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vaifan1986
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Well of course it had to happen. I'm typing this on my sisters PC because as of this morning mine is out of commission.
If I believed in karma I'd see it as karmic retribution for the cut cable at the cunts office.
While it was being shipped I asked for water cooling to be installed since the TT cooler I had stopped working. The new rig was tested for 2 days at Links(the company that transported it from Zadar to Zagreb) and no issues popped up.
Got the rig home yesterday, everything runs fine.
Decided today to reinstall Windows 8.1 since it's been a year and it's the only Windows I have available.
Didn't take long for windows to start freezing up. Lagging horribly even when being idle after about 30 minutes.
Decide to reinstall the same Windows and now setup won't install on the SSD because it can't either create a partition or there isn't one. Nothing I did worked. So I went and replaced the SSD since it's still on warranty. Same thing happens.
And then it gets worse for no apparent reason. Windows setup started freezing up on the first screen where you select the language and I was forced to cut the power in order to reboot it.
I have never had an issue like that before in my life. I'm downloading Win 7 to see if there's a difference, if not, then I'm sending the PC to Links for repairs and I'm moving into the fucking mountains with a hatchet and bottle of whiskey and I'll see you all in 6 months.
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sausje
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 16:03 Post subject: |
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Sounds like a broken mobo with all those issues.
Or SATA controller?!
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 16:09 Post subject: |
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try a different sata cable
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vaifan1986
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 16:17 Post subject: |
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Already tried switching cables, but why would that even cause freezing at the start of setup, before I've had a chance to even choose where I want windows installed?
Anyway, almost done creating a bootable win 7 usb drive. I'll try that first.
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Well, it's not Windows related. Freezes at the exact same spot. No idea what to do next.
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 16:37 Post subject: |
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links is building you a PC? 
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 16:56 Post subject: |
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My first guess would be the drive, but you already excluded that.
The easiest to check would be the memory. Take one stick out and try out run the setup again, if it fails, try the other one. It's the thing most prone to faults, and I had it fail windows setup like it did in your case.
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sausje
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 17:17 Post subject: |
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| MinderMast wrote: | My first guess would be the drive, but you already excluded that.
The easiest to check would be the memory. Take one stick out and try out run the setup again, if it fails, try the other one. It's the thing most prone to faults, and I had it fail windows setup like it did in your case. |
Memory doesn't freeze on the exact same spot though. Sounds more like defective SATA controller on the MB.
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 17:18 Post subject: |
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Windows installation issues on working hard drives usually ends up for most part being a ram issue.
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sausje
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 17:28 Post subject: |
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AFAIK RAM is exactly what it says, RANDOM, thus data is not being stored in always the same section that could be faulty, thus RAM errors/faults are most of the time random.
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sausje
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 18:01 Post subject: |
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Don't you have a PCI SATA controller laying around somewhere? 
Could be just the controller unit and not the whole mobo. At least you can still use it like that
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 18:08 Post subject: |
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| sausje wrote: | | AFAIK RAM is exactly what it says, RANDOM, thus data is not being stored in always the same section that could be faulty, thus RAM errors/faults are most of the time random. |
I had one installation fail a bunch of times in one place and then failed at another place once. Technically, you can't call it not random until you do a significant number of "tests" and even then it will be only with a level of certainty that will never be 100% 
Another thing here is what part of the installation is triggers it - it can be that this specific point is where memory starts to matter the most, so it happens "roughly" at the same place.
And in either case, the main argument here is that he can't test anything else on the spot. He can't test the motherboard and he can't test the CPU (rare to fault, but he did say they were installing water cooling, so they could have messed something up). If it's not a cable issue and it's not a hard drive issue, the memory is his last option for a quick test.
I suppose with SATA controllers, he could technically try and use one of the extra ones. Most motherboards these days have some ports running off some 3rd party controllers in addition to Intel ones. Check manual to see which ones to use.
One other thing to check would be all the cabling, power and data, all over the board where it matters.
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vaifan1986
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 18:23 Post subject: |
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Already sent it of to the shop I bought it from. I'm way too tired to mess around with the PC myself.
I just want to sit down, relax, play games and watch shows and movies.
Hopefully the whole testing/fixing/replacing won't last more than a week.
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vaifan1986
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 19:48 Post subject: |
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You couldn't even leave me my dreams, could you?
Was it all the times I took your lovely dogtags that turned you against me so?
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2015 19:49 Post subject: |
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Karma is indeed a bitch 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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sausje
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| Posted: Fri, 18th Sep 2015 13:03 Post subject: |
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You actually fucked up your CPU with mounting the new cooler?! 
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vaifan1986
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tonizito
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| vaifan1986 wrote: | I wasn't the one installing the cooler, but yeah, in a way it was my fault
Should have done it myself when I got home, but lazyness won and I had the shop do it for me. |
Serves you right for being a casual faggotron 
So how much did you pay? Shipping only? Or not even that?
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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