Hey guys,
Recently, I received a 5930k as a gift, and so I decided to join the overclockers community. I bought the X99A godlike Gaming from MSi, since i really liked its features, and I'm doing a full custom hardline water cooling solution with it. I am not a pro overclocker, and I haven't played around with XMP and stuff a lot, so I decided to try out the on board OC genie.
Specs:
i7 5930K
Corsair RM1000
MSi X99a Godlike Gaming MB
EVGA Reference GTX 980Ti
64GB of G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 @ 2400Mhz (running at 2133 when not overclocked), Quad channel
2 Mechanical drives, 1 with Win 10 for testing.
Prolimatech B81 cpu cooler for testing purposes
Basically, without the OC Genie function on, everything works well and fast. However, once I restart with OC genie enabled, the PC boots to the point where the windows logo comes up, and then instead of saying "Starting Windows" or smthn like that, it says "Preparing for Repair" (Similar). After that, it blue screen outs, and gives me a recovery screen. The recovery screen says I need to get my system repaired and that a critical file is missing. Which critical file? It baffles me. It's a new critical file thats missing/corrupt every time I restart. The ones I've seen so far are things like: HAL intialization, some thing krnl (assuming it's kernel), and other things like some .exe and sys files I don't even recognize.
Solving the problem is easy. Pull out the power, turn off OC genie, and let it sit for discharge, then restart, and then everything works.
Everybody tells me not to use OC genie, and I haven't tried messing with XMP in the bios myself due to lack of time, but at this point i'm curious. Other cases of onboard OC going wrong ends up in the PC not starting, cycling, etc, but mine boots, and then fails to boot into windows.
At this point, I'm suspecting RAM issues, is my ram not up-clocking along with the CPU? is it not following up, causing files to be loaded incompletely or missing? Or could it be something more serious?
BTW: I have NOT updated BIOS, and i'm preparing to do that, once I gather the time and bravery to try that. Most of the drivers I installed such as chipset and CPU are recommended drivers from a driver management app I have, and the drivers it has supplied have worked flawlessly for the last ~9 builds, so i don't think it has to do with that. I will try installing from the USB that came along with the MB when I get the chance.
Sry for the long post, but I don't really think a TLDR will fully address the issue...
Recently, I received a 5930k as a gift, and so I decided to join the overclockers community. I bought the X99A godlike Gaming from MSi, since i really liked its features, and I'm doing a full custom hardline water cooling solution with it. I am not a pro overclocker, and I haven't played around with XMP and stuff a lot, so I decided to try out the on board OC genie.
Specs:
i7 5930K
Corsair RM1000
MSi X99a Godlike Gaming MB
EVGA Reference GTX 980Ti
64GB of G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 @ 2400Mhz (running at 2133 when not overclocked), Quad channel
2 Mechanical drives, 1 with Win 10 for testing.
Prolimatech B81 cpu cooler for testing purposes
Basically, without the OC Genie function on, everything works well and fast. However, once I restart with OC genie enabled, the PC boots to the point where the windows logo comes up, and then instead of saying "Starting Windows" or smthn like that, it says "Preparing for Repair" (Similar). After that, it blue screen outs, and gives me a recovery screen. The recovery screen says I need to get my system repaired and that a critical file is missing. Which critical file? It baffles me. It's a new critical file thats missing/corrupt every time I restart. The ones I've seen so far are things like: HAL intialization, some thing krnl (assuming it's kernel), and other things like some .exe and sys files I don't even recognize.
Solving the problem is easy. Pull out the power, turn off OC genie, and let it sit for discharge, then restart, and then everything works.
Everybody tells me not to use OC genie, and I haven't tried messing with XMP in the bios myself due to lack of time, but at this point i'm curious. Other cases of onboard OC going wrong ends up in the PC not starting, cycling, etc, but mine boots, and then fails to boot into windows.
At this point, I'm suspecting RAM issues, is my ram not up-clocking along with the CPU? is it not following up, causing files to be loaded incompletely or missing? Or could it be something more serious?
BTW: I have NOT updated BIOS, and i'm preparing to do that, once I gather the time and bravery to try that. Most of the drivers I installed such as chipset and CPU are recommended drivers from a driver management app I have, and the drivers it has supplied have worked flawlessly for the last ~9 builds, so i don't think it has to do with that. I will try installing from the USB that came along with the MB when I get the chance.
Sry for the long post, but I don't really think a TLDR will fully address the issue...
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