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So I screwed up my oc with software and my machine in sig (Intel Machine) would not boot.

Thank goodness this mobo has a way to save your bios profile to the oc settings , Asrock did a great job on this option.

Machine back up and running great , back to 4.6 ghz.

While I got it back up and running I updated my Samsung software for the SSD , now I am getting this pop up on boot up (do i want to enable WMI)

What is this and how do I turn it off , I click enable and all is well but it comes up every time I boot up.

WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation, and without it Windows absolutely will not function. It's a huge database that contains information about your hardware, settings, installed software, installed patches, etc. Think of it as the registry on steroids...kind of. It's not user writeable like the registry is, but the system does write to it.

The popup is probably asking if you want to enable the WMI extensions for the SSD software, or give it access to write it's information into WMI. I imagine it's opening at every boot because it's not running in an admin context (aka elevated) when it prompts you so it can't save your response. You might try closing the Samsung SSD software from the System Tray and finding where it runs from on the hard drive. Right click on it and select Run As Administrator...click Enable when it prompts.

With regards to saving your profile to the BIOS, Asus and Gigabyte also have this feature. It's nice to have even when you're not overclocking!

I am going to try and install the software again.

Reinstalling the software worked.