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A couple of days back my PC died and now I'm stuck with a weird problem. Here's what happened:
I was on my PC listening to some music. All of a sudden my mouse froze. I have a problem with my Razer Synapse where I have to reconnect my mouse in order for it to work again. So, I thought "Oh well, no big deal!" Then, I got a BSOD. I've had a couple of minor BSOD's in the past, some driver-related. I tried to reboot; no luck.
After hours of checking cables, resetting my BIOD and all the basic stuff, I found a little switch on my motherboard, called slow mode booting switch.
I switched that on, and guess what happens: my PC boots perfectly fine. The problem is I can't do much when in slow mode booting because it drops the CPU freq. or something. How I experience this is 10fps on League of Legends instead of the usual 250+.
From this point on, I've had no clue what to do, so I hoped you guys could help me out on this one.
Here are my specs:
- Intel i7 6700K 4 GHz
- 2x hyper X 8 GB DDR4 RAM
- MSI Z170A GAMING M5
- MSI GeForce GTX 970 4G
- Samsung SSD; 250 GB
If you guys need anything else, please tell me. I'm not so sure what for information to give you guys.
EDIT 1: The BSOD was CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT
EDIT 2: The slow mode booting switch on my motherboard:
TLDR: Can boot perfectally fine when slow boot mode enabled. If slow boot mode is set to default I end up getting a black screen with a flickering underscore.
Dennis Heitinga
Posted 2017-03-13T22:25:05.567
Reputation: 39
There are four BSODs with the word "watchdog": CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, DPC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT, DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, WIN32K_POWER_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT – None – 2017-03-14T13:37:32.483
This page is suggestive: https://service.msicomputer.com/msi_user/support/TechFAQdetail.aspx?formid=3265 Bearing that in mind, have checked your computer's cooling hardware? Are they in perfect working order?
– None – 2017-03-14T14:03:00.047As far as i can tell they are, everything is spinning and reacting when the pc gets warmer. And like i said in my post, if i set the switch to default i cant boot my pc at all. – Dennis Heitinga – 2017-03-14T14:09:15.260
Obvious question, but is the motherboard still under warranty? – tyteen4a03 – 2018-05-16T14:14:14.563