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Power cycles on/off 3 times before booting properly from cold start, no other issues (New System)

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Relevant Specs: Sapphire 5850, core i7 920, Seasonic x750 power supply, ECS X58B-A2 mobo. From a cold boot, meaning all power totally disconnected at the wall, the system will power on for less than a second and then power off completely. After two seconds of being powered off this will repeat and …

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Fix for: Power cycles on/off 3 times before booting properly from cold start, no other issues (New System)

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If ECS suspects that the BIOS is initiating a system reset, then perhaps the system is partway through BIOS code execution. I would recommend inserting a POST code display board into the system to see the last code written to I/O port 80h by the sys…

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