My very recent Personal Build, has the problem:
Intel i7 3770k (stock cooled)
Asus Maximus V Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB 1866MHz
Corsair GS800 PSU
Corsair Carbide 500R Black case
Seagate Barracuda Momentus Thin 320GB Hard Drive
BenQ XL2420T 3D 120Hz 2ms Gaming Monitor
[Upgrades in the next 3months include a GTX 680,H110, Corsair Force GT 90GB SSD and 8GB more RAM]
The problem is that I can’t get my build to boot into Windows since I built it 3 weeks ago. I've literally tried everything I can think of! So basically, it doesn't matter if it's a 32bit or 64bit OS, windows or ubuntu, nothing starts up after the OS Splashscreen, it just goes blank, and windows tells me that it encountered a problem w/ my computer and must restart.
• I've flashed to the latest bios (1604).
• Have the hard drive option on IDE (since I'm using HDD).
• Using a 3gb/s cable in a 3gb/s SATA port.
• Tried 5 DIFFERENT HARD DRIVES, which all work perfectly on other computers.
• Mem-tested the RAM with the Kubuntu tools, each stick of ram at a time and then together as well, making sure they're plugged into the pair of dimms furthest away, also tried the pair of dimm slots closer to the cpu too, and tested/overclocked the RAM in my brother's pc without any problems.
• Taken out the stock cooler out, got arctic silver, cleaned everything up and applied new compound with stock cooler, still temps never go above 29 degrees Celsius in the cold London climate! (even though temps w/ stock compound was just 3 degrees higher).
• I've gone into system agent, disabled/enabled iGPU Multi Monitor Support, set primary display to iGPU.
• I've disabled Turbo on the CPU so the target is 3500MHz instead of 3900MHz.
• I've used the ROG Buttons to reset the BIOS and switch to the second bios on the motherboard.
• I've reset RAM freq to 1333MHz, and used the Corsair recommended timings, I’ve also increased the freq to 1600 and 1866, which all work, but the initial problem with the boot persists.
CMD8GX3M2A1866C9
DDR3-1866 Dominator Platinum (9-10-9-27) 1.5V
8GB Kit (2 x 4GB)
9-10-9-27-2T 1.5
Everything I did above has had 0 effect on the problem, and didn’t help me at all to find the culprit. Every fresh install of windows/ubuntu from a cd or usb or even a hard drive w/ pre intalled OS, 32 or 64 bit still won't boot after windows screen says getting devices ready. Then it restarts, says that it’s encountered a problem, and restarts like 2 more times, then the hard drive activity just goes off, and the HDMI signal stops.
All the copies of windows/ubuntu work 100% perfectly on 4 other computers I've installed and tested them on. I've tried Win7 Home 32 and 64, Win7 Ultimate, Win8 and Win 8 PRO all in both 32 and 64 bit, Ubuntu and KUbuntu, EVEN windows XP Home. I’ve checked the Hard Drives for errors, formatted them, reinstalled windows, but nothing seems to change the problem in it's slightest.
As a side note, I've got the monitor connected through the mobo’s HDMI to the BenQ XL2420T, I've tested the HDMI cable a million times, changed to a new HDMI cable and changed to my brother's monitor to test with display port and HDMI leads, and used my TV with HDMI, so there is definitely not a problem w/ cables/monitor. It’s also definitely not the motherboard standoffs since the 500r had all 9 in there when it came, and I have all 9 screws in the motherboard to hold it as well. The Motherboard, CPU, Power Supply, RAM all seem to be working as they should. If I was to suspect anything it might be the iGPU setting, or some other random motherboard settings or the RAM, but I’ve done so much testing and tweaking in every direction, and yet nothing has flagged up as defective, so I don't want to start RMA'ing stuff that does in fact work correctly.
I don’t even understand how most of the things I described would affect the OS boot, since every post from the first time I switched ON the PC has been successful and the mobo has the code AO and 1 beep, which, from what I understand, has passed on the boot for the hard drive to deal with. I know this is the the longest post ever, but hey this is every piece of info I have. Any help would seriously be appreciated on a magnitudinal level.
Intel i7 3770k (stock cooled)
Asus Maximus V Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB 1866MHz
Corsair GS800 PSU
Corsair Carbide 500R Black case
Seagate Barracuda Momentus Thin 320GB Hard Drive
BenQ XL2420T 3D 120Hz 2ms Gaming Monitor
[Upgrades in the next 3months include a GTX 680,H110, Corsair Force GT 90GB SSD and 8GB more RAM]
The problem is that I can’t get my build to boot into Windows since I built it 3 weeks ago. I've literally tried everything I can think of! So basically, it doesn't matter if it's a 32bit or 64bit OS, windows or ubuntu, nothing starts up after the OS Splashscreen, it just goes blank, and windows tells me that it encountered a problem w/ my computer and must restart.
• I've flashed to the latest bios (1604).
• Have the hard drive option on IDE (since I'm using HDD).
• Using a 3gb/s cable in a 3gb/s SATA port.
• Tried 5 DIFFERENT HARD DRIVES, which all work perfectly on other computers.
• Mem-tested the RAM with the Kubuntu tools, each stick of ram at a time and then together as well, making sure they're plugged into the pair of dimms furthest away, also tried the pair of dimm slots closer to the cpu too, and tested/overclocked the RAM in my brother's pc without any problems.
• Taken out the stock cooler out, got arctic silver, cleaned everything up and applied new compound with stock cooler, still temps never go above 29 degrees Celsius in the cold London climate! (even though temps w/ stock compound was just 3 degrees higher).
• I've gone into system agent, disabled/enabled iGPU Multi Monitor Support, set primary display to iGPU.
• I've disabled Turbo on the CPU so the target is 3500MHz instead of 3900MHz.
• I've used the ROG Buttons to reset the BIOS and switch to the second bios on the motherboard.
• I've reset RAM freq to 1333MHz, and used the Corsair recommended timings, I’ve also increased the freq to 1600 and 1866, which all work, but the initial problem with the boot persists.
CMD8GX3M2A1866C9
DDR3-1866 Dominator Platinum (9-10-9-27) 1.5V
8GB Kit (2 x 4GB)
9-10-9-27-2T 1.5
Everything I did above has had 0 effect on the problem, and didn’t help me at all to find the culprit. Every fresh install of windows/ubuntu from a cd or usb or even a hard drive w/ pre intalled OS, 32 or 64 bit still won't boot after windows screen says getting devices ready. Then it restarts, says that it’s encountered a problem, and restarts like 2 more times, then the hard drive activity just goes off, and the HDMI signal stops.
All the copies of windows/ubuntu work 100% perfectly on 4 other computers I've installed and tested them on. I've tried Win7 Home 32 and 64, Win7 Ultimate, Win8 and Win 8 PRO all in both 32 and 64 bit, Ubuntu and KUbuntu, EVEN windows XP Home. I’ve checked the Hard Drives for errors, formatted them, reinstalled windows, but nothing seems to change the problem in it's slightest.
As a side note, I've got the monitor connected through the mobo’s HDMI to the BenQ XL2420T, I've tested the HDMI cable a million times, changed to a new HDMI cable and changed to my brother's monitor to test with display port and HDMI leads, and used my TV with HDMI, so there is definitely not a problem w/ cables/monitor. It’s also definitely not the motherboard standoffs since the 500r had all 9 in there when it came, and I have all 9 screws in the motherboard to hold it as well. The Motherboard, CPU, Power Supply, RAM all seem to be working as they should. If I was to suspect anything it might be the iGPU setting, or some other random motherboard settings or the RAM, but I’ve done so much testing and tweaking in every direction, and yet nothing has flagged up as defective, so I don't want to start RMA'ing stuff that does in fact work correctly.
I don’t even understand how most of the things I described would affect the OS boot, since every post from the first time I switched ON the PC has been successful and the mobo has the code AO and 1 beep, which, from what I understand, has passed on the boot for the hard drive to deal with. I know this is the the longest post ever, but hey this is every piece of info I have. Any help would seriously be appreciated on a magnitudinal level.
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