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 "page_fault__in_nonpaged_area 0x10000050" 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.
Any help is appreciated.
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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
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