First, Thank you all for your help,
By cold boot I mean turning the machine on from a complete shutdown... not sleep, suspend or hibernate which are all disabled in OS anyway. I have no need for that as system boots in about a second as soon as the LSI card is done loading. I can't tell you my CPU settings because I'm at work on a different machine, but it's all stock from recent CMOS reset. I reset the CMOS as soon as the problem showed up, to no avail. I did think that perhaps it was the battery too, and changed it out with a fresh energizer, no dice. This isn't an OS issue, SFC shows clean and no system log events whatsoever.
I could try juicing the CPU and RAM with some voltage as both can take lots more, was just hopping someone else had gone through this issue and had a concrete solution. System is as follows:
Motherboard:EVGA 170-BL-E762-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 4-WAY SLI Classified XL ATX, latest BIOS (2011, I think)
CPU: Intel Xeon X5680, 3.3Ghz, all stock voltages, no OC whatsoever
RAM: Samsung ECC DIMM M393B5273CH0-YH9 1333mhz, 1.35v, 9.9.9.24, 4Gigx6, all stock
SAS: LSI 9211-8i SAS SATA 8-port PCI-E Card pushing a Seagate 600 Pro SSD ST240FP0021 240GB System and a Seagate 2TB Enterprise HDD ST2000NM0033 Data
VIDEO: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti, all stock
PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA 750w G1 GOLD 80+ MODULAR PSU
Monitors: Samsung 27" S27D850T WQHD LED Monitor x2, both at stock resolution (2560x1440)
Input: Logitech G700s mouse and Razer Ornata Chroma keyboard
This is my home office desktop, it's been babied since day 1, underclocked if anything.
edit: Well, now that I'm at home, I'm beginning to think this is CPU based, as soon as I enable QPI Control Settings I get FF code on reboot, I remember one day on boot it gave me an error that CPU had changed, when I didn't touch anything, and I had to disable some CPU settings to get a boot. Good thing these are $60 nowadays on fleabay, just ordered another.
post edited by TPaulo - 2018/01/24 06:13:42