SlicedCable
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Hello guys,
I got some seriously weird problems after I did something incredibly stupid. I'm still punching my head against the wall, because normally I'm intelligent enough to do NOT something stupid like this - but it was late and I didn't think about it.
So 3 days ago I had some problems with VMWare's Workstation. It didn't detect the x64 processor. I later realized a restart did the trick. But I started to search for a BIOS update. My board has version F1, currently F9 is the most recent.
I informed myself about installing it, but because of the wise old idiom "Never change a running system", I cancelled this thought of updating. But I saw that Gigabyte had relased a TouchBIOS version which had to be installed as normal software on Windows. I thought this was nice and installed it. Because there was no warning that my board may could be incompatible (because of the older BIOS version, the board itself would be compatible) I went on.
This is where my spontaneous stupidity comes in: I started the TouchBIOS software, because it's an executable. And now things went awry. Windows instantly hang. The cursor was moveable but had the waiting circle applied. Slowly more and more parts of Windows got stuck. I opened the Menu (got Start8, so it's not the Metro menu) and so this got freezed as well. I tried opening the Task Manager to kill this crap. Didn't even respond. Nothing opened. Everything got stuck, after a few seconds the music has gone.
After about 2-3 minutes finally everything worked again and the TouchBIOS UI showed up.
Shutting down the PC now didn't work anymore. It hang during the shutdown-screen. Pressed the restart-button and it booted normally. Everything seems to be normal but that all startup-programs didn't show up. I opened the Control Panel (or Explorer or whatever, happens with everything) the cursor shows the waiting circle and nothing happens. Sliding to the right site opens the Windows Bar. Clicking on any button (Control Panel, PC Options, or whatever) closes the bar and nothing happens.
I then opened the Event Log Viewer. Nothing happens as well. After 3-5 minutes finally everything appears instantly, all startup-programs like Avast now show up. The Event Log shows no errors nor any critical entries. Just some infos:
This entry has towards it's previous one a time difference of 6 minutes, so obviously the drivers keep the system stuck.
I initially tried refreshing Windows. This worked. Till the ~4-6 boot. Then the same behavior showed up. I then re-installed it completely by formating the system drive (partition to be exact). Same thing. Until the ~5-6 boot everything was fine, now I got the same annoying problems.
What do you guys thing? Is this a hardware problem (probably the mainboard?) or what could be the reason for this? If it was a software failure, it should have been fixed after formating the system partition, shouldn't it? Would be nothing to wonder about if the TouchBIOS thing have screwed up the mainboard, or something else.
Any ideas? I really don't have one, though I normally were able to fix most problems by myself. This is something completely new and I can't find any hint which would give me a clue of what's wrong...
Thanks guys
SC
I got some seriously weird problems after I did something incredibly stupid. I'm still punching my head against the wall, because normally I'm intelligent enough to do NOT something stupid like this - but it was late and I didn't think about it.
So 3 days ago I had some problems with VMWare's Workstation. It didn't detect the x64 processor. I later realized a restart did the trick. But I started to search for a BIOS update. My board has version F1, currently F9 is the most recent.
I informed myself about installing it, but because of the wise old idiom "Never change a running system", I cancelled this thought of updating. But I saw that Gigabyte had relased a TouchBIOS version which had to be installed as normal software on Windows. I thought this was nice and installed it. Because there was no warning that my board may could be incompatible (because of the older BIOS version, the board itself would be compatible) I went on.
This is where my spontaneous stupidity comes in: I started the TouchBIOS software, because it's an executable. And now things went awry. Windows instantly hang. The cursor was moveable but had the waiting circle applied. Slowly more and more parts of Windows got stuck. I opened the Menu (got Start8, so it's not the Metro menu) and so this got freezed as well. I tried opening the Task Manager to kill this crap. Didn't even respond. Nothing opened. Everything got stuck, after a few seconds the music has gone.
After about 2-3 minutes finally everything worked again and the TouchBIOS UI showed up.
Shutting down the PC now didn't work anymore. It hang during the shutdown-screen. Pressed the restart-button and it booted normally. Everything seems to be normal but that all startup-programs didn't show up. I opened the Control Panel (or Explorer or whatever, happens with everything) the cursor shows the waiting circle and nothing happens. Sliding to the right site opens the Windows Bar. Clicking on any button (Control Panel, PC Options, or whatever) closes the bar and nothing happens.
I then opened the Event Log Viewer. Nothing happens as well. After 3-5 minutes finally everything appears instantly, all startup-programs like Avast now show up. The Event Log shows no errors nor any critical entries. Just some infos:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 19.04.2014 11:50:50
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Gamerstream
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) did not load:
dam
EhStorClass
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7026</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-19T09:50:50.770221800Z" />
<EventRecordID>1013</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="740" ThreadID="744" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Gamerstream</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">
dam
EhStorClass</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
This entry has towards it's previous one a time difference of 6 minutes, so obviously the drivers keep the system stuck.
I initially tried refreshing Windows. This worked. Till the ~4-6 boot. Then the same behavior showed up. I then re-installed it completely by formating the system drive (partition to be exact). Same thing. Until the ~5-6 boot everything was fine, now I got the same annoying problems.
What do you guys thing? Is this a hardware problem (probably the mainboard?) or what could be the reason for this? If it was a software failure, it should have been fixed after formating the system partition, shouldn't it? Would be nothing to wonder about if the TouchBIOS thing have screwed up the mainboard, or something else.
Any ideas? I really don't have one, though I normally were able to fix most problems by myself. This is something completely new and I can't find any hint which would give me a clue of what's wrong...
Thanks guys
SC
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel i5-2500K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z68P-DS3 (Rev 1.0)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Avast