Windows crashes on startup only when powering on system

To backup the computer you can use windows system image. Control pannel- backup computer. In the lest side click create system image. Be sure to have an external hard drive connected or plenty of DVDs.
A very highly rated free imagng program is Macrium. It is probably the most flexable and easiest.

I notice you list Western Digital drives in your specs. Western digital offers a free imaging program, a scaled down version of Acronis.

I would recommend using at least 2 imaging programs to make sure. Whichever ones you choose, make sure to burn and test their recovery disks.

EDIT: To try to update the drivers, If you have installed the raid drivers, in device manager click on update driver, choose select from a list of drivers on my computer, select let me choose, navigate to C/Windows/System32/drivers it will pick available drivers for you. you just choose which one you want.

I'll have to let pooch answer that. But, I think that is the AMD ahci driver, which may also be the raid driver but I don't know.

Click on the link I gave you and navigate to the yellow arrow.

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When you have downloaded the driver unpack it and navigate through the folders; RAID, JM361, Install, Driver, amd64. Inside this last folder are the drivers you are looking for

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Do as Essenbe suggested only navigate here instead

Did you disconnect the front USB as I suggested to see if the blue screens stiil happen?
I would recommend updating all your MB drivers http://support.asus.com/download.asp...IjRELzxMxkH2UQ, Also your Graphic card drivers link here; AMD Catalyst 11.6 Win 7 | Vista 64-bit download from Guru3D.com
Which BIOS do you have installed? The latest is version 2001 and looking at the list there have 3 fixes for system stability.
Which SATA ports are the HDD'S connected to?
To update the BIOS please refer to the MB manual if you need to you can also download a copy here; http://support.asus.com/download.asp...IjRELzxMxkH2UQ

I didn't disconnect them yet, but I'm going to fix that today if I get a chance, I'm in the middle of moving into a new apartment so neither he nor I have much time on our hands this weekend, but in between all of the business I'm trying to fix his computer.

His BIOS is updated.

His graphics driver is the most current.

HDDs are in 1 and 2 and it IS set to RAID. Optical drive is in port 6 and set to IDE. The strange thing is, in his BIOS, ports 1-4 are not shown. It only shows 5-6.

I had already downloaded the new RAID driver from Asus and was attempting to update with it, but I guess I was trying to update it with the wrong folder or something. I'll try it out on his computer when I get a chance.

NOTE: It says the RAID driver is incompatible with the device when I try to update with the file you specified. It's telling me to make sure it's for 64-bit Windows.

I checked his controller configuration in the ROM utility, and it says Controller IRQ: 10, AHCI HBA MMIO Base Address FE5FE000, in case that's useful information.

Should I instead be trying RAID>AMD>DRIVER>DISK>RAID>WIN7>X64 ? I've never heard of the JMicron RAID driver before in my life, and I don't know the first thing about using it.

MelancholyRose said:

I didn't disconnect them yet, but I'm going to fix that today if I get a chance, I'm in the middle of moving into a new apartment so neither he nor I have much time on our hands this weekend, but in between all of the business I'm trying to fix his computer.

Ok there is no rush, you are doing a great job :)

MelancholyRose said:

His BIOS is updated.

His graphics driver is the most current.

Thats good

MelancholyRose said:

HDDs are in 1 and 2 and it IS set to RAID. Optical drive is in port 6 and set to IDE. The strange thing is, in his BIOS, ports 1-4 are not shown. It only shows 5-6.

This is good as well I believe that when in RAID mode they do not show, I am away at home at the moment so I can't look at my desktop to confirm this point.

MelancholyRose said:

I had already downloaded the new RAID driver from Asus and was attempting to update with it, but I guess I was trying to update it with the wrong folder or something. I'll try it out on his computer when I get a chance.

NOTE: It says the RAID driver is incompatible with the device when I try to update with the file you specified. It's telling me to make sure it's for 64-bit Windows.

I checked his controller configuration in the ROM utility, and it says Controller IRQ: 10, AHCI HBA MMIO Base Address FE5FE000, in case that's useful information.

Should I instead be trying RAID>AMD>DRIVER>DISK>RAID>WIN7>X64 ? I've never heard of the JMicron RAID driver before in my life, and I don't know the first thing about using it.

Yes you may well be right I try to be accurate but not having physical contact with your PC makes it difficult

MelancholyRose said:

Another question, how do I update the chipset drivers?

You can download them from here; ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download M4A89TD PRO/USB3

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Unzip and use the Asus SetUp.exe