Folding Rig Down - Windows Will Not Install

[WonderingSoul]

I have the unfortunate pleasure of having one of my folding rigs down at the moment, I am down about 12k ppd now because of it. Something went bad when transporting my rig from home and back to school and putting in a different PSU.

I first booted and the drive said that Windows did not shut down or had some error so I elected to try and start the last known good boot and that was a no-go, then tried safe mode. Neither worked. I pulled the drive and reformatted it in another rig and Windows will still not take.

Everytime I try to install windows I get a BSOD and says something about being an ACPI compliant board. I have installed Windows on this motherboard before a few times already. So then I try to disable ACPI when I boot by pressing F7 on the loading screen and I get a BSOD again.

I have tried two different hard drives, two different optical drives and two different Windows discs. Cleared the CMOS and went into the BIOS and played with the settings until my eyes bled and I am still getting BSODs when trying to install.

Anyone know what the heck is going on?

The rig is:
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Opteron 146
2gb (4*512) Corsair XMS 2-3-3-6 2T
Two 8800GTs (one ASUS, one MSI)
FSP Blue Storm PSU.

[the_cultie]

I'm assuming that the drives are SATA. Have you tried different SATA ports or a different SATA cable. I came accross a wierd issue similar you yours and replacing the sata cable sorted the problem, turned out the cable had too sharp of a bend in it and it partly broke. Other than that I'm stumped at the moment.

*EDIT*
Did some googling and I came across this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314830) on Mickysofts support section. Might help. Also have you the latest bios for that motherboard?

[WonderingSoul]

I am sorry, I should of stated. I tried all four SATA ports, different SATA drives (disc and optical) and IDE drives. Still produced the same errors. The BIOS is up to date.

[jonspd]

ram take out all except 1 or 2 sticks...

[David]

Tried resetting the CMOS? Gut the machine down to one DIMM, one vcard and run memtest to check that RAM stick. Then try again.

[WonderingSoul]

Well the rig was working perfectly fine until I took it home and swapped the PSU. The PSU in it now is a known working one so I don't know what the problem is :confused:

[Jolly-Swagman]

Well the rig was working perfectly fine until I took it home and swapped the PSU. The PSU in it now is a known working one so I don't know what the problem is :confused:

Had the Exact same Problem Yesterday, when I lost HDD After the Storm, and even with a newly Formatted Drive Got the BSOD, Especially with Win7 , yet had installed it on my other HDD same M/B and was running fine,

What I did was Before installed XP Pro on it took out the Battery and the Ram, Cleared CMOS and left it for an hour or two, Then Installed Win XP ,, as still got the Same BSOD with Win7,

Wierd problem :confused:

[the_cultie]

Wierd problem :confused:

Yes it is, I have no idea what to suggest. The only logical thing I can think of is that its sabotage by MPC :p

[Zerix01]

Have you checked the power connections to the motherboard and made sure everything is seated well?

[Outback_Jon]

Have you checked the power connections to the motherboard and made sure everything is seated well?
And every other connection. Too many things (like heatsinks) can get jarred around when moving a PC.

[dfonda]

The CPU heat sink has not popped a push pin out has it?

It would overheat right about the time windows loaded.

Or a stuck fan.

[~(o)-(0)~]

is the BIOS flashed to the latest rev.?
Have you tried eliminating all the hardware from the equation?
-running just one stick of ram at a time
-just one video card

that should be a good start.

Nick

[WonderingSoul]

Strangest enigma solved. I pulled the PSU out, tested it with a tester and DMM. Put it back in, and it decided to work.... Ugh.

[Adak]

Self-healing electronics! A favorite of mine!! :D :D