Help can't boot

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Hi guys installed new i7 970 last night reset cmos and loaded optimised defaults with my c300 ssd on sata600 pci controller set to boot first as usual. nothing else changed. when I tried to boot all seemed ok but it just sits at the starting windows screen and goes nowhere. The windows startup recovery option does the same, it takes ages to load and won't go anywhere after that. In fact both options just bluescreen after a while.

Any ideas?
 
I've a feeling it's more to do with my c300 and the sata600 controller card not playing well with bios or even windows. Might need to change a couple of sata/ahci related settings in bios
 
Ok now got the c300 on mobo sata2 port and no improvement... Gets into windows startup recovery verrrrry slowly then bsods.

Gonna remove the sata600 card altogether now see what happens.
 
Flashed bios to 13j loaded optimized defaults installed the SSD on pci controller and rebooted. The SSD and pci controller are both seen by the bios and windows starts to load but it just still sits there for aaages on "starting windows"....

I guess I could try running the ssd on sata2 again now that bios is updated and CPU should at least work...

Any more ideas?
 
Yeh it's possible although I did double check it. I've just left it to boot into windows startup recovery and it's made it through but now stuck. Will wait and see if it kicks into action again so I can run it.
Next thing will be memory then win 7 repair.
 
Well I'm still in Windows Startup Recovery.. it's incrediby slow but it just popped up with a keyboard language choice screen so it's working in a way...

Possible culprits:

1) SSD is on SATA600 PCI controller. Will try on SATA2 (mobo) instead.

2) RAM dodgy. will try running on 1 stick and reseating that one anyway.

3) This beta BIOS is rubbish and doesn't actually work with 970 cpu.
 
Ok. Interesting.

Gets into the System Recovery Options screen and I have a choice of recovering a windows install or restoring from an image.

The funny thing is that no OS is listed in the recovery list... so it's clearly not detecting my windows install at all. This is almost definitely something wrong with my SSD/SATA600 controller then I guess.

I'll go onto SATA300 now and see what happens. If no joy then win 7 repair disc i guess.
 
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