Computer Freezes at BIOS

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MrHood22

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Well as the title says my computer freezes at the BIOS. I tried about 10 times and it got into the BIOS once, I clocked my CPU to settings that I KNOW are stable because i've used them for weeks and orthos runs on it perfectly.

It started when I got home today. I went to boot my computer up for work quick and it got past loading windows and I got a BSOD. That happened about 4 times then I finally got in and my computer worked fine. Since it acted so weird I decided to shut it down while at work. I got home and I try again and it gets to my BIOS and freezes. As I said before I got in my BIOS once and then I saved it so due to that fact it reboots but then it didn't go to the BIOS. I turned it off, waited, and it booted to the BIOS but froze.

Nothing overheated btw because my temps are fine. My CPU gets to 47c max and my 8800GT gets to 51c max. Please don't try to convince me all of my temps are wrong when they're not. It's cold down here, I have plenty of fans, and all of my temps are low, including the onboard LED case thermometer.

Any idea what's causing this? Mobo? CPU?
 
reset your BIOS, keep your CPU and RAM at stock speeds and see if you can POST and boot properly
 
clear cmos is the first step. theres a jumper on your motherboard to do so, read the manual.
 
I think my CMOS clears automatically once I shut it down for 'x' seconds.

I reset my bios to default and it booted. I then set them to my OC settings and it booted aswell.

I decided to run a virus, spyware, and disk defrag for my 4 hard drives overnight. I hoped htat would count as a type of stress test on my CPU aswell. I woke up and checked it out and apparently my computer rebooted, I assume I got a BSOD.
 
Alright well I had it running at my same OC settings but at 2.7ghz instead of 2.74ghz.

Today I turn it on and I set it to 2.74ghz and then I boot and I get a BSOD right after windows loads. I set it to 2.7ghz and it loads.

What I don't understand is a few months back I had it running PERFECTLY at 2.9ghz but for the sake of power/heat I turned it down to 2.74 and now out of no where this problem comes up. Any ideas?
 
run it at stock for a week or something man.....see if theres any problems.
 
Hmmm well I reset the CMOS and I have it at my OC settings i've had it at before. So far so good. Hopefully it just threw a tantrum and now it's calmed itself or maybe it's the fact that I threatned it that i'd go Intel so my AMD CPU/Mobo decided to play nice :)

Whatever the problem is, I just hope it's fixed.
 
Hmm Well I cleaned up my Case a bit and then I went to boot and I kept getting BSOD's and then I cleared CMOS and had the same issue and then it finally booted.

Any ideas what this could be?
 
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