Recently my pc had been getting several win8.1 BSODs with the error "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED", then even more recently my boot drive's win8.1 installation became so corrupted that it couldn't be repaired. Not only this but when I tried running a ubuntu live cd, it began booting erratically, maybe 1 in 5 tries would be somewhat successful, usually it would not leave the POST screen with the Dr.Debug leds on the mobo giving several error codes, but mostly "0d", which means "Problem related to memory, VGA card or other devices. Please clear CMOS, re-install the memory and VGA card, and remove other USB, PCI devices.".
RAM doesn't seem to be the issue as I swapped around ram with a known good set stick by stick, slot by slot, with no improvements. Cleared CMOS, and updated BIOS to 1.40. Then I removed everything unnecessary from the PC, removed GPU and went to integrated graphics, removed pci-e sata controller that ran one optical drive, unhooked all of my drives except the boot drive and one optical drive, and was successfully able to reformat and reinstall win8.1.
However now I have the gpu reinstalled, one of my platter drives running with the boot drive, and both optical drives plugged in. I do not have the separate sata controller installed.
I tried to boot with my third hdd installed and then it failed to boot with the error "BOOTMGR is missing", so I checked my bios and found that it no longer recognized the boot drive, though it did recognize the other two drives as well as the two optical drives.
I have tried switching ports and cables to no avail, and have tried hooking up the third hdd after windows has booted and received an instant BSOD "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED".
I have individually tested all hdds on a separate machine and found no problems.
I'm now down to suspecting a faulty mobo, any thoughts on this?
My rig:
AsRock 880g Pro3
AMD Phenom II X4 970
16gb G.Skill DDR3 1600
Sapphire HD6870
128gb OCZ Vertex 4
500gb seagate momentus xt
1 tb toshiba green drive
2 optical drives
Thanks in advance!
RAM doesn't seem to be the issue as I swapped around ram with a known good set stick by stick, slot by slot, with no improvements. Cleared CMOS, and updated BIOS to 1.40. Then I removed everything unnecessary from the PC, removed GPU and went to integrated graphics, removed pci-e sata controller that ran one optical drive, unhooked all of my drives except the boot drive and one optical drive, and was successfully able to reformat and reinstall win8.1.
However now I have the gpu reinstalled, one of my platter drives running with the boot drive, and both optical drives plugged in. I do not have the separate sata controller installed.
I tried to boot with my third hdd installed and then it failed to boot with the error "BOOTMGR is missing", so I checked my bios and found that it no longer recognized the boot drive, though it did recognize the other two drives as well as the two optical drives.
I have tried switching ports and cables to no avail, and have tried hooking up the third hdd after windows has booted and received an instant BSOD "CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED".
I have individually tested all hdds on a separate machine and found no problems.
I'm now down to suspecting a faulty mobo, any thoughts on this?
My rig:
AsRock 880g Pro3
AMD Phenom II X4 970
16gb G.Skill DDR3 1600
Sapphire HD6870
128gb OCZ Vertex 4
500gb seagate momentus xt
1 tb toshiba green drive
2 optical drives
Thanks in advance!
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