I recently built a new system with the following:
Asus P7P55D
i7 860
G.Skill 4x 2GB 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 cas 1.50V
Radeon 5770
WD Caviar Black 1TB
WD Caviar Green 1TB
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
I've been having occasional blue-screens or hard crashes, and am having trouble figuring out what the issue is, as they're seemingly random but always happen at the same point in start-up. So i'm unable to reproduce the problem whenever I want.
The first time it crashed was after I had installed Windows on the Caviar Black 1TB, and added the 1TB Green to the system. I got a blue screen one or two times, so I unplugged the caviar green and it booted to windows recovery mode. I restarted and got into normal windows, then turned off the computer and tried adding the caviar green again - this time it worked fine.
I got a similar crash when i plugged in an external hard drive while the computer was off. During startup, i was getting (and still get) a message that the JMicron controller did not detect any drives. This is after a quick flash of other text that i am not quick enough to read, so maybe the no drive found was referring to one of the empty SATA ports, i'm not sure.
So I'm thinking it's a problem with adding new drives, but then I had the same issue after ZERO hardware changes, and on boot-up, sometimes before the ASUS splash screen, it will display a mostly light-blue colored screen with yellow and green dashes that look like it was corrupted or each horizontal row of pixels was shifted left or right - i'll see if i can get a photo of it if it happens again.
I then updated the BIOS to the newest version, but after that, on one start-up, I get a message saying the SixEngine had a problem, and that windows would restart in 60 seconds.
Because of the bizarre corrupted-looking image before the normal ASUS splash screen, and the message from SixEngine, i'm suspecting the motherboard, but is it a hardware or a software issue?
ALL crashes and blue screens (with the exception of the sixEngine windows automatic restart) occurred at the same moment during start-up: Right at the end of the windows loading screen (with the 4 colored dots that form the windows logo) when the screen normally goes black and you see the cursor in the middle of the screen. On restart, i get a message saying windows failed to load, and a choice to start normally or open the recovery mode.
Any ideas? Is it worth re-formatting?
Thanks everyone.
Asus P7P55D
i7 860
G.Skill 4x 2GB 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 cas 1.50V
Radeon 5770
WD Caviar Black 1TB
WD Caviar Green 1TB
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
I've been having occasional blue-screens or hard crashes, and am having trouble figuring out what the issue is, as they're seemingly random but always happen at the same point in start-up. So i'm unable to reproduce the problem whenever I want.
The first time it crashed was after I had installed Windows on the Caviar Black 1TB, and added the 1TB Green to the system. I got a blue screen one or two times, so I unplugged the caviar green and it booted to windows recovery mode. I restarted and got into normal windows, then turned off the computer and tried adding the caviar green again - this time it worked fine.
I got a similar crash when i plugged in an external hard drive while the computer was off. During startup, i was getting (and still get) a message that the JMicron controller did not detect any drives. This is after a quick flash of other text that i am not quick enough to read, so maybe the no drive found was referring to one of the empty SATA ports, i'm not sure.
So I'm thinking it's a problem with adding new drives, but then I had the same issue after ZERO hardware changes, and on boot-up, sometimes before the ASUS splash screen, it will display a mostly light-blue colored screen with yellow and green dashes that look like it was corrupted or each horizontal row of pixels was shifted left or right - i'll see if i can get a photo of it if it happens again.
I then updated the BIOS to the newest version, but after that, on one start-up, I get a message saying the SixEngine had a problem, and that windows would restart in 60 seconds.
Because of the bizarre corrupted-looking image before the normal ASUS splash screen, and the message from SixEngine, i'm suspecting the motherboard, but is it a hardware or a software issue?
ALL crashes and blue screens (with the exception of the sixEngine windows automatic restart) occurred at the same moment during start-up: Right at the end of the windows loading screen (with the 4 colored dots that form the windows logo) when the screen normally goes black and you see the cursor in the middle of the screen. On restart, i get a message saying windows failed to load, and a choice to start normally or open the recovery mode.
Any ideas? Is it worth re-formatting?
Thanks everyone.