June 13, 2014 11:56 PM MDT
I have a self built PC based around the GA X58A UD3R rev. 2.0 board. I'm experiencing ongoing cold boot issues where each morning it will take up to 8 reboots to get windows 7 Ultimate to load. Once loaded its then as solid as a rock for the rest of the day if I leave the system on its fine (I can reboot and it loads a ok) but if I turn it off and go to a meeting for longer than an hour or two then the cold boot issue resurfaces.
I receive a number of error messages relating to:Going through windows start up recovery once it finally loads without errors then means the system will reboot and load windows correctly on the next attempt. This process takes 10 to 15minutes to go from first powering up to actually being able to use the system.
I've run a mem test on the RAM both as a group and then each of the six stick individually. These tests ran for over 3 hours per memtest and reported zero errors. I take this as indicating the RAM is a ok.
BIOS reports cheap ugg boots the RAM in full correctly and windows does too.
Here are my System/Bios specs I'm currently using the XMP Profile1 as recommended in the motherboard manual.
CPU = Model Intel i7 950 3.06Ghz
Motherboard = GA X58A UD3R rev. 2.0
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
PSU = OCW 600W ModXStream PRO Modular
GFX = Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 FLEX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI Express
I tried your suggestions and sadly things didnt improve so I went for a full fresh reinstall and still getting the same problems.
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 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.
Is it likely to be happier booting once the power has circulated for a while? Does Ram or the CPU suffer from the slight chill?
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