My PC has been in it's current guise now for about a year except the graphics card which was changed in the summer. (Specs in my sig)
Yesterday morning I switched the PC on as normal only for the PC/BIOS to fail to detect my SSD drive. I changed cables but it made no difference and a red light/LED was now on constantly inside the drive. Some research on Crucials forum showed this was indeed a dead SSD and I'm in the process of RMA'ing it.
A quick trip to the local PC store later and I'd got a replacement HD and the process of re-installing everything began. That's when things went strange..
BIOS kept resetting.. The date would reset to early 2009 and any changes I made lost. The "OC Genie" would work at all and the PC stuck in a loop trying to boot over and over again. When I finally got the PC to boot and Windows installed the PC wouldn't detect my mouse unless I unplugged it and plugged it back in. The keyboard in the next USB port was fine however. Then there's the random BSOD's, game crashes, laggy mouse/keyboard inputs and so on..
Something clearly isn't right and I wondered if there'd been a power surge in the night?
I really don't know where to begin. It's a bit like getting a car back from a garage that's been in a big accident and repaired. It's never feels right ever again..
Yesterday morning I switched the PC on as normal only for the PC/BIOS to fail to detect my SSD drive. I changed cables but it made no difference and a red light/LED was now on constantly inside the drive. Some research on Crucials forum showed this was indeed a dead SSD and I'm in the process of RMA'ing it.
A quick trip to the local PC store later and I'd got a replacement HD and the process of re-installing everything began. That's when things went strange..
BIOS kept resetting.. The date would reset to early 2009 and any changes I made lost. The "OC Genie" would work at all and the PC stuck in a loop trying to boot over and over again. When I finally got the PC to boot and Windows installed the PC wouldn't detect my mouse unless I unplugged it and plugged it back in. The keyboard in the next USB port was fine however. Then there's the random BSOD's, game crashes, laggy mouse/keyboard inputs and so on..
Something clearly isn't right and I wondered if there'd been a power surge in the night?
I really don't know where to begin. It's a bit like getting a car back from a garage that's been in a big accident and repaired. It's never feels right ever again..
