Whats your system?

You aren’t by chance running a multi-boot on that system?

@sobek: Damn, yes I do. It’s that?

@fearlessfrog: Not touched the BIOS, except for minor things but as an IT it’s all little stuff I know of, not stabs in the dark…
It happens always. As it starts usually is already off of a whole day if not hours. I can fix it and as soon as it’s running more than one program or one but intensive poof all timing is gone astray-

It was just a hunch, as if you use Windows and Linux they keep the RTC on different timezones (local for Windows and UTC for Linux), which makes them fight over what the clock is set to everytime you boot into a different one. Your symptoms sound different, though. Sounds like an RTC hardware problem.

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Both are the identical same. Windows 7. Well, not identical but from the same DVD.
On two different physical hard drives. The one I always use is an SSD the other a mechanical HDD

MY wife’s PC has a fault where it defaults to some time in 2000 when unplugged. I figure its the Cmos battery which are easily replaced but I never find the time :slight_smile:

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I know exactly what you mean. :slight_smile:

Forgot to update this, so was curious:

UserBenchmarks: Game 93%, Desk 80%, Work 51%
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K - 85%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 102.2%
SSD: Adata Premier SP550 480GB - 69.9%
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V+200 Series 120GB - 54%
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB - 58.9%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB - 43.7%
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB - 72.2%
MBD: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

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Just for a frame of reference @fearlessfrog … I think my motherboard might be a couple years older than yours …

UserBenchmarks: Game 96%, Desk 82%, Work 64%
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K - 83%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 105.7%
SSD: Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB - 86.5%
SSD: Biwin SSD 120GB - 65.7%
SSD: Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB - 81.8%
SSD: Intel 520 Series 120GB - 66.5%
HDD: WD Black 2TB (2010) - 75.3%
RAM: Unknown F3-2400C10-4GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-8GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-4GTX 04CD F3-2400C10-8GTX 24GB - 86.3%
MBD: Asus P8Z77-V

She’s still kickin’ though! Not bad for a ~ five year old computer!

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New build. I have a problem though. The board is only recognising 1 Dimm so will only boot with 1x8Gb stick. Still troubleshooting but here is the results of the first benchmark
UserBenchmarks: Game 109%, Desk 89%, Work 67%
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K - 106.9%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 128.7%
SSD: Corsair Force LS 120GB - 33.7%
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 81.8%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 1x8GB - 53.1%
MBD: Asus PRIME Z370-A

Idle at 23 degrees so the watercooling is working well :slight_smile:

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Tried swapping dimms? Might have a bad one.
Also, look for a BIOS upgrade.

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Ya swap the sticks then swap the pairing. Even though the manual may say to use a specific slot for a single or single pair, it isn’t always right. My current board I had to use the second channel. The first works just not for single pair.

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Tried both and even reseated the cpu I can boot with one stick in single channel but not dual channel and Dimms A1 and A2 are the affected pair.

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According to the manual you are supposed to use DIMM A2 and B2 for 2 sticks.

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Yes thanks. I tried that first, when it failed to boot I removed one and tried all possible computations once I could bot with one stick. Bah hardware :frowning:

recheck your XMP profile settings in bios. Really strange a board would ship with a dead dimm slot.

Sounds like you’ve tested both sticks in the same working slot, so the RAM is good. Screenshot you’re bios pages so we can see what’s going on.

A pic of the motherboard showing memory installed would help too.

Like troll said, the only slots you should be using are the light colored ones.

I saw some threads talking about bent pins or board out of alignment. All are from Amazon with return deadline of Jan 31st so I have a bit of thinking time to do. Although my waterblock is very good a drawback is that it never came with any back bracket and is not as good tolerences as some more modern setups. Its a 10 year old Delta XSPC.+this may be the problem but without an LGA 1151 cooler to test I can’t really go down that route of troubleshooting.
The easiest option would be send back the ram and swap for a 1x 16Gb stick
:thinking:

With a 5.1 Overclock
UserBenchmarks: Game 119%, Desk 101%, Work 91%
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600K - 126.2%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 133.3%
SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB - 81.5%
SSD: Corsair Force LS 120GB - 28.4%
SSD: Crucial M4 64GB - 61.7%
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB - 41.4%
HDD: Maxtor 6L160M0 164GB - 27.4%
HDD: Maxtor 6L160M0 164GB - 23%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB - 42.6%
MBD: Asus PRIME Z370-A

Need to invest in some new/better HDD and SSD’s

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What voltage for the 5.1 OC? That looks nice.

1.38v but the bios flash I had done earlier today has goofed the asus software with my profiles so I need to set it up again. Grrrr :slight_smile:

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