Getting error message after power outage

[Hibernian]

Hi, I bought my PC from PC specialist last year (no problems in all that time), but I've run into an issue today. There was a power cut to our area this afternoon and the computer was on at the time, I plugged it out and waited for the electricity to come back. So then, the after about an hour, the power came back on and I plugged it back in and turned it on, but unfortunately the power then immediately went off again and we had to wait another hour until it was finally restored.

When I turned the PC on for the second time, I got an error message that I had never see before, it said "Overclocking failed" in some kind of BOIS menu called American Megatrends (never seen that before either). I've tried looking through the BOIS menus but I have no idea what's wrong. Other than that message the computer appears to be fine, I can still start it up and everything seems to work normally, but I continue to get this error message every time I start it up.

My PC was actually overclocked by PC Specialist (or at least that's what I ordered) so if some of the settings have somehow been lost then I don't know how to fix the issue myself. Also, I have a 3 year Gold warranty for the machine and I have not altered the hardware at all (I did set some of the BOIS settings to maximise performance, but that's it). I've tried Googling my problem, but the only references to it I could find were about overheating. I have the "Core Temp" program and my CPU is within the normal temperature range (~30 - 35 degrees C when idle), so I don't think it's an overheating issue.

My PC's specifications are (from my order form from this website, I've taken out unnecessary stuff):

Case COOLERMASTER HAF 922 MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-3770k Quad Core (3.50GHz @ max 4.60GHz)

OC Settings:
AI Overclock Tuner: XMP
BLCK Freq: 100
Turbo Ratio: By All Cores
By All Cores: 46
Internal PLL OverVoltage: Auto
Mem Freq: 1600
EPU Power Saving: Disabled
Load-Line Calibration: Auto
CPU Manual Voltage: 1.375
DRAM Voltage: 1.65
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Ratio: Auto
CPU C1E: Disabled

Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, X-FIRE
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 480GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply CORSAIR 850W PRO SERIES™ HX850-80 PLUS® GOLD MODULAR
Processor Cooling Corsair H100 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card ASUS Xonar DS - Bring Hi-Fi spirit to your Music, Movie & Games
Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Warranty 3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

It's not a really pressing issue, but it is somewhat annoying, so can anybody give me any advice on this (basically I'd be satisfied with just putting the settings back to how they were).

 

[steaky360]

If the settings in your post were provided to you by PCS if you go into the bios and put them back then everything should work as it used to.

This occasionally happens to me with my system and a reboot typically fixes it but if the settings have been lost/altered on yours resetting them to as they were when you received your machine should sort the issue.

 

[Hibernian]

Ok, the problems seem to have fixed themselves (at least for now). Someone else in the family tried turning the PC on this morning and got the whole American Megatrends error message (I forgot to tell anyone else about it), so they just turned it off since they didn't know what to do. Then when I turned it on later I didn't get the error message (although it was slow starting up), so I came here and read your reply. I took a phone photo of the settings I posted earlier and restarted and went into the BOIS and looked for those settings. They all appeared to be the same as they should be, so I didn't need to change anything. Now I've shut it down and restarted several times and I am no longer getting the error message or the slow down (it starts up quickly and normally). So the problem seems to be gone, I guess it was just the BOIS getting confused when the power was lost.

Anyway, thanks, I'll be back if I have any more problems.