Pc keeps restarting

Doondoons

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Hi, so last few days my computer keeps restarting after the gigabyte post screen, but after a few try at booting itself it just suddenly kicks in and starts, but the amount of reboots before start seems to be getting longer, I wonder if it's a dead cmos battery but any help would be appreciated before I take action.

Thanks
 

Lutfij

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1| When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Assuming you didn't post on this section by accident, then you're on Windows 10. List the specs as:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

2| Have you made sure your motherboard BIOS is up to date?

3| Have you made sure your OS isn't corrupt? Can you recall if the reboots occurred after the OS performed it's mandatory update? Give repair install a try and see if things change.

4| The last option would be to recreate your bootable USB installer and reinstall your OS. System restores don't do much actually.
 
try a windows startup repair. if the post screen is running and showing no errors than there is a good chance it is the OS.

also;
try starting with only your operating system's disk connected. detach all other disks, internal & external.
try starting with only a single stick of memory. try each stick you have separately. try each DIMM slot separately.
try updating your BIOS.

if either of these makes a difference than that is your culprit.
 

Doondoons

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Oh sorry wasn't aware, I was browsing restart threads here on my phone but couldn't find one that would boot after a little while, at the bottom was a box saying ask a question, it didn't mention this. It is a little old so don't remember exact specs and can't get on my pc to check so rough specs

CPU: 2nd Gen i5
Motherboard: gigabyte
Ram: 16gb don't remember make
SSD/HDD: 2 had 1tb each
GPU: geforce 8800 gtx
PSU: 550w coolermaster
Chassis: some budget case
OS: windows 10

Motherboard is up to date.

It's been happening for a week or so, I updated today but no joy with that surely if the os was corrupt it would never start?
 

Doondoons

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OK I just switched all off re seated everything and this time post came up with an error...

The file system has experienced boot failures because of overclocking or changes of voltages

Last settings in bios may not coincide with current h/w states
Current CPU speed 3.4ghz bclk 100mhz memory speed 1333mhz any key to continue

Now I have never overlooked my machine so any ideas now?
 
Windows or any software can become corrupt while still functioning on some levels.

if everything is functioning fine now after the BIOS resetting itself; the issue probably was that some settings were changed that your hardware can't handle.