Hi all
I'm mostly a noob but this is my second build and the first that I've done with windows installed onto an SSD. All has been working fairly well for the 4 weeks I've had it running but today it crashed when son no. 2 was playing Ark and now it crashes on startup every time.
The symptoms:
when powered up the mobo shuts down and restarts within 1 second
After 3 crashes it will boot enough to get to the bios startup window.
Occasionally the bootup will get as far as the windows 8.1 blue screen of death and I get an 'advanced repair starting' message before it crashes again
I can F2 into the bios menus and it is rock solid in the bios
If I enable the Fast startup option it keeps crashing and restarting ad infinitum. I have to clear the CMOS to get back to the bios startup option
If I try to boot up from the CD ROM I still get the blue screen of death and crashes again. If I put my old windows 7 disc in and try to boot from CD I had a minor moment of hope when file copying started but then I crashed to the windows 7 blue screen of death with an error message: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The system details:
Mobo: z97 extreme 4; bios 1.30
Intel i5-4690k 3.5 ghz
Kingston DDR3 RAM 8mb x 2 Trident gskill
Kingston SSD 250gb with windows installed (have no idea how many if any updates available)
Msi GeForce 980 graphics
My questions:
- do I have a hardware conflict judging by the IRQL error message?
- is my SSD windows install causing a problem?
-is my inability to reboot from the CD ROM due to the bloody windows 8.1 setup?
-can I wipe my SSD and do a clean windows install? If so how (is it possible from the bios?)
Cheers all and thanks for the help....
sam
I'm mostly a noob but this is my second build and the first that I've done with windows installed onto an SSD. All has been working fairly well for the 4 weeks I've had it running but today it crashed when son no. 2 was playing Ark and now it crashes on startup every time.
The symptoms:
when powered up the mobo shuts down and restarts within 1 second
After 3 crashes it will boot enough to get to the bios startup window.
Occasionally the bootup will get as far as the windows 8.1 blue screen of death and I get an 'advanced repair starting' message before it crashes again
I can F2 into the bios menus and it is rock solid in the bios
If I enable the Fast startup option it keeps crashing and restarting ad infinitum. I have to clear the CMOS to get back to the bios startup option
If I try to boot up from the CD ROM I still get the blue screen of death and crashes again. If I put my old windows 7 disc in and try to boot from CD I had a minor moment of hope when file copying started but then I crashed to the windows 7 blue screen of death with an error message: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The system details:
Mobo: z97 extreme 4; bios 1.30
Intel i5-4690k 3.5 ghz
Kingston DDR3 RAM 8mb x 2 Trident gskill
Kingston SSD 250gb with windows installed (have no idea how many if any updates available)
Msi GeForce 980 graphics
My questions:
- do I have a hardware conflict judging by the IRQL error message?
- is my SSD windows install causing a problem?
-is my inability to reboot from the CD ROM due to the bloody windows 8.1 setup?
-can I wipe my SSD and do a clean windows install? If so how (is it possible from the bios?)
Cheers all and thanks for the help....
sam