Ok so i just finished building my FIRST PC, and i've had nothing but problems. First i couldn't get past the BIOS due issues with my hard drives and something to do with Marvin and no hard drive detected errors, which i think i have now solved. So i try installing windows 7 i get to the bit where it says
Copying windows files: check Expanding windows files: 100% check Installing features: CRASH Installing updates:
Completing installation:
Blue screened on me with a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error
So did some more research and found out it could be due to having to much ram, so i took 3 sticks out leaving 1 in 16GB down to just 4GB. Tried to install windows 7 again
Copying windows files: check Expanding windows files: 100% check Installing features: CRASH Installing updates:
Completing installation:
BAD_POOL_HEADER I don't know what to do i cant even get into the desktop and my complete noobness around a BIOS isn't helping here are my system specs
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
i5 2500k
16GB of corsair vengeance
520GT
1 Western digital hard drive(forget the name something black) 1TB
1 Corsair force GT 120GB
Windows 7 home
I really don't know what to do anymore.
P.S every time i try and install windows again i see 2 partitions 1 called system and the other called primary so something must be installing on there?
Disconnect the Western Digital. Make sure the SSD is on a Intel sata port (see your manual) and set it to ahci in the bios. On post - the corsair should show a firmware version, if its not 1.3.3 then stop and update the firmware first. If its 1.3.3 go ahead and install windows.
Edit- I see people recommending to disable the marvell controller in the bios altogether. Probably not a bad idea.
Message edited by popatim on 02-07-2012 at 03:29:42 AM
Yes i did end up disabling the marvell controller and it worked. I am also happy to report that the blue screen issue has been solved i updated the BIOS and it worked. However i am now having another problem i have a 120GB SSD but only 74.9GB of 111GB is free, wheres the rest of it gone?
With all that Ram could easily be the Page file useage, its hard drive space which acts as RAM if you run out of RAM often its the same size as the amount of ram you have = 16GB, if I where you i would either decrease this, or make it use the western digital HDD in the event you run out of memory