hatebreeder Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I built my system yesterday: * i7 4770k •msi z87 gd65 •2x8gb mushkin redline (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...) (( should have gotten corsair)) •corsair force ssd 128 gb •amd 6970 gpu the ssd and gpu are from my old system and i know are working fine. i've tried formatting 6 times in 24 hours with the following results. i go to install vista as my copy of 7 is an upgrade copy and i have to have vista through sp1 installed before i can install 7. After completing install of vista the system is unstable. •it will boot to desktop and i wont be able to get to control panel, the window will pop open and close real quick •sometimes it will boot, get past the vista splash screen and then go to a black screen with a white mouse cursor and just stay there •sometimes it will get to the end of the install process where it says "preparing your desktop" and just sit there for ever. •sometimes i will get an error message after splash screen that says "interactive logon process initialization has failed" I feel like i may have incompatible ram or my ssd is being a chooch. i tried looking at the qvl on msi's site however its a dead link. i called msi to get recommendations for ram prior to ordering and the tech rep told me "if we support the brand at all we support all of their modules for that board" and he confirmed they support mushkin. someone on toms hardware said: "Check your SSD, if it's a Sandforce controller and Corsair used a lot of them, it may not be fully compliant with SATA 3 and the Z87 has tightened up how they interact" it is a sandforce controller, what does this mean for me?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Yes, the original Force Series SSD uses a Sandforce controller. Have you tried plugging the drive into a SATA II port?Latest BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatebreeder Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 Flashed newest bios yesterday. I believe all ports are sata 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Your motherboard does not have any SATA II ports. Only SATA III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyanrol Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 try updating the SSD firmware from your old system. issues which were existent before firmware update have completely vanished! sandforce's new firmware surely will help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnusT Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I have a Force F80 and it is totally unstable (dissapears and comes back and so on) with Intels 8-series chipset. See my thread here http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=122058 AFAIK the first generation Sandforce based SSDs do not work well with 8-series / Haswell chipsets. The only solutiion I found was to get a PCI-express addon SATA card with other/older chip and connect the F80 via that. Then all worked perfectly. Not the solution I wanted but works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant80 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I can confirm that. Intel 8-Series Chipset with old Sandforce SSD is a very bad idea. Buy a new SSD or fix it like MagnusT and me, with a PCI-E SATA card. I think I'll order a Samsung 840 Evo soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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