Sudden restarts

[yiso]

I made the 1st priority set to harddrive and the rest are disabled. the harddrive priority itself is set A. SSD B. WD C.bootable addon cards

Regards,,,

[yiso]

the computer just restarted .. once again , after 2 HOURS of booting .. I feel there is a ghost inside there 

[Dark Mantis]

Try clearing the CMOS totally, follow these instructions:

Remove the power cable from the mains supply and then press the power switch on the case for a few seconds just to drain any residual energy in the PSU capacitors.

Once done remove the motherboard battery for at least one hour before replacing it.
 
Next plug back into the mains supply and boot.
 
You will now need to enter the BIOS by pressing DEL and load Optimised BIOS Defaults.

Make any other changes to the BIOS settings to suit your self like disabling the floppy drive, disabling the full screen logo and making the HDD the primary boot device and then press F10 to save and exit.

[yiso]

I done that , let's see if it will reboot once again !

[yiso]

Not joy .. just rebooted on me

What really kills me is that this reboot is happening only after 2 hours on booting .. can someone explain

Anyway, am sending my MoB for RMA!

[Dark Mantis]

Yes  I think that is probably the best course of action.

It might be worth just in case it is a software fault turning off the Reboot option in Windows.

First thing I would advise you to do would be to go to Control Panel/System Properties/Advanced System Settings/Advanced tab/Startup and Recovery/Settings and untick the box marked Automatically restart and then OK.

[yiso]

My MoB is back from Gigabyte local support center and the same problem happened again. Am opening up a thread in OCZ support forums coz it might be the SSD!

Regards,,

[Dark Mantis]

Yes good idea as certain OCZ SSDs in the past have caused problems with Gigabyte motherboards, usually I think solved by a firmware fix.

[autotech]

That was the fastest RMA ever, sent in on a sunday and back on a tuesday. My RMA with gigabyte took about two weeks some people have all the luck.

[Dark Mantis]

That was the fastest RMA ever, sent in on a sunday and back on a tuesday. My RMA with gigabyte took about two weeks some people have all the luck.

Yes I noticed that too. Somehow I doubt that it ever got past the retailer. Maybe they had a look, a quick test and returned it.

[yiso]

I think it was all about the OS .. I re-installed the Windows and it seems to be stable so far.

One thing I noticed, when I Tried to change the mode from Native IDE to AHCI and rebooted ,and during the start of the windows the system goes on blue screen and restart. It's only working fine on IDE.

Personally I cant notice any performance difference. So do I stay on IDE or shall I do something to make work on AHCI ?

P.S: whats the differences between ?

[absic]

Hi there,

if you installed the OS in IDE Mode you can't just change the controller to AHCI Mode, as you have discovered. This is due to the way that Windows is installed. You can change to AHCI Mode though so all is not lost but it requires a registry tweak to get things working.

AHCI stand for Advance Host Controller Interface. AHCI is a hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices (such as host bus adapters) that are designed to offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers, such as:
•Hot-Plugging
•Native Command Queuing (NCQ) -might improve computer/system/hard disk responsiveness, especially in multi-tasking environment
 
Instruction: The detailed steps from Microsoft website for switching to AHCI Mode after an IDE install are as follows:
 •Exit all Windows-based programs.
 •Press [Win] + R or take the RUN option from the start menu.
 •Now type regedit there and press Enter Key to open up the Registry Editor Window.
 •If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
 •Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\msahci
 •In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
 •In the Value data box, type 0 [3 is default], and then click OK.
 •On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
 • Restart your computer
 • Go to BIOS and enable AHCI, Save & Reboot
 • Another restart will be required to finish the driver installation.

[yiso]

Brilliant!
but is it going to provide a boost in performance or will keep my SSD healthy ? What's the reason of switching to AHCI?

Regards,,,

[Dark Mantis]

AHCI gives a performance boost as well as allowing NCQ. It will support TRIM for your SSD as well and if you needed it then you could use the Hot Swap capability. Generally better all round.

[absic]

You probably won't see much improvement in overall performance, with regards to speeds, but AHCI Mode is better for your SSD as it will pass TRIM commands, which will help keep the SSD clean and functioning as it should.

EDIT: Just beat me to that DM!