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2015/11/30 10:48:29 (permalink)
My system has been working 100% perfect till a few days ago. I went from 8 to 16 gigs of ram a few weeks ago and that's when I started having problems. The ram is good, the timing and voltage is fine and it shows up. After I put my system to sleep, upon waking up, it is going to the bios screen and then I am getting a disk boot failure. I have physically checked all the cables, I swapped sata ports and changed some little stuff in bios making sure that the boot order is correct. I messed with the achi and then changed it to IDE in bios getting a little further into start up each time where windows start screen would animate just a little and then a very quick bsod and then restart. I have everything at stock clocks right now and I switched it back to achi and only have the hard disk (ssd) as a boot option. It now went to start up repair, turned itself off and when I turn it on, it is fine but I bet the next time I power down or go to sleep, this will all happen again. Is there something obvious I messed up that I am missing? I don't know all of the options in bios and generally leave things alone except to check with timing/voltages/boot orders and such.
 
The only thing I have not done was flashed the bios, it is original. Reading up on it sounds like flashing a bios is like playing Russian roulette. I have done it before in the past on other computers but everything I have read says don't do it unless you have to. I just want to make sure I am not missing something simple first. The ssd with the OS on it is a new (a few months old ) samsung 850 evo with a fairly fresh install. The mobo is a gigabyte Z68P-DS3 and has some Q flash deal on it and as mentioned, everything else is kept at stock with correct voltages if any of that info helps... Thanks in advance for any help!
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    Re: Need help. Boot disk failure. 2015/11/30 11:09:50 (permalink)
    Hello agent8,
     
    OS is Win 7 ?
     
    You covered some good basics.
     
    I would boot into safe mode if it happens again - this usually lets Win sort itself out.
     
    Maybe double check your sleep mode settings in BIOS & hibernate settings in Windows - may be too small - you added RAM.
     
    I have had issues on reboot, if one of my security software products does a scan and my machine then goes to sleep - seems it tried to auto restart - upon waking the boot order was off for unknown reasons.
     
     

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    Re: Need help. Boot disk failure. 2015/11/30 11:11:45 (permalink)
    Yes, Windows 7 pro 64. I will try that. Thank you.
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    Re: Need help. Boot disk failure. 2015/11/30 15:11:53 (permalink)
    IDE has a very low Size in GB and will not work on larger than 128 G drive. 

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    Re: Need help. Boot disk failure. 2015/12/04 12:45:43 (permalink)
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    Yes, Windows 7 pro 64. I will try that. Thank you.


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