does anyone else have to keep hitting the on button

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

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with their sandy bridge PC?

it seems to be ok once it is going, but often it takes 2 or 3 times to get it to actually post, other times it just turns on for 10s then decides,

"computer says no"

then turns off.

its an asus P67 B2 board on the newest bios

cheers
 
Its called Double boot its famous on these asus boards your not the only one to suffer this but there is things to try like updating Bios.

Does the computer turn off then back on by its self and then finally go into windows ?
 
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I take delivery of my MSI P67A-GD55 tomorrow and I'll be following the black magic instructions for MSI boards to the letter.

1. Initially install a single stick of ram into the dimm slot closest to the cpu.
2. Boot up with bios defaults loaded, install windows followed by the drivers.
3. Power down and install the rest of the ram.
4. Hope for the best that it works without problems. :D

Seems like a load of rubbish to me but It's worth trying after all the problems I've had with the Asus boards. I've even read that the Asus problems can be due to a 3rd party heatsink applying too much or uneven pressure to the cpu.
 
bedazzled said:
I take delivery of my MSI P67A-GD55 tomorrow and I'll be following the black magic instructions for MSI boards to the letter.

1. Initially install a single stick of ram into the dimm slot closest to the cpu.
2. Boot up with bios defaults loaded, install windows followed by the drivers.
3. Power down and install the rest of the ram.
4. Hope for the best that it works without problems. :D

Seems like a load of rubbish to me but It's worth trying after all the problems I've had with the Asus boards. I've even read that the Asus problems can be due to a 3rd party heatsink applying too much or uneven pressure to the cpu.
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I think thats a load of rubbish i installed cpu and cooler both sticks of memory connected all hard drives fired it up installed fresh windows and never had any troubles at all. I even ran the overclock first time while it was installing windows just see how much faster it was.
 
bedazzled said:
I take delivery of my MSI P67A-GD55 tomorrow and I'll be following the black magic instructions for MSI boards to the letter.

1. Initially install a single stick of ram into the dimm slot closest to the cpu.
2. Boot up with bios defaults loaded, install windows followed by the drivers.
3. Power down and install the rest of the ram.
4. Hope for the best that it works without problems. :D

Seems like a load of rubbish to me but It's worth trying after all the problems I've had with the Asus boards. I've even read that the Asus problems can be due to a 3rd party heatsink applying too much or uneven pressure to the cpu.
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I just threw it all together, booted and installed win7, no hassles. Done in around 12mins flat (and that was from DVD which I am pretty sure is the slowest way to install win7 these days :) )
 
I get it on my P5Q Deluxe, might see if there is a bios update to sort it. Think one of my sata ports/devices is failing too. My DVD writer isn't appearing anymore and when it searches SATA Port 4 it finds nothing, takes a while to boot due to that little problem.
 
I got my new MSI P67A-GD55 setup on the bench and installed windows 7 ultimate (64bit) and the supplied MSI drivers. Shut it down and rebooted a couple of times to test it and now i've got the BOSD each time windows tries to start. Windows tries to repair itself but fails everytime.

I'm not impressed with these Sandybridge boards at all :(
 
bedazzled said:
I got my new MSI P67A-GD55 setup on the bench and installed windows 7 ultimate (64bit) and the supplied MSI drivers. Shut it down and rebooted a couple of times to test it and now i've got the BOSD each time windows tries to start. Windows tries to repair itself but fails everytime.

I'm not impressed with these Sandybridge boards at all :(
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Have you enabled ACHI for the hard drives? Might make all the difference, I've had someone bring a laptop to me with the same error you are describing and enabling ACHI fixed it.
 
I had this problem when I first set everything up but after I moved my SSD from the Marvell port to the Intel one and disabled the Marvell via the Bios it seems to have stopped the problem.
 
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