Abit AB9 = a pile of crap

[copycatuk]

did you try with different ram? like suggested above?

[greektony]

i honestly dont know. Some people say if you buy a sata optical drive then it seems to work fine. But when it says that it works with IDE drives I dont see why I should have to spend another £30 to buy a SATA one. Or it could be the RAM (i bought a 1 gig dimm of generic 800mhz stuff) Or it is apparently that the IDE drivers or something like that need to be updated, but as i cant install windows i cant figure out how to do this properly.

At least I have now learnt never to buy Abit again.

[greektony]

i havent tried it with different RAM. I am pissed off as i bought all of this so i could use it over Xmas as I will be by myself this year and i cant get it too work. I am now trying to get it too boot off the HDD from my old Athlon system just to see if i can get in to Windows at all.

I think I might take this board back after boxing day. Novatech didnt have any other 'cheap' conroe boards apart from this one (and now i know why!)

I also dont see why i should have to buy different speed RAM when everything i bought or am using is supposedly compatible. Sorry for ranting on, but i am just pissed off that my christmas eve was spent pissing around with all of this. And I can quite easily see my christmas day being exactly the sam

[copycatuk]

do a google for abit ab9 bsod and theres plenty of people in the same boat mate maybe one of them posts can help you

[greektony]

the problem is that there are a crap loads of different causes. The most likely looks like replacing my ide dvd drive with a sata one, but i really cant be arsed to spend another £30. I would prefer to get a refund on the board and then spend an extra £30 and get a motherboard that actually functions and works like it says it does.

[MadduckUK]

can xp be installed from a hard drive?

[Rabs]

Hi there,

Please post your system specs - I have an Abit AB9-Pro with 2GB Geil PC6400 DDR2 and a C2D 6300 overclocked @ 2.2Ghz (for the time being) - a little more info would help greatly

[greektony]

These are my specs Rabs:

C2D 6300 (not overclocked yet )
Abit AB9 (not the pro version)
1Gb 1.8V 800Mhz DDR2 Generic Ram (https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/...ram-80/1gb&P=0)
Antec p180 case
thermaltake tr2 420W
Geforce 7950gt 512mb
Samsung SPoint 250gb 7200 SATAII 8mb HDD
Lite-On DVD-RW

I am basically getting the same BSOD as this guy http://forums.legitreviews.com/about6475.html i hope this helps a bit!!!!! Thanks for all your help so far guys...............please keep it coming!

EDIT: I will hopefully be borrowing a FDD from a friend if he has one today, so i will try updating the jmicron driver from this rather than a usb pen drive as this doesnt seem to be working

[owen1978]

Dont know why you bothered with abit the only worthwhile 965 board is the P5B DLX

[greektony]

because i dont have unlimited funds and it was supposedly a good board which overclocks well

[Rabs]

Dont know why you bothered with abit the only worthwhile 965 board is the P5B DLX

Many thanks for those words of wisdom.

Back to the OP

a few BIOS settings first:

N/B Strap = 1066
DRAM Spec = DDR2 533

Also set the Ram timings manually to the same spec as your ram.

Next of all test the system with memtest86+, if you get any errors at all, you may have a compatibility problem.

Upon no errors, when installing Windows make sure you press F6 on startup and install the JMicron and Intel SATA drivers.

The Intel 965 chipset doesn't feature any native PATA support hence the JMicron controller, which is an essential part if your installing from a PATA CD/DVD drive and WILL cause a BSOD if not installed. The driver version that comes on floppy disk also was fine for me and still running today.

[greektony]

problem is i dont have a FDD at the moment....... but i will try those other suggestions

You would have thought that as we enter the year 2007 FDD would not be a required part of anmy pc system!!!!

[greektony]

Could I make a cd with the jmicron drivers on to update them?

[Rabs]

hmm you could try and slipstream them into a WinXP cd

http://maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html

[greektony]

Hi Rabs, thanks for all your help so far.......... Would buying a SATA DVD drive sort this problem out. I am not keen on spending more money on this, but listening to him trying to install windows, it sounds like a plane taking off!!!! From what i gather this is a problem with IDE devices, not SATA ones. Is this correct?

[Rabs]

No mate, just buy a floppy drive or slipstream the drivers into the WinXP cd.

No point replacing hardware unless you have a problem with your existing equipment or it doesn't fulfil your needs.

If I was in your position I'd just beg for, borrow or steal a floppy drive - get your windows installed It's the least hassle option.