Hello everyone, I recently purchased a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard and am running into all sorts of problems getting windows installed. The machine will POST but once it begins to boot from a HDD the screen will go black and crash nearly instantly forcing a restart by turning the PSU on and off. I have updated the BIOS to the most recent version, tried unseating everything (Video card, Sound Card, Different Ram modules in different channels, turning SATA off and installing to an IDE HDD, disabling IDE and installing to an IDE HDD. Turning pretty much every BIOS setting on and off including and most importantly probably, playing the the Generic IDE mode or AHCI mode for SATA devices, and I am still stumped. I even was able to boot the machine in LIVE XP a preinstalled environment, but have not been able to get the installation to go past the restart after formatting the drive and copying the requisite files. Below I have listed the system specifics. Please let me know if you have any suggestions from your personal experiences.
Thank you,
Ryan
Specifications:
Mobo : GA-MA78GM-S2H
CPU : AMD Phenom 9600 Black
Vid : Palit 9600 GT Sonic
HDD : SATA 300 GB 7200
Sound : Creative Labs X-Fi
Power : 480 W Antec NEO PSU
DVD : Samsung DVD +-RW
Thank you,
Ryan
Specifications:
Mobo : GA-MA78GM-S2H
CPU : AMD Phenom 9600 Black
Vid : Palit 9600 GT Sonic
HDD : SATA 300 GB 7200
Sound : Creative Labs X-Fi
Power : 480 W Antec NEO PSU
DVD : Samsung DVD +-RW