PC Power cycle after hibernation?

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Hopefully someone can explain this.

I accidentally put my the computer in my sig in the low power shutdown last night. I could not get it to wake, so I did a hard shut off.

Today, when I turned the PC on, the system turned on for a few seconds (fans, LEDs, disc reads, etc.), but after that few seconds everything stopped, and it started again. I was not getting any video signal, but that is possible because my LCD takes forever to wake. It did this five or six times until I did a hard shut down. I flipped the PSU off and back to on and it fired right up.

I'm hoping it was a consequence of me shutting it off while in the low power mode and not my hardware (RAM?). Maybe it was failing some boot test? I've heard tales that my motherboard is notorious for these boot loops, but this is the first time I've seen it, and it went away so quickly. All my temps are fine, and I was only browsing before the shutdown.

Thoughts? Any help appreciated.
 
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Well, my bios reset all my OC settings. The bios stated the restart loop was caused by an OC failure.

I turned my OC back on, ran some Prime and IBT, and it worked like a champ. Posted on first boot after turning back on too.

I'm really at a loss here. Having a working computer with one mysterious problem that disappeared is almost worse than having something permanently wrong. :confused:
 
the bios did what it was suppose to do.. reset its self after enough cold boot failures.. some boards do it.. some dont.. the ones that dont are easy enough to fix by pulling the cmos battery out and unplugging the psu from the wall..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
the bios did what it was suppose to do.. reset its self after enough cold boot failures.. some boards do it.. some dont.. the ones that dont are easy enough to fix by pulling the cmos battery out and unplugging the psu from the wall..
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Yeah, I know, but I can't figure out why it failed. It failed on the first attempt at boot after entering the low power mode. I turned the OC back on, and everything was fine. Just wondering if there is some hidden message I should be getting out of this about my OC. Stability has never been an issue.

Maybe saving the session to the ram for the low power mode didn't work with my ram voltage? It otherwise wakes up from idle fine.
 
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