- Jan 9, 2015
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Greetings!
I recently completed a new system build consisting of the following components:
ASRock AMD 970 Extreme4
AMD FX-8320
OCZ Arc 100 240 GB SSD
WD Blue 1TB HDD
Sentey 725watt PSU
MSI Radeon R9 270x
ATAPI 24x DVDRW
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
The build went together smoothly, however I did have some issues installing windows 7. First time around, it said the media (DVD burn) was corrupt about halfway through the install. Then I switched to a thumb drive image and installed from that, seemed to work fine, however shortly after the install was finished and while I was running windows update the system halted with an error screen and upon reboot windows failed to load.
I again wiped and attempted to start over, however this time the machine would no longer boot from the flash drive, kept telling me to enter proper boot media. Granted this is the same flash drive I installed the first time from with no issues just hours earlier.
So I burned another copy of Windows 7 to DVD and yet again installed it. This time the installation when through fine, and I was able to run all windows updates and configure some additional software programs. I shutdown that night, using the windows shutdown process, and the next morning when I went to boot up windows would not load. It goes to the windows logo screen for about 2-3 seconds, but then the screen just goes black. I load windows startup repair and it runs and cannot find any problems, suggests I do a system restore, and I successfully do a system restore to a prior image.
2 days later, same issue re-occurs, black screen after windows logo, have to launch system repair and ultimately do a system restore to prior image.
I purchased the components from Amazon and they have a great return policy, I just don't know what to return here! Part of me thinks the SSD is a prime suspect, but hoping for advice if there is any way to confirm which piece might be causing these problems so I can effectively take care of the problem.
I recently completed a new system build consisting of the following components:
ASRock AMD 970 Extreme4
AMD FX-8320
OCZ Arc 100 240 GB SSD
WD Blue 1TB HDD
Sentey 725watt PSU
MSI Radeon R9 270x
ATAPI 24x DVDRW
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
The build went together smoothly, however I did have some issues installing windows 7. First time around, it said the media (DVD burn) was corrupt about halfway through the install. Then I switched to a thumb drive image and installed from that, seemed to work fine, however shortly after the install was finished and while I was running windows update the system halted with an error screen and upon reboot windows failed to load.
I again wiped and attempted to start over, however this time the machine would no longer boot from the flash drive, kept telling me to enter proper boot media. Granted this is the same flash drive I installed the first time from with no issues just hours earlier.
So I burned another copy of Windows 7 to DVD and yet again installed it. This time the installation when through fine, and I was able to run all windows updates and configure some additional software programs. I shutdown that night, using the windows shutdown process, and the next morning when I went to boot up windows would not load. It goes to the windows logo screen for about 2-3 seconds, but then the screen just goes black. I load windows startup repair and it runs and cannot find any problems, suggests I do a system restore, and I successfully do a system restore to a prior image.
2 days later, same issue re-occurs, black screen after windows logo, have to launch system repair and ultimately do a system restore to prior image.
I purchased the components from Amazon and they have a great return policy, I just don't know what to return here! Part of me thinks the SSD is a prime suspect, but hoping for advice if there is any way to confirm which piece might be causing these problems so I can effectively take care of the problem.
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