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Strange boot issue

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infra1

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Hey guys,

Running a GA-P55A-UD3 with i5 750 @ 3.70.

I've had no problems over the past couple of weeks but today I turned on my rig and my monitors didn't light up (in standby mode). My hard drives were working however and it looked like it was booting. After a half a minute, system appeared deadlocked as I couldn't trigger caps/numlock buttons.

Hard shutdown and boot up and presto, working again with no issues. Windows does complain about a driver/hardware error prior to launching Win7 and asks me to use a restore point or boot as normal. I boot as normal, all good.

Figured this was a one time deal until it happened a second time today. I shut down the computer earlier today, several hours later, turn it on, and the same deal. I tried shutting down and booting up a couple of times, but my computer is behaving normally now.

Ghost in the machine?

I was thinking maybe it was my video card, but I just bought it a couple of weeks ago brand new.

I've set my system clocks to default so I'm going to see if that had anything to do with it, but I'm wondering if you guys had any other ideas?

Full specs in my signature.


Cheers.
 
So, I've been running stock speeds since posting this and haven't ran into that issue again, so it's most likely my OC set up. I've reverted to my original OC as I've double-checked my connections, etc, so we'll see if it happens again.

Here are my parameters (let me know what you think):

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I use VMware, so virtualisation is enabled. I'm sure a few of you will tell me that's a no-no, but I'd appreciate any suggestions about my OC settings.

Cheers.
 
Don't think it is. I've put the clocks back to 3.7ghz (what you see in the pics) so I'll see if it does it again. I pushed down on all connections from PSU to components (i.e. videcard, mobo, etc), so I'm thinking it could have been a weak seated connection or the GPU specifically wasn't seated very well.

The one thing I don't like about the Gigabyte 5870 is that it's build quality doesn't seem very sturdy. It's actually a very flimsy card compared to my old GTX 275. Maybe it's because the HSF on the 5870 is a lot smaller and doesn't have as many fastening points on the PCB by comparison. If you've ever picked up a 200 series or 8800GTX, they are pretty hefty cards and the PCB has little to no flex.
 
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