I am at my wits end. I have spent the better part of the last day and a half trying to install Win 7 Pro 64 bit on a GA-870A-UD3 motherboard with AMD Regor 3.0 GB dual core processor and 4 GB G.Skill DDR3 RAM.
In the beginning it would complete the first part of the install, re-boot, and start the final completion steps. The screen resolution would change and then the installation would halt. Sometimes, a message would appear on the screen about a unknown format (This was a monitor "error message"). It would always "crash" about the same place and I could never get it any further. I changed SATA ports, tried an IDE/PATA drive, switched Video cards (due to the crash when it seemed the screen resolution was being adjusted). I switched from the AMD SB SATA 6 GB ports to the Gigabyte 3 GB ports and I had trouble with the installation not even starting because it seemed the DVD was not recognized so I got a NO boot drive message. I tried Win 7 Pro and Win 7 Pro w/ SP1, both 64 bit. On a lark, I tried WHS with the same result. So I attempted to update the BIOS. It seemed to update without issue, but now as soon as the installation begins, I receive a blue screen and error message that the BIOS is not ACPI compliant and I should contact the manufacturer for an updated one (which of course got me into this mess in the second place). Any suggestions on other places to look for a solution, or is there a problem with the board and I should try to RMA? I have constructed many computers and this is the first time I have run into this type of problem. I have even built two systems with similar specs, a GA-880GA-UD3H with 8 GB G.Skill RAM and a GA-870A-UD3 (identical board) with 8 GB G.Skill RAM, both of which had no problems with installation. TIA Jim [email protected]
