THAT'S IT ! I'VE HAD ENOUGH !

Ollii

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EDIT: Before I start, apologies for the abrupt title and the fact it's in capitals. (I was just rather angry when I wrote it)

Hey guys, as many of you might know I've been having a lot of problems over the last 48 hours. Well just a few hours ago I thought everything was sorted out and fine. Oh but how wrong I was.

I have come to the conclusion that there are MANY things wrong at the moment and although I am in the OS now and typing to you there are still many things not going correctly.

Only a few minutes ago have I been able to get into windows again. I was downloading all the drivers for my motherboard and everything seemed to be going all right, until I hit the second sata driver in which it downloaded fine and then asked me to restart my PC. Nothing unusual there. But as it came onto the windows logo during the boot up it froze and then the blue screen came up. I restarted it a few times but to the same result. I then managed to get to safe mode and do system recovery - still to no avail and I did this a few times until eventually I found a restore point that worked, well on the second attempt. See the first time I booted it up with this system recovery point it got to the password bit and then froze and then blue screen. So I restarted and yay I'm back in (this has happened before with other driver installations).

However I do believe that there are just too many things going wrong for things to be right at the moment.

As you can see I am very irritated that after spending all this money to get this rig and then spending the time to build it (which I did enjoy thoroughly) that as soon as I come to put windows on it everything just went wrong.

I have had sooooo many things go wrong that I am simply not content with just being in the OS at the moment and carrying on with where I left off as I know that I will simply be faced with far more problems in the future.

I do not expect any of this, especially as everything is brand new and legitimate. Please can you people advise me what to do at the moment as I am simply blind with rage and really cant decide what to do. I think a complete fresh reinstall but will I simply just have all the same problems and lost everything I have done so far (which tbh isn't much)?

Thanks if you've even made it down this far after reading my entire rant. As always ALL advice is welcome and thanks very much.

PS - You can tell I'm not happy simply by the fact that in all this speech there is not one smiley face which I do generally have in almost every post of mine.
 
Wow, I would be pretty frustrated too. I do not know how experienced you are, but If that happened to me, me being a noob and all, I would try to find and expert to take a look at it for me, maybe take it in to a local PC shop. Thats if I could not get it figured out here.
 
It's all a learning process though mate huh?

I'd start from scratch if i were you.

Don't bother installing mobo drivers just use a clean install of windows,then download the latest drivers and install them first thing after windows installs.

I usually start with the chipset drivers followed by graphics,and so on.

If you don't understand how to raid your drives,then i'd really do some reading up on this before hand,as this seems to be where your problem lies imo.

You say it happened after sata driver install,which has probably overwritten your raid config to a mismatched value,hence the boot error.

Also with leaving the raiding off for the minute you can test wether or not you may have a faulty hard disk or other component thats causing instability with booting.
 
Before you go totally bananas,get some sleep.48 hours of install-problems would do anyone insane.

Maybe with a fresh mind,things get sorted better ways
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It's all a learning process though mate huh?

I'd start from scratch if i were you.

Don't bother installing mobo drivers just use a clean install of windows,then download the latest drivers and install them first thing after windows installs.

I usually start with the chipset drivers followed by graphics,and so on.

If you don't understand how to raid your drives,then i'd really do some reading up on this before hand,as this seems to be where your problem lies imo.

You say it happened after sata driver install,which has probably overwritten your raid config to a mismatched value,hence the boot error.

Also with leaving the raiding off for the minute you can test wether or not you may have a faulty hard disk or other component thats causing instability with booting.

Thanks, and indeed it is a learning experience, though a rather tough one
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I'll do a fresh install and the raiding was actually ok and It's fine now. But yes I agree with the fact that me doing the drivers afterwards wasn't the best thing
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Anyway thanks again and wish me luck for the new install
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Just take it one step at a time,but like kilobravo says,take a break if its getting on top of you.

I've blown so many psu's and stuff in the past through tiredness,and above all stubborness in not letting things beat me,and looking back i coulda saved a few quid by the mistakes i made if i'd slept on the problem,and researched it better.
 
Just take it one step at a time,but like kilobravo says,take a break if its getting on top of you.

I've blown so many psu's and stuff in the past through tiredness,and above all stubborness in not letting things beat me,and looking back i coulda saved a few quid by the mistakes i made if i'd slept on the problem,and researched it better.

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thanks for the advice.

So would you say to do things in this order ? : Install Windows - Windows Updates (should this be done now, before drivers?) - Download Drivers - Put 2 non OS HD's in Raid0 - then carrying on downloading needed programs e.g. VLC player etc
 
yup only thing i'd do differently is run windows update after installing the drivers,as chances are it will just install drivers with windows update else.

If your drivers are latest versions,then windows update will skip them.
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yup only thing i'd do differently is run windows update after installing the drivers,as chances are it will just install drivers with windows update else.

If your drivers are latest versions,then windows update will skip them.
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Right, thanks very much again
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nowt that you've taken a few deep breaths folow the above advice. I normally do win7 chipset,sound,Wahtever other mobo drivers ya need,vid and then video lastely the nic as it tends try and do updates while I am doing the others. Rebooting every timer its finishes one. This way if there is a driver issue then it'll show after the one causing the issue so you know to start again and skip that one til you find a good one. Then I start with win7 updates.
 
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nowt that you've taken a few deep breaths folow the above advice. I normally do win7 chipset,sound,Wahtever other mobo drivers ya need,vid and then video lastely the nic as it tends try and do updates while I am doing the others. Rebooting every timer its finishes one. This way if there is a driver issue then it'll show after the one causing the issue so you know to start again and skip that one til you find a good one. Then I start with win7 updates.

Thanks, and sorry if this sounds stupid but what is nic or what does it stand for?

Also for the Important windows updates should I do them at first ? as they keep nagging about restarting etc or should I just ignore every windows update until after drivers?
 
Thanks, and sorry if this sounds stupid but what is nic or what does it stand for?

Also for the Important windows updates should I do them at first ? as they keep nagging about restarting etc or should I just ignore every windows update until after drivers?

Network Interface Card mate.

I personally do windows updates dead last.

Chipset > rest of motherboard > graphics > updates

I normally let it install everything it can, then restart and then check for drivers again, however, given the grief its giving you, then you might want to let it please itself and restart when it wants.

Keep the faith mate. You'll get there.
 
Network Interface Card mate.

I personally do windows updates dead last.

Chipset > rest of motherboard > graphics > updates

I normally let it install everything it can, then restart and then check for drivers again, however, given the grief its giving you, then you might want to let it please itself and restart when it wants.

Keep the faith mate. You'll get there.

Ok thanks
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