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When I attempt to start my computer using the power button on the front of my case, it generally takes me several attempts before it works - I'll explain:
Always, the red "loading" light will come on and then one of three things will happen:
1. Power will click off (the light goes off, I hear a click as if I were restarting), and the computer will attempt to restart. It gets stuck in this loop where the loading light comes on, it restarts, loading light comes on, it restarts, etc. Generally I have to turn off the power switch on my power supply because the power button on the front of the case doesn't do anything.
2. Once the red loading light comes on, the green "power" light will NOT come one, and setup will stall. It sits there for a second, and then I hear either my video card or my cpu fan come on full power and it will stay like that until I turn the power off and try again. Hitting the reset or power button on my case usually doesn't work.
1. if it starts up normally, then the green "power" light will come on, and windows will load just fine. Once windows has started, it never resets or freezes - the problem only occurs when I'm trying to start my computer after it's been turned off.
I had my cpu mildly overclocked (c2d e6300 @ 2.1 or something thereabouts) and when this problem first occurred I turned it back down to 1.86. I've tried various combinations for:
cpu voltage
fsb termination voltage
(G)MCH voltage
memory voltage
and I have run into this problem no matter what clock speeds I try as well. Nothing seemed to make any positive or negative difference. Again, once I get past the initial startup, I have never had any crashing or rebooting or overheating problems.
One other interesting this is that whenever I successfully start after encountering this error, the loading screen that normally checks the hardware and quickly moves on to windows will read: CPU SETTINGS CHANGED, and gives me the option of going into BIOS to fix it. Every time I have done this, I haven't noticed anything different in the settings. I've reset things to factory defaults and I still get this message after an error.
My computer is:
c2d e6300 @ 1.86 gHz
8800 GTS 640MB (1st generation)
4 gigs ram: 2 gigs of gskill and 2 of... corsair I believe. Both ddr2 800.
My motherboard is a BIOSTAR with the p965 chipset. I can't really remember the exact model.
one Western Digital 250gb SATA drive
500 or 600w psu (again I can't remember). Never had any problems with insufficient power since I built the machine in 2006.
My instincts are power supply or motherboard issues. But since the problem occurs several times before each successful startup, but once it's started it runs flawlessly, I'm not really sure what to think.
Anyone with advice or similar experiences would be much appreciated, thank you.
Always, the red "loading" light will come on and then one of three things will happen:
1. Power will click off (the light goes off, I hear a click as if I were restarting), and the computer will attempt to restart. It gets stuck in this loop where the loading light comes on, it restarts, loading light comes on, it restarts, etc. Generally I have to turn off the power switch on my power supply because the power button on the front of the case doesn't do anything.
2. Once the red loading light comes on, the green "power" light will NOT come one, and setup will stall. It sits there for a second, and then I hear either my video card or my cpu fan come on full power and it will stay like that until I turn the power off and try again. Hitting the reset or power button on my case usually doesn't work.
1. if it starts up normally, then the green "power" light will come on, and windows will load just fine. Once windows has started, it never resets or freezes - the problem only occurs when I'm trying to start my computer after it's been turned off.
I had my cpu mildly overclocked (c2d e6300 @ 2.1 or something thereabouts) and when this problem first occurred I turned it back down to 1.86. I've tried various combinations for:
cpu voltage
fsb termination voltage
(G)MCH voltage
memory voltage
and I have run into this problem no matter what clock speeds I try as well. Nothing seemed to make any positive or negative difference. Again, once I get past the initial startup, I have never had any crashing or rebooting or overheating problems.
One other interesting this is that whenever I successfully start after encountering this error, the loading screen that normally checks the hardware and quickly moves on to windows will read: CPU SETTINGS CHANGED, and gives me the option of going into BIOS to fix it. Every time I have done this, I haven't noticed anything different in the settings. I've reset things to factory defaults and I still get this message after an error.
My computer is:
c2d e6300 @ 1.86 gHz
8800 GTS 640MB (1st generation)
4 gigs ram: 2 gigs of gskill and 2 of... corsair I believe. Both ddr2 800.
My motherboard is a BIOSTAR with the p965 chipset. I can't really remember the exact model.
one Western Digital 250gb SATA drive
500 or 600w psu (again I can't remember). Never had any problems with insufficient power since I built the machine in 2006.
My instincts are power supply or motherboard issues. But since the problem occurs several times before each successful startup, but once it's started it runs flawlessly, I'm not really sure what to think.
Anyone with advice or similar experiences would be much appreciated, thank you.
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