Hello everyone. I've been roaming on these forums for awhile and finally made an account to talk with you guys.
I recently built my own computer with a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard and Intel X25-M 80GB solid state drive. I finished setting up my rig with the SSD SATA cable connected to the first 6GB SATA port of the southbridge. I installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and some of Gigabyte's programs from the CD that came with it such as @BIOS, EasyTune 6 and Norton Antivirus. I flashed the bios according to @BIOS.
Everything was working fine but I did not feel satisfied with the SSD's performance. It was not loading as quickly as I'd thought it would so I went to the CMOS Setup Utility to try and optimize the performance on the SSD. I went to the Integrated Peripherals section and changed OnChip SATA Type, OnChip Sata Port4/5 Type and Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode all to AHCI. I saved and exited the setup then restarted the computer.
I logged into my account and the windows desktop was loading. Immediately I was greeted with error messages of failed loading for some of Gigabyte's utility programs I've installed. I acknowledged and clicked okay on them. I proceeded to load Starcraft II beta but after the loading bar was completed the game failed to load. I tried from other .exe files but ended with the same result. Then out of nowhere the screen became grainy with random colors and the blue screen of death flashed (I couldn't read it since it only stayed on screen for a second) and restarted my computer. I heard some an odd noise from the computer tower at that time like a fan speeding up.
When the computer restarted it went to the usual 'fail to load option screen' and I loaded in safe-mode. This mode allowed me to load Windows 7 with no problem. I tried loading it normally and again the same errors happened, this time with the BSOD occuring after all the error messages showed up.
I went back to the CMOS Setup Utility screen and chose the Load Optimized Defaults option in hoping to revert everything back to normal. I loaded Windows 7 and again I got the BSOD.
Does anyone have any idea why Windows is crashing? My guess is maybe the SSD files were destroyed, I should plug the SSD into a 3GB SATA port, and/or misconfigured the BIOS setup. As of now I'm going to try and install Windows again to see if that would fix things.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I recently built my own computer with a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard and Intel X25-M 80GB solid state drive. I finished setting up my rig with the SSD SATA cable connected to the first 6GB SATA port of the southbridge. I installed Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and some of Gigabyte's programs from the CD that came with it such as @BIOS, EasyTune 6 and Norton Antivirus. I flashed the bios according to @BIOS.
Everything was working fine but I did not feel satisfied with the SSD's performance. It was not loading as quickly as I'd thought it would so I went to the CMOS Setup Utility to try and optimize the performance on the SSD. I went to the Integrated Peripherals section and changed OnChip SATA Type, OnChip Sata Port4/5 Type and Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode all to AHCI. I saved and exited the setup then restarted the computer.
I logged into my account and the windows desktop was loading. Immediately I was greeted with error messages of failed loading for some of Gigabyte's utility programs I've installed. I acknowledged and clicked okay on them. I proceeded to load Starcraft II beta but after the loading bar was completed the game failed to load. I tried from other .exe files but ended with the same result. Then out of nowhere the screen became grainy with random colors and the blue screen of death flashed (I couldn't read it since it only stayed on screen for a second) and restarted my computer. I heard some an odd noise from the computer tower at that time like a fan speeding up.
When the computer restarted it went to the usual 'fail to load option screen' and I loaded in safe-mode. This mode allowed me to load Windows 7 with no problem. I tried loading it normally and again the same errors happened, this time with the BSOD occuring after all the error messages showed up.
I went back to the CMOS Setup Utility screen and chose the Load Optimized Defaults option in hoping to revert everything back to normal. I loaded Windows 7 and again I got the BSOD.
Does anyone have any idea why Windows is crashing? My guess is maybe the SSD files were destroyed, I should plug the SSD into a 3GB SATA port, and/or misconfigured the BIOS setup. As of now I'm going to try and install Windows again to see if that would fix things.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.