Here is how it all went down.
OCZ 90GB SSD
4GB x 2 G.SKILL
EVGA GTX470
MSI P67A-GD65
WIN Home premium 7 64-bit
- Playing Age of Empires III with my son, game freezes.
- Pop out to desk top to see what's going on, Core 3 of 8 is going nuts
- After a few minutes of the computer hanging: BSOD
- Auto-restart, windows tries to repair itself, repair fails, suggests restoring from restore point.
- Attempt to restore from one of the listed restore points, restore fails
- Attempt clean install of Windows 7, select drive, files begin to expand, after 59% complete: BSOD
- Attempt another clean install of Windows 7, this time no drives are seen. I can browse to see drives but cannot select them
- Attempt to restore from restore point but restore points are no longer listed.
- Muck around in BIOS. Check RAM, it passes. Can't find anything to do that looks helpful
- Search Internet. Surrender.
- $1400 computer now a paper weight with pretty blue lights. Can anyone help?
OCZ 90GB SSD
4GB x 2 G.SKILL
EVGA GTX470
MSI P67A-GD65
WIN Home premium 7 64-bit