Can anyone help me out?
I've just taken my dvd drive out ready for installing water cooling in a week or so but my pc is refusing to boot without it.
It boots up until the windows loading screen then just flashes blue and resets but with the dvd drive hooked back up it boots fine.
I've got an Asus P8Z77-V board and it's Win7 64bit ultimate.
What the hell, sounds absurd.
Check out your boot options in the BIOS, maby there's something fucking things up for you.
Well that's messed up. I would suggest going into the BIOS to check the boot priority. By default it's set to the DVD drive so try making your boot drive the number one priority and see what happens. You shoud also check your SATA connctions too as you might have dislodged your drive at some point.
Even if the BIOS is set to boot from the DVD first once it sees there is nothing in the drive it automatically moves on to the next drive looking for the OS. Sounds like a connection problem to your HDD or heaven forbid an actual problem with your HDD itself. Removing the DVD should have no effect on your system’s ability to boot up.
I've tried that and still no luck.
With the drive unplugged it defaulted to my hdd instead of my ssd but even after I set the ssd back to the primary boot drive it still crashes.
When you set up your BIOS initially did you have everything set to AHCI? If you have some set to something other than AHCI and some set to AHCI then I can see this causing a problem. Check your BIOS to insure every drive is set to the same AHCI as this is what your SSD needs to be set to in order to function properly.
Everything is set to AHCI. The dvd drive is dissabled in the boot menu but still when I phyisically remove it windows won't load properly.
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I'd just like to say thanks to who have offered advice so far as well. It's really apreciated guys.
I think at this point I would get a HDD that you know is in good working order and load Windows onto it. Get all the updates for Windows and throw the drivers from your motherboard disc onto it as well. There is no need to get all the latest drivers from the website as you are just trying to narrow down the problem here. Disconnect all other SSD and HDDs in your system and see if the system will boot off of this new HDD. Try using the same SATA connection that your SSD is connected to first. If that doesn’t work try changing SATA ports to see it that is the problem. Double check your RAM is properly seated and even clean your RAM contacts with 99% isopropyl alcohol to insure clean connectivity. Let us know how it goes from there.
I know the drives work as windows boots as soon as the DVD is hooked back up even when it is disabled in bios.
Here's a video to show what's happening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRmU9LPiXCc&feature=youtu.be
I'm running our of ideas here as this is a real odd ball. Have you tried connecting your hdd to the same SATA port you connect your DVD to?Almost sounds like there is something going on with the Z77 chipset or the Northbridge. Sorry I cannot be of much more help. If this does not work re-post your problem with your video so more people will see it and perhaps be able to offer you better advise. Best of luck and again, sorry I cannot be of much more help.
I've sorted it.
It turns out the top set of sata 6 ports don't show up in bios as bootable and that's where I had the drives plugged in to. Cheers for the help guys, I can't believe I missed that one.