Come on . It was time to upgrade to a little more than 3, 5 years old computer with newer components. A lot of parts i would not have had to change. Graphics card had already been updated a couple of months ago. I would take memory modules, power supply , hard drives , and of course Windows 7 from the old computer to a new one.
I got a new motherboard , ASUS Maximus Ranger VII + Kingston HyperX 120GB bundle.
Processor Core i5- 4670k and Noctua NH- U12S cooler, that would certainly be enough for the processor and the whole thing was assembled in Corsair Carbide 500R case. A bit older but a cool looking case and quiet even with all the fans running at full speed.
All the installation went smoothly , but then when you had to get off the windows, there were problems.
Windows booted to bluescreens every time. I tried even a fresh install and all the possible things from safe mode.
I went through all bios, or uefi all the possible options that might have prevent windows start-ups.
After all, it was found that windows 7 might not work for the new UEFI BIOS motherboards , except with hard tweaking in some cases. Oh well. Then i bought the new Windows just to be sure.
And that fixed the problem. NOT AT ALL!.
Windows installation went almost through, but gave the following error messages.
Whea-uncorrectable-error and code 0x00000001
I went to the bios of all possible power-saving settings , the processor settings , SATA / AHCI and legacy uefi settings one at a time, in order to find what may have caused it, but i did not made any success.
I then went back with the new parts to the place of purchase to see if, however, even if the motherboard is faulty .
The staff kindly went through the setting back of the room , that wonder what 's going on , and after a while came back and told me that when they went through secure boot settings windows booted and did not give an error message. And then took them back home.
Windows finished installation , but the initial start-up equipment would not do, but I got the same error message :
Whea-uncorrectable-error, but i did not get error code 0x00000001 this time.
Changing Secure boot settings does not , after all, have no effect.
After all this, I went back again to palce of purchase to ask to try another power supply if my own silverstone strider st- 1200w psu would be something wrong with it.
Kindly they gave me a test psu for the weekend and at the same time I got to try another kind of memory to make sure i manage to eliminate all the problems.
Yes, i really have to take my hat off for Jimm's to be this helpful.
I tried with the new power supply and new memory modules , but it did not work. Windows gave the same error message.
First, I went to the settings of CPU and I took all possible processor turbo modes and power saving settings turned off and tried new start-up. And it went finally through. Windows was installed.
Then I tried my old memory modules and did the same thing, windows did not start with the old memory modules no matter what i did in bios.
But when I tried the Windows 8.1 disk in the old machine and it worked perfectly.
The new motherboard seems to be stumbling with memory modules, which were not compatible, EVEN IF motherboard manual states that they agreed a fact .
Memories are Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 if anyone is wondering .
But after researching the web for the memory manufacturers compatible memory, you'll notice that at the moment not very many manufacturers have compatible memory for Z97 chipset motherboards .
Or maybe just my motherboard happens to be seriously faulty.
Or it desperatelly needs a BIOS update.
The motherboard Q -Code screen has all variety of error messages, and now it keeps showing A0 code , which means " Ide initialisation started ."
In addition, at least the following types of notifications remained visible. A2, A3 , FF, and 40 and a couple of other " Reserved for future AMI error codes" number.
Let's see how it's progressing here. At least i now know how it works and what to do with hte board.
However, I have to return the loaned memory modules and acquire new ones next week, so we'll see .
I wish asus would be in contact with me regarding this issue.