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    AM2 Motherboards - Help !

    Have decided to get rid of hte motherboard I'm currently using as its giving me some serious head aches.

    I am currently using a Gigabyte M57SLIS4 reviosn 2.0

    I installed Windows Vista Home PRemium 64 yesterday, installed all my drivers, activated and updated it, used my PC in that OS for a couple of hours, turned it off and went to bed.

    Booted up this morning, saw the Vista loading stripe, then not long after was presented with a blue screen of death !! It read something along the lines of my PC's bios not being ACPI compliant. So I booted back into XP, downloaded the lastest bios and flashed up with that hoping it would cure the problem.

    Booted back into Vista, same error message.

    I know the board isn't faulty, but I want to be able to use both XP and Vista (for reasons I shall not go into)

    However if I can't get the board I've got working reliably with it, I shall have to consider getting something else, and here lies the problem, do any AM2 boards these days not come with on board graphics ?

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    Re: AM2 Motherboards - Help !

    The AMD 770,790FX and 790X chipsets do not have integrated graphics. Make sure that the motherboard has the later SB700 southbridge.

    Here is one:

    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigab...-SATA-RAID-ATX
    Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 22-04-2009 at 11:58 PM.

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    Re: AM2 Motherboards - Help !

    Thats ideal, thanks mate, I shall be ordering one of those come pay day next week

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