Quote Originally Posted by ~aoe~ View Post
I recently had a strange problem with another motherboard. Whilst not the same problem, it was sort of similar.

After changing the CPU and chipset heatsinks on my 2nd system (Opteron 170 on A8N32-SLi), I tried to increase my OC by upping the voltages. I wasn't able to get the system stable, so dropped back to the previous OC. However, after these changes, the PC was unable to fully switch off. Windows would fully close down, but the fans would just keep spinning until I switched off the PSU. The same problem occurred when trying to Restart (would hang in BIOS with all fans spinning).

After trying to increase the OC again, I had a boot failure that reset the BIOS to defaults. After this, the problem disappeared. Even after reapplying the OC settings in BIOS, the problem was gone.

Long story, but I think it was something in BIOS that was causing this problem, and by resetting to defaults, it seems to have fixed it. May be worth trying.
Tried a total cmos reset and am using default settings. The system still will not start up without me "jumpstarting" the psu. I bumped into another P5W DH owner who is having similar problems. Hmmm.....

At first I was leaning at a psu solution, but once I get the system jumpstarted, it works fine. I can even overclock by a good amount. I think if the psu was faulty, I would be able to do that. I am just dreading spending the money to get another board right now.