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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: knightrider56 on November 17, 2010, 12:38:03 am
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I had my C drive crash and when I tried to reload xp pro sp2, I get to a certain point and get the Blue Screen of Death. error occured and windows has stopped to keep from damaging you machine, yada yada yada. So I went out and got a new WD 500 gig replacement hd and a copy of Win XP Pro x64 sp 2 and tried to start from scratch. I get to about the same spot and bang the blue screen again. Am I missing something ? Do I need to reset the bios or something on my mother board before I can go forward or is it something else stoping me. cant be a virus. new HD and new OS. help ??? ???
i have the AMD 7 series utility dvd it that will help My set up si a AMD AM2/3 socket board that supports 64 bit os. i have another copy of the same board running windows 7 in another machine. in both i am using the AMD AM2 tri-core 2.8Ghz chip non overclocked.
and the board has dual bios.. I am running 4 gig of memory in the machine that wont let me load the OS.
any suggestions please
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Definitely sounds like a hardware problem. Have you tested the memory to make sure its was not the cause of all your problems? Get Memtest here http://www.memtest.org/ Check to make sure your CPU is not overheating, fan spinning, heat sink properly mounted and free if dust? If you can rule out the above do you have another power supply you can try.
Bill
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You didn't explain what happened to the HDD and why the crash happened, but assuming that it was just a faulty hard drive I would advise you to try doing a full clearing of the CMOS and loading Optimised BIOS Defaults and see if if that clearsa the problem. If not I would suggest clearing the DMI data also.
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You didn't explain what happened to the HDD and why the crash happened, but assuming that it was just a faulty hard drive I would advise you to try doing a full clearing of the CMOS and loading Optimised BIOS Defaults and see if if that clearsa the problem. If not I would suggest clearing the DMI data also.
Is clearing the CMOS fairly straight forward? I have never done this. is there a step by step set of instructions somewhere i can access so i dont mess it up ? Where do i find the DMI data. im not much of a software guy but i can follow instructions. Thanks..
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I do not know about the CMOS, but you can also try downloading memtest86+ and boot from that. Do a couple cycles to determine if you memory is bad.
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Clearing CMOS is actually quite simple and you can find detailed steps of the procedure here: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,2286.0.html
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I do not know about the CMOS, but you can also try downloading memtest86+ and boot from that. Do a couple cycles to determine if you memory is bad.
Just to add an addendum to what CanUK has said it is better to run Memtest86+ on the modules one stick at a time and do at least ten loops on each.
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I do not know about the CMOS, but you can also try downloading memtest86+ and boot from that. Do a couple cycles to determine if you memory is bad.
Just to add an addendum to what CanUK has said it is better to run Memtest86+ on the modules one stick at a time and do at least ten loops on each.
hey thanks. im hoping its not my cpu going bad on me. i will try your suggestions tonight. thanks again...