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Cold boot instability

M76

M76

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I'm trying to push my CPU to the maximum, to dissuade myself from upgrading. But I'm faced with a curious problem. When I'm not using my computer for at least 8-10 hours I tend to cut the power for the entire system at the wall socket. But when I turn my system on from this "hibernation" it's always very unstable on the first boot. In most cases windows won't even boot up, and even if it does I get a freeze or BSOD very soon. But after a reboot everything is working fine. I think it's some kind of problem with the MB, that it's not providing the set voltages when it's started cold. If I leave it simply in soft off, then it works fine after powering on again.

Any ideas?

Can cutting the power every day mean more wear for the MB?
 
M76 said:
Can cutting the power every day mean more wear for the MB?
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not for the MB only but also for the Power Supply. I have to ask something are you using fast boot? because fast boot can present some kind of instabilities when they are powered off too much time, in fact it can lend to OS corruptions overtime..
 
Thermal cycling can also lead to cracked traces and solder.

I too have a PC that doesn't like to cold start (old 920). I'm pretty sure it's related to the memory settings. But once it POSTs, it's up and stable.
 
Araxie said:
not for the MB only but also for the Power Supply. I have to ask something are you using fast boot? because fast boot can present some kind of instabilities when they are powered off too much time, in fact it can lend to OS corruptions overtime..
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I'm not using fastboot.

xorbe said:
Thermal cycling can also lead to cracked traces and solder.

I too have a PC that doesn't like to cold start (old 920). I'm pretty sure it's related to the memory settings. But once it POSTs, it's up and stable.
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I don't think there is much thermal cycling when I cut the power as the computer is already in a soft-off state.
 
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