Boot problems

[Paa`]

I have a revision a.2 s12 600 watt seasonic psu

DFi NF4 Ultra-d

1 gig of gskill ddr

a64 4000

x800xl

wd 10 k 74gig raptor

maxtor 300 gig

 

The pc boots and goes past the first bootup screen (detects all drives)

 

It gets past the screen with all the irq information and at the bottom says bios backup ok!

 

Then on the first windows screen it freezes and reboots.. all my usb devices shut off just before it reboots.

 

If i let it cycle a few times it will finally get into windows where the pc is 100% stable passes all tests (prime 3dmark gaming pi windows memtest ).

 

The pc ran for 3 days with zero problems ran every type of stress test you could imagine and it was stable 100%.

 

but as soon as i reboot i have these problems getting into windows

 

There's no bsod no errors it just freezes and reboots about 3 seconds later

 

All voltages tempretures are perfect.

 

Ive never changed any jumpers on my board since i bought it about a year or so ago and i noticed the memory jumpers were set to 3.3v (to the left) which im told is fine..

 

Im only running 2.7v through ram

 

Ive run disc check's and checked windows files.

 

Master boot record is fine

[szurlo]

What happens if you boot in Windows safe mode? (minimal drivers)

[Paa`]

It crashes in safe mode aswell.

[integspec]

I had a similar issue and this recommendation from Wevspot fixed it:

 

You should always start your new build with a single stick of ram in the top most orange slot. Once you have your rig running proper, can pass two full loops of memtest and eight hours of Prime95, it's ok to plop in your extra stick into the other orange slot. At that point run memtest and Prime95 again to confirm that both sticks are operating in dual channel, at the proper timings and are completely stable. At that point it's ok to start adding periphials.

 

Make sure you have connected all power connectors required by the mobo and try to fix your ram on slots 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3. Also I'm not sure how important it is, there's a jumper mention in the manual at the begining of the RAM section which also should be changed.

 

I had similar intermittent issues before I relocated my ram to slots 2 and 4. Read the manual for more info.

 

Good luck / Cheers.