BSOD Upon Vista Start-Up

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hello everyone, hope this is in the correct category.

Recently I upgraded my RAM from 1gb to 4gb (removed the 1gb stick and installed 2x2gb). The RAM is fully compatible with my motherboard but when I try to boot to Vista I get a BSOD “the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant”. My bios has options S1 and S3 and I have tried both with no success. BIOS fully recognizes my memory and I have ran multiple memory tests and they have all passed. I have Linux Ubuntu and it loads fine and sees all 4GB installed. I have done a lot of searching for this problem and someone recommended I remove my PCI-e Geforce 8500 card. I disabled the PCI-e in bios and used the on-board graphics and the computer boots PERFECTLY with the 4gb and runs with no problems at all but I lose my good GeForce.

SO…the memory is obviously compatible. The Video card is obviously compatible because I have used it for almost a year. I have the newest version of BIOS. I can’t understand this problem. I have tried changing every setting in BIOS with no avail. For some reason the new memory and my video card are clashing? There must be a fix for this but I can’t seem to figure it out. Any help would be MUCH appreciated! Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this.

BTW here are my system specs:

Windows Vista 64-bit Ultimate SP1 with all updates
Intel DG31PR desktop board
Intel Core 2 DUO E6550
4GB Kingston 240 pin DIMM
NVidia GeForce 8500 GT

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Sorry about the late reply.

I’m guessing theres no option to disable ACPI in the bios?

Or bootup with the pci-e graphics card disabled, then in the device manager I think you should be able to disable ACPI.

this link might help Desktop Boards - Troubleshooting operating system issues

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Right, I am unable to disable ACPI in BIOS. I have two options S1 and S3. In the vista device manager is simply says that I am running an ACPI x64-based PC. Under system devices, there are a few mentions of ACPI but I dont think that uninstalling them would resolve the problem. What do you suggest I do?

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“STOP 0x000000A5” When Installing Windows 2000

That has something that might help you.

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Naw, thats for windows 2000. Im having problems with Vista. The setup screens for windows xp/2000 are different than Vista. On Vista, it does not ask “Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver” at the begining of setup like XP and 2k does. Thanks for the input anyways guys, anyone else have an idea?

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its not one of those lame attempts by M$ to prevent people pirating their rotting-dog-in-the-sun of an OS series. you know, if you change your hardware and try to do a fresh install of a legit copy of windows you have to reactivate with some dozy tool at a call centre, as with XP.