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About a year ago I had a spider take up house keeping in my case and his/her little web drove 4 gigs of my ram crazy. When they say any thing can happen; it's true.
About a year ago I had a spider take up house keeping in my case and his/her little web drove 4 gigs of my ram crazy. When they say any thing can happen; it's true.
I am coming in here very late, so I hope I am not butting in rudely, but I thought after reading through the posts, that the OP changes items in the BIOS & then "loads optimised defaults". This will cancel any changes he has made & return the settings to the default which he doesn't want. For example in one post he set it to AHCI & then loaded optimised defaults which would probably immediately return it to IDE.
When he makes a change he should just use the "Save & Exit" function, which will save his changes.
My bud came by. He's been in the IT business for at least 20 years. He tried all kinds of things while I sat there telling him 'tried that, doesn't work'. After 3 hours he plugged in a USB DVD drive that he brought with him. He had to mess with it for awhile boot it booted up Win 7 pro and it is now installed on the SSD.
He was having the same problems I was having w/the SSD. He moved the SSD to port 1 and got rid of my DVD drive.
We did align/clean the SSD and set the BIOS to AHCI.
I need to put the board back in the tower and I still need to move install the spinners. No idea what's going to happen when I do that. This time I will install the HD that does not have Win 7 on it.
He couldn't say what was wrong with the system but his possible theories were
1) Port 0 is hosed
2) DVD drive is hose
He said 'go ahead and put the SSD back in port 0, it should work just fine.'
I guess I will leave it out of the case and just install the 400mb of updates while my fam and I watch a movie.
Suppose I'll put the SSD back to port 0 unless someone suggests that I shouldn't.
Does you motherboard manual tell you what has control of Port 0 and what speed Port 0 is. I have some Sata Ports that are Intel and some are Marvell controlled.
You could of had two problems.
I never assume their is just one problem.
Make sure the SSD drive remains set first to boot in BIOS setup.
If adding any HD's cause problems, make sure they are not marked Active or held an OS System files before. If so Mark Partition as Inactive and then if necessary move the data off to wipe the HD with Diskpart Clean Command to remove old boot code.
Most likely your DVD drive was interfering.
I ran win update. It did 107 or so updates. When I restarted I was told to register Win. Well, I don't have a key for this disc. I clicked 'later' and went into updates to install what was left. IE11 was the only one left, I hit install and it BSOD. Service exception error.
Bug Check 0x3B: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
The SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION bug check has a value of 0x0000003B. This indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code.
I restarted, system repair....BSOD c0000221 unkown hard error. systemroot/system32/ntdll.dll
I guess this is some sort error related to this being an illegal copy of windows. If so, what can I do about it? I assume I'll have to call MS at some point and plead my case.
For the record, this install was from an .iso downloaded from digital river. I have a legitimate reason for doing this but don't feel like typing it out right now.
Activate WIn7 with a Product Key for the installed version at Computer>Properties.