Real problem with Z68a-GD65 (G3)

Hi guys,
Just wondering if anyone can help. I'm having some issues with my motherboard, It's got a core i5 2500k in it. I was doing some over clocking, just upping the multi, it was fine at 43 then when i went to 44 it wouldn't boot and have been having all kinds of problem with it now. The BIOS light was flashing so i went into the bios to enable the second bios to reflash the first one, i've reflashed it with the latest bios. One of the problems i am having is that when i press the power button it will either take a few seconds to power up then power off then on (might do that a few times) if i leave it it says the overclocking was unsuccessful even though it's a fresh bios with everything a default. Or sometimes it will power up right away then shut down the fire back up again and boot up normally, also the POST seems to take a long time start, say 15 secs from it powering up to the POST beep and should the beep a short sharp one less than a second or kind of long say about a second? other boards i've used have been a really short fast beep. once the system has started and is in windows it seems to be running fine.
any help would be great
Cheers
Alex
Motherboard - MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3)
Processor - Intel Core i5 2500K
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Memory - 4GB Corsair XMS3
GPU - MSI N560GTX TI Twin Frozr ll OC Edition
Edimax wireless card
Windows 7 64 bit home edition

Interesting... what you are describing is pretty much what was happening on my system with the initial BIOS installed. There was some kind of a bug that caused the motherboard to switch between BIOS-es after you restarted the PC (happens only on an overclocked system). Basically, after you restart, the system will fail to load the primary BIOS, shut down, and restart again this time loading the secondary BIOS (will work fine). Next time it would fail to load the secondary one, so it would shut down, restart, fail again (I guess attempting to load a tretiary BIOS which this board does not have) and shut down again. At the next attempt the primary BIOS would load just fine and the cycle will begin anew (after each restart)
When it was switching like that it could cause plenty of confusion, since you could have different settings on your primary or secondary BIOS-es, and unless you open the case and look at the BIOS indicators, it's hard to figure out what is happening. From the outside it just looks like the system takes a little longer to load and occasionally restarts few seconds after boot without showing anything.
I got rid of the issue by flashing to the newer BIOS version. But you have tried to do that already (this could fail though - one time it decided to use the multi-update feature and reflashed my primary BIOS from the secondary one again, putting me back on the older BIOS version which brought the issue back). Furthermore, removing the battery should default the settings, removing the overclock (as I have mentioned, the problem seems to arise only when you overclock), meaning that it should have started working normally after that as well.
Still, the symptoms are very much like what I experienced, so I figured I'd post this and perhaps you'll find something of use in it

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Interesting... what you are describing is pretty much what was happening on my system with the initial BIOS installed. There was some kind of a bug that caused the motherboard to switch between BIOS-es after you restarted the PC (happens only on an overclocked system). Basically, after you restart, the system will fail to load the primary BIOS, shut down, and restart again this time loading the secondary BIOS (will work fine). Next time it would fail to load the secondary one, so it would shut down, restart, fail again (I guess attempting to load a tretiary BIOS which this board does not have) and shut down again. At the next attempt the primary BIOS would load just fine and the cycle will begin anew (after each restart)
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> Please forgive me if my questions seem inexperienced. I
am just learning
> how
> to incorporate server side includes into a new site I'm
working on and am
> having some real problems getting things to work
properly...
>
> I have been reading everything I can find on SSI's, and
have finally got
> everything to work properly on my local system, however,
now, I'm having
> issues
> after uploading the files to my server (IX Web Hosting).
>
> According to this document (?How to incorporate
Server-Side Includes into
> an
> HTML page ?) from the Adobe Knowledgebase, step number 4
says to?
>
>
Text
?Highlight all the text displayed in black and delete it.
> The
> HTML inspector should contain only the information in
red. It is
> especially
> important NOT to have <html>, <head>
or<body> tags in the SSI, because
> this
> will cause the HTML on the page to become invalid once
the SSI is
> inserted.?
Text
>
> Well, I tried that, but the code just looks exactly as
it does in the code
> viewing pane. No RED characters anywhere! So I just
deleted all the
> <html>,
> <head>, and <body> tags and saved the file.
>
> Now, when I insert the SSI into a new html file (which I
saved as .shtml
> because that?s what my web hosting provider requires)
everything looks
> great on
> my local system, but when I upload the files to my
server and try to test
> the
> page with the SSI inserted into it, I get the following
error message:
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 05 May
> 2007
> 19:42:48 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Connection: close
Content-Type:
> text/html
> 404 Object Not Found
>
> Both files are located in the same directory (maybe
that?s a problem?)
>
> My question is simple, exactly what should I absolutely
NOT delete out of
> the
> source SSI file? Is there some part of it other than the
content I want to
> reference that needs to stay in there?
>
> Also, both my server side include file and the html file
that references
> it
> are saved with the .shtml extension. Is this wrong? Or
does the ssi file
> need
> to be saved with an.ssi extension?
>
> Again, sorry for the amateurish questions, but we all
have to learn
> sometime
> right?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
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> ~Greg
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