Bsod

[Dark Comet]

Hello,

Bought a new build but it BSOD on start up. I've used my old hard drive with windows vista on it just to test it so its not a clean install. The CPU is running at 40c in the Bios so its possible I've not sat the heatsink on it right. Would the CPU reaching its throttle temps cause a BSOD?

 

[Lyden]

It shouldn't. What was the message on the BSOD? that's probably the most important thing. Also make sure your RAM is in the correct colored slots. Sometimes that can be very confusing as different boards have different layouts.

 

[Dark Comet]

Checked the RAM its in the right slots. The BSODs are happening when windows is loading. Could it be because its not a clean install? I'll try to take a photo of the BSOD now

 

[Dark Comet]

The error is STOP 0xFFFFFA60005AF9C0,0XFFFFFFFFC0000034,0X000000000000.0X000000000000 any ideas?

 

[teaser]

if you used your old hard drive from another machine,then you will have problems because you dont have the new motherboard drivers installed,your trying to boot the machine with a Hard drive from another machine with a different motherboard,reformat the old hard drive and reinstall your operating system and new motherboard drivers.....

 

[Dark Comet]

Yeah I think that's the problem, I'm installing windows 7 now, will update when its done, cheers

 

[Dark Comet]

Ok update, when installing windows 7 the install will hang and not do anything. Its done this multiple times now. Do I need to install SATA drivers? I didn't know drivers worked before windows itself was installed. Or could it be something else?

 

[rpenri]

Win 7 comes with SATA drivers...not like in XP. Most likely it's a configuration setting in the BIOS that isn't set right...

Make sure you have the settings right for your hard drive or set it to AUTO...

 

[Dark Comet]

What options should I be looking for there's only a few in the bios for SATA and seems correct. I'll post what they are shortly

 

[Dark Comet]

Tried installing it again and this time it hanged on windows is finalizing your settings, so I switched the computer off and rebooted it and now its hanging on windows is starting. Gonna try installing windows to another hard drive to see if the problem lies with the SSD.

 

[Dark Comet]

Installed it on my other hard drive and it worked first time with no issues and all is running fine at the moment. Looks like the SSD is not working correctly. Could damaged sectors on the SSD cause this issue?

 

[Dark Comet]

No one ever had this problem?

 

[mouse24]

could you have the HDD set to AHCI mode? my windows cd didn't come with AHCI drivers for some reason (or i think thats why it says no drivers found when i pop in the install CD )

 

[Dark Comet]

What does that do and what should I have it set to?

 

[Dark Comet]

I set it to ide mode but the install keeps hanging at installing updates part.

 

[mouse24]

is there a way to skip that bit? could you try burning a new cd

 

[Dark Comet]

It stopped expending files 20% this time. Its an OEM disk and it installed to my other normal sata drive fine so I think its the SSD. Are there's tools to test it?

 

[mouse24]

i think there are tools to test, uhm i know windows has a ChkDsk feature which basically checks all the sectors on the disk, im pretty sure they have a checking program on the manufacturers website.

 

[Dark Comet]

I can't seem to find any (http://www.corsair.com/ssd/force-series-gt-ssd/force-series-gt-120gb-sata-3-6gbps-solid-state-hard-drive.html). I'll try chkdsk in a second though if I can get it to show up in my computer

 

[Dark Comet]

I did it and it said "Some problems were found and fixed" If they were bad sectors it would not have been able to fix them so I doubt it was that.

SSD life says the health of the SSD is excellent : /

 

[mouse24]

hrmmm, i think HDtune works on SSDs run a few of those tests

 

[Dark Comet]

Doing that now. Reading around some people are saying that you should use a program called secure erase between installs and one guy said his SSD hung on the install for 20 minutes then suddenly continued and finished so maybe I need to give it more time. Its just I thought that if it got past that part last time within a second then why does it need 20 minutes the next time...

 

[mouse24]

i honestly have no clue but if you got the time, sure try it out

and the thing about secure erase... meh, i guess it cant hurt

 

[Dark Comet]

The quick check worked fine with no problems, however the program stops responding for the normal check
It seems to be stopping in the same place too

EDIT: It seems to have got past that part now, no errors at this point.

 

[mouse24]

hmmm, i suggest trying it again, the windows install... who knows maybe that ChkDsk fixed it