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Brand new setup, first problem

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Acer_Sheep

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It's been friday when I got my new rig together, not even 2 days passed and I'm fighting incredibly wierd problem again. Basically I turned it on and the mouse cursor constantly shows fast blinking hourglass next to it like computer would start to do and stop to do something. I have fresh windows 7 installation with few programs+updates that's all. The CPU load is around 80% and I'm seeing weird processes in task manager like cofire.exe, werfault.exe, while cofire.exe was opened in huge amounts like 30 times or so. described as corrupted file recovery client. It doesn't appear in safe mode though. Anyone could help me find where to problem lies? Thank you, my specs are in signature.
 
To speed things along:

Acer_Sheep said:
Intel Core i5-2550K, ASRock P67 Pro3, 16GB Kingston HyperX Blu, 750GB WD SATAIII, 60GB OCZ Agility 3, LC Power Super Silent series 550W, AMD-ATi Radeon HD5670 512MB GDDR5
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We need to know what you've done to your system since you initially installed Windows onto it -- specifically, whether you installed any drivers and programs before you went online for the first time. Did you reuse any parts from an earlier build (specifically, the hard drive or SSD)?

You may need to perform some of the steps in the troubleshooting sticky (while in Safe Mode) to narrow down what is causing your problems.
 
Check your HDD health and make sure your drivers are up to date. Both cofire and werfault are trying to handle errors from corrupted files either in Windows or drivers.
 
i do have only gpu older HDs are both new

Update the PC wont boot at all now
Freezes during post and than say there is no boot device. Might SSD be dead?
 
Acer_Sheep said:
i do have only gpu older HDs are both new

Update the PC wont boot at all now
Freezes during post and than say there is no boot device. Might SSD be dead?
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Corrupted files make me want to double-check the memory. Pull it out and reseat it.

Also check:

SATA cable out-of-spec/faulty/loosely connected?
Power cable connected properly?
Motherboard at stock settings for everything?
SSD set in bios properly? (There's some MBR vs. GPT on EFI board issues out there with Windows 7 if I recall correctly.)
 
I tried all the above with no solution, so I tried SSD in other computer and the same, post freeze and then it is not listed in bios on both computers. So the drive goes to RMA. Are the OCZ SSDs this bad or I am just unlucky?
 
What firmware was it? Did you update the firmware at all?

Your first step should have been booting into a linux OS via a thumb drive and checking what firmware your SSD has and when updated then installed windows on the SSD. Chances are you received a faulty drive, but you should nevertheless update the firmware next time before you install your OS on the SSD.

OCZ SSDs are fine now and the biggest issue people have is compatibility, so read around the OCZ forums to see if you've got a board which doesn't play nice. The BSOD bug that's plagued SF-based drives has been cured since October/November of last year, but you will want to make sure you're running that version of the firmware :p
 
I didn't update the firmware, as I had the drive shorter than 2 days and it is not detected in Bios at all on 2 computers, if it isn't detected during post, I assume no linux util will see it either, or? And I don't know which firmware it had, if it is somewhere on the stickers on the drive I can read it for you but didn't find that yet.
 
Any update?

If you do think it is a hard drive issue then do you happen to have a spare hard drive around so you can install Windows 7 and put it in for testing?

Good luck~!
 
My first thought was your hard drive before I even finished reading your first post. Then the song from Bruce Almighty popped into my head. I GOT THA POWA! You'e welcome for getting that stuck in your head.
 
Yes, I'm going to install the system on the magnetic data drive I had installed with ssd together

And yes I also when first saw the problem I though the SSD is the problem but I couldn't let it just like that without real confirmation.

Thank you for responses
 
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