GA-P55-UD4P Boot crash after off for a long time. PSU off/on fixes it?!?

[elysoto]

So I've installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my Gigabyte GA-p55-ud4dp motherboard with a core i7 860

I have a
VelociRaptor 300Gb
Soundblaster XiFi (PCI)
8GB GSKILL RipJaws F3-16000FL9D-4GBRH PC3-16000
Gigabyte ATI HD-4850 Video Card in the PEG slot

The computer works perfectly and is completely stable in all my burn in tests (memtest86+, OCCT, superpi, etc)

When I shutdown the computer at night, the next morning it BSOD everytime it tries to load Windows. Safe Mode does not work. All the drivers load fine and crashes after the last driver says loaded.

After it starts to BSOD. If I just restart the system, same thing happens. I can't get past boot until I actually switch the whole computer's power off via the PSU and then restart.

What is strange is that if try and reproduce it by shutting down and then boot after a few seconds, nothing happens and it boots normally. If I shutdown, go away for a few hours, then boot, I get a BSOD everytime.

This has lead me to look at a bios/hardware issue.
I've tried numerous bios adjustments without luck.

I've flashed the bios to F4R and now F4T.

I'm stumped at this point.

The system is completely stable otherwise. No overclocking.

[elysoto]

Other information, I get the Windows 7 error in the Event Log

Log Name: System
Source: HAL
The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition.  Please check for updated firmware for your system.

I've had this since the F3 BIOS version.

This message appears to happen only sometimes, when I do a 'restart'.

[MindLESS]

What PSU do you have in it?
Brand and wattage would be helpfull

[elysoto]

What PSU do you have in it?
Brand and wattage would be helpfull

PC Power and Cooling Silencer 610

I've been searching around and I've found that the problem is becoming common in P55 motherboards.

http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=2479&page=1
http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=2480
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=82480&page=1

There seems to be a bug in the Motherboard BIOS.

The 'Round Trip Latency' Memory Timing value is changing across cold boots when in Auto mode.

This is causing these crashes for various people with different motherboards and different memories.
Some memories may work fine with it.

This seems to be part of the base Award bios since it is common across motherboards.

[Beekeeper]

what is the required voltage for your RAM ? do the mb settings matching it?

any chance to change the RAM into different one, for example G.SKILL F3-16000CL9D-4GBTD ?
as this one i have found in gigabyte's QVL for RAM : http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/FileList/MemorySupport/mb_memory_ga-p55-ud4p.pdf

p.s. would be reasonable to first check QVL next buy the RAM

[MindLESS]

p.s. would be reasonable to first check QVL next buy the RAM

Can't remember doing that often in 16 years of building computers =D

Anyway, I think the OP made a typo as F3-16000FL9D doesn't seem to exist and the F is directly above the C so I think it's probably a moot point.

[Beekeeper]

do you have XMP enabled in mb's bios? check RAM's voltage as i wrote already

p.s. would be reasonable to first check QVL next buy the RAM

Can't remember doing that often in 16 years of building computers =D .............

so it seems that your long waiting is finally over
OK, don't take it serious, i'm joking 

[elysoto]

Well that potential fix didn't work so disregard my post. Ahh well.

I went out to Microcenter and bought me some Corsair 8GB matched memory to see if I have luck with it.

[elysoto]

Replaced my memory with 8GB Corsair Matched CMX8GX3M4A1600C9. Works perfectly.

[Beekeeper]

glad to hear you've sorted it out

[MindLESS]

Must have been a bad set from GSkill I guess - glad it's sorted though =)