To keep a long story, well, long.....
Built my current PC back in January/February 2014 and pertinent hardware to the discussion is as follows:
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming LGA 1150 Motherboard
Intel 4770k
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866
Kinsgston 240 GB SSD Later Replaced with Intel 730 Series SSD
Win 8 then Upgraded to Win 10
When I fist built the system, I had boot file corruption happen twice within the first 2 weeks. SInce it was a fresh install I reformatted and reinstalled both times and it was good for about a year. I then had booting issues where it would either say BOOTMGR missing or Disk Read Error. I repaired the boot files and was good for another 3 months or so. Then I had several of the errors happen over and over again. I figured it was a bad SSD.
I got the Intell SSD to replace the Kingston and cloned the drive over and all was good again. Shortly after I upgraded to WIN 10 and all was still fine and lasted nearly 9 months before any issues again. Well fast forward to the last 2 months or so and I started having system hangs during game play or using CAD programs. Eventually the system hangs resulted in hard resets and DISK READ ERROR on bootups.
I reformatted and clean installed WIN 10 and things worked again for about 4 days. I ran some SSD tools and according to the diagnostic software the SSD is good. System hangs started up again and could not get into windows. Running Windows recovery or trying to install a backup image would fail. I reformatted AGAIN and reinstalled, and after a few days would get the same Disk Read Errors and system hangs if/when I could actually get into Windows.
i went into the BIOS and set everything back to default settings...and voila, boots up fine. I am still getting system hangs and Disk Read Errors on bootup, but if I go back into BIOS and set to default, it boots fine again for a day or two.
So what is the likely culprit? Is it a bad mobo BIOS? Why does reapplying default BIOS settings temporarily fix it? Why the system hangs? Bad RAM? At my wits end to why it keeps failing.
Thanks
Built my current PC back in January/February 2014 and pertinent hardware to the discussion is as follows:
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming LGA 1150 Motherboard
Intel 4770k
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866
Kinsgston 240 GB SSD Later Replaced with Intel 730 Series SSD
Win 8 then Upgraded to Win 10
When I fist built the system, I had boot file corruption happen twice within the first 2 weeks. SInce it was a fresh install I reformatted and reinstalled both times and it was good for about a year. I then had booting issues where it would either say BOOTMGR missing or Disk Read Error. I repaired the boot files and was good for another 3 months or so. Then I had several of the errors happen over and over again. I figured it was a bad SSD.
I got the Intell SSD to replace the Kingston and cloned the drive over and all was good again. Shortly after I upgraded to WIN 10 and all was still fine and lasted nearly 9 months before any issues again. Well fast forward to the last 2 months or so and I started having system hangs during game play or using CAD programs. Eventually the system hangs resulted in hard resets and DISK READ ERROR on bootups.
I reformatted and clean installed WIN 10 and things worked again for about 4 days. I ran some SSD tools and according to the diagnostic software the SSD is good. System hangs started up again and could not get into windows. Running Windows recovery or trying to install a backup image would fail. I reformatted AGAIN and reinstalled, and after a few days would get the same Disk Read Errors and system hangs if/when I could actually get into Windows.
i went into the BIOS and set everything back to default settings...and voila, boots up fine. I am still getting system hangs and Disk Read Errors on bootup, but if I go back into BIOS and set to default, it boots fine again for a day or two.
So what is the likely culprit? Is it a bad mobo BIOS? Why does reapplying default BIOS settings temporarily fix it? Why the system hangs? Bad RAM? At my wits end to why it keeps failing.
Thanks