Wierd booting sequence..

[GunCore]

Hello everyone,

I've been seeing a wierd booting sequence every now and again.

What happens is as follows; I turn the pc on, and everything seems okay, but then the pc shuts down and boots itself up again. It goes into windows fine on the second go, and everything is okay.

However, this only seems to happen after a long period of shutdown, for example; after I wake up and the pc's been off for a couple of hours.

I tried reinacting it, but if I boot the computer shortly after shutting it off, the problem doesn't occur anymore.

It seems completely harmless, but I really want to know what this means.

Specs:

Maximus Maximus Gene-Z Gen3

Intel i7 2700k @ 4,5Ghz

Radeon HD 7970

WD Caviar Black HDD

I hope you guys can help me with this ordeal.

 

[Firat]

It's known as the "cold boot" issue.

It could be caused by 1 of 2 things from what happened to me.

I get it on my 2600k system if overclocked above 4.6ghz.

So if at 4.5ghz it never occurs.

So maybe your CPU doesn't like that clock, try a lower clock.

I read on the forums that 1 guy fixed this issue by changing Gpu, have no idea why but it could be a factor.

Search cold boot issue in google quoting you mobo name and see what comes up.

 

[PetrolHead247]

It's a known issue with Asus Sandy Bridge boards where they randomly do a double boot, but it's nothing to worry about at all. Some boards get it, some don't, but nobody really knows why and what causes it. My board does it too and it can be a bit annoying but it's nothing to worry about

 

[GunCore]

Thanks for the help guys. Glad to know it's nothing to worry about.

 

[simsimma4]

This sounds very similar to my problem I had. It only happened when I overclocked my CPU. I have an MSI board and I disabled Eup2013, it solved the problem! Don't know if the asus board has such a thing. But on the MSI it was a Eco mode option, where by it had something to do with when the computer is put to sleep and how to wake it up.

 

[Damien c]

That sort of thing happened to me on my old MSI board, and it was a option in the overclocking profiles menu.

It did it to test to make sure the Ram and OC were ok or not, but I noticed it doing it on my Asus board the other day and since then it's not done it.

Will have a look to see if there are any options I have missed that could cause it as well.

 

[Firat]

That sort of thing happened to me on my old MSI board, and it was a option in the overclocking profiles menu.

It did it to test to make sure the Ram and OC were ok or not, but I noticed it doing it on my Asus board the other day and since then it's not done it.

Will have a look to see if there are any options I have missed that could cause it as well.

What was this option called?

 

[Damien c]

It was something like OC reboot test or something like that, I honestly cannot remember now.

If you go to the part where you save your OC profiles on a MSI board, it was at the bottom of the list and by default it was set to "3" and I had to change it to "1".

The board I had was the MSI P67A-GD53.

 

[YogevSkill]

It's a known issue with Asus Sandy Bridge boards where they randomly do a double boot, but it's nothing to worry about at all. Some boards get it, some don't, but nobody really knows why and what causes it. My board does it too and it can be a bit annoying but it's nothing to worry about

I second that its an Asus SB mobo thing.

if there's nothing on the screen and it just seems like the computer is restarting you have nothing to worry about.

but if you start seeing the post screen IE boot devices, and than it restart you should look into it, might be a "cold boot", or a hardwere issue

needing further investigation.

 

[8 Pack]

Its memory training at a guess guys. use warm boot fast option in DRAM tuning section to avoid it.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

It's an issue with ASUS boards, as said. This is not the first I have seen this issue.