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OK this is a story that has been going on for some 4 months and i have had enough, i either fix this issue or buy a laptop which i dont want to do, so to get you intrested i am offering a reward of £100 (or equalivent in your local currency if you can solve the issue for me. This is not some con I will paypal/BACS/cheque/postal orders hell i will even pay in sheep and chickens if it suits you better and i will be 100% honest if you solve it you will get the cash i promise.
I'll give you a brief history.
I used to run x48 mainboard up untill late feb and that set up was a basic quad core, 8GB and 2 WD Blacks as my OS drives and all was fine except it was slow at video encoding sometimes so hence the upgrade, now may be a good time to expalin how i had my system, both C & D drive had win 7 U x64 installed on them but C drive just had basic apps such as burning app, anti virus, anti malware, search and destroy etc, I would only use this drive if my main working drive (D) went down then at that way i could boot into C and get off D what i wanted to, it was just a safety measure for me and i'm trying to this in my new system as well but it's not working for me, no matter what i try.
So upgrade path was a new Asus Z87 Deluxe, i7 4770k, 16GB of basic crucuial ram and 2 Samsung 840 Pro SSD's (128GB & 256GB) (again win 7 U x64 on both drives), now i will be the first to admit i'm not that up on the new UEFI bios stuff so this problem could be a bios issue i'm not too sure.
Anyway installing on of windows goes fine on C drive, then SP1 goes in fine on C drive again, reboot back into C drive then fire up windows explorer and double click the windows 7 disc setup.exe file (always done it this way and never had a problem) and go ahead and instal win onto the D drive, then reboot into D drive again and install SP1 again, and again this is all fine i can boot into either C or D drive as i wish.
Then i instal the latest LAN driver so i can update windows, so i do C drive first then do exactly the same in D drive so now i have both drives bang up to date as far as windows 7 goes and it's all running fine not a single problem I can boot into both C & D drives as i wish, we now move onto drivers and the hell begins.
When talking about the Asus board (i'll move on to other boards later) they say there is a certain way to do things, first is bring OS up to date then Intel chipset drivers then everything else, i have always followed this route with these new Z87 & Z97 boards, so chipset drivers go in on C Drive fine reboot back into C drive fine then reboot back into D drive D drive and that's fine, i then m ove onto audio/bluetooth/SATA etc etc drivers and again all is fine, by this i mean i'm able to boot back into the C drive and the D drive as well. However when ever i install the Intel USB 3.0 drivers on the C i can reboot back into C drive fine but then reboot back into the D it all goes wrong both my USB power mouse and keybaord fail to respond, there just dead, when it first happened i was using a wireless mouse and the transmitter/reciever part has a green light on it this failed to light up so i'm presuming no power is being sent to the USB 2 sockets, so i tried the usb 3 ports and again not working.
I have tried installing drivers in all manner of order but it makes no difference as soon as i instal the Intel USB 3 drivers it goes up the wall, i now the USB 3 runs of the Z87 chipset itself.
Now you know what the problem is i will some of things i have done to cure it, i'm sure i will miss some stuff out but i will do my best to list everything:
4 x Asus Z87 motherboards
3 lots of RAM, 1 basic Crucial, 1 Ballitx, now using Vulcan from Overclcokers, 2 x 4770K cpu's, 2 Corsair HX750 PSU's, 20 SATA cables, replaced motherboard standoffs and screws (now running outside case to try to find out if case was shorting out), now using new wired mouse and wired keyboard, replaced the SSD's even took the SSD's out of line and ran 3 x 3TB WD Blacks as OS drives to see if the SSD's were the issue but nope same problem, I have even moved away from my first choice board and bought the Gigabyte M1 Sniper and same issue, also now using the MSI Z97 Xpower and again USB 3 intel driver is causing the problems, there is nothing in the damm USB 3 sockets anyway to be causing the problem as i have USB KB/Mouse plugged into USB 2 ports, i'm thinking it has to be a bios problem unless my PSU is not compatable but Corsair says the HS750 are fine with Haswell CPU, don't even get me started on Haswell refresh
Right now i'm trying with a m8's copy of windows 7 in case mine has died a death for some reason, but i fear that will give same results, so it's now over to you lot, I will be posting this in one other forum which i think is more US based I don't think i can name it but will hit email to mods and see if i can name site (it's hardware news & reviews not retail outlet), folks i will try ANYTHING so don't be afraid to name stupid ideas who knows it might just work and you just might earn yourself £100, any and all help is welcome.
All1
I'll give you a brief history.
I used to run x48 mainboard up untill late feb and that set up was a basic quad core, 8GB and 2 WD Blacks as my OS drives and all was fine except it was slow at video encoding sometimes so hence the upgrade, now may be a good time to expalin how i had my system, both C & D drive had win 7 U x64 installed on them but C drive just had basic apps such as burning app, anti virus, anti malware, search and destroy etc, I would only use this drive if my main working drive (D) went down then at that way i could boot into C and get off D what i wanted to, it was just a safety measure for me and i'm trying to this in my new system as well but it's not working for me, no matter what i try.
So upgrade path was a new Asus Z87 Deluxe, i7 4770k, 16GB of basic crucuial ram and 2 Samsung 840 Pro SSD's (128GB & 256GB) (again win 7 U x64 on both drives), now i will be the first to admit i'm not that up on the new UEFI bios stuff so this problem could be a bios issue i'm not too sure.
Anyway installing on of windows goes fine on C drive, then SP1 goes in fine on C drive again, reboot back into C drive then fire up windows explorer and double click the windows 7 disc setup.exe file (always done it this way and never had a problem) and go ahead and instal win onto the D drive, then reboot into D drive again and install SP1 again, and again this is all fine i can boot into either C or D drive as i wish.
Then i instal the latest LAN driver so i can update windows, so i do C drive first then do exactly the same in D drive so now i have both drives bang up to date as far as windows 7 goes and it's all running fine not a single problem I can boot into both C & D drives as i wish, we now move onto drivers and the hell begins.
When talking about the Asus board (i'll move on to other boards later) they say there is a certain way to do things, first is bring OS up to date then Intel chipset drivers then everything else, i have always followed this route with these new Z87 & Z97 boards, so chipset drivers go in on C Drive fine reboot back into C drive fine then reboot back into D drive D drive and that's fine, i then m ove onto audio/bluetooth/SATA etc etc drivers and again all is fine, by this i mean i'm able to boot back into the C drive and the D drive as well. However when ever i install the Intel USB 3.0 drivers on the C i can reboot back into C drive fine but then reboot back into the D it all goes wrong both my USB power mouse and keybaord fail to respond, there just dead, when it first happened i was using a wireless mouse and the transmitter/reciever part has a green light on it this failed to light up so i'm presuming no power is being sent to the USB 2 sockets, so i tried the usb 3 ports and again not working.
I have tried installing drivers in all manner of order but it makes no difference as soon as i instal the Intel USB 3 drivers it goes up the wall, i now the USB 3 runs of the Z87 chipset itself.
Now you know what the problem is i will some of things i have done to cure it, i'm sure i will miss some stuff out but i will do my best to list everything:
4 x Asus Z87 motherboards
3 lots of RAM, 1 basic Crucial, 1 Ballitx, now using Vulcan from Overclcokers, 2 x 4770K cpu's, 2 Corsair HX750 PSU's, 20 SATA cables, replaced motherboard standoffs and screws (now running outside case to try to find out if case was shorting out), now using new wired mouse and wired keyboard, replaced the SSD's even took the SSD's out of line and ran 3 x 3TB WD Blacks as OS drives to see if the SSD's were the issue but nope same problem, I have even moved away from my first choice board and bought the Gigabyte M1 Sniper and same issue, also now using the MSI Z97 Xpower and again USB 3 intel driver is causing the problems, there is nothing in the damm USB 3 sockets anyway to be causing the problem as i have USB KB/Mouse plugged into USB 2 ports, i'm thinking it has to be a bios problem unless my PSU is not compatable but Corsair says the HS750 are fine with Haswell CPU, don't even get me started on Haswell refresh
Right now i'm trying with a m8's copy of windows 7 in case mine has died a death for some reason, but i fear that will give same results, so it's now over to you lot, I will be posting this in one other forum which i think is more US based I don't think i can name it but will hit email to mods and see if i can name site (it's hardware news & reviews not retail outlet), folks i will try ANYTHING so don't be afraid to name stupid ideas who knows it might just work and you just might earn yourself £100, any and all help is welcome.
All1
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