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I decided to stretch my budget and treat myself to a 280x and everything was going swimmingly until my Motherboard seems to have developed a problem moments after installing it.
I have or had a Gigabyte Z77 D3H and when I initially whipped out my old 6850 and put in the 280x everything seemed OK. I used the AMD tool to remove the old driver rebooted and that's where the problem began. It wouldn't boot into windows, instead giving me a “Disk read error has occurred” message. After pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I eventually got back into windows installed the drivers rebooted again and that was it I couldn't get it to boot into windows after that.
Initially I thought graphics card was to blame so removed that & went with the on-board one, I also thought my SSD may be to blame as the system posts and the board recognises the SSD but I got an “reboot and select proper boot device” message at this point so I tried reinstalling windows but while it gets through the initial install once it reboots to complete the installation I get the disk read error again.
I then tried clearing the cmos, using different SATA slots, cables and another Hard drive. I even moved the RAM trying it 1 stick at a time in different slots but nothing. Eventually I gave in and thankfully I had a spare H61 motherboard (sad hoarder) which I decided to try and everything works so I'm 99% sure my Motherboard is faulty. I'm just a little bit suspicious that this happened the moment I tried a new graphics card and well that purchase has me tapped out so I can't really afford to replace the board so I'm wondering if there's anything I may have missed?
I have or had a Gigabyte Z77 D3H and when I initially whipped out my old 6850 and put in the 280x everything seemed OK. I used the AMD tool to remove the old driver rebooted and that's where the problem began. It wouldn't boot into windows, instead giving me a “Disk read error has occurred” message. After pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I eventually got back into windows installed the drivers rebooted again and that was it I couldn't get it to boot into windows after that.
Initially I thought graphics card was to blame so removed that & went with the on-board one, I also thought my SSD may be to blame as the system posts and the board recognises the SSD but I got an “reboot and select proper boot device” message at this point so I tried reinstalling windows but while it gets through the initial install once it reboots to complete the installation I get the disk read error again.
I then tried clearing the cmos, using different SATA slots, cables and another Hard drive. I even moved the RAM trying it 1 stick at a time in different slots but nothing. Eventually I gave in and thankfully I had a spare H61 motherboard (sad hoarder) which I decided to try and everything works so I'm 99% sure my Motherboard is faulty. I'm just a little bit suspicious that this happened the moment I tried a new graphics card and well that purchase has me tapped out so I can't really afford to replace the board so I'm wondering if there's anything I may have missed?