P8p67 woes

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It's my first proper PC build and I've struggled for a few hours trying to get my board to recognize my hard drive. Everything was connected as I could browse the files on the EZ flash tool. But when i tried to boot to windows it just froze, I'd get the BSOD for half a second and then a restart. Googled some info and changed settings in the Bios to IDE (?). That was the trick and all was good for about 2 hours. But computer froze on me and now I'm back to square one. Extremely frustrating.

Specs: 2500k, P8p67m pro, 1333Mhz, Gtx 460, 1 Tb seagate 7200

Assistance needed.
 
Are you using only one drive? I mentioned this to someone else in another thread, the drive with Windows on must be an MBR drive and any others GPT, otherwise it doesn't seem to work for some reason. Don't change your BIOS settings to IDE mode, that's a compatibilty setting and you lose out on performance.
 
Your HDD should be set to AHCI. Not sure if I understand you properly, but you said the HDD has previously installed Windows on it? Are you saying that you didn't do a fresh install, just took your HDD out of your old PC and put it into the new? If so then there's your problem, you need to reinstall.

Otherwise if it's randomly BSODs then run a check on the memory. Try and give a bit more detail so people can provide some more advice.
 
South_Bit said:
Are you saying that you didn't do a fresh install, just took your HDD out of your old PC and put it into the new? If so then there's your problem, you need to reinstall.

Otherwise if it's randomly BSODs then run a check on the memory.
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What he said.
 
+1 to what South_Bit said.

It's most likely a harddrive controller issue, where your previous PC used it in IDE mode, and now your Asus motherboard is using it in AHCI mode, and this ALWAYS causes BSOD's!
 
South_Bit said:
Your HDD should be set to AHCI. Not sure if I understand you properly, but you said the HDD has previously installed Windows on it? Are you saying that you didn't do a fresh install, just took your HDD out of your old PC and put it into the new? If so then there's your problem, you need to reinstall.

Otherwise if it's randomly BSODs then run a check on the memory. Try and give a bit more detail so people can provide some more advice.
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I tried the same thing without wanna reinstall Win 7 32bit. Back up your data and do a fresh install. only way to go.
 
This is windows not linux, you got to rebuild Sparta from scratch!
 
Single hdd. Taken from old pc. Thanks for info, will try and reinstall. My drive has a partition with windows separated from everything else. Will report back
 
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