Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/ 2009-01-09T03:10:55-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-10-30T02:37:31-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#547281 thanks for your help, i am getting a new motherboard entirely. text/html 2008-10-26T22:53:05-05:00 TWolfe http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#547030 As stated above, it's a memory issue.<br /> Them boards are very finicky about RAM.<br /> Get compatable memory and your problem will be solved. text/html 2008-10-23T03:12:28-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546885 i got another of the same kind of motherboard and it has the same problem. it also refuses to boot with 2 sticks of ram working together, they have to be on separate buses. additionally, the HDMI onboard does not work. it will boot another hard drive with windows xp on safe mode, intriguingly. the new board has no problems POSTing. any ideas? i'll test whatever you want. thanks in advance<br /> text/html 2008-10-12T14:40:45-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546468 no, but it is high quality. Returning the motherboard. Thanks for the help. text/html 2008-10-12T13:56:48-05:00 TWolfe http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546466 Sounds like a memory problem, does your RAM meet the memory support list?<br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://tw.giga-byte.com/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_memory_ga-ma78gm-s2h.pdf" target="_blank">http://tw.giga-byte.com/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_mem...gm-s2h.pdf</a> text/html 2008-10-11T18:54:19-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546424 yep text/html 2008-10-11T18:45:25-05:00 TWolfe http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546420 Is the drive detected in BIOS? text/html 2008-10-11T17:37:47-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546413 it's a SATA drive but it's on IDE mode, not RAID or AHCI text/html 2008-10-11T17:23:30-05:00 TWolfe http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#546410 Are you trying to install OS on SATA drive. If so, did you press F6 during Windows setup to install drivers?<br /> <br /> Edit to add:<br /> You can get driver here: <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2814" target="_blank">http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.as...uctID=2814</a> text/html 2008-10-11T16:43:33-05:00 scat man http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/72672/#0 Just purchased a GA-MA78GM-S2H rev 1.1 motherboard, and I am having some problems with it. I also have an AMD athlon 64X2 5600 2.9 GHz 1MB l2 cache 65W processor and 2x2gig corsair RAM. While trying to install vista ultimate 64 or ubuntu 8.04, it will freeze, usually at or right before the gui portion of the install (after loading windows files). By freeze I mean that the mouse cursor + timer are unresponsive, dvd drive stops spinning, etc. I ran memtest 86+ and the RAM appears to be good, i also tried booting with each stick separately and got the same results. The BIOS version is Award 6.00 PG, F5. it is on default...i have tried optimized default, fail-safe default, still no go. all default speeds. RAM is default at DDR 800, set to 1.8V but apparently running at 1.936V. I tried it at 2V (+.2V from default). bluescreened first time with &quot;page_fault__in_nonpaged_area 0x10000050&quot; etc. appeared to freeze again right before gui on second attempt. If it helps, the CPU Vcore is set to 1.35V but running at between 1.408V and 1.392V.<br /> Any help is appreciated.