gameborn]

1 hour ago, Inversion said:

Hey, my ASUS A88XM-A motherboard with AMD's FM2+ socket and A88X chipset is having issues booting properly. Most of the time it's very quick to boot then other times it refuses to load windows 10. Anyone got a solution or any idea what's wrong with it?

what's your cpu?

and also, try reset bios, this might help

[Inversion]

23 hours ago, Gameborn said:

what's your cpu?

and also, try reset bios, this might help

 

 

On 4/12/2017 at 10:08 AM, R3ep3r said:

Other specs?

Athlon X4 860K, GTX 960, 8GB RAM

 

I am Overclocked to 4.2 GHz but I was for weeks before this showed up.

I will try resetting the BIOS. Do you know if the room being cold at night could have an effect? Not cold enough to condense any water (like 15 degrees C).

[Gameborn]

Just now, Inversion said:

 

Athlon X4 860K, GTX 960, 8GB RAM

 

I am Overclocked to 4.2 GHz but I was for weeks before this showed up.

I will try resetting the BIOS. Do you know if the room being cold at night could have an effect? Not cold enough to condense any water (like 15 degrees C).

room temperature is nothing to do with this. Yes, try reset bios, and toggle windows 8 feature in bios (I have a88x chipset msi motherboard too). What do you mean by refuses to load? Maybe it tries to boot from another boot device (such as usb stick or external hdd) so check boot order too. Do you have dual boot with Linux? if so, run update-grub 

[R3ep3r]

1 minute ago, Inversion said:

I am Overclocked to 4.2 GHz but I was for weeks before this showed up.

I will try resetting the BIOS. Do you know if the room being cold at night could have an effect? Not cold enough to condense any water (like 15 degrees C).

The temperature in your room should not have any effect on your PC. It sounds more like a software issue instead of hardware.

I'd suggest you to do a CMOS reset, first of all. This will kinda reset your CPU's OC to default clock. Second after that reset if your PC still messes with you, I'd suggest you reinstall windows.

Also, when was the last time you cleaned your PC?

PS: If the issue is not software related then your HDD might be faulty.

[Inversion]

8 minutes ago, Gameborn said:

room temperature is nothing to do with this. Yes, try reset bios, and toggle windows 8 feature in bios (I have a88x chipset msi motherboard too). What do you mean by refuses to load? Maybe it tries to boot from another boot device (such as usb stick or external hdd) so check boot order too. Do you have dual boot with Linux? if so, run update-grub 

 

1 I run windows 10. 2. It just sits on the Motherboard manufacturer logo screen for ages. Will check boot order. No Linux

[Gameborn]

Just now, Inversion said:

1 I run windows 10. 2. It just sits on the Motherboard manufacturer logo screen for ages. Will check boot order. No Linux

try disable full-screen logo on startup so you can see logs. Maybe some useful info there

[Inversion]

9 minutes ago, R3ep3r said:

The temperature in your room should not have any effect on your PC. It sounds more like a software issue instead of hardware.

I'd suggest you to do a CMOS reset, first of all. This will kinda reset your CPU's OC to default clock. Second after that reset if your PC still messes with you, I'd suggest you reinstall windows.

Also, when was the last time you cleaned your PC?

PS: If the issue is not software related then your HDD might be faulty.

 

I will do the BIOS reset. To be Honest my computer probably does need a clean. I don't think it's been done since my GPU went in almost a year ago. I really hope it's not my boot drive cause SSDs are not cheap.

[Inversion]

Just now, Gameborn said:

try disable full-screen logo on startup so you can see logs. Maybe some useful info there

Thanks

[Gameborn]

Just now, Inversion said:

Thanks

anything for one of few fm2+ cpu's owners like me

[Inversion]

3 minutes ago, Gameborn said:

anything for one of few fm2+ cpu's owners like me

I think most people just don't use them cause for the same CPU performance, FX is cheaper and has more upgrade path. Athlons are really the only ones worth the money if you have a graphics card

[Gameborn]

1 minute ago, Inversion said:

I think most people just don't use them cause for the same CPU performance, FX is cheaper and has more upgrade path. Athlons are really the only ones worth the money if you have a graphics card

basically all fm2+ Athlons are a-series apu's with disabled integrated graphics

[R3ep3r]

56 minutes ago, Inversion said:

I think most people just don't use them cause for the same CPU performance, FX is cheaper and has more upgrade path. Athlons are really the only ones worth the money if you have a graphics card

FX, upgrade path? Man, you still in 2010? Am3+ is done. Totally done. Am4 is now the future.

[Inversion]

On 13/04/2017 at 0:37 PM, R3ep3r said:

FX, upgrade path? Man, you still in 2010? Am3+ is done. Totally done. Am4 is now the future.

I know it's done but AM4 is still expensive. Am3+ is the only option for some

[Inversion]

On 13/04/2017 at 11:42 AM, Gameborn said:

basically all fm2+ Athlons are a-series apu's with disabled integrated graphics

True and if you're getting a discrete gpu those integrated graphics are pointless. 

[R3ep3r]

3 hours ago, Inversion said:

I know it's done but AM4 is still expensive. Am3+ is the only option for some

I don't understand why would you change from FM2+ which is a good platform and also has some good CPUs(I'm messing with a 880k with stock cooler at 4.4ghz and still got no issues) to an AM3+ which is old.

[Inversion]

3 hours ago, R3ep3r said:

I don't understand why would you change from FM2+ which is a good platform and also has some good CPUs(I'm messing with a 880k with stock cooler at 4.4ghz and still got no issues) to an AM3+ which is old.

 

I'm not saying I would, I'm saying that more people choose AM3+ from the outset because it's cheaper and you can get better overall performance on the top chips