- Sep 26, 2010
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I am having issues with a system upgrade and believe it is my motherboard. Basically I kept all of my drives, PSU, and case and upgraded the rest.
Main System Components:
After assembling the system occasionally when accessing the BIOS, the OCZ drive wasn’t showing up in the BIOS under storage devices. I checked the Sata/power cables, rebooted and it would show up sometimes. So during the Windows 7 install, sometimes after a reboot the Flash drive wasn’t there and the system was looking to the storage drive to boot. I have no idea why the Flash drive kept disappearing. Sometimes it was recognized under storage devices, but the Samsung was listed as the boot device (a change I didn’t make).
At this point I took the mobo out and checked everything. The CPU fan was loose on one peg so I fixed that and everything seemed to work fine. I installed Windows, installed the mobo drivers and utilities, and installed Windows updates. Once that was all set, I installed the graphics card and driver. The rest of the day it worked fine, I was gaming on my new rig.
Sunday morning I boot up, and I got some type of error that said it was possibly due to new hardware and it wanted me to repair Windows. I had this error a lot after the Windows install, for example after adding new hardware like a USB dongle for my XBOX controller. Usually I would just ignore it and boot Windows normally.
The problem though is that as of Sunday morning, the mobo doesn’t recognize my keyboard or mouse, so I can’t do anything. I believe they are USB 2.0 devices. I tried them in the two USB 2.0 slots on the mobo, the two USB 2.0 slots on my case (where they were previously working), and in the USB 3.0 slots. When I first plug in the keyboard, the LED flases green for a split second, but it doesn’t stay on.
What do you guys think? Should I exchange the mobo? Could it be something else? What should I do?
Main System Components:
■ New - ASRock Z87 Extereme 6 motherboard
■ New - Intel i5 4670
■ New – 1 stick of 8 gig Crucial Memory
■ New – Powercolor 7870 Graphics Card
■ Old - OCZ Vertex 2 60 gig
■ Old - Samsung 1 terabyte HD
■ Old - 650 watt PSU
After assembling the system occasionally when accessing the BIOS, the OCZ drive wasn’t showing up in the BIOS under storage devices. I checked the Sata/power cables, rebooted and it would show up sometimes. So during the Windows 7 install, sometimes after a reboot the Flash drive wasn’t there and the system was looking to the storage drive to boot. I have no idea why the Flash drive kept disappearing. Sometimes it was recognized under storage devices, but the Samsung was listed as the boot device (a change I didn’t make).
At this point I took the mobo out and checked everything. The CPU fan was loose on one peg so I fixed that and everything seemed to work fine. I installed Windows, installed the mobo drivers and utilities, and installed Windows updates. Once that was all set, I installed the graphics card and driver. The rest of the day it worked fine, I was gaming on my new rig.
Sunday morning I boot up, and I got some type of error that said it was possibly due to new hardware and it wanted me to repair Windows. I had this error a lot after the Windows install, for example after adding new hardware like a USB dongle for my XBOX controller. Usually I would just ignore it and boot Windows normally.
The problem though is that as of Sunday morning, the mobo doesn’t recognize my keyboard or mouse, so I can’t do anything. I believe they are USB 2.0 devices. I tried them in the two USB 2.0 slots on the mobo, the two USB 2.0 slots on my case (where they were previously working), and in the USB 3.0 slots. When I first plug in the keyboard, the LED flases green for a split second, but it doesn’t stay on.
What do you guys think? Should I exchange the mobo? Could it be something else? What should I do?
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