Some general boot problems.

[miseryguts]

I have recently had to restore my bios to stock after a bit of a disaster of an overclock, all seems to be well now though.

I have a few issues that seem have arisen as a result though, firstly i now get the motherboard logo for 3 - 4 sec every time i boot up, how do i get rid of this..? and after the bios screen, in Windows boot manager 2 options for Windows 7 appear (only one is installed) my default operating system Windows 7 Ultimate x64 is the top/first option (god knows where the other one has come from) and i also have to wait a further 8 - 10 sec before it is loaded (but there isn't a seconds countdown) and my keyboard also seems to be disabled during this time (but works fine otherwise) is there any way to completely skip the boot manager procedure (and wait time)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Nacht]

go to the start menu and in the search type in msconfig and hit enter. go to the boot tab and listed there should be any detected installs. I do believe theres a check boot paths button and if anything is wrong with your boot.ini it should remove the bad option. If it doesnt see a problem with the boot paths you can go in and manually delete the entry from boot.ini (this file is hidden so enable viewing of hidden files and folders in folder options.) you may also change the timeout for choosing an option. as for your mobo logo, this is a bios option so check there. really it isnt slowing anything down for you though because all its doing is displaying the logo instead of POST results you would have seen before.

Im not sure how familiar you are to the whole overclocking thing but overclocking especialy without proper cooling can severely decrease the life of your components and even cause hardware failure in just 1 try. on top of all of that just testing for a stable clock setting is hell on your OS because you will get BSODs until you find a stable setting. Its not something someone new to the concept wants to try alone. plus you're really only going to get at best a 15% increase in speed.

[miseryguts]

go to the start menu and in the search type in msconfig and hit enter. go to the boot tab and listed there should be any detected installs. I do believe theres a check boot paths button and if anything is wrong with your boot.ini it should remove the bad option. If it doesnt see a problem with the boot paths you can go in and manually delete the entry from boot.ini (this file is hidden so enable viewing of hidden files and folders in folder options.) you may also change the timeout for choosing an option. as for your mobo logo, this is a bios option so check there. really it isnt slowing anything down for you though because all its doing is displaying the logo instead of POST results you would have seen before.

Im not sure how familiar you are to the whole overclocking thing but overclocking especialy without proper cooling can severely decrease the life of your components and even cause hardware failure in just 1 try. on top of all of that just testing for a stable clock setting is hell on your OS because you will get BSODs until you find a stable setting. Its not something someone new to the concept wants to try alone. plus you're really only going to get at best a 15% increase in speed.

Many thanks for your prompt response & help

As far as overclocking is concerned my 'knowledge' is rudimentary at best, and i sincerely doubt after this experience, that i will be attempting any further experiments in the near future.. most definitely a hard lesson learned.

Cheers.