Freezing on startup 50% of the time.

[DaGoalie]

Basic Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-6300
Storage: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB
GPU: GTX 660 Ti

Hi,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, but any time I restart my computer, or start it after being shut down, I am guaranteed to get a freeze right after the bios screen. I can manually restart by using the reset button on the case and it will startup just fine from then on until the next time the system is shutdown/restarted. Same process again.

Here is a pic of the screen when it freezes (The screen isn't blue, that's just my phone's camera being weird):

Right before this screen is the standard ASUS splash screen. I can't enter the bios during that screen though, or during the frozen screen. After resetting I can enter the bios if I want during the splash screen.

This hasn't been a major problem other than an annoyance. I'm worried that updates that require a system restart might be negatively effected if I have to reset during the reboot like I've been doing. I also can't run things such as the Auto Tuner to OC my CPU (did it manually instead).

Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Does the problem persist if your revert to stock settings?

 

[DaGoalie]

Does the problem persist if your revert to stock settings?

I'm in class atm, but are you talking about resetting the bios settings to default (F5?).

 

[RaDiKaL_]

"I also can't run things such as the Auto Tuner to OC my CPU (did it manually instead)."

If you've OCed your CPU try setting it back to stock values just to see if that solves the problem, OCing can cause the weirdest problems like the one you have, usually having freezes during Boot leads to several crashes while in Windows, but not in your case, a weird problem indeed.

 

[DaGoalie]

If you've OCed your CPU try setting it back to stock values just to see if that solves the problem, OCing can cause the weirdest problems like the one you have, usually having freezes during Boot leads to several crashes while in Windows, but not in your case, a weird problem indeed.

Well the problem has been around for a little over a month at least and I only recently OCed (about 4 days ago.)
I'll revert to defaults here and see what happens.

 

[Paul NZ]

If you can get into the BIOS see what firmware is on this seagate hdd. If its there

Depending on what version of the firmware is on it (if you havent updated it) it may have this bsy bug that affected Seagate hdd's

 

[DaGoalie]

If you can get into the BIOS see what firmware is on this seagate hdd. If its there

Depending on what version of the firmware is on it (if you havent updated it) it may have this bsy bug that affected Seagate hdd's

The firmware is CC49 found using DiskCheckup.

I also reverted to default in my bios. When I restarted it froze again, but about a half a second sooner so the screen looked like the normal ASUS startup screen, like this:

 

[Paul NZ]

I think youre 2 firmware versions behind

Get the ISO, burn it to cd then boot from it with just the seagate connected. Wait for it to finish updating the firmware. Then see how it goes

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223651en

Oops thought you posted 2 hdds you've only got 1

 

[Paul NZ]

And if you reset the BIOS settings/ reconfigure it.

And if you update the fw on the hdd, put the hdd back as the bootdisk. And disable the logo, so you can see what its saying.

Having it on something else (besides the hdd as the bootdisk) can add another 20-30 secs to the boot time

 

[DaGoalie]

I don't have a CD drive, so I could do the update using a bootable USB. I'll see what I can do!

 

[Paul NZ]

Hmm if you can find a program that can extract the ISO to a flash drive you can. Rufus wont / cant

It MAY work if you extract whats in the ISO, and you copy it to a flash drive. I dont know

 

[DaGoalie]

I'm using isotousb. Would the usb need to be in NTFS format since the HDD is in NTFS? Or does it matter at all?

 

[Paul NZ]

Dont think it matters. Soon find out if it doesnt boot in NTFS, you'll have to format it in FAT32

 

[boyebaran]

hi.my friend u can check ur hdd by another pc and u can check ur hdd for new firmware UPDATE
in this page " https://apps1.seagate.com/downloads/request.html"
i think u first Separate ur hdd from pc and check for freezes in bios

 

[Paul NZ]

I gave the link to the firmware

 

[DaGoalie]

I'm having trouble getting my comp to boot from my USB. I'll keep trying later on tonight.