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In the process of disconnecting the 8-pin supplementary power connector on a MA790X-UD4P board, I broke off the adjacent can-type "transistor". As this component has only two leads and the socket on the board is marked "+" and "-" it has to be a diode of some sort. It is marked "560" with some...

Skip my reply above; didn't work. The BSOD is very erratic, so its hard to be sure. Try DLing the latest Realtek HD Audio drivers (2.40) from majorgeeks .com.

Or somebody could provide a link to an independently-authored fixboot utility.

In this case I am using Superior XP Pro 64-bit, a customized and stripped-down edition which does not offer the 'repair' function (I tried it). This is why I am asking for an INDEPENDENTLY-authored solution.

A recurring problem for me over the years is that when I upgrade a mobo, but using the same CPU and the same primary HDD, Windows will no longer boot off that drive. The culprit appears to be the different North Bridge and South Bridge chipsets. Rather than (once again) going through the...

Portcls.sys bsod SOLVED! GA-MA790X-UD4P running XP Pro x64 SP2. BSOD at end of boot sequence due to "missing portcls.sys". In my case cause turned out to be Realtek HD Audio (from Gigabyte) installing multiple copies of driver files in \WINDOWS\NLDRV\008 - alcxau0.inf, alcxau1.inf etc. Moved...