PC start up - Should I be concerned

[MrVic87]

Hey all, it's been a while since I've come on here. I'm still learning about pcs. Sorry in advance if this thread is in the wrong place.

I recently overclocked my fx8320 cpu to 4.2ghz. Ran a few tests using Prime95 and Cinebench and everything seems stable. However, I have a slight concern when I start up my machine. Before I overclocked, whenever I powered on the machine, lights go on and it would boot up as normal. After overclocking, whenever I power the machine, it lights up, goes out for about 3 seconds then boots. Is that normal? Should I be concerned? Is there something I can do to make it start up like it did prior to overclocking. Any feedback is helpful.


Specs of my machine are below:

AMD fx8320 3.5ghz o'c to 4.2ghz
Corsair H60 cooler
Ballistic sport DDR3 dual memory 12gb (2 x 2gb, 2 x 4gb)
EVGA GTX 760
EVGA 600w psu
Seagate 500gb HDD, WD 1 TB HDD
Cooler Master HAF 912

 

[noidea_77]

Your oc simple doesn't work. The mobo starts with your settings, CPU doesn't work, the bios resets to normal and restarts. The mobo manual tells you exactly how it works.

 

[MrVic87]

My overclock isn't good? I forgot to add, I have the Gigabyte Fxa 990-UD3 mobo.

 

[Traditore]

Gigabyte mother?))) Don't listen to anyone here) It is a really annoying thing that you'll have to put up with. Gigabyte has it. It's sensing an OC and loading it from your BIOS then restarting, and then finding more changes in the bios, and restarting... some stupid behaviour but if you want to keep OC - get used to that booting ritual)

 

[MrVic87]

Gigabyte mother?))) Don't listen to anyone here) It is a really annoying thing that you'll have to put up with. Gigabyte has it. It's sensing an OC and loading it from your BIOS then restarting, and then finding more changes in the bios, and restarting... some stupid behaviour but if you want to keep OC - get used to that booting ritual)

I found a thread earlier describing the same exact problem. They mentioned that disabling the Turbo will help fix this. Now you're saying not to listen to anyone on this forum? And that I should get used to it? The restart only happens once. each time, not twice as you said. But that sucks if I have to truly put up with that. :\

 

[Traditore]

Gigabyte mother?))) Don't listen to anyone here) It is a really annoying thing that you'll have to put up with. Gigabyte has it. It's sensing an OC and loading it from your BIOS then restarting, and then finding more changes in the bios, and restarting... some stupid behaviour but if you want to keep OC - get used to that booting ritual)

I found a thread earlier describing the same exact problem. They mentioned that disabling the Turbo will help fix this. Now you're saying not to listen to anyone on this forum? And that I should get used to it? The restart only happens once. each time, not twice as you said. But that sucks if I have to truly put up with that. :\

As part of my job I had experience with such behaviour of Gigabyte mobos. We spoke to Gigabyte officials and received an answer reassuring us the is no harm in such behaviour (with no explanation of WHY it is so and if it will be fixed). We found the only solution is to disable OC))) Try disabling turbo, try anything you want. I'm just saying if you cant find a solution and you want to OC - the is no harm in such booting.

 

[MrVic87]

Gigabyte mother?))) Don't listen to anyone here) It is a really annoying thing that you'll have to put up with. Gigabyte has it. It's sensing an OC and loading it from your BIOS then restarting, and then finding more changes in the bios, and restarting... some stupid behaviour but if you want to keep OC - get used to that booting ritual)

I found a thread earlier describing the same exact problem. They mentioned that disabling the Turbo will help fix this. Now you're saying not to listen to anyone on this forum? And that I should get used to it? The restart only happens once. each time, not twice as you said. But that sucks if I have to truly put up with that. :\

As part of my job I had experience with such behaviour of Gigabyte mobos. We spoke to Gigabyte officials and received an answer reassuring us the is no harm in such behaviour (with no explanation of WHY it is so and if it will be fixed). We found the only solution is to disable OC))) Try disabling turbo, try anything you want. I'm just saying if you cant find a solution and you want to OC - the is no harm in such booting.

Ok. Thanks for the info.

 

[noidea_77]

Just download a freeware like http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html and check the results of your overclocking after the reboots.