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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 DDR2 800 corsair RAM. While trying to install vista ultimate 64, 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. Any help is appreciated. If you need more specs, I am happy to give them.

Hello and welcome to the forum,
I'll mark this thread as "Open" for one of our Techs to look at. Someone will be along soon

thanks ian

Is this a full legal copy of Vista or a downloaded copy?

it's legit. the same problem happens with ubuntu 8.01, crashes as soon as it gets to the gui after loading the kernel and some files

Ok thanx for the information.

Is this a new DVD rom drive or one from an older computer?You have set first boot in BIOS to DVD rom?

Have you tried with minimum RAM installed?

i have tried it with each ram stick separately, together, switched around, everything. first boot is set to cdrom. it is an older dvd drive, maybe 3 years. i really doubt that's the problem...but ill try to get my hands on a newer one from a friend today and test it.