- Mar 14, 2014
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I have an Asus Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard running Windows 8.1 and three days ago my entire system went down. It had been running fine for a month prior to this. I have a Samsung Pro 256GB SSD with two 2x3TB Seagate Barracuda HDDs running in RAID 0 with the SSD as my boot drive. Three days ago I got home from work and went to boot my system to find my RAID array had failed and I needed to format those drives, I soon realized that my SATA configuration was set to ACHI mode so I blamed this for the problem. No biggie, all I had was games on it after all. This is where it got worse, I tried to reboot my system but after multiple attemps was unable, the system getting to the Windows logo before automatically restarting. After hours of frustration I decided I was going to have to do a fresh install of Windows so I formatted the SSD to (in my mind) ''reset'' the computer to where it had been when I first booted it, The USB stick had the same problem with crashing back at the Windows logo but eventually I got it installed but yet again, the fresh install only got to the Windows logo when I tried to get to the setup from my SSD. I then tried to boot from the USB stick I was using to install my OS and again, that failed. After a couple of attempts I can get to the install screen and fully install Windows but it's never correct. I always get Windows error message 0xc000000. I've tried it in ACHI mode and RAID mode and neither will boot, both my HDDs are disconnected.
Did my SSD die after a month of use? If that's so, why can't I even boot from the USB stick?
Did my SSD die after a month of use? If that's so, why can't I even boot from the USB stick?
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