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- Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:44 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
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Re: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
They were much more responsive when i contacted them by email. They recommended i disconnect the cache drive and try to boot again. After i did that startup repair was able to repair what was preventing it from booting. Looking into the event logs after all that i found it was a .Net installation ru...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 2:23 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12611
Re: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
I've sent an email to technical support. Waiting on a reply now. I used a live USB distribution to stress test the hardware before installing windows this time. I let the tests run for a long time to ensure the hardware was sound before i wasted time installing all this again. So i'm fairly certain ...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:14 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12611
Re: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
I'd like to mark this topic as unsolved because this morning my main machine started having this issue again. To clarify: This was never a hardware issue. If it was a hardware issue i would not have seen identical behavior on two machines. I also should not be seeing it again, as i am now, once the ...
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:18 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12611
Re: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
I'd also like to note that the layer 1 cache exposes ram issues VERY quickly. One of the two machines needed a slightly higher voltage on an older stick of ram and i was getting BSODs very often until i got it upped the correct amount.
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:12 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12611
Re: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
I tried again last night on both machines and also noticed i had previously checked to include the 100mb System Reserved partition in the cache task. AFAIK that partition is a boot partition required if you'll be using bitlocker encryption on the whole drive. I believe i was thinking that if it was ...
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:29 pm
- Forum: Technical Support
- Topic: Can't boot two machines after windows updates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12611
Can't boot two machines after windows updates
I rebuilt two machines from scratch last night and had some issues. Here's the config of each: PC1 AMD FX 8320E Vishera 8gb ram 4 Disks in RAID 10 (1.2TB) on MSI 970A-G46 AMD 970 / AMD SB950 Chipset 1 Samsung SSD (120GB) PC2 AMD Phenom II X4 955BE 8GB ram 2 Disk in RAID 1 (1TB) on MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD...