I built my PC a couple of years ago. Last February I was having problems with XP so I "upgraded" to Vista Home Basic. I had no real problems until the end of November when I go a blue screen of death. The system re booted and ran without a problem and I installed the latest driver for my GeForce 6000 GT graphic card as the error message suggested that the driver may have caused the problem. However over the next weeks I got 3 more BSOD.

After searching Windows Knowledge Base I found what appeared to be a solution and installed Hot Fix KB 935783.

When the system re booted it got part way through loading programs when it re-started and repeated that cycle. I was able to start in safe mode but could get no further. Next I tried to booting from the original Vista disk, but nothing worked.

This morning I re-started the system again and this time I got no further than the BIOS screen with the message "IDE Channel 1 no 80 conductor cable instaalled. Keyboard error or no keyboard present". I tested the keyboard on my laptop and it works.

I'm well and truely stuck, can anyone help me please?

Brief system sepc

Motherboard - ASUS-SLI Delux BIOS V 1008
CPU - ADM Athlon 64 3500+
PSU - Hipper 525w
Memory - OCZ memory 2 Gb
HDD - Hatachi SATA 160 Gb x 2

Hello halsgrandad, welcome to PCHF.

Lets say that there is only one thing that could be causing these problems. This would narrow it down to only one component in your PC, and this is the motherboard!

I think you should have come to us a little sooner hals, since there are hundreds of different types of BSOD's, and an uncountable amount of different things that can cause a BSOD. We could have analysed them before your problems got worse. It's possible that your problems are not limited to a single component, but at least you have some point to start from.

Hi Madmonkey,

Thanks for the reply.

I must admit I was beginning to suspect the mother board, particularly after the last error message. You are right I should have come to you earlier but I was advised by another site to look on MS Knowledge Base. I only found you this morning, quite by chance.

Do you thing that flashing the BIOS would clear that problem? The revision I'm using at the moment is a very early one but was said to be the most stable at the I built the PC.

Cheers,

Paul

I think at this point, you certainly have nothing to lose by flashing the BIOS, as long as motherboard is no longer under warranty.

Another way to ensure it's the motherboard and not another device in the PC (I seriously doubt it), is to remove everything you can, leaving only the bear minium inside your PC, motherboard, CPU, single stick of RAM, Power Supply Unit, Video Card and HDD.

EDIT: Marked as Answered.