Question PC always fails to boot the first time, but after hard reset boots fine?

[Xspicy]

As title said, first boot always does not successfully boot. After performing a hard reset and boot, then it boots successfully. No other issues aside from this. No crashes have been experienced since the PC has been built even with hard gaming sessions. PC has only been built for 2 weeks.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 7700x
Gigabyte b650 Aorus Elite
64gb Kingston Fury Beast (4 sticks)
Gigabyte 4070 Windforce OC
2TB Kingston NVME
Gigabyte Aorus 750w 80+ Gold
Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo
Lian LI Lan Cool III

My initial guess is that maybe the 4 sticks of RAM is too much to load on the initial boot? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Bob.B]

As title said, first boot always does not successfully boot. After performing a hard reset and boot, then it boots successfully. No other issues aside from this. No crashes have been experienced since the PC has been built even with hard gaming sessions. PC has only been built for 2 weeks.

Specs:

Ryzen 7 7700x
Gigabyte b650 Aorus Elite
64gb Kingston Fury Beast (4 sticks)
Gigabyte 4070 Windforce OC
2TB Kingston NVME
Gigabyte Aorus 750w 80+ Gold
Cooler Master Hyper 622 Halo
Lian LI Lan Cool III

My initial guess is that maybe the 4 sticks of RAM is too much to load on the initial boot? Any help would be appreciated.

Make it smaller.
Bring it down to 2 sticks fitted in the proper slots.....test.

 

[Leptir]

First, start by disconnecting all USB peripherals, including keyboard and mouse. See if that helps. If not, plug back the keyboard and mouse, but not anything else.

Then, like Bob. B said, try with just 2 sticks of memory.

Then, simplify further by removing everything else, even the graphics card (your CPU can do graphics, use that).

Hopefully, along the way you'll find which component is causing the problem.

Also try to reset the BIOS to factory default. If fact, you may try that first.

 

[Xspicy]

First, start by disconnecting all USB peripherals, including keyboard and mouse. See if that helps. If not, plug back the keyboard and mouse, but not anything else.

Then, like Bob. B said, try with just 2 sticks of memory.

Then, simplify further by removing everything else, even the graphics card (your CPU can do graphics, use that).

Hopefully, along the way you'll find which component is causing the problem.

Also try to reset the BIOS to factory default. If fact, you may try that first.

Ill try the 2 sticks of memory first. Wanted to ask though, will there be any risk to my hardware if I were to just continue with the hard reset after the first boot? I mean the computer is running perfectly fine under all types of load anyway.

Short of asking, are there any risks to hard resetting your computer even if it came from an unsuccessful load? Coz I heard that issues may be encountered when transferring data and since mine is basically on did not boot, what are my risks here? Dont really want to forego using my 2 sticks of RAM if I had the choice.

 

[Leptir]

There should be no risk to your hardware. But hard resetting your computer could easily cause a loss of data or, worse, corrupt the SSD (and cause even more data loss).

In your case, I assume you are resetting before the OS starts loading, so there would be no danger of that. After the OS starts loading, you want to avoid hitting reset.

Anyway, nobody's asking you to forgo half of your memory or any other hardware. We're just telling you the process how to debug the problem, find out what is preventing the system from booting.