Took me a long time to get to a point where i could install WIN7 onto a mechanical WD Caviar Black 1TB after hours and hours of trying to get the Windows installer to recognise a Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD and finally giving up.
Now that WIN7 is finally installed and running nicely, i have a strange problem...
Every time i restart the machine, the Dr. Debug LEDs show 22, and the load screen loads no further than the flashing dash in the top left corner of the screen.
I have to hit reset again and then the motherboard loads into windows... I'm trying to build this machine for a friend and it's really becoming frustrating.
I have tried other G.Skill ram; Ares 1600mhz 8Gb, not much difference.
Could there be some settings in the bios that i need to change? i.e. voltages?.. CPU Feature settings on/off? boot order? Hard drive settings? (i installed windows when it was set to AHCI i believe).
Any advice or tips hugely appreciated.
Hardware is as follows:
CPU: i5-3570k
MOBO: Z77 Extreme4
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4gb 1600mhz
GPU: Gigabyte 7870 OC 2gb
CASE: Coolermaster GX 650W Bronze
DVD: OEM Samsung DVD/RW
Now that WIN7 is finally installed and running nicely, i have a strange problem...
Every time i restart the machine, the Dr. Debug LEDs show 22, and the load screen loads no further than the flashing dash in the top left corner of the screen.
I have to hit reset again and then the motherboard loads into windows... I'm trying to build this machine for a friend and it's really becoming frustrating.
I have tried other G.Skill ram; Ares 1600mhz 8Gb, not much difference.
Could there be some settings in the bios that i need to change? i.e. voltages?.. CPU Feature settings on/off? boot order? Hard drive settings? (i installed windows when it was set to AHCI i believe).
Any advice or tips hugely appreciated.
Hardware is as follows:
CPU: i5-3570k
MOBO: Z77 Extreme4
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4gb 1600mhz
GPU: Gigabyte 7870 OC 2gb
CASE: Coolermaster GX 650W Bronze
DVD: OEM Samsung DVD/RW
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