Problems with Kraken X72 installation

dog-man · 25 Sep 2019 at 12:40

Yesterday I installed the above and upon booting up everything seemed to be ok.

This morning the computer will not boot up. It will get as far as the windows logo then freezes.
Now I am stuck in an infinite loop where it will go into 'preparing for automatic repair' but freeze mid way.

There is power to the Kraken as it is lit up, I have checked all connections and all seem to be ok.

I was wondering, is there a flimsy polythene covering over the theram paste on the Kraken?
Obviously I removed the hard plastic shield before installing and it didn't look to me that there was any polythene cover but now I am wondering if there was.

Does anyone know for sure?

Webster · 25 Sep 2019 at 13:02

Go into the bios and check the temps in there? Should give you an indication if there is an issue with it shutting off due to temp.

dog-man · 25 Sep 2019 at 13:09

I will if possible but it freezes rather than shutting down.

Strange that it booted fine after first installing it yesterday.

dog-man · 25 Sep 2019 at 13:16

CPU is hovering around 35 c & motherboard is around 30 c.

Nothing wrong with that.
I shall carry on fiddling to find the issue.

Webster · 25 Sep 2019 at 13:25

Try running with just 1 hdd connected if you have a few, 1 ram stick, just the essentials

dog-man · 25 Sep 2019 at 13:27

that was my next step.

Ross Thomson · 25 Sep 2019 at 14:27

Maybe your MBR is corrupted.

dog-man · 25 Sep 2019 at 14:35

Yes, I suspect you are right.

Disconnected everything except C drive and still the same.

LuckyBenski · 25 Sep 2019 at 20:10

Is your memory ok? Try swapping sticks.

I got a motherboard/CPU/RAM combo used recently and it hangs if I run my finger over the RAM sticks. Loose connections can cause this. Another PC of mine has bent CPU socket pins. It runs fine but if I move the PC case it hangs.

dog-man · 26 Sep 2019 at 10:17

Memory seems ok as it all shows correctly in bios setup.

I tried repairing the MBR to no avail. Tried the C drive in another computer and no operating system found.

So, after copying all files to another drive on another computer I have had to resort to resetting windows 10, which is in progress now.
It will take me bloody ages to get everytrhing back to how it was but at least it looks like I have saved all the important files.

Strangely, I couldn't even boot from a USB drive with windows or a recovery program on it.

It's just finished and seems to be ok. Time will tell.