Weird problems after getting 3D monitor
Here's my rig:

Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Motherboard
i5 2500k
2x Gigabyte GTX 560 in SLI
G.SKILL Ripjaws 16GB DDR3 1333 F3-10666CL9Q-16GBRL
CM-PSU650HX Corsair 650W PSU
1TB WD Black 7200RPM SATA
BD-ROM (SATA)
60GB OCZ Vertex II
ASUS VG236H + 3D Vision Glasses Kit (upstairs)
Samsung LED TV (downstairs)
Many usb devices: Wireless mouse/keyboard, DVD-RW Drive, 3D Vision Glasses and emitter, wired mouse and keyboard.
Standard Mid-tower with 4 120mm fans
Corsair H-50

I'm a pretty experienced builder/gamer, but this has never happened to me before- I built this setup a couple months ago and it ran stable (but hot) for a long time. Then I got the 3D monitor and the SSD. When I put the computer to sleep, either through windows or an accidental (and very frustrating) keyboard button press, it will boot up and then shut down right after POSTing. When I reset the CMOS it tries to do a system recovery, but this won't show up on either monitor so it gets stuck in boot-up limbo until I plug in a different monitor and make it not try to do a system restore. Then it boots OK but it asks me if I want to boot between two Windows 7 installs, of which I thought I only had one. On both the TV and the monitor there is no POST screen or anything until the Windows welcome screen appears. These issues did not happen until the first time I put the computer to sleep. Also games will sometimes freeze during play or right at shutdown. My guesses are: bad RAM, which is hard to test cause I can't run memtest since I can't see pre-windows screens, PSU not strong enough, or some weirdness with the 3D Monitor and the non-3D TV not communicating properly. Any ideas? Thanks!
Here's my rig:



Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Motherboard

i5 2500k

2x Gigabyte GTX 560 in SLI

G.SKILL Ripjaws 16GB DDR3 1333 F3-10666CL9Q-16GBRL

CM-PSU650HX Corsair 650W PSU

1TB WD Black 7200RPM SATA

BD-ROM (SATA)

60GB OCZ Vertex II

ASUS VG236H + 3D Vision Glasses Kit (upstairs)

Samsung LED TV (downstairs)

Many usb devices: Wireless mouse/keyboard, DVD-RW Drive, 3D Vision Glasses and emitter, wired mouse and keyboard.

Standard Mid-tower with 4 120mm fans

Corsair H-50



I'm a pretty experienced builder/gamer, but this has never happened to me before- I built this setup a couple months ago and it ran stable (but hot) for a long time. Then I got the 3D monitor and the SSD. When I put the computer to sleep, either through windows or an accidental (and very frustrating) keyboard button press, it will boot up and then shut down right after POSTing. When I reset the CMOS it tries to do a system recovery, but this won't show up on either monitor so it gets stuck in boot-up limbo until I plug in a different monitor and make it not try to do a system restore. Then it boots OK but it asks me if I want to boot between two Windows 7 installs, of which I thought I only had one. On both the TV and the monitor there is no POST screen or anything until the Windows welcome screen appears. These issues did not happen until the first time I put the computer to sleep. Also games will sometimes freeze during play or right at shutdown. My guesses are: bad RAM, which is hard to test cause I can't run memtest since I can't see pre-windows screens, PSU not strong enough, or some weirdness with the 3D Monitor and the non-3D TV not communicating properly. Any ideas? Thanks!

#1
Posted 08/21/2011 11:21 PM   
I've got an ASUS VG236H and I can see the POST screen.
I've got an ASUS VG236H and I can see the POST screen.
#2
Posted 08/21/2011 11:34 PM   
Well first, I think you need to see if you have TWO Windows 7 installs. You said you just got an SSD, I assume you installed windows 7 on it. If you did, and left the other drive in while doing so, it will create the second install having done it on a new drive. You may need to take your storage (old windows) drive out, reinstall on the SSD WITHOUT THE OTHER DRIVE IN, so winodws does not recognize a previous install. Put your storage drive back in and delete the entire (old) windows 7 folder. Hopefully, you'll have one boot, and you should see your post screen again. After all that, test each stick of mem separately and run some memtests and games for a while on each one.

If I was in your position, thats the stuff I would try first.
Well first, I think you need to see if you have TWO Windows 7 installs. You said you just got an SSD, I assume you installed windows 7 on it. If you did, and left the other drive in while doing so, it will create the second install having done it on a new drive. You may need to take your storage (old windows) drive out, reinstall on the SSD WITHOUT THE OTHER DRIVE IN, so winodws does not recognize a previous install. Put your storage drive back in and delete the entire (old) windows 7 folder. Hopefully, you'll have one boot, and you should see your post screen again. After all that, test each stick of mem separately and run some memtests and games for a while on each one.



If I was in your position, thats the stuff I would try first.

AsRock X58 Extreme6 mobo
Intel Core-i7 950 @ 4ghz
12gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600
ASUS DirectCU II GTX 780 3gb
Corsair TX 950w PSU
NZXT Phantom Red/Black Case
3d Vision 1 w/ Samsung 2233rz Monitor
3d Vision 2 w/ ASUS VG278HE Monitor

#3
Posted 08/22/2011 02:09 AM   
[quote name='AcidBong' date='22 August 2011 - 04:09 AM' timestamp='1313978958' post='1282377']
Well first, I think you need to see if you have TWO Windows 7 installs. You said you just got an SSD, I assume you installed windows 7 on it. If you did, and left the other drive in while doing so, it will create the second install having done it on a new drive. You may need to take your storage (old windows) drive out, reinstall on the SSD WITHOUT THE OTHER DRIVE IN, so winodws does not recognize a previous install. Put your storage drive back in and delete the entire (old) windows 7 folder. Hopefully, you'll have one boot, and you should see your post screen again. After all that, test each stick of mem separately and run some memtests and games for a while on each one.

If I was in your position, thats the stuff I would try first.
[/quote]

Right..! re-install windows with only the SSD installed...
And try turning off those sleeping modes...especially for the SSD...if you Google ,then you see alot of post about ssd failer and sleeping modes...
[quote name='AcidBong' date='22 August 2011 - 04:09 AM' timestamp='1313978958' post='1282377']

Well first, I think you need to see if you have TWO Windows 7 installs. You said you just got an SSD, I assume you installed windows 7 on it. If you did, and left the other drive in while doing so, it will create the second install having done it on a new drive. You may need to take your storage (old windows) drive out, reinstall on the SSD WITHOUT THE OTHER DRIVE IN, so winodws does not recognize a previous install. Put your storage drive back in and delete the entire (old) windows 7 folder. Hopefully, you'll have one boot, and you should see your post screen again. After all that, test each stick of mem separately and run some memtests and games for a while on each one.



If I was in your position, thats the stuff I would try first.





Right..! re-install windows with only the SSD installed...

And try turning off those sleeping modes...especially for the SSD...if you Google ,then you see alot of post about ssd failer and sleeping modes...

Intel I7 3820 3.8 Ghz,MSI MS7760 Motherboard, 6GB )2x MSI GTX670 (SLI),OCZ Vertex 230Gb SSD,OCZ Agility 120Gb SSD, Asus 3D VG278HR ,Optoma HD67 3D DLP Beamer with 95inch 2.5 gain screen.

#4
Posted 08/22/2011 06:39 PM   
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