Windows 7 Not Starting on Initial Power On

[jimono123]

Windows 7 Only Starting Only After Initial Power Off

Hey Tom's Hardware folks,

I've recently upgraded my computer with a second GTX 780 and a few new hard drives and did a clean install of Windows 7. My setup is now as follows:

-Corsair Carbide 500R
-ASUS Z87 Pro
-i5-4670K
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-Corsair HX850 850w
-Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB)
-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
-Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
-Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
-Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB
-Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM000 4TB
-LG 12x BD-ROM
-4 x Rosewill 140mm fans

What I'm encountering however is that whenever I turn my computer on, it will start up and show the ASUS BIOS screen that always loads before Windows 7. It will then proceed to and act as though it's loading Windows 7, but then after a second, my monitor will act as if it's not plugged into anything and the display will darken. I know that it's not a matter of Windows 7 loading and the display simply not showing as when I turn on my XBox 360 controller, the flashing lights on the controller show that it's searching for a connection. If Windows 7 is up and running, the XBox 360 controller connects almost immediately. If I power off my computer and then turn it back on though, it then proceeds to load Windows 7 normally with seemingly no issues.

I know that as this started happening, I was in the process of doing a basic overclock to my CPU so I was in and out of the BIOS quite a bit, however I don't believe I changed anything other than the core ratios necessary to do my overclocking. I'm wondering if I'm missing some sort of a setting in my BIOS or if there's something more severe that's wrong with the hardware setup. This issue seems to occur every time I turn my computer on, and seems to behave just fine the second time I turn on the computer. Has this issue happened to anyone else at all?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help. Any information you may have would be much appreciated. Thanks

Brian

 

[Wile E Coyote]

Windows 7 Only Starting Only After Initial Power Off

Hey Tom's Hardware folks,

I've recently upgraded my computer with a second GTX 780 and a few new hard drives and did a clean install of Windows 7. My setup is now as follows:

-Corsair Carbide 500R
-ASUS Z87 Pro
-i5-4670K
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-Corsair HX850 850w
-Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB)
-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
-Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
-Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
-Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB
-Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM000 4TB
-LG 12x BD-ROM
-4 x Rosewill 140mm fans

What I'm encountering however is that whenever I turn my computer on, it will start up and show the ASUS BIOS screen that always loads before Windows 7. It will then proceed to and act as though it's loading Windows 7, but then after a second, my monitor will act as if it's not plugged into anything and the display will darken. I know that it's not a matter of Windows 7 loading and the display simply not showing as when I turn on my XBox 360 controller, the flashing lights on the controller show that it's searching for a connection. If Windows 7 is up and running, the XBox 360 controller connects almost immediately. If I power off my computer and then turn it back on though, it then proceeds to load Windows 7 normally with seemingly no issues.

I know that as this started happening, I was in the process of doing a basic overclock to my CPU so I was in and out of the BIOS quite a bit, however I don't believe I changed anything other than the core ratios necessary to do my overclocking. I'm wondering if I'm missing some sort of a setting in my BIOS or if there's something more severe that's wrong with the hardware setup. This issue seems to occur every time I turn my computer on, and seems to behave just fine the second time I turn on the computer. Has this issue happened to anyone else at all?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help. Any information you may have would be much appreciated. Thanks

Brian

I would recommend on doing a factory reset in bios to see if you changed any thing that you might have missed.

 

[jimono123]

Windows 7 Only Starting Only After Initial Power Off

Hey Tom's Hardware folks,

I've recently upgraded my computer with a second GTX 780 and a few new hard drives and did a clean install of Windows 7. My setup is now as follows:

-Corsair Carbide 500R
-ASUS Z87 Pro
-i5-4670K
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 3GB
-Corsair HX850 850w
-Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB)
-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
-Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
-Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
-Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB
-Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM000 4TB
-LG 12x BD-ROM
-4 x Rosewill 140mm fans

What I'm encountering however is that whenever I turn my computer on, it will start up and show the ASUS BIOS screen that always loads before Windows 7. It will then proceed to and act as though it's loading Windows 7, but then after a second, my monitor will act as if it's not plugged into anything and the display will darken. I know that it's not a matter of Windows 7 loading and the display simply not showing as when I turn on my XBox 360 controller, the flashing lights on the controller show that it's searching for a connection. If Windows 7 is up and running, the XBox 360 controller connects almost immediately. If I power off my computer and then turn it back on though, it then proceeds to load Windows 7 normally with seemingly no issues.

I know that as this started happening, I was in the process of doing a basic overclock to my CPU so I was in and out of the BIOS quite a bit, however I don't believe I changed anything other than the core ratios necessary to do my overclocking. I'm wondering if I'm missing some sort of a setting in my BIOS or if there's something more severe that's wrong with the hardware setup. This issue seems to occur every time I turn my computer on, and seems to behave just fine the second time I turn on the computer. Has this issue happened to anyone else at all?

Thanks in advance for everyone's help. Any information you may have would be much appreciated. Thanks

Brian

I would recommend on doing a factory reset in bios to see if you changed any thing that you might have missed.

I ended up restoring the factory defaults in my BIOS like you recommended, then changing only the necessary overclock settings to what I had them at before. I'm not entirely sure which setting it was that was causing the issue but one of the changes was that I believe the boot order (I think it was listed as "boot order" or something in the BIOS but I could be wrong) was set to "IDE" rather than "AHCI". The default was "AHCI" so that's what I used. When I loaded up Windows after this change, I got prompts that new hardware had been installed for all my various hard drives as if I just plugged something in via USB. I was able to play some games that were installed on my extra hard drives just fine but does anyone know if changing this setting has some kind of affect on my hard drives or anything else I should be aware of? Thanks in advance everyone.