hello_dan

I tried flashing and it blue screened with the error Page Fault in Non Paged Area

Isnt hotswap the ability to be able to switch hardrives while the pc is running?

How would you update the bios without being in the OS though, sorry I have never had to do that before.

Can sate controllers really break from a unexpected unplug though? Remember it was working great for a really long time before the BSOD. The sata cable was still plugged in to the mother board the hard drive was just disconnected.

Yep tried all that

Im not sure but the PC was off when I re-plugged in the ssd so I dont know how Hot-Swap would cause the bluescreens

So I set up my friends pc was working great for a solid two weeks, one morning he was moving his pc to clean his desk and realized that the Sata cable connecting to his hardrive was loose. He didn't turn of his pc, bieng new to computer building and plugged it back in. Windows promptly crashed, on reboot windows just wouldn't stop crashing so we decided to reinstall windows. THE INSTILLATION WAS STOPPED BY A BLUE SCREEN!!!. We tried using a different ISO to install it and even used a spare disc drive to try it using cd rom. So I took his SSD home with me to reinstall it and somehow it worked! So I raced backed to his house and it freaking blue screened on startup... So I tried troubleshooting through windows, didn't do anything tried to reinstall again, didn't work. Tried resetting the BIOS to default... didn't work. Im stumped someone please im pretty stumped. His Build: GTX 980 ti EVGA Asus ROG MAXIMUS hero 8 ballistix sport 2400mhz ddr4 2x8 samsung 850 evo western digital 1tb caviar black i7 6700k acer 144hz monitor (Just in case the higher refresh rates may have caused it idk) 850wat evga gold supernova

I really want that card, I have been stuck with under budget cards for ever.