BSOD at random intervals, no specific pattern even after clean install

Britton30 said:

OK, in his first Essenbe said to set the CDROM as the first boot device. This shows it is the HDD.

Try changing the !st device to CDROM, 2nd to HDD.

You should havs the SSD attached to SATA1 and the CDROM IDE connected so it is the Master, usually the very end of the ribbon cable.

Right. I've altered the priority as suggested. Still no luck.

So shall I swap the SATA1 and 2 around and move the slave to master?

Britton30 said:

Yessir. Then in Boot order, set the HDD order so the SSD is first.

I swapped the SATA connections over but not the master/slave.

There doesn't seem to be a way to change the HDD order.

essenbe said:

Try going to boot options and select hard disk and press enter and see if you have the option to chose which hard drive.

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It's not possible, unfortunately.

Right. Cables swapped over but SATA order hasn't swapped - suggests I have done it wrong. I merely swapped the positions of the bunch of wires reading 'SATA' on the head between the HDDs.

I've set up the smart monitoring, too. Still the black screen with cursor.

So, do I attempt to make the CD Master, too or not?

Boot Device Priority:

1st - CDROM
2nd - Hard Disk
3rd - Disabled
4th - Disabled

HDD
Sata 1 - Samsung HD103SJ
Sata 2 - OCZ-AGILITY3

CDROM
1st Slave - HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B

Boot Settings Configuration
Case Open Warning - Enabled
Quick Boot - Enabled
Boot Up Floppy Seek - Disabled
Bootup Num-Lock - On
Typematic Rate Setting - Disabled
x Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) - 6
Typematic Delay (Msec) - 250
OS Select for DRAM > 64MB - Non-OS2
Full Screen LOGO - Enabled
Halt On - All Errors