linderman

In your shoes; assuming you are willing to "go the extra mile and expend the diligence" to make this work correctly


I would use another internal sata drive / buy another if needed / you will soon enough;learn there is no stability in hard drives today without data redundancy. drives are cheap but filled with undependable performance as a result of market competition.


I would start a fresh install of windows on a new drive / bring the OS up to date with all patches and hotfixes / install all system drivers

then use the drive


I think your woes are caused by some other outside or third party software interference

food for thought

the willingness of asus to set-up an identical system to yours "smells" like they know they need to make a bios revision to fix your troubles. but; I cant say for sure!

a clean OS to start from would be my plan

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