Stop this BSOD during boots on new cyberpower computer

phillefann15

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Jan 23, 2014
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Hello, So just the other day I received my new computer from cyberpower pc. Everything was running great when I first got it, but after installing drivers and what not that came on the cd's, there was an "GIGABYTE EZ setup" that I downloaded. After opening the ez setup and going to the disk mode switch function, I switch from what I think was RAID to ahci. It said that a system restart would be needed for effects to take place, so I restarted the computer a little later. After doing so I got a BSOD and have not been able to boot windows normally without the BSOD. Ive tried changing the BIOS settings to defaults, manually changing between RAID AHCI AND IDE modes, and then restarting but the same problems are occuring. The only way I can successfully get back into windows is to change all default setting in BIOS to default (which is ahci) and then re-install windows 7. However, as soon as any restarts are needed, the computer will go right back to failing to boot and boom BSOD. So how do I go about preventing this and what is the problem? Is it my drivers?
 
after switching to AHCI and doing a fresh install it shouldn't happen any longer... unless you're just reinstalling without formatting the partition completely.

Having said that, you mention you might have changed from RAID to ACHI... if you have 2xHDD then probably the RAID is still configured in BIOS, see if you deactivate it (assuming you don't want RAID), if you're gonna use it then set SATA mode to RAID and procced with your installation.