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A friend and I have spent the evening piecing together his new rig and are having problems getting Vista 32 or 64 to load. BSOD after the setup is loading files page and lists acpi.sys as the culprit other times it just says that it is not acpi compliant, though ASUS clearly states in their specs that the board is acpi 2.0 compliant. We've updated the bios but still the same problem. Has anyone else out there had any problems like this and if so any ideas on how to resolve this issue

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UPDATE:

Apparently it won't load XP either we got another BSOD

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(1) Hit up the Bios => Drive preferences => change ACPI(SATA mode) to IDE mode.

(2) ...

(3) Profit

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Already tried that, same error. We're thinking something is up with the south bridge

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Is this an issue that only we're seeing because I'm not finding anything else on it and it doesn't seem like anyone else has any advice for it.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] er-restart

Have a read through that and see if it helps.

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theLaminator wrote :

Already tried that, same error. We're thinking something is up with the south bridge

Perhaps... The next thing I would check is the master/slave settings on the drives. Yes Yes Yes, I understand that on an SATA connection it's not supposed to matter... But sometimes manufacturers don't read the theories.

the first problem we truly found was the power supply, when we tried to boot his old system off it it wouldn't hold a charge with 2 ram sticks. Opened it up and found 3 caps that were corroded and oozing so that was definite problem. The new mobo wouldn't boot off my PSU either though so he decided to rma it. I've got the same southbridge on my Rampage Formula and never saw anything resembling what he's getting hopefully the new board will solve the issue if not I'll post back.

Thanks for the tips and read through

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Scotteq wrote :

(1) Hit up the Bios => Drive preferences => change ACPI(SATA mode) to IDE mode.

His problem is with ACPI, not AHCI

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