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I have a strange problem when doing restarts of my W8 Pro X64 system either by manually doing a restart or a restart as a result of installing software or an MS update. Here's what is happening.
1. When a restart is initiated I get the normal progress circle stating 'Restarting'.
2. After a few seconds my screen goes blank. I assume, and correct me if I am wrong, that I am now out of the OS, about to enter BIOS pocessing.
3. My monitor's (I have two) LED's will then glow orange for about 15-20 seconds. Orange indicates standby mode. After this the LED becomes white, the normal color, and I start to see messages from the UEFI/BIOS. The text however is larger then normal and is cut off at the right edge. I also see a blinking cursor line at the top left of the screen right before I start to see the messages.
4. Computer then gets into W8 with no problems.
What I just outlined above happens to about 75% of my restarts. The other 25% do not make my monitor go into standby mode for more than 2 seconds. After these 2 seconds the LED becomes white and I see the BIOS messages which are now normal size and there is no blinking cursor. Cold start ups behave like the 25% of my restarts.
I believe this behavior began when I replaced a defective Corsair H100 CPU cooling unit. I thought that perhaps the H100 during it's initializing might be delaying things. Corsair support told me this wasn't so.
Is this a problem with W8, my monitor, video card, video cable connection? I tried various things but to no avail. I even installed a clean copy of W8 without any extra software and had the same results.
1. When a restart is initiated I get the normal progress circle stating 'Restarting'.
2. After a few seconds my screen goes blank. I assume, and correct me if I am wrong, that I am now out of the OS, about to enter BIOS pocessing.
3. My monitor's (I have two) LED's will then glow orange for about 15-20 seconds. Orange indicates standby mode. After this the LED becomes white, the normal color, and I start to see messages from the UEFI/BIOS. The text however is larger then normal and is cut off at the right edge. I also see a blinking cursor line at the top left of the screen right before I start to see the messages.
4. Computer then gets into W8 with no problems.
What I just outlined above happens to about 75% of my restarts. The other 25% do not make my monitor go into standby mode for more than 2 seconds. After these 2 seconds the LED becomes white and I see the BIOS messages which are now normal size and there is no blinking cursor. Cold start ups behave like the 25% of my restarts.
I believe this behavior began when I replaced a defective Corsair H100 CPU cooling unit. I thought that perhaps the H100 during it's initializing might be delaying things. Corsair support told me this wasn't so.
Is this a problem with W8, my monitor, video card, video cable connection? I tried various things but to no avail. I even installed a clean copy of W8 without any extra software and had the same results.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro X64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Homemade Rig
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 Quad 3770K @ 5 Ghz
- Motherboard
- ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe
- Memory
- Corsair Dominator-GT 16GB @ 2400 Mhz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire HD7970 3GB OC Edition
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ASUS PA246Q & PA249Q IPS 24" LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD 830, 840 256GB |
2TB Seagate SATA3 |
Hitachi eSata 500GB
- PSU
- Corsair Professional Series 1050W
- Case
- Corsair Obsididan 800D Full Tower
- Cooling
- Corsair H100 Liquid CPU Cooler
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wireless K520
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Explorer
- Internet Speed
- 120/35
- Browser
- Fx41
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender
- Other Info
- UEFI BIOS with a GPT SSD boot drive.