MSI P67A-C45 Random blue screens in Windows 7 & XP

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Hello All,

I recently bought a MSI P67A-C45 motherboard and a Core i5 2500k for my new build. I put it all together installed XP and then Win 7. All seemed to be running well and then the PC crashed (blue screened). I downloaded and installed all the latest drivers but the crash es seemed to become more frequent.

I eventually gave up with the windows 7 install and booted XP. Again all seemed to be running well. I had not installed any drivers as this seemed to make things worse on the 7 install but eventually it did crash not a blue screen though.

So I installed the drivers and now xp crashes with blue screen errors sometimes at boot up or shortly after boot.

I tried updating the bios to 1.5 and tried to reinstall but now I cant even get through the XP setup as it either blue screens or hangs.

I'm running the PC with the stock cooled (will change) and temps are 55 max an Corsair 650w PSU, Samsung F1 Sata, Kingston Generic DDR3 2 x 2gb, Gigabyte GTX460.

I have order some more RAM, a dual channel kit as this is the only thing i can think of but have tried booting and installing with 1 stick in at a time to see if 1 is faulty. I did also runn the memory test in the bios with both dimm in and they passed???

Sorry for the essay but I'm extremely fustrated with the whole thing as i was looking forward to the new kit and it cost me £300 quid for the board and processor. If the new memory doesn't resolve the problem it can only be the board I'm thinking?

Any idea's anyone? Anyone having similar problems?

Any help would be greatly appreciated?
 
First thing to check is that the RAM is running at the corrext settings in the BIOS, especially the voltage.

If youve installed XP and 7 onto the same HDD they could be conflicting, id format it and go with Windows 7.
 
Thanks for the reply MeatLoaf. I have'nt checked the RAM settings in the bios just assumed they would be set automatically, will check that.

The OS's are installed on the same HD but on separate partitions. Will try Win 7 on it's own.

Thanks for the ideas as I said I'm all out.

David
 
I have this motherboard, while ive not been experiencing any bsods, the system has locked up or restarted during boot up if the ram wasnt getting enough volts. best thing to do is clear cmos, make sure bios is at defaults and try changing the ram to its rated voltage, and if you want enter the timings. there is a bios version 1.7 just released too with newer intel firmware that you could try.

also there is a livecd 'winki' on the drivercd, try booting into that and see if its stable.
 
Got my new memory today Kingston hyperx DDR3 Dual channel kit. Set viltage to 1.65 but made no difference still can't load XP. Have'nt tried Win 7 yet but don't hold much hope.

The board must be faulty? Will try Win 7 and anoth HD and then RMA.
 
Hi there,
I bought the same board & CPU (although with Kingston RAM) and used an old laptop HD I had lying around to test it out. The HDD had Win7 on it but after some 'found new hardware' (it previously ran on a T7100), driver installations and restarts, it all seemed to run just fine... I had it running overnight on some stuff and it all turned out nicely.

Sadly, the machine is not meant for me but for my dad and he has some old hardware that only works on WindowsXP (drivers). So I plugged in a new disk (500Gb SATA), popped in the WinXP_SP2 cd-rom and tried to run the setup. It seems to load fine right up to the "Starting Windows..." on the bottom line of the screen and then BSOD's on me complaining about the harddisks.
I've tried to pre-format the disk (both in NTFS & FAT) using HIRENS boot-cd using both a Partition Mgr (didn't help) and using the Mini-XP (it sees the disks and allows DiskMgmt to work on them so I guess XP is not at fault here) but when I run the WinXP setup again, it simply fails again right after loading all the drivers/components.
=> I've considered trying to use the F6 option to load a disk-driver (which???) but that point is moot as it seems to require a floppy, which isn't supported by the mobo...

How did you get through the WinXP ? Do I need to 'slipstream' the SandyBridge drivers into the WinXP cd-rom somehow ? (heard the term before but never did anything like that ...)

Thx.
 
Are the sata ports set to AHCI in the bios, This will cause problems with XP as it will need seperate drivers to operate correctly. These are available from the intel site.
 
Actually no, I have them on IDE mode...
Someone said modern mobo's often have the option to emulate a USB stick as a floppy, I'll give that at try...
One other option would be to install XP on a different machine on the HDD, then add all the drivers (.inf files etc) and then move the disk to the new mobo. I only wonder how well this will work regarding the HAL being installed... (=> install on P4 (single core), then hope it will run on a totally different chipset with i5 (quad core) !?! oh well, worth a try I guess...)
 
I had this problem with the board as well, random blue screens when I was just browsing.
I've just updated bios to 1.7 and it's ok now (although only been using a few hours). One thing i did note was that the auto ram setting on the 1.5 bios set my Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz to 1.35 volts which might have been the problem.
 
hi

Could someone give me some information.

I have a shuttle computer, I am having problems with the grapthics, I have tried onboard grapthics, and the PCI-E card. The monitor flashs when I plug up the monitor too it. I have allready tried the trick where you turn the shuttle on and turn it back off again, and remove the power cable as you got to turn it on and leave it off for 30 seconds, but then it still wont respond.

Anybody else have or had the same problem and could tell me why this happens.
And how to fix it.

goth1986
 
Hello all,

Just thought I'd post the solution to my problem (I think). I sent the board back to OCUK and it was returned as 'no fault found'. So I sent the 2500K processor back not holding much hope and it turns out that it was faulty!

Never had a faulty CPU before. I though they were tested in the factory. Intels quality control can't be very good. So received the replacement today, hence the 'i think', so will put it all back together well untill I have to send the board back to be replaced because of the chipset issue, LOL.

Thanks to everyone the has tried to help, i was much appreciated.

All the best,

David.
 
For those interested : I started over from an old WinXP cd I had (no SP whatsoever), used nLite to add SP3 to the setup as well as the Sandy Bridge drivers. Wrote it to a CD and it installed without a single problem...
FWIW : rock-stable although I'll admit I haven't done much more with it yet otherwise than installing updates & software... (which goes terribly fast at times =)
 
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