I need several boots to succesfully boot

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2012 at 19:17

ntfs.sys is your hard drive have you run check disk lately? the other is windows kernel witch manages memory so I would also run memtest over night.

bobo696 · 17 Jun 2012 at 19:24

shankly1985 said:
ntfs.sys is your hard drive have you run check disk lately? the other is windows kernel witch manages memory so I would also run memtest over night.

I will do a checkdisk now

I just did a memtest, for approx 1 hour. No errors. Is 1 hour enough ?

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:04

bobo696 said:
I will do a checkdisk now

I just did a memtest, for approx 1 hour. No errors. Is 1 hour enough ?

Depends really I like to also do one test but others have said errors have been found later down the test. Your issue sounds like hard drive could be dying.

bobo696 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:07

shankly1985 said:
Depends really I like to also do one test but others have said errors have been found later down the test. Your issue sounds like hard drive could be dying.

Can it be the slaves hard drives? My main hard drive is a brand new crucial m4 SSD ...

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:15

bobo696 said:
Can it be the slaves hard drives? My main hard drive is a brand new crucial m4 SSD ...

Is that what windows is installed onto?

bobo696 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:17

shankly1985 said:
Is that what windows is installed onto?

Yes my Windows 7 is installed on the SSD
Though it has been transfered from an normal hdd a few weeks ago.

atpbx · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:22

I had ths problem, not enough juice going tbrough the ram.

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:24

bobo696 said:
Yes my Windows 7 is installed on the SSD
Though it has been transfered from an normal hdd a few weeks ago.

Now we getting somewhere. You better starting fresh with a new windows install onto the SSD. Copying a OS from one drive to another has always given me problems.

bobo696 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:32

shankly1985 said:
Now we getting somewhere. You better starting fresh with a new windows install onto the SSD. Copying a OS from one drive to another has always given me problems.

I know that I should start from zero, but it will be soooo long to reinstall everything... but I guess I have no choice if I want a smooth install

Tomorrow, I change the PSU. If that still doesn't work, I might redo a full install.

But the strange thing is, my system works very well when it's been running. It's just when it has been shut down for a few hours that it's difficult to start if off again.

Would you have an explantion for that ?

shankly1985 · 17 Jun 2012 at 20:43

bobo696 said:
I know that I should start from zero, but it will be soooo long to reinstall everything... but I guess I have no choice if I want a smooth install

Tomorrow, I change the PSU. If that still doesn't work, I might redo a full install.

But the strange thing is, my system works very well when it's been running. It's just when it has been shut down for a few hours that it's difficult to start if off again.

Would you have an explantion for that ?

I dont sorry lol I dont use a ssd myself so not sure if there is other issue around that.

bobo696 · 18 Jun 2012 at 08:04

OK guys apparently didn't have trouble to boot the computer this morning... I upped the voltage a bit, so that might have been the problem?
I'm not screaming victory yet, might well start again later...

Thanks for the help!

Idleman · 18 Jun 2012 at 08:33

Looks promising.
Forgot to ask if you have OC`ed your Cpu.

bobo696 · 18 Jun 2012 at 08:41

Idleman said:
Looks promising.
Forgot to ask if you have OC`ed your Cpu.

Yeah I overclocked it to 4.1 GHz, but with quite a high voltage (1.57 Vcore and 1.45 CPU/NB). I thought it was quite stable as I never had crashes or bsod when running occt and temps were under 55° load. But not being able to boot is not normal... LOL

Idleman · 18 Jun 2012 at 08:55

As you did`nt mention you had made any changes in the bios, when i asked you, i assumed everything was at default settings. I would save your OC to a Profile and restore default settings. Then when you install your new Psu and it fires up OK, then load your profile and see if the problem still occurs.

bobo696 · 18 Jun 2012 at 09:05

Idleman said:
As you did`nt mention you had made any changes in the bios, when i asked you, i assumed everything was at default settings. I would save your OC to a Profile and restore default settings. Then when you install your new Psu and it fires up OK, then load your profile and see if the problem still occurs.

I mean, I overclocked it before the problem occured. when it occured, I did a clear CMOS, and put everything at default settings, but it still would not boot properly. I upped a little bit the voltage yesterday (it is now 1.40Vcore), and this morning it booted fine. I have not put back my overclock settings yet!

Idleman · 18 Jun 2012 at 09:21

OK, thats cleared that up.
Just have to wait to see what happens with the new Psu.

Snodge · 18 Jun 2012 at 11:26

I had the exact same problem a little bit more voltage on my CPU was exactly what it needed.

Will sort it hopefully

bobo696 · 18 Jun 2012 at 14:16

Ok, just put the new PSU and so far it works fine. I think it might be a voltage problem since it worked this morning after I put a little more voltage

Actually to tell the truth I'm a big noob, the clicking sound wasn't coming from the PSU, but from the fan just next to it

Idleman · 18 Jun 2012 at 14:21

bobo696 said:
Ok, just put the new PSU and so far it works fine. I think it might be a voltage problem since it worked this morning after I put a little more voltage

Actually to tell the truth I'm a big noob, the clicking sound wasn't coming from the PSU, but from the fan just next to it

What you like.

bobo696 · 19 Jun 2012 at 12:35

OK turns out I had a bigger problem. Today my pc shut down suddenly, and now it doesn't even powers up... When I push the power button, the led on the case lights up for a few milliseconds and lights off. The fans seem to start for an instant but stop almost instantaneously.
What's happening? Something is dead?