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Ameraves

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It appears to have worked. When I clicked on one of the folders it gave me a message about not having permission to access this folder, and to click continue to gain access permanently. About 5 minutes of thinking it eventually opened up and worked. So now I can grab all the files I need off of it and reformat it.
 
Ameraves

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Yay for more issues. The computer now gets stuck in a boot loop. Here is what happens.

On normal bootup, it shows the Intel splash screen, then a second later shows the options to go into BIOS, BIOS Update, and Boot Order. Now, if the computer needs to be restarted after an update or something, it gets to the Intel splash screen, but none of the other options show up, and then it immediately reboots again. It will do this over and over again until I hold the power button down to shut it off. I have to leave it off for about 10 seconds, and then restart it and it boots up like normal.

I tried a few Google searches, and none of the results were exactly the same as I am experiencing. I don't recall changing anything that could have caused it to start doing this, so I am lost as to what to do to fix it.
 
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So are you saying you are unable to get to BIOS at all? Even if the option is hidden, try to break into BIOS. If the PC isn't getting to that point in BIOS then I assume something is failing.

With no real bread crumbs, you may want to pop out your CMOS battery so the settings can be cleared.
 
Ameraves

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Nope, can't even get into BIOS. I tried mashing F2 when the screen popped up but nothing happens, and it just shuts back down and does it again. I'll try taking the battery out when I get home tonight.
 
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Shot in the dark in the unlikely event someone else has dealt with this strange problem.

Just bought a crucial m500 240gb ssd, installed into a sandy bridge system from a couple of years ago using an Asus p8p67 ws revolution mainboard and an i7-2600k. When I cold boot the system, I get a Kernel_Data_Inpage_Error. Something is happening as it tries to load system files. The system then reboots, and loads to desktop and seems 100% stable. On a restart, the error doesn't appear. Only when I completely shut down and power up.

Windows 8 installs fine, no hardware errors appear from any test I run, chkdsk, memory diagnostics, etc. I've tried everything I can think of. I've switched the sata ports on the drives, I've changed virtual memory settings, updated the motherboard to the current BIOS revision, erased partitions, did a slow format and reinstall, messed with voltages in case it's some sort of power issue on bootup. I'm getting no errors anywhere, no leads as to what it could be. There is no updated firmware for the m500.

Really don't feel like sending this drive back. The system seems 100% stable, aside from cold boot. I could live with that personally, but this is a build for a friend, and would rather not send him a machine with a glaring, if minor, problem like this.
 
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Fixed O_O. Intel Rapid Storage Tech driver did it. Didn't realize I needed it installed. Tried it and boom no error. From POST to desktop in 12 seconds.

I owe my oldest friend a few hundred bucks from way back in the day, when we were broke 20somethings living on Bourbon street. He has long since declared the debt paid, but it really wasn't, and I never forgot. His PC is ancient. Taking a trip to New Orleans and surprising him with this beast
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Sutekh

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Shit, I feel bad for not monitoring this thread. I could have told you that instantly, ALWAYS keep a copy of that IRST driver on a flash drive.
 
Adebisi

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Help Computer!

My desktop has been acting up for about a year now. I'll be minding my own computer business, and the PC will completely lock up for anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds. If I'm playing anything with audio, the audio will "skip" (sounds like a power tool sometimes). I could be busy doing something on the computer and it happens, or it could just be idling and it happens. There are really no warning signs. There is not slow down or chugging before it freezes, and there is no slow down or chuggin' after it unfreezes.

Some weeks are worse than others. And sometimes it goes away for a month or two.

She's an old Dell XPS 630 - about 5 years old.
Intel Core?2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs
nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
500GB - Seagate 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
 
Noodleface

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Adebisi bro to me it sounds like a HDD issue too. Probably the HDD is going. If you do a full scan disk (do it so it does the scan disk on next reboot), does it help/show any errors?
 
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I have half a mind to just get a new HDD. I could always use more superbits, milibytes, hurtz, terapixels, and megagigs.
 
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before you spend any money, make sure its not some bullshit program or driver hogging your cpu causing audio skips.

dpclat is what I use.

edit: oh you posted twice, I was like, what the fuck, didn't I reply to this? LOL
 
Ameraves

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Noodleface_sl said:
So are you saying you are unable to get to BIOS at all? Even if the option is hidden, try to break into BIOS. If the PC isn't getting to that point in BIOS then I assume something is failing.

With no real bread crumbs, you may want to pop out your CMOS battery so the settings can be cleared.
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Tried this and still nothing. I have tried searching Google, tried resetting all the BIOS settings, tried the reset jump, nothing. Still just goes to the Intel splash screen but that is as far as it gets, then reboots again.

Anyone else have any suggestions?
 
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