F5F Stay Refreshed Hardware Desktop Problem with startup cycle Loops during initialization Unusual behavior observed

Problem with startup cycle Loops during initialization Unusual behavior observed

Problem with startup cycle Loops during initialization Unusual behavior observed

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04-08-2019, 10:57 PM
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Greetings all, looking for any input or enlightenment. First some background. I've been building PCs since ATs and XTs and DOS were a thing Greetings all, looking for any input or enlightenment. First some background. I've been building PCs since XTs and ATs and DOS were a thing. I only have seen this issue a couple of times and it was cleared up by installing new RAM. Here's my issue: Of course, this is happening to my PC, which I use only to perform shows (a visual artist cosmicgoo.com). And it happened just before a performance. On pushing the power button the system lights up and fans start spinning but it doesn't post(you can't go into bios). A minute or so later, the system restarts and repeats. That night it would not start and I lost much needed revenue. When I got it back to my shop, I did what most of you would do, I removed all peripherals, graphics card, video capture card, ram, cpu and cleaned the motherboard. I installed new ram when I reassembled it leaving out all peripherals and the video capture card, and I get the same boot loop (sometimes), it will loop maybe 4 or more times the boot correctly and run flawlessly. On restarting it, sometimes I get the loop sometimes it starts no problem. When I start every morning since, it always starts, but sometimes with the boot loop, sometimes right away. However, since covid, I haven't been employed (except for occasional visual work) and can't obtain another cpu or motherboard for further tests. I'm running an lga 1151 i7-4790k cpu, 16 gb of ram, a Nvidia 2060 on a windows 7 64bit os(my visual software doesn't play well with windows 10). If any of you have thoughts or suggestions, l'd appreciate the input. Thanks
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04-08-2019, 10:57 PM #1

Greetings all, looking for any input or enlightenment. First some background. I've been building PCs since ATs and XTs and DOS were a thing Greetings all, looking for any input or enlightenment. First some background. I've been building PCs since XTs and ATs and DOS were a thing. I only have seen this issue a couple of times and it was cleared up by installing new RAM. Here's my issue: Of course, this is happening to my PC, which I use only to perform shows (a visual artist cosmicgoo.com). And it happened just before a performance. On pushing the power button the system lights up and fans start spinning but it doesn't post(you can't go into bios). A minute or so later, the system restarts and repeats. That night it would not start and I lost much needed revenue. When I got it back to my shop, I did what most of you would do, I removed all peripherals, graphics card, video capture card, ram, cpu and cleaned the motherboard. I installed new ram when I reassembled it leaving out all peripherals and the video capture card, and I get the same boot loop (sometimes), it will loop maybe 4 or more times the boot correctly and run flawlessly. On restarting it, sometimes I get the loop sometimes it starts no problem. When I start every morning since, it always starts, but sometimes with the boot loop, sometimes right away. However, since covid, I haven't been employed (except for occasional visual work) and can't obtain another cpu or motherboard for further tests. I'm running an lga 1151 i7-4790k cpu, 16 gb of ram, a Nvidia 2060 on a windows 7 64bit os(my visual software doesn't play well with windows 10). If any of you have thoughts or suggestions, l'd appreciate the input. Thanks

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04-09-2019, 12:20 AM
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if it's work-related, keep backups. avoid relying on a single machine for the whole operation. ACDC won't show up at a gig with only one guitar and trust it will run. likely the board is the issue. inconsistent startup when no changes are made (like resetting until it works) points to initialization problems handled by the board or firmware. it's possible a faulty part could cause this. while unusual for a component to stop working entirely and then start fine, it suggests the board itself might be defective. you could test the CMOS battery—if it's dead, frequent BIOS resets may cause strange boot behavior.
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04-09-2019, 12:20 AM #2

if it's work-related, keep backups. avoid relying on a single machine for the whole operation. ACDC won't show up at a gig with only one guitar and trust it will run. likely the board is the issue. inconsistent startup when no changes are made (like resetting until it works) points to initialization problems handled by the board or firmware. it's possible a faulty part could cause this. while unusual for a component to stop working entirely and then start fine, it suggests the board itself might be defective. you could test the CMOS battery—if it's dead, frequent BIOS resets may cause strange boot behavior.

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