Help can't boot

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:11

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?

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:12

I've tried load failsafe too and that makes no difference.

Philtor · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:13

You may need to update the BIOS to add support for the new CPU. Just a thought....

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:17

It's on f12 according to gigabyte it should be supported

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:19

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

bifday2k · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:20

maybe connect the SSD to a normal sata 2 port, to get windows installed, at that point it will pick up the pci controller and be able to install the drivers for it.

May be worth trying that.

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:21

I'm gonna try sticking my c300 on mobo sata2 channel and see what happens that way I'll know if it's the controller

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:33

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.

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:34

Question: my patriot viper ram says 1600 on the box yet it's running at 1066 in bios under optimized defaults is this ok?

bifday2k · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:35

yeh its fine, u would either have to set it manually, or use the xmp profile, to have it at 1600.

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:37

Cool any more ideas about this booting issue? It's a mystery... nothing else has changed in the system just the new processor.

bifday2k · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:39

I can't think of anything atm, but then again i have been up all night so my brain is abit fried lol. Im sure someone will come along later and be more helpful, some how or another the problem will get sorted, but will have to wait for others to reply i guess.

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:42

Thanks mate

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:44

Removed sata600 pci controller and no change still just hangs trying to load windows or startup recovery.

Getting very worried now...

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:51

Found the problem need to flash bios to latest beta bios... Will report back when done

bifday2k · 3 Sep 2010 at 08:54

Hope that solves it...

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 09:20

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?

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 09:21

BSOD trying to start windows....

Oh dear...

Ok put my ram back off XMP profile
And back to standard, upped CPU vcore to 1.3.

Trying again

bifday2k · 3 Sep 2010 at 09:22

only thing i can really think of if the sata 2 dos'nt wanna play ball too, is to try a fresh install, maybe it did'nt install correctly or something, in all honesty i can't really think of why its not playing ball with you.

mothermachine · 3 Sep 2010 at 09:26

Well it makes no sense to me as my SSD hasn't changed at all the win install on it should just work fine...

I'll try again on sata2. That's the last thing I can think of.