Sorry if this is a repeat question, but I've been scouring the internet for days now and no solution quite seems to pertain to my situation. My PC is a bit old now, built early 2012, but has been trucking along without issues until I installed a Rosewill 4 port USB 3.0 card. My specs:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2700
Mobo: ASrock z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3
RAM: Gskill Ripjaws 4x4gb sticks DDR3 (can't remember clock speed atm)
GPU: EVGA GTX 770
PSU: Seagate 600w 80+bronze
System drive: Crucial M4 256gb SSD
So the other day, I went to install the Rosewill RC-508 PCI card. Reading the manual, it implied I should put the device in, then install the driver. I stuck the card in, rebooted, "Bootmgr is Missing, press CTL ALT DEL to restart." I tried mashing that combo, but was getting no keyboard input. I restarted again, this time I had no video. After a 3rd reboot, my mobo wouldn't even POST. So I go back, check the install CD (had been looking at the paper manual up to this point), it gave a warning "IMPORTANT: Install the driver before the hardware." Doh. Why does your paper manual say differently ROSEWILL?! WHY?
Anyway, I took the card out, but still ran into the same no POST situation. I took out RAM and GPU, cleaned and reseated them, just for the hell of it. I cleared the CMOS, and the POST beep came back. I reset my MOBO settings to default, except for setting the SSD back to AHCI. From there, I was able to boot into Windows... for 5 seconds. After 5 secs, the PC crashes to a black screen, but doesn't shutdown. However, I am able to boot into safemode without any crashing issues.
From safemode I've run checkdsk, which claims my drives are working fine. I've run memtest, no problems there. I ran every Windows repair tool available, in system, and from the install DVD, they all come back without errors.
I finally gave up, reformated my system. Clean install... everything is working. I'm installing the basic drivers that come with the mobo. All is well UNTIL I install my graphics driver. As soon as I reboot after installing the graphics driver (doesn't matter what version of the driver) the computer loads to desktop and crashes in 5 seconds. I've done 5 clean installs now, trying to fix this and every time I get to the point where I'm installing graphics drivers I run into this problem.
All the while, I'm still able to boot into safemode with no problems. Windows just won't load normally for more than 5 seconds.
Sorry for the wall of text here, just wanted to be sure to include everything I've tried so people don't waste their time on this. Is it possible for such a little USB card to wreak such havoc? Have I potentially broken my PCI ports by installing a device without drivers? I'm at my wit's end here, any help is appreciated!!
Thanks
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2700
Mobo: ASrock z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3
RAM: Gskill Ripjaws 4x4gb sticks DDR3 (can't remember clock speed atm)
GPU: EVGA GTX 770
PSU: Seagate 600w 80+bronze
System drive: Crucial M4 256gb SSD
So the other day, I went to install the Rosewill RC-508 PCI card. Reading the manual, it implied I should put the device in, then install the driver. I stuck the card in, rebooted, "Bootmgr is Missing, press CTL ALT DEL to restart." I tried mashing that combo, but was getting no keyboard input. I restarted again, this time I had no video. After a 3rd reboot, my mobo wouldn't even POST. So I go back, check the install CD (had been looking at the paper manual up to this point), it gave a warning "IMPORTANT: Install the driver before the hardware." Doh. Why does your paper manual say differently ROSEWILL?! WHY?
Anyway, I took the card out, but still ran into the same no POST situation. I took out RAM and GPU, cleaned and reseated them, just for the hell of it. I cleared the CMOS, and the POST beep came back. I reset my MOBO settings to default, except for setting the SSD back to AHCI. From there, I was able to boot into Windows... for 5 seconds. After 5 secs, the PC crashes to a black screen, but doesn't shutdown. However, I am able to boot into safemode without any crashing issues.
From safemode I've run checkdsk, which claims my drives are working fine. I've run memtest, no problems there. I ran every Windows repair tool available, in system, and from the install DVD, they all come back without errors.
I finally gave up, reformated my system. Clean install... everything is working. I'm installing the basic drivers that come with the mobo. All is well UNTIL I install my graphics driver. As soon as I reboot after installing the graphics driver (doesn't matter what version of the driver) the computer loads to desktop and crashes in 5 seconds. I've done 5 clean installs now, trying to fix this and every time I get to the point where I'm installing graphics drivers I run into this problem.
All the while, I'm still able to boot into safemode with no problems. Windows just won't load normally for more than 5 seconds.
Sorry for the wall of text here, just wanted to be sure to include everything I've tried so people don't waste their time on this. Is it possible for such a little USB card to wreak such havoc? Have I potentially broken my PCI ports by installing a device without drivers? I'm at my wit's end here, any help is appreciated!!
Thanks
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