- Feb 23, 2016
- 1
- 0
- 1,510
I have a MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition Motherboard(compatible with amd crossfire and Nvidia SLI), I bought from Fry's Electronics December 30th 2015.
Installed everything:
AMD FX Vishera 8350 8 core cpu
"Posted" Mobo
16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Ram @ 1600
H100i GTX Liquid CPU Cooler ( dual rad )
CrossfireX Asus Radeon R7 370 4Gig OC Edition(x2)
Corsair CX750M PSU
2 TB WDC HDD
1 TB WDC HDD
720 Gig Seagate HDD(extra storage)
240Gig Patriot Blast SSD (OS)
Windows 10 Pro OS( free upgrade from 7, and lost windows 7 pro disk, ~sigh~)
I only had one of the R7 370's to begin with, and on the 19th of Feb. purchased a second R7 370 to Crossfire.
Installed into second Pci-e slot, (a buddy of mine told me, that the SLI Krait edition motherboard was already compatible for CrossfireX connections, so a bridge was not necessary. tested with and without, same difference while it was working. PSU and power cord were off and unplugged during and installation, and grounded every 15 seconds to the PSU)
Got it to post, and updated graphics drivers, (to crimson, ugh) after an hour of tinkering with AMD and Crimson, then eventually giving up and going back to Catalyst, got the CrossfireX to enable. Enjoyed the benefits of seamless editing in Premiere Pro CS6, gaming (Blade n Soul, Black Ops 3, etc.) on ultra high settings for 13 glorious hours! Temps were steady at 40c-45c idle and 65c-72c(never let it get higher than 73c, I'm eccentric like that)
Alas, on the 20th of Febuary this year, I was playing a match of league of legends with my brother, when all of a sudden, after hotkey pressing my Bandicam video recording software,my pc shut down. It reboot twice ( it stopped itself once and reset itself after motherboard splash screen), then on third boot, went to start up repair. I restarted, went into BIOS, and it was only registering the top pci-e slotted GPU, I shut down, unplugged, grounded myself, and switched out the second GPU with the first one, and left it at one GPU, to test if it was the GPU. It wasnt, it recognized it on the motherboard(because i had all drivers installed at the time). I then, shut down, grounded, and installed the second card into the second PCI-e slot. Powered up, into a boot loop. it asked me about an automatic repair tool. However pc would shut down before i could progress into doing a repair. It got to the point where, after 2 hours of trying different configurations of RAM sticks, different PSU's, ( working ) and a single different GPU ( a Radeon 7850 2gig i had lying around), it would simply not get past the mobo splash screen. I ended up giving in (lack of a second pc to test anything on), after waiting about 20 minutes for everything to cool down. (I'm sure the pc wasn't hot, i'm just anal like that), all it was doing was a constant boot loop, then into a windows recovery page which until i gave in and repair tool'd, wasnt utilizing alot of resources from cpu or gpu, i figured. but when i finally used the "automatic repair tool" it didnt shut down during the first 47% of the repair, so i figured it'd be good to take a nap(as i'd been up for a while tinkering with this problem already, with it also being the end of the day, and i had woken up early that morning, I WAS TIRED.
I woke up 2.5 hours later, went to look at the progress of the repair tool, to find a frozen screen saying "unable to install windows, please restart to install windows."
I cried a little.
What happened?
I shut down via power button, restarted. Whatever that did, erased my HDD of its OS,(noticed in motherboard bios, that the drive was empty, when before it had the OS, and quite a bit of data on the HDD) attempting to reinstall it? I talked to the same buddy that said the 970A SLI Krait was crossfireX compatible, and he said that the OS HDD that was now empty..., was about 6-7 years old. So was it a HDD going bad that messed up my mobo? A mobo PCI-e slot malfunction or a shorted slot on the 970A? The amd 8350 CPU is fine, or so i think, no bent pins, no transistors bulging on board (that i can see). I tried returning the Mobo and CPU(just in case) back to fry's, and due to it being longer than 15 days, they wont accept it( even when their site says 15 days, or defective product)
I have an ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen 3 with an I3 2120@3.3GHz spare board and cpu laying around, and i plugged everything, even old OS HDD that mysteriously wiped itself (it has Windows.old file in it) put a copy of Windows 7 Home edition on the Patriot Blast SSD, and it booted right up. Drivers updated and RAM re acclimated from factory underclocking 1333 to 1600, and she runs like a beast( albeit, fans are WAY louder/faster than they were, but i'm also using the H100i GTX liquid CPU cooler on it. Any assistance in this would be great. But my main concern is the MSI 970A SLI Krait Motherboard. Do i have just a fancy paperweight now? Or do i have fix for my situation? Alhough i have no other test bench or spare amd anything, really, to test the mobo on, will have to breadboard with a seperate psu. i may have a 350W, would that power a 970A krait mobo, 1 of the R7 370s and a 4g stick of corsair vengenace ram without pulling too much from the PSU? any help will be greatly appreciated, and will answer all questions as best as i can. Not 100% tech saavy, but with a little nudge in the right direction, i can get myself places. Just need that little nudge now. ^_^
Installed everything:
AMD FX Vishera 8350 8 core cpu
"Posted" Mobo
16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance Ram @ 1600
H100i GTX Liquid CPU Cooler ( dual rad )
CrossfireX Asus Radeon R7 370 4Gig OC Edition(x2)
Corsair CX750M PSU
2 TB WDC HDD
1 TB WDC HDD
720 Gig Seagate HDD(extra storage)
240Gig Patriot Blast SSD (OS)
Windows 10 Pro OS( free upgrade from 7, and lost windows 7 pro disk, ~sigh~)
I only had one of the R7 370's to begin with, and on the 19th of Feb. purchased a second R7 370 to Crossfire.
Installed into second Pci-e slot, (a buddy of mine told me, that the SLI Krait edition motherboard was already compatible for CrossfireX connections, so a bridge was not necessary. tested with and without, same difference while it was working. PSU and power cord were off and unplugged during and installation, and grounded every 15 seconds to the PSU)
Got it to post, and updated graphics drivers, (to crimson, ugh) after an hour of tinkering with AMD and Crimson, then eventually giving up and going back to Catalyst, got the CrossfireX to enable. Enjoyed the benefits of seamless editing in Premiere Pro CS6, gaming (Blade n Soul, Black Ops 3, etc.) on ultra high settings for 13 glorious hours! Temps were steady at 40c-45c idle and 65c-72c(never let it get higher than 73c, I'm eccentric like that)
Alas, on the 20th of Febuary this year, I was playing a match of league of legends with my brother, when all of a sudden, after hotkey pressing my Bandicam video recording software,my pc shut down. It reboot twice ( it stopped itself once and reset itself after motherboard splash screen), then on third boot, went to start up repair. I restarted, went into BIOS, and it was only registering the top pci-e slotted GPU, I shut down, unplugged, grounded myself, and switched out the second GPU with the first one, and left it at one GPU, to test if it was the GPU. It wasnt, it recognized it on the motherboard(because i had all drivers installed at the time). I then, shut down, grounded, and installed the second card into the second PCI-e slot. Powered up, into a boot loop. it asked me about an automatic repair tool. However pc would shut down before i could progress into doing a repair. It got to the point where, after 2 hours of trying different configurations of RAM sticks, different PSU's, ( working ) and a single different GPU ( a Radeon 7850 2gig i had lying around), it would simply not get past the mobo splash screen. I ended up giving in (lack of a second pc to test anything on), after waiting about 20 minutes for everything to cool down. (I'm sure the pc wasn't hot, i'm just anal like that), all it was doing was a constant boot loop, then into a windows recovery page which until i gave in and repair tool'd, wasnt utilizing alot of resources from cpu or gpu, i figured. but when i finally used the "automatic repair tool" it didnt shut down during the first 47% of the repair, so i figured it'd be good to take a nap(as i'd been up for a while tinkering with this problem already, with it also being the end of the day, and i had woken up early that morning, I WAS TIRED.
I woke up 2.5 hours later, went to look at the progress of the repair tool, to find a frozen screen saying "unable to install windows, please restart to install windows."
I cried a little.
What happened?
I shut down via power button, restarted. Whatever that did, erased my HDD of its OS,(noticed in motherboard bios, that the drive was empty, when before it had the OS, and quite a bit of data on the HDD) attempting to reinstall it? I talked to the same buddy that said the 970A SLI Krait was crossfireX compatible, and he said that the OS HDD that was now empty..., was about 6-7 years old. So was it a HDD going bad that messed up my mobo? A mobo PCI-e slot malfunction or a shorted slot on the 970A? The amd 8350 CPU is fine, or so i think, no bent pins, no transistors bulging on board (that i can see). I tried returning the Mobo and CPU(just in case) back to fry's, and due to it being longer than 15 days, they wont accept it( even when their site says 15 days, or defective product)
I have an ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen 3 with an I3 2120@3.3GHz spare board and cpu laying around, and i plugged everything, even old OS HDD that mysteriously wiped itself (it has Windows.old file in it) put a copy of Windows 7 Home edition on the Patriot Blast SSD, and it booted right up. Drivers updated and RAM re acclimated from factory underclocking 1333 to 1600, and she runs like a beast( albeit, fans are WAY louder/faster than they were, but i'm also using the H100i GTX liquid CPU cooler on it. Any assistance in this would be great. But my main concern is the MSI 970A SLI Krait Motherboard. Do i have just a fancy paperweight now? Or do i have fix for my situation? Alhough i have no other test bench or spare amd anything, really, to test the mobo on, will have to breadboard with a seperate psu. i may have a 350W, would that power a 970A krait mobo, 1 of the R7 370s and a 4g stick of corsair vengenace ram without pulling too much from the PSU? any help will be greatly appreciated, and will answer all questions as best as i can. Not 100% tech saavy, but with a little nudge in the right direction, i can get myself places. Just need that little nudge now. ^_^
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram