Perhaps this is a little too cautious, but I always prefer to have only the OS drive plugged in when I'm installing Windows. Any additional hard drives are plugged in only once Windows is completely installed. Looking forward to see if this fixes your problems!

Perhaps this is a little too cautious, but I always prefer to have only the OS drive plugged in when I'm installing Windows. Any additional hard drives are plugged in only once Windows is completely installed. Looking forward to see if this fixes your problems!

See I never knew this... I could be jumping to conclusions, but I believe having that small portion of Win7 install on my SSD is the problem - and by deleting the folder it casued the recent BSOD events.. I also think a Clear CMOS would help before I go about reinstalling stuff. I don't think I'v ever done a clear cmos on this board, and I thought I did but I believe now I got confused from my last board in my old PC, where I had to clear the jumper a few times.Like I said in preparation for this build: This is my very first solo build - my last PC a friend helped me - definitly user error here Pffff!I really hope this is the issue - I can clear cmos, and get my OC up again, and perhaps no issues with hardware. FWIW - I ran a very long memtest scan (booted off a cd), for about 5 hours tonight. Though I didn't test each stick individually like last time, it ran without any errors.Thanks for all the comments - it's clear I've already learned a lot from this experience :)

where was it? could you actually see the windows partition with the boot manager in the SSD? It's posible yes, I guess it isFirst thing I thought is that Win 7 SP1 could have not installed properly, but who knows. Let's hope it was all related and you can overclock back to 4.5GHz after the reinstall

It was a file folder right on the root of my SSD drive. Regarding SP1 install - correct me if I'm wrong but instead of one large service pack, the SP1 was actually just a bunch of little hotfixes that essentially formed SP1? Or is it truly one large download from the MS site?

Perhaps this is a little too cautious, but I always prefer to have only the OS drive plugged in when I'm installing Windows. Any additional hard drives are plugged in only once Windows is completely installed. Looking forward to see if this fixes your problems!

I've never even heard of people doing this. Is it to stop Windows from actually installing something on the other drive?

It's to keep myself from accidentally installing windows on the wrong drive... plus some sort of weird unfounded paranoia that windows will put things on the other drive

Perhaps this is a little too cautious, but I always prefer to have only the OS drive plugged in when I'm installing Windows. Any additional hard drives are plugged in only once Windows is completely installed. Looking forward to see if this fixes your problems!

Huh, I never had any similar problems, although I have 4 HDDs, 1 DVD, 1 removable and 2 USB.All I do is set in BIOS ONLY ONE drive to boot from, I manually delete all others. I let BIOS to detect them, so Windows installation is going to see them when I'm choosing the partition to install to, but basically I have my 1st partition of my boot drive called Windows and that's how I always find it.The deal in BIOS is in boot menu disable ALL other drives and just put the main one up front, following by DVD/RW, since I needed it for my windows CD - recently I put my Windows onto an USB stick, now I even disabled the DVD/RW... Besides, I can still press F8 to call the boot menu and still select any drive I want, incl. DVD/RW if I want.Through this method I never had Windows install boot manager onto another drive partition or anything.

Whatever the method used, and both Corey's and Kostas' look fine to me, you can simply double check in the disk manager once Win is installed that everything is where it's supposed to be. You should have both the System Reserved partition and the C partittion in the boot drive you picked and only thereThe System Reserved one should have the flags System, Active, Primary Partition, while C: should have the flags Boot, Crash Dump, Paging File, Primary Partition, on a Win 7 fresh installBefore reinstalling make sure you make a complete format of all the system (not data) drives (or a secure erase with SSD's) so that the previous boot manager is not there when you reinstall or you'll end up with a double boot and the annoying menu at startup. That can be fixed with bcdedit

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It's to keep myself from accidentally installing windows on the wrong drive... plus some sort of weird unfounded paranoia that windows will put things on the other drive

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+ 3Really, get the basics first, this is painful to watch...http://windows.micro...lling-Windows-7http://www.simforums...187.html#198187Yep, I know you don´t like him, he´s arrogant, and many things, and he quit this "amateur-heaven" - and I fully understand that!Quote:WARNING: NO OVERCLOCKING WHEN INSTALLING A OS OR SOFTWARE, DEFRAGMENTING, OR INITIALLY TUNING FSX!YOU START WITH A SECURE AND STABLE SYSTEM WITH THE CORRCT BIOS SETTINGS FOR YOUR SATA SYSTEM, MEMORY SPEED/TIMING/VOLTAGE. OVERCLOCKING COMES LAST --AND THEN-- YOU CAN ADJUST FSX SETTINGS FOR A NEW CLOCK, NOT UNTIL MORE ERRORS ARE MADE TUNING A SYSTEM AND FSX WHILE OVERCLOCKED THAN ANY OTHER REASON. IT IS POSSIBLE TO END UP WITH INSTALL CORRUPTION OR YOU MAY BE OVER-DRIVING THE CPU EVEN IF TEMPS LOOK RIGHT!START WITH NO CLOCK, AND WORK YOUR WAY UP, LAST!UnquoteAgain: Good luck to you...

nm... it's pointless...I think you're confusing me with someone else - I've used Nick's guide first time it came out...

That´s truly the most amazing statement I´ve ever read...

That´s truly the most amazing statement I´ve ever read...

That seems a bit strong. Which statement are you referring to?Kind regards,

#25Maybe I´m stupid, maybe I´m too demanding, maybe I´m just not "touchy-feely" enough for this, but the guy - ryanbatcund - make´s error, upon error, deleting the W7 install partition, the small ugly, useless one, so we delete it, yes, away with the annoying thing!Then he fumble around and don´t know that a disk needs to be initialized in the diskmanagement section...Oh boy, should I go on?Read #25 again and pinch yourself...

#25Maybe I´m stupid, maybe I´m too demanding, maybe I´m just not "touchy-feely" enough for this, but the guy - ryanbatcund - make´s error, upon error, deleting the W7 install partition, the small ugly, useless one, so we delete it, yes, away with the annoying thing!Then he fumble around and don´t know that a disk needs to be initialized in the diskmanagement section...Oh boy, should I go on?Read #25 again and pinch yourself...

No, unless you have something positive to say and actively help instead of just critizising. Were you born knowing it all? come on, give him a break.. or a single useful advise at least

#25Maybe I´m stupid, maybe I´m too demanding, maybe I´m just not "touchy-feely" enough for this, but the guy - ryanbatcund - make´s error, upon error, deleting the W7 install partition, the small ugly, useless one, so we delete it, yes, away with the annoying thing!Then he fumble around and don´t know that a disk needs to be initialized in the diskmanagement section...Oh boy, should I go on?Read #25 again and pinch yourself...

Dude, come on. Dario is right. Quit this kind of behaviour and be helpful, or shut up. That's the best thing you can do if you have nothing useful to add.