Really truely stuck now :(

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Yesterday I built my new gaming rig. I have built PCs before so I know my way around it.

The only items being reused from my old rig were the PSU, Graphics card GTX280, a Creative Sound card, and 4 Hard drives - 1 SSD and 3 HDD oh and the DVD writer.

The PC boots up fine and lights up I can get into bios everything seems fine and dandy. I then go to install windows 7 on my SSD. It takes a while but it installs ok and I get windows boot up. I install firefox and update the important updates I then reboot. After the reboot the system all seems to go to hell. It reboots back up with the DPS (Diagnosic Policy Service) not working so I cannot connect back to the internet. I had a look on the internet and couldnt really find any solution to fix it other than system restore.
I then do a system restore from when it was first installed, so before any updates or firefox was installed. The system then reboots upon boot up it just goes straight to the System recovery menu and tells me it cannot fix the error. It now wont let me even get to windows :(

So I decide to start again and re-install windows. I do the same process but it happens every time. I have re-installed windows 7 now like 6 times and the same error. It boots up once then as soon as I restart the system, even if I dont install or do anything as soon as I restart the DPS goes and everything kinda goes to hell after that.

I really have ran out of ideas. I know the SSD is working as it was running windows 7 fine on my last rig.

Any help would be greatly GREATLY appriciated.

Thanks
 
oddly I was in the process of doing that.

It seems to be working ok on the HDD, I have updated all the drivers and windows updates, ran it through a couple of cycles and still no problems.

That said though I have only the one Hard Drive plugged in at the moment. I have disconnected everything else.

Think it could be a problem with my SSD :(
Any ideas what could cause this ?
 
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did windows update installed chipset or controller driver for your motherboard

maybe the drivers via windows update for your motherboard doesnt like your SSD
 
I'm not sure about the chipset or controller drivers. But I mean last night I did serval builds. Sometimes I would let windows do its update sometimes I didnt. Either way I still ended up with the same problem.

At the moment, the PC seems to be running fine on a HDD. With all other hard drives and the SSD detached.

I'm gunna get it to a state I am happy with on the HDD, make a sytem restore and see what happens if I attach a couple of other HDDs.

It really is looking like it could have been a problem with my SSD which is crap :( But I just dont understand it was working fine yesterday on my old rig since I moved it over problems..
 
what motherboard is it?

is it possible you can reinstall win7 with SSD only, before you install any update, list down all drivers are available for your system? even capture a screenshot would be better
 
the motherboard is a Foxconn Bloodrage, I bought it from the MM here. It seems to be working fine and the chap I bought it off was using it and he said he had no problems.

I'm gunna try and get some screenys.

But at the moment it seems to be working flawlessly on the HDD

edit, yes the SSD was in the first Sata port
 
Please provide the full spec of system.

Working flawlessly on the HDD, is that still one drive or have you attached the other HDDs yet?

Did you reformat the SDD first before installing?
 
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System specs are:

Motherboard Bloodrage (full)
i7 930 (bloomfield) - 2.80gz
Gskill DDR3-2000 PC3-1600
GTX280 BFG OC
Creative Fatality sound card
OCZ 600W PSU
LG blu-ray reader/dvd writer.

No Overclocking done (yet :p)

I have 4 HDDs now in the system

a 320gb Samsung (which was an old HDD I used to installed windows 7 as mentioned above)
2x 1TB HDDs
1x 2TB HDDs

Working flawlessly on the HDD is correct, I have all 4 HDD's hooked up and it is all running fine.

With regards to the SSD I uninstalled Windows 7 then re-formatted the SSD during windows install. But I mean I did this like 6 times last night and after every install same problem.

I just dont understand how it can work first time on an old HDD....
 
like i have said, the auto update could install the chipset/controller driver that your SSD doesn't like

is the motherboard BIOS firmware up to date, i had to get my flash my BISO to latest to get my SSD working (different problem)
 
But I was getting the problem even if I made sure auto update was off.

Mobo bios firmware is up to date.
 
if its foxconn, that bios is probably old.

get onto tech support, keep badgering them, and they should cough up a newer version that they "forgot" to release

eg, the latest one for mine was released back in may 09, after one set of badgering they gave me one that wasnt listed on their site, that was dated july (bearing in mind this was feb 2010 when i was doing this...). some more badgering after this didnt fix it, they sent me a beta bios dated Nov which fixed most issues.

and i bet if i kept badgering to them about some issue, theres probably a newr one floating around in their labs...
 
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