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Hello all, Every few days or so I get a BSOD, usually IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL but I have had SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION a few times. I've had my computer for about 3 weeks now, and I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I've tried resitting every piece of hardware in my computer, I've ran chkdsk...

I successfully installed Windows 7 64bit in AHCI mode on a PC with 3 new 3TB Western Digital WD30EZRX Caviar Green hard drives. Then I installed "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver [v8.9.0.1023]" & as soon as Windows restarted after installing it, Windows would not boot, & will now only boot...

Hello All, Okay. About a week ago when I started up my computer, it went straight to Windows Error Screen with 2 options to either launch startup repair or start windows normally. Neither worked and when disabling system failure gave me the BSOD with the error message unmountable_boot_volume...

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Issue: After completing the Windows 7 64 bit install, the screen goes black with a white blinking cursor. After rebooting the screen freezes at the ‘Starting Windows’ screen which should proceed with the configuration of the Windows 7 install (select computer & user name, etc.) Before the...

Hi everyone! I'm having a lot of trouble and I really don't know what to do. :( I'm installing Windows 7 x64, Ultimate on my new rig. Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.4ghz MSI 760GM P33 Mobo 4GB DDR3 1333mhz RAM 500GB Western Digital Blue HDD, SATA Radeon HD 6850 1GB Every time I try to...

Thank you for your help , In AHCI mode I can add a HDD via Hot Swap, and Windows 7 keeps scanning the contents each time I do so , this is quite annoying . How can I disable this function please ? Thank you Ralph

I'm trying to do a startup repair of Windows 7 x64 on an SSD but can't boot from the CD-ROM while in AHCI mode. I have set CD-ROM at the top of the boot order in BIOS but this is just ignored and the computer boots from the SSD with the knackered version of W7x64. I read somewhere that when...

Hi guys, I'll try to explain my problem in as few words as possible. First thing, my build: Board: Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 CPU: Core i7 870 @ 2,93 Ghz Graphic: Sapphire AMD Radeon 8670 Mushkin 2x2Gb Red Culvert Kit @ 1600Mhz CAS 6-7-7-18 Seagate 320 GB SATA II HDD + WD Caviar Black 1TB SATA III...

I bought a smallish but low priced 64GB SSD on SATA II. I have already changed over to AHCI successfully and initiated the TRIM command. I have a 640GB HDD. I have brought used space to below 59 GB(actual capacity of SSD). However when using Driveclone I cannot copy because it does not have...

My Acer 7736Z-4809 laptop (pre-installed w/ Win7 Home Premium 64bit, so I don't have the Win7 CD) was recently hit with a virus. I constantly got the BSOD "iaStor.sys" and a black screen. Startup Repair at first couldn't complete repair, but when I tried again, it found no errors. Tried System...

I will try to make the long story short : system : Dell xps 1645 HDD: Seagate ST9500420ASG SATA PGP full disk encryption - including the boot sector I installed Windows 7 Manager Utility - I accidentally disabled AHCI feature from windows. => permanent BSOD STOP 0x0000007B I tried to set...

I am having much problems with my laptop graphics for a while now ! I currently have my bios setting to compatibility mode and i was wondering ,,,,if i reinstall windows,, what setting should it be on ? And which setting is the recommended one for my Lenovo T-61 running windows 7 32 bit ? And...

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I have win 7 pro OEM installed on my custom computer. I am trying to change my ASUS P6T Sata setting in BIOS to AHCI. I Get a blue screen when I do this. According to ASUS I must reinstall Windows which is not an option since I have tons of applications installed or they said I can do a repair...

Hi i bought a new dell inspiron n 5010 and i have downloaded windows 7 professional(64 bit) from the MSDNAA account and burned the image on the DVD. In the bios of my laptop i set the sata mode to ahci when i try to install windows 7. it loads file completely but after install and next...

Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...

Im tryin to get my 64GB Mtron SSD runnin with Windows 7 but I can't get it to show up in the installation process. It shows just fine in the BIOS, in device manager, in My Computer and in Windows Disk Management, in fact I can even use it as storage but for some reason It will not show up as a...

Fresh install off a brand new home premium 64 bit OEM DVD. Computer was running perfect on XP beforehand, and everything passed the windows 7 compatibility program. I'm attempting to install on a new Intel SSD, but I can't even get to the screen where you chose partition,drive,etc. About 20...

Hi, I'm currently have 1 SSD for OS and 2 HDD in RAID1 for data, all connnected to the same Intel controller on my EVGA X58 3x SLI motherboard. I'm planning to re-install Windows 7 x64 Pro on the SSD. While doing this, I would also like to reformat the 2 RAIDed HDD's. What are the steps that I...