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ACPI issues during clean Win 7 installation
I've been trying to install windows 7 to my newly built system. (5th system built but first time having issues and I'm frazzled) I have only the bare minimum hooked up so:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition
MOBO: MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: 8GB (2x4)
and a CDdrive with my Windows 7 Pro disc
With my BIOS on all defaults and booting from CD it will load until it says 'Starting Windows' then I get the error 0x000000A5. Searching around it seems this issue is usually related to the BIOS not being ACPI compliant. When I disable ACPI I just get the message that my BIOS is not ACPI compliant instead of the stop error.
My MOBO clearly says Windows 7 ready so what else can I try?