Gang,
I'm posting here since I think this may be a mobo problem. My friend brought over his rig saying he couldn't load Vista Home Premium even though it runs XP just fine. I know... I know... probably hardware incompatability or driver problems... Well, the compatibility wizard says this rig should install Vista just fine.
So he had a Fresh load of XP Media Center edition installed when he brought it over and I did some stress testing to satisfy myself it was stable. It was. So I tried a Vista installation, and BSOD. I found that if I turned off the on-board sound (Realtek AC97) and put in an old geForce4 MX video card it would install Vista and seems to run fine.
The sound I can live without and put in a sound card, but when I try to put in his Sapphire Radeon 1600 Pro 512 meg video card, it BSOD's every time I try to boot it.
AHA, must be power supply, so I swapped that out and no change, stll BSOD. Put the the old GeForce MX video card and it runs Vista fine.
Do you think this is a sign of something going south in the montherboard?
Configuration;
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Rev 4
Pentiume 4 2.6 (Not overclocked)
2 Gig Corsair DDR400 Value Ram
Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 512 Meg Video Card
120 Gig Maxtor
I'm posting here since I think this may be a mobo problem. My friend brought over his rig saying he couldn't load Vista Home Premium even though it runs XP just fine. I know... I know... probably hardware incompatability or driver problems... Well, the compatibility wizard says this rig should install Vista just fine.
So he had a Fresh load of XP Media Center edition installed when he brought it over and I did some stress testing to satisfy myself it was stable. It was. So I tried a Vista installation, and BSOD. I found that if I turned off the on-board sound (Realtek AC97) and put in an old geForce4 MX video card it would install Vista and seems to run fine.
The sound I can live without and put in a sound card, but when I try to put in his Sapphire Radeon 1600 Pro 512 meg video card, it BSOD's every time I try to boot it.
AHA, must be power supply, so I swapped that out and no change, stll BSOD. Put the the old GeForce MX video card and it runs Vista fine.
Do you think this is a sign of something going south in the montherboard?
Configuration;
Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Rev 4
Pentiume 4 2.6 (Not overclocked)
2 Gig Corsair DDR400 Value Ram
Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 512 Meg Video Card
120 Gig Maxtor
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