Hi,
I'm having a lot of problems getting my computer to boot first time. If I swicth it on in the morning it cycles through various error messages and restarts until it eventually loads windows. I've tested every ram board and checked the CPU. I've done three clean installs and I cant for the life of me work out whats causing the cold boot issues.
After weeks of trying things I've discovered that if I switch the computer on, immediately hit delete to get into bios and leave the machine for about 10 minutes (go make a cup of tea and open the days post) and then boot the machine it works and loads into windows 7 first time everytime with no errors or issues.
Any ideas on what might be causing it? The computer is in my studio which is separate from the hosue and can get a bit colder over night, especially at this time of year.
As all the componants seems fine and once the machines booted its rock solid and runs well I'm wondering if my motherboard is at fault?
The only other ideas I have is that maybe the Ram or the CPU suffer badly from the slight chill and once they've had 10 minutes of electrical warming up they're then ready to got?
Is it possible that I've got a motherboard I need to RMA as its got some weird quirk?
Is there something else I should be doing/try?
Heres a brief run down of the specs of my machine:
CPU = Model Intel i7-950 3.06Ghz
Motherboard = GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0
BIOS Version = FG
Ram = 2 x 6GB Corsair Dominator (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit - CMP6GX3M3A1600C8
Ram = 1600MHz RAM Speed, CAS 8-8-8-24 Timings, 1.6-1.7v VDIMM
Ram = Total 12GB in Machine
PSU = OCW 600W ModXStream PRO Modular
GFX = Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 FLEX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express
Kind regards,
Geo.
