Hi Jim

 

Good to know it was not just me going mad!!

 

I bought this CPU+Motherboard combination solely for FSX.

 

Thanks for your tips, as always.

Bent pins can cause this issue and others, thankfully its only a bent and not a broken, I do not believe either AMD or Intel would RMA that CPU if the pins are bent or broken.

You're running the BIOS in AHCI right?

 

Did you try just plugging in that SSD while you boot?

Hi Ryan

 

Tried that old chestnut of running the SATA drives in AHCI. Guess what? As soon as I re-boot, it goes BSOD so I reverted back to IDE.

 

The OS-SSD is firmly fixed on an internal bayso do not have that option of plugging it in while booting. Besides which I do not see why a much older(5 years+) Asus motherboard would quite happily give me the option to select which device I wanted to boot from, an the latest Asus board will not let me do so, or it does not follow my selection. That's crap and going backwards. Not acceptable, I'm sorry.

It's not in the bios for sure?  Boot order has to be....

Hi Ryan

 

That AHCI is in the BIOS, but when I opt for it, on boot-up I get repeated BSODs. I had the same issue with the last Asus motherboard P5Q- deLuxe when running the Intel Q6600-based system, thus reverted to IDE. Same happens here, so same IDE option taken if I want to boot successfully into WIndows 7.

 

I am so hacked off with this latest Asus Z87-A board. It is utter crap. I've just spent the last 5-6 hours of my valuable time trying to get the USB mouse to work, and the PS/2 keyboard had more or less crawled to tortoise speed. And all caused by a stupid Asus board that will not recognise a Freecom USB 2.0 400Gb external hard drive. In following a so-called Microsoft fix for this issue by right-clicking an uninstalling every USB Controller in Device Manager, I lost the use of every USB device including the USB mouse, so could not even re-install any driver from the Asus motherboard disc,and thanks to Asus' stupid wisdom, of only one combined PS/2 port, which the keyboard occupied. Oh for the days of two PS/2 ports.

 

Fortunately I know my way around, and after finally gettting into the CP, managed to do a System Recovery to an earlier working point, which is how I am able to reply to this thread.

 

As for an Asus Z87-A motherboard................................................worst enemy(fill in the blanks)!!

Hi Ryan

 

That AHCI is in the BIOS, but when I opt for it, on boot-up I get repeated BSODs. I had the same issue with the last Asus motherboard P5Q- deLuxe when running the Intel Q6600-based system, thus reverted to IDE. Same happens here, so same IDE option taken if I want to boot successfully into WIndows 7.

 

I am so hacked off with this latest Asus Z87-A board. It is utter crap. I've just spent the last 5-6 hours of my valuable time trying to get the USB mouse to work, and the PS/2 keyboard had more or less crawled to tortoise speed. And all caused by a stupid Asus board that will not recognise a Freecom USB 2.0 400Gb external hard drive. In following a so-called Microsoft fix for this issue by right-clicking an uninstalling every USB Controller in Device Manager, I lost the use of every USB device including the USB mouse, so could not even re-install any driver from the Asus motherboard disc,and thanks to Asus' stupid wisdom, of only one combined PS/2 port, which the keyboard occupied. Oh for the days of two PS/2 ports.

 

Fortunately I know my way around, and after finally gettting into the CP, managed to do a System Recovery to an earlier working point, which is how I am able to reply to this thread.

 

As for an Asus Z87-A motherboard................................................worst enemy(fill in the blanks)!!

 

I had this with my first SSD.  You need to set AHCi and then install Windows, else you will get blue screens.  A right pain in the rear.

Hi Charlatan

 

Thanks for that tip. If I recall, I did set that to AHCI before installing Windows but it was picking up another Windows installation on another SATA hard drive and then blue-screening. Much as your tip is uselful, after all the nonsense I had to go through with with Microsoft just to activate Windows, I think after the frustrations I have had the last few days, I will give it a miss for the moment.

I think that's why only one drive should be physically connected during install of OS.

 

I had issues with my first SSD install as well. Win7 put a "system reserved " partition on my SSD and the main OS was supposed to go on my HDD. I formatted the SSD for FSX and erased the partition - that was a reinstall lol.

 

It sucks when PC stuff doesn't work out great argh!

I reflected on this after I had last posted, and now I distinctly recall when coming to installing the Windows 7 x64 Pro OS, all the other SATA drives were disconnected but the SSD that I was proposing to use as my main OS drive, had a previous Windows 7 x64 Pro install on it from the previous motherboard set-up, so despite the new MoBo selecting AHCI by default, it still  blue-screened with that setting, hence opted for the IDE. I only got the option to re-format that SSD after I had started the OS install.