Originally posted by: kallekill
I got a Gigabyte P35-DS3 and when I go into BIOS and PC health monitor I get pass on everything except "DDR 18v" which gets fail. I have used over voltage to run my ram at 2.2V (It is designed for 2.3V). Is this the reason? Also when the system boots I get the thing were it starts to boot, then shuts down and boot like normal which I have heard is pretty common. I read that it could be because some memory settings and that the system is unstable after this, but I have had no problem. This booting thing doesn't happen every time either. About 50 % of the time or more.
I got that too whenever I run the RAM above 2.1V. (I am assuming that "DDR 18V" is actually meant to be "1.8V", which of course fails because you're not at 1.8V...)
I found that when it shuts down and seems to reboot like normal, that means it failed to POST (or failed some other test) and probably disabled some overclocking settings in the BIOS automatically (check the BIOS whenever it does this). If the system is sometimes barely stable enough to get through the startup normally, you'll get that not-rebooting-every-time business.