Sounds like an RMA to me. Good luck!
On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:46:47 -0500, James Maki <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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