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Is it my motherboard?!?!
I have been running windows 8 for a while now without problems. Then all the sudden I could not update my Radeon video card/chipset drivers. When I installed the catalyst software suite, the system would just restart and win8 would restart like normal but without the ccc drivers. Tried it in safe mode too. figured I would wipe the ssd and put win7 back on. Figured I would update both BIOS and SSD firmware, booted back into win8 to check, all firmware updates seems to be ok.
Wiped the ssd, preparing to do fresh install of win7 x64. But now I am getting BSOD when installing the OS. I tried switching sata ports from AHCI to IDE, I tried just using the AMD ports, and just the GSATA ports. When booting from win7 cd it takes a long time to load. The blue start screen comes up for about 10 minutes before asking "English, US" before getting to the install option. Then it says "Setup is Starting.." for about 10 minutes. All the while the cdrom is silent and then kicks into gear and the setup continues. Then, I can see the ssd, format it, win7 starts installing. It copies the windows files in a sec and then hangs on Expanding windows files..., then that starts and takes forever to get to 100% and as soon at that happens, BSOD. 0X0000003B, fltrmgr.sys. system_service_exception.
I'm guessing something went wrong with the chipset, (either north or southbridge). This explains why updating ATI ccc didn't work, and why this is happening.
Anyone else? I would hate to get a new mobo and go through all that work to hook it up and have the same thing happen. Help!
BSOD pic is attached