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My motherboard is an ASRock 770icafe.
I've been having this unusual problem where my computer doesn't always boot every time I press the power button - something is not always passing POST. I will have to cycle through a couple of hard boots before I can get an output signal to the monitor. Sometimes I go through quite a few hard boots while other times it's only two or three, but once it boots everything works fine.
Now previously I was mixing and matching two 8GB ram kits and I went ahead and purchased a 16GB kit thinking this would stabilize my system. I was wrong and I still have to cycle through a couple of hard boots. I know the issue isn't the memory since it's a brand new kit and I know it's not the PSU since it's also a new Enermax 1000W 80+ gold quality unit. My graphics card was also replaced with a new in the box R9 390X so that can't be it either.
One time while cycling through hard boots with my case open I noticed that the gpu fans don't always spin during a power on so it can't be the hard drive because that wouldn't affect the graphics card fans. Oddly enough there have been those few hard boots where the gpu fans will spin, but I'm still not getting a signal to my monitor.
This leaves the CPU, the BIOS [as a friend pointed out] or the motherboard. I doubt it's the processor since when it boots up everything works without issue once the system gets going. It could be the BIOS because I have looked in event viewer noticing a few 8198 security-spp events which according to Microsoft means: "this error usually occurs if a hardware is changed or any hardware device malfunctions and Windows is unable to verify the license again. Windows is unable to read the SLIC table in the BIOS which is required to be able to self-activate the OEM_SLP Key that is currently in use."
Other than the processor or the BIOS the last possible culprit is the motherboard in which case I'm thinking it's the PCI-E slot that is malfunctioning, probably due to the ram mixing.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
I've been having this unusual problem where my computer doesn't always boot every time I press the power button - something is not always passing POST. I will have to cycle through a couple of hard boots before I can get an output signal to the monitor. Sometimes I go through quite a few hard boots while other times it's only two or three, but once it boots everything works fine.
Now previously I was mixing and matching two 8GB ram kits and I went ahead and purchased a 16GB kit thinking this would stabilize my system. I was wrong and I still have to cycle through a couple of hard boots. I know the issue isn't the memory since it's a brand new kit and I know it's not the PSU since it's also a new Enermax 1000W 80+ gold quality unit. My graphics card was also replaced with a new in the box R9 390X so that can't be it either.
One time while cycling through hard boots with my case open I noticed that the gpu fans don't always spin during a power on so it can't be the hard drive because that wouldn't affect the graphics card fans. Oddly enough there have been those few hard boots where the gpu fans will spin, but I'm still not getting a signal to my monitor.
This leaves the CPU, the BIOS [as a friend pointed out] or the motherboard. I doubt it's the processor since when it boots up everything works without issue once the system gets going. It could be the BIOS because I have looked in event viewer noticing a few 8198 security-spp events which according to Microsoft means: "this error usually occurs if a hardware is changed or any hardware device malfunctions and Windows is unable to verify the license again. Windows is unable to read the SLIC table in the BIOS which is required to be able to self-activate the OEM_SLP Key that is currently in use."
Other than the processor or the BIOS the last possible culprit is the motherboard in which case I'm thinking it's the PCI-E slot that is malfunctioning, probably due to the ram mixing.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
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