New build crashing during boot - SSD related?

FrankGrimes

I put together my new build today and thought I had Windows 7 x86 successfully installed and was expecting it to boot into first time login but it just keeps crashing during boot up and resets and goes back to boot menu and then cycles through again and keeps on crashing.

I've tried loading Windows Safe Mode but it just starts listing the drivers that are being loaded and then the crash happens when it gets to loading disk.sys.

My spec is listed below. I selected the SSD partition for the operating system install, and the installer had also picked up the 1TB HDD. I don't think it had picked up the other 500GB HDD I also had in there and when I went to inspect for potential connection issues that may be causing the crashes, I think the SATA power cable 500GB HDD may not have been connnected properly. I removed the SATA power and data cables from that drive but it hasn't affected anything.

Windows Memory Diagnostic and trying to run Repair from the OS install disc both don't find any issues. The 1TB and 500GB are powered from the sames cable (i.e. two SATA connectors on the same cable), and the SSD and blu-ray drive are powered from another cable.

I'm wondering if there may be something particular that needs to be done with the OCZ SSD to get Windows 7 installed on it properly. Is there any way I can determine what's causing the failure?
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OCZ Vertex Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache 230MB/s Read, 135 MB/s Write £148.02
Western Digital WD10EARS 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 64MB Cache - OEM Caviar Green - £63.
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FrankGrimes

Have you tried hitting F8 on bootup and disabling automatic restart to see what the error code is? There shouldn't be any messing to get Windows 7 working on a solid state drive, I've installed it on two without any problems.

FrankGrimes wrote: »

I've tried loading Windows Safe Mode but it just starts listing the drivers that are being loaded and then the crash happens when it gets to loading disk.sys.

That file just happens to be the last one that loads before the kernel starts, it doesn't really tell you anything.

deceit

With the 500gig drive not being installed properly on instalation, it could have been coming on/off constantly during instalation and maybe cause a problem? Have you treid reinstalling it to see does it fix the problem?

MunsterCycling

FrankGrimes wrote: »

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The 1TB and 500GB are powered from the sames cable (i.e. two SATA connectors on the same cable), and the SSD and blu-ray drive are powered from another cable.

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WTF that is a new one to me, can you take a photo please?

FrankGrimes

MunsterCycling wrote: »

WTF that is a new one to me, can you take a photo please?

Probably describing it wrong: was just pointing out that the two SATA hard-drives are fed power off the same power cable (i.e. a SATA power cable coming from the PSU that has 3 SATA connectors on it). Was only mentioning it in case it was relevant if it had an impact on which drives were in which IDE channel and which were masters and slaves etc. cos I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Good to know that disk.sys is the last driver to be loaded so doesn't necessarily mean it's a disk issue. Wasn't familiar with how to disable automatic restart so I'll give that a go.

MunsterCycling

No master or slaves in SATA, each has their own channel.

FrankGrimes

I detached the HDDs and also the iMon VFD display internal USB connection and then reinstalled Windows and all went swimmingly. Almost through executing the instructions here on setting up an SSD drive and it seems to be running very well.