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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: bazzer555 on March 09, 2013, 09:00:12 pm
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hi folks!
i have just upgraded an old ga-570sli s4 from 5600+ to athlon ii x4 640...running quiet an cool at 3.6ghz
on windows xp. i have a retail copy of windows 7 home and have tried to load it on a clean drive but
getting bluescreen and 5c error. gigabyte don't seem to provide a win7 chipset driver for this board, but
googling around it appears that win7 (64-bit by the way) should provide one.
am i looking at a new dvd drive? or am i missing something? drive seems be okay for other things!
using: hd6970, 2x 1gig corsair dhx, tx750
any pointer/experience please
thank you
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It should work out of the box.
Get the RAM tested with Memtest ,make sure the DVD you re installing from is ok and make sure the HDD hasn t got some bad blocks.
Otherwise try the 32 bit version of W7 ,you have just 2 gigs of RAM anyway.
Do not use a SSD with an old mobo.
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many thanks Vezina for your input; i am a happy man!
the disk is good as i have already used it. the reason for my upgrade to win7 is the recent demise
of my asus p5q deluxe :'(
i have 2 x 2gig ballistix from that build and can swap them over as i prefer the 64-bit option.
will follow your advice on re-testing the other elements.
as an additional point, would the low memory count be enough to cause the bluescreen alone?
thanks again.
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It could be.
Never installed W7 X64 on a system with 2 Gigs of RAM so i can t tell for sure.
Put the 2X2 pair in and see how it goes.
I have used both W7 x32 and W7 x64 along the time and to be frank never seen performance gaps while playing games with them ,only more software/drivers issues with the x64 version :)
You should use what works if the x64 version refuses to work properly with your hardware configuration.
Unless you need to do some professional tasks for which a lot of RAM is required and thus a x64 OS is needed.
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...back again. having swapped out everything i can including mem, hard drives, dvdrom, cables, psu...and left the cmos
battery out for 4 hours, i am no further forward. found an old copy of Vista....same error. dug out a copy of windows xp pro s.p. 2
and it loaded without a problem. loaded chipset drivers, hd 6970 drivers....all good on same hardware?
any more suggestions before i assume that my board and chip are not compatible?
window 7 upgrades adviser for 570sli is a mixed bag; some do some don't...does not show ga-570sli at all
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I find this rather strange.I was able to load Win 7 32 bit on a KT 333 machine in 2009.
That chipset of yours should work
Disable the on board peripheralls like LAN ,Audio and such and see what happens.Maybe it s some chip with problems
The board seems to have a Marvell chip turn it off.
Also try the storage controller with both AHCI and IDE Mode see what happens.
If XP works the hardware is perfectly fine.
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hi vezina, thanks for sticking with me. in 12 years of building this is my first long-term headache! have noted your
suggestions; will report back...