I have recently bought a new motherboard, CPU and RAM P8H67-M LE i5 2400 8GB Corsair XMS Am using this system with an Akasa 500w power supply and a OCZ vertex 2 both have been bought over from the previous PC and were working fine. Start of all my problems Set up the machine and tried installing windows 7 64 Install starts and reboots at the usual place just after step 5 completing install. Once reboot has finished windows will either unexpectedly reboot during the next stage of the install or say bootmgr is missing tried this about 5 times tried using a standard HDD which works fine, got W7 installed drivers etc. and used achronis to clone the install to the SDD which then proceeded to boot fine. Was using the OS and it just randomly shutdown this keeps happening at very random times. These shutdowns seem like restarts - the machine actually powers off and then turns back on. Also when trying to shutdown the system normally it turns itself back on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. FYI bios, SSD firmware at latest versions and sata mode set to AHCI
What was your previous build, and how old is that Akasa PSU? Like the hippoz says, try prime95, but simply to stress the system and see if the PSU can cope.
Thanks for the replys, will have to give that a go when I get home @ work at the mo. Previous build was; P5B-deluxe e2160 @ 2.4 was a q6600 with 4gb for a while 2Gb Corsair Ram 4850 512mb Vapor-x 60GB OCZ 1TB F3 Samsung blur-ray Akasa 500w (which is over 5 years old) I havent put all of the componants in the new machine yet just what is listed in the first post
1. Doesn't cloning an install over to an SSD from a HDD cause issues? I thought a fresh install was required? 2. Aside from that, I'd be looking at memtesting your RAM... 3. ...and swapping in another PSU. 4. I assume all your system temperatures are fine? 5. Have you checked that your CPU voltage(s) match the stock settings Intel recommends? I've had a PC repeatedly crash in the past because the motherboard saw fit to undervolt it without telling me. 6. If it's none of those things, it could be a dodgy motherboard, as it's new. Could always RMA it if nothing else seems to be the source of the problem. Hope that helps, Yslen EDIT: having just re-read what you wrote it sounds like more of an issue with the motherboard than anything else. If the SSD was fine in the other machine and you now can't even install Windows directly onto it...
Thanks for the reply Yslen Im starting to think its a motherboard problem also. Just want exhaust other options before I RAM anything. System temps are fine, will check bios later and OCZ forums seams to show its ok to image. Have another PSU to test with tonight, just seams strange that it only seams to be with the SSD which was fine before.
it could be mb related.. the transfer is much faster with an ssd, you might try to update your mb chipset driver and see if that's any help
Thanks everyone for you help. Tried a differenct PSU last night and everything worked great, I should have really seen it coming due to the fact my PSU makes a whining sound when the computer is on standby. Just seams so strange that this has happened now, but o well such is life. Anyway I need a new PSU (more expense). question being would a 500w Corsair Builder be a worthy investment.
If you want cheapish and bomb proof have a look at the OCZ stealth X 600. I've got one and they're brilliant. In one write up I found they loaded it up to the max and it kept on going, eventually giving a totally stable 735 watts of power.