Specifications: i3-550, P55-USB3, 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333, ADATA 64GB SSD, Windows 7 x86 Home Premium
Built this computer for my father in December, everything worked great. He added his two old IDE hard-drives as slaves, everything was peachy until a week ago.
After long durations (usually when he leaves the computer on overnight), in the morning there will be an error screen stating: STATUS: 0xC00000e9 - An Unexpected I/O Error has Occurred
Upon reboot, the BIOS has re-ordered his HDD boot priority (the SSD always behind both IDE drives), which he has to change and then everything works again.
I googled the error and it seems the problem could be with the motherboard, the hard-drive or the Windows install; which doesn't necessarily help me narrow down the problem much. I updated the BIOS from F8 to F9 through the @BIOS utility, will see if this fixes the problem.
If not, what is best course of action? I'm thinking of removing the two IDE hard-drives and seeing if the problem still occurs. If so, try to see if Recovery Console does anything (not holding my breath).
Has anyone else with the P55-USB3 had similar errors? If so, was there a solution or did you RMA?