A few months ago, I setup a new ASUS mobo P9X79-E WS with an Intel i7-4930K cpu, Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR3 RAM, 3 x MSI HD 7790 radeon GPUs and a SSD Corsair Neutron 240 GB as primary. I am running Windows 8 (8.0). It ran ok but occasionally I had hardware freezes requiring regular hard resets. So I ran Winzip registry optimizer on a regular basis with restore points.
Foolishly, I looked for a "fix" thinking that the SSD was probably the cause of these intermittent freezes (mainly caused when using IE and sometimes simply file explorer) and downloaded (wrongly) a registry fix that was actually meant for windows 7. My AHCI was already set in the BIOS correctly (I did not know at the time and thought it was on IDE).
Since I ran the registry "fix", my computer refuses to boot windows and refuses to restore a previous registry. I guess the two problems are not related but I am not sure.
In any case, I was looking at the registry trying to identify the new entries but just can not find them. The entries were meant for windows 7, not 8 and the main entry just does not exists in Windows 8, yet nothing works anymore...
Here is the contents of the registry "fix" that I am trying to undo but can not find (does not appear):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\msahci]
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000003
"ImagePath"=hex(2):5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,52,\
00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,61,00,68,00,63,00,69,00,\
2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"Group"="SCSI Miniport"
"DriverPackageId"="mshdc.inf_x86_neutral_3f3676f4c0e7d884"
My Windows 8 still does not have that entry but what did this registry fix do?
Any ideas how I can undo the damage without re-installing most of my software...? None of my previous restore points run, they generate an error:
"...unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0x8007051a)"
Any ideas?
Foolishly, I looked for a "fix" thinking that the SSD was probably the cause of these intermittent freezes (mainly caused when using IE and sometimes simply file explorer) and downloaded (wrongly) a registry fix that was actually meant for windows 7. My AHCI was already set in the BIOS correctly (I did not know at the time and thought it was on IDE).
Since I ran the registry "fix", my computer refuses to boot windows and refuses to restore a previous registry. I guess the two problems are not related but I am not sure.
In any case, I was looking at the registry trying to identify the new entries but just can not find them. The entries were meant for windows 7, not 8 and the main entry just does not exists in Windows 8, yet nothing works anymore...
Here is the contents of the registry "fix" that I am trying to undo but can not find (does not appear):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\msahci]
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000003
"ImagePath"=hex(2):5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,52,\
00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,6d,00,73,00,61,00,68,00,63,00,69,00,\
2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"Group"="SCSI Miniport"
"DriverPackageId"="mshdc.inf_x86_neutral_3f3676f4c0e7d884"
My Windows 8 still does not have that entry but what did this registry fix do?
Any ideas how I can undo the damage without re-installing most of my software...? None of my previous restore points run, they generate an error:
"...unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0x8007051a)"
Any ideas?