Hey All-
I was preparing my rig this morning for a new water cooling system and I ran into a big problem.
I replaced my CPU with one I know is a bit less sensitive for overclocking that I had put aside for my water cooling. Once I popped it in I started getting some weird issues with the PC turning on and off. I was able to get into BIOS every 4 or five times after the computer would turn on and off. I noticed the debug code stopped at Check CPU. So I re-swapped CPU's. Same problem. I did a flashback on both BIOS. Same thing. I decided to hook up the OC Key just to check out the voltages. Everything seemed fine with the VCCSA but the Vcore was at .8 or so. Realizing this is not enough to power the CPU I decided to up it once I was able to get in to BIOS once again. After waiting for numerous power ups I finally got into BIOS and was able to up the VCORE. I got to the Windows splash screen but then it would just shut down. I suspect if I messed with some of the power states I could have fully gotten into the OS.
After pondering some, I came to the conclusion that this was either my PSU or the MOBO.
BTW- My CPU frequency is down to 1.2 GHZ. I can overclock into OS. Lol.
Any Ideas?
Rampage IV
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