Hi there,
New to the site. Hopefully not a stupid question!
I have upgraded my old PC to:
- Bios 1305
- Changed to AHCI in the 3 settings in the BIOS
- Replaced hard drives to 2 OCZ Agility 3 drives. (Upgraded firmware to latest)
- Added 4Gb extra memory
- Changed to Windows 8 64-bit Pro
- Installed the latest Intel Rapid Storage drivers.
However, I periodically get issues with my PC rebooting itself. It gets a Windows 8 critical error (the blue screen with the sad face) and then reboots.
I am not sure if my hardware just does not support it.
What I want to ask is:
a) Can anyone see any problems with my configuration (details below)
b) What custom BIOS should I use on this site if it fixes any of these problems.
c) I can already see the ACHI and RAID options on my existing BIOS. What do the custom BIOSes give me?
d) Can anyone see why I am getting these problems - is it an ASUS motherboard issue or an SSD issue?
My machine after running for about a month with critical error reboots every now and then now constantly reboots so I can't reach the desktop.
Thanks.
Asus P5K-E WiFi-AP motherboard upgraded to:
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SL...-ap&p=1&os=
Version 1305
Description
P5K-E/WiFi-AP BIOS 1305
1. Update JMB controller Option ROM.
File Size
1009.14 (KBytes)
2009/07/02 update
Basically, this is a really old machine I constructed 5 years ago using Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
I thought that over Xmas, I would upgrade the machine, so I bought:
- Windows 8 64-bit
- 4Gb more RAM taking it to 8Gb
- A new VTX3D AMD Radeon 7770 HD 1GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI X-Edition graphics card (thought that there might be graphics problems with an old graphics card on Windows 8)
http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-...-893P.html
- 2 new OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-240G Agility 3 240GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD hard drives
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004Z...UTF8&psc=1
Other older components retained:
- ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP AiLifestyle Series P35 Socket 775 Socket eSATA 8 channel Audio ATX Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor
- Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Kit CL5 1.9V