I put together a cheap build for my father. It worked for about a month and then we couldnt boot into Windows 8. after testing ram, hard drives, and attempting to re-install different versions of windows. We had noticed that BIOS was detecting the SATA hard drives in the right spot, but the blue-ray player was being detected in the wrong port, and the DVD-player wasn't even showing up at all.
We came to the conclusion that it was a defective board and that we should buy a new one. After buying the same board the BIOS read the SATA correctly until we tried installing windows 8. and got the same error massages as before telling us it was a NTFS problem. We checked the BIOS and the same exact problem was appearing.
Why could this be happening? Is there an incompatibility between hardware on the board or is it like this for all of this board?
specs:
motherboard - MSI 970A-G43
CPU - AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core
RAM- 4 4GB Corsair Vengeance
HDD - 2 Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Video Card - MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB
Blu-Ray - LG WH16NS40
We came to the conclusion that it was a defective board and that we should buy a new one. After buying the same board the BIOS read the SATA correctly until we tried installing windows 8. and got the same error massages as before telling us it was a NTFS problem. We checked the BIOS and the same exact problem was appearing.
Why could this be happening? Is there an incompatibility between hardware on the board or is it like this for all of this board?
specs:
motherboard - MSI 970A-G43
CPU - AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core
RAM- 4 4GB Corsair Vengeance
HDD - 2 Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Video Card - MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB
Blu-Ray - LG WH16NS40