First up here are the specs of the machine:
Intel i7 4770K CPU
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK mobo
16GB DDR3 RAM
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G)
Crucial MX100 1TB SSD
2x Seagate 3TB HDD
HIS 6950 2GB GPU
Thermaltake 700W modular PSU
Zalman Z9 Plus midi case
Ok, so I put this altogether at the weekend. The HDD's, SSD's, PSU and GPU all came from an old build I had, so I know they are all working fine. I installed Win7, put all the Gigabyte drivers on the machine. Went it went to reboot after doing this, I noticed that the machine began behaving strangely. Things were slow to respond, I was having trouble installing the GPU drivers and sound card drivers. Eventually I hard powered down the machine. Booted it back up and before it could boot into Windows, it blue screened and rebooted. The BSOD was too quick for me to notice what the message was.
Eventually, I re-installed Win7. This time on a regular HDD from my gf's old laptop. It installed the Gigabyte drivers with no issues and even when rebooting going back into Windows, it didn't blue screen on me. So I thought this time, I will install the drivers on the SSD one at a time. It was after I installed the SATA controller drivers and did the reboot that the issue happened. I firmly believed this was to be the issue. But I also went into the BIOS and noticed there were these UEFI settings enabled. Never even heard of these before (been out of the game for 6 and a half years). So Put everything on Legacy instead of UEFI. It still made no difference. I couldn't do a Windows repair because it said it couldn't find Windows on the machine!!!
Anyway, what I find strange is that my gaming machine has the exact same make and model OCZ SSD and I installed Win7 on that machine with no hiccups or blue screens. It has an MSI X99a SLI Plus mobo and it has all the UEFI stuff enabled.
Should I resign myself to the fact that the SSD in the main computer might be goosed and get a new one? This morning before I left for work, I did another re-install of Win7 and only got as far as installing the LAN drivers. I'm going to install the SATA controllers after this when I get home and see if the issue re-occurs.
But in the meantime, please give me all your sage advice on what else I should be doing. I spent the better part of Sunday trying to sort this out and the gf was not happy that I didn't spend any time with her.
Intel i7 4770K CPU
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK mobo
16GB DDR3 RAM
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G)
Crucial MX100 1TB SSD
2x Seagate 3TB HDD
HIS 6950 2GB GPU
Thermaltake 700W modular PSU
Zalman Z9 Plus midi case
Ok, so I put this altogether at the weekend. The HDD's, SSD's, PSU and GPU all came from an old build I had, so I know they are all working fine. I installed Win7, put all the Gigabyte drivers on the machine. Went it went to reboot after doing this, I noticed that the machine began behaving strangely. Things were slow to respond, I was having trouble installing the GPU drivers and sound card drivers. Eventually I hard powered down the machine. Booted it back up and before it could boot into Windows, it blue screened and rebooted. The BSOD was too quick for me to notice what the message was.
Eventually, I re-installed Win7. This time on a regular HDD from my gf's old laptop. It installed the Gigabyte drivers with no issues and even when rebooting going back into Windows, it didn't blue screen on me. So I thought this time, I will install the drivers on the SSD one at a time. It was after I installed the SATA controller drivers and did the reboot that the issue happened. I firmly believed this was to be the issue. But I also went into the BIOS and noticed there were these UEFI settings enabled. Never even heard of these before (been out of the game for 6 and a half years). So Put everything on Legacy instead of UEFI. It still made no difference. I couldn't do a Windows repair because it said it couldn't find Windows on the machine!!!
Anyway, what I find strange is that my gaming machine has the exact same make and model OCZ SSD and I installed Win7 on that machine with no hiccups or blue screens. It has an MSI X99a SLI Plus mobo and it has all the UEFI stuff enabled.
Should I resign myself to the fact that the SSD in the main computer might be goosed and get a new one? This morning before I left for work, I did another re-install of Win7 and only got as far as installing the LAN drivers. I'm going to install the SATA controllers after this when I get home and see if the issue re-occurs.
But in the meantime, please give me all your sage advice on what else I should be doing. I spent the better part of Sunday trying to sort this out and the gf was not happy that I didn't spend any time with her.