SSD/Windows 8 Issues

I have just installed a new Samsung 840 SSD drive, another two sticks of RAM (2GB each) and then installed a fresh copy of Windows 8 Pro x64 on to the SSD.

When I start my computer it begins to start for 1 second, then shuts itself of for 1 second, then it will start as normal. Is this some kind of power issue? I do have 4 hard drives but a 650W should be ok to power the system in my signature. The RAM shows Ok and the SSD works fine.

When the computer starts my bios splash screen shows, then the SSD card initiates and details on the screen, then the bios will show again before the computer attempts to start, I thought this was also strange.

I have 3 operating systems installed (Windows 7 x86 and Windows XP x86 on one of my Samsung SATA HDD's and Windows 8 x64 on my new SSD). I am also having trouble assigning the C: drive to my new Windows 8 installation when actually inside the Windows 8 partition. Disk management will not let me assign the C: drive even though it is free. Is this just a case of moving the drive letters around to and restarting the computer to make the C: drive available?

I moved the SSD drive to the first boot device within the Hard Disk Boot priority in my BIOS and when I started the computer an installation of Windows was not detected. I moved the first boot device back to my Samsung HDD and it started fine and asked me which installation of Windows I wanted to start.

I think that the boot manager may be messed up. I did a fresh install of Windows 8 on the SSD using the disk but I did it whilst in Windows 7 would doing this create the problem I am having?

after doing another clean install of Windows 8 that has solved some of my problems. I can now boot from the SSD and it is set as drive C:

Although I am still having trouble with the funny startup procedure. It sounds like the computer is shutting off then continues to start up fine.

Seems like its a motherboard issue. Try resetting the cmos. Do you have an overclock setup on it?

No overclocking set up. I will try and reset the CMOS now.

Hi john

I have reseated the CMOS battery and so far it seems OK. I have restarted the computer 4 times and it loads up fine now so I will keep an eye on that.

I also have the 8GB RAM Installed (4GB Usable) problem that everyone seems to get. It shows maximum usable 4GB in Windows and in my BIOS. I have an x64 OS so I should get the full 8GB.

I have reseated the modules, reseated the CMOS battery and in bios:

Checked that memory remapping was enabled.
Enabled XMP Profile

I have heard that I may need to reseat my CPU and check for bent pins. Is this the issue or is there an easier alternative?

Go into msconfig, boot tab, advanced options, see what the max mem option is set for. The box should be unchecked.

Yeah I have tried that also now.

I have also tried disabling on board graphics, D.O.C.P and updating BIOS.

The 4gb is showing as hardware reserved.

I think I need to check my CPU pins.

I reseated the RAM for the fourth time and the motherboard has finally picked it up! 8GB usable!

Thanks for the help.