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Overclock Profiles Won't POST After Clearing CMOS

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I was having a separate issue where I couldn't get a signal on my second monitor, someone suggested to me to unplug everything and reset my CMOS, so I did. After doing that, my saved overclock profiles that have been stable for me for a few months now suddenly wouldn't POST when I tried to load them. The computer would turn on, shortly after turn off, it would do it a couple times and on the third time a message would appear saying the system failed to turn on, hit F2/Del to enter the BIOS.

I have an i5-2500k which I had been running at 4GHZ for awhile. I had a second profile at 4.4 that was stable but higher voltage that I didn't use often, just for a benchmark here and there. AsRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3, DDR3-1600 RAM, Windows 10 64 bit.

Here are a couple pictures I took of the overclock setup that had been working for me. Any suggestions would be welcome.

http://imgur.com/a/P0wEq
 
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That kind of failure to start is usually the voltage being too low. If stock/higher voltage works than that solves the issue. It could just be your PSU isn't as good as it once was or your original OC was a nut hair away from failure to begin with.
 
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That kind of failure to start is usually the voltage being too low. If stock/higher voltage works than that solves the issue. It could just be your PSU isn't as good as it once was or your original OC was a nut hair away from failure to begin with.

Another thing I forgot to mention, I tried setting the CPU ratio to 33 (Stock) whilst having the voltage settings in place for an overclock, and that wouldn't POST either which I found odd. Yet right now, I overclocked to 4 GHZ with everything on Auto and it's working fine and humming along nicely while Prime95 tests it. It just seems weird to me.
 
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I went and flashed my BIOS to the latest version last night, that had no impact and offset mode still wouldn't POST. At this moment, I'm overclocked to 4.4ghz via Fixed Voltage and that's stable and working perfectly fine. I can't figure out for the life of me why Offset refuses to POST. I even went and underclocked the CPU just to see if it would boot or not, and it wouldn't. I've also tried clearing CMOS a second time and that had no effect.
 

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when running (+)offset mode you need to set both the initial and turbo voltages you can't just set one
 
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