Turned on my PC and it kept shutting off/turning back on, so i reset, and got a boot failure

[Markhad93]

So about a month ago i flashed my bios. a week after i did this,i turned on my computer and the overclock to my CPU was no longer active, so i reset my pc, and it turned back on, but shut down, then turned back on again, and i got a boot failure in the bios, saying that my the boot failure was possibly due to incorrect configuration. and that previous settings in the bios may not be compatible with current hardware state. so i reset the bios settings, but overclocked my cpu again, and everything seemed to be working fine again. fast foward 3 weeks aka today - i turned on my computer, and the same thing happened, but the difference is it kept shutting on/off so i had to manually turn the computer off and booted back up, and it gave me the same boot failure. i managed to get into windows, and the problem seemed to have stopped. i have noticed that a day or two before this happens, my games stutter very frequently if that means anything. i realized there was a new bios update, so i decided to update, everything seems to be okay now. but what can cause this? should i be worried? any help is appreciated, thank you.

system specs:

Mobo: z170 gaming 3 gigabyte
cpu: i5 6600k
gpu: zotac gtx 1070
psu: evga supernova g2 850w

 

[rhysiam]

That sounds to me like you've pushed the OC just a little bit too far. The symptoms you describe match exactly the sorts of things that can happen with an unstable OC. I know it used to work, but sometimes OCs are stable for a while and then problems start to show up.

If your temperatures are well under control and you're happy to raise the core voltage slightly then that's a good option. Just bump it up maybe two steps. Then stress test to ensure your temps are still okay (as you do with any OC process).

If you're at your temperature of voltage limits already, just drop the multiplier down by one.

If it is a marginally unstable OC, then either raising voltages or lower frequency should resolve it.

 

[Markhad93]

That sounds to me like you've pushed the OC just a little bit too far. The symptoms you describe match exactly the sorts of things that can happen with an unstable OC. I know it used to work, but sometimes OCs are stable for a while and then problems start to show up.

If your temperatures are well under control and you're happy to raise the core voltage slightly then that's a good option. Just bump it up maybe two steps. Then stress test to ensure your temps are still okay (as you do with any OC process).

If you're at your temperature of voltage limits already, just drop the multiplier down by one.

If it is a marginally unstable OC, then either raising voltages or lower frequency should resolve it.

thanks alot, i toned my OC down a little