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RobbieRobb

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My computer has been working fine for close to a year now and all of a sudden it just halts at "starting windows" screen nothing happens for hours.

I've tried clearing cmos, updating bios which give me another problem when I try it says "BIOS ID check error.", I've installed the installion disk for windows and got to the point where it asked to repair windows but after that nothing just a loading circle, Also tried to install windows to a old clean harddrive and got to setting up windows but nothing once again. So I really have no idea what else to do so I've I need you guys help. BTW windows is installed on Samsung 840 pro 128gb ssd.
Also the code the motherboard gives me when it stuck at "starting windows" is A0 which is IDE initialization is started
Specs:
i5-2500k
gigabyte z77x-ud3h motherboard
16gb of corsair ram
msi gtx 680
Samsung 840 pro ssd 128gb
Seagate 2tb hardrive
windows home premium 64bit
 
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clutchc
From your explanation and the things you've already tried, it sounds like it could be a failing MB. Test your memory before anything else though. Download memtest and burn the ISO to disk. You may have to do this in Safe Mode, or maybe even on another PC. Boot to memtest and have it run at least one full pass on each stick of RAM individually in the first slot.
http://www.memtest.org/
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himnextdoor

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Go into BIOS and check your SATA Mode setting. It should be set to AHCI since Windows Installer uses that type of driver.

This should help to install Windows on your old clean hard drive.

If this setting was changed while the SSD was installed then that could explain why the SSD stopped working.
 
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From your explanation and the things you've already tried, it sounds like it could be a failing MB. Test your memory before anything else though. Download memtest and burn the ISO to disk. You may have to do this in Safe Mode, or maybe even on another PC. Boot to memtest and have it run at least one full pass on each stick of RAM individually in the first slot.
http://www.memtest.org/
 
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RobbieRobb

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well thanks for all the solutions but before I read them I took a guess that the old hard drive mite be at fault here unplugged it from motherboard and it booted straight into windows in under 20 secs, so I guess that solves it.

Thanks for all the help.
 
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