New build BSOD 0x0000124 Blue screen crash - DM log uploaded!

[essenbe]

Your board appears to be the P7 H55E. At least that's what yout Bios idebtifies it as. The size of the power supply has nothing to do with the size of the motherboard.

 

[Paulgo253]

Your board appears to be the P7 H55E. At least that's what yout Bios idebtifies it as.

ok cheers - which means that the bios I have looks right..... thought I was onto something there for a moment!

Can you tell anything off from the bios screen shots. I wonder if any of the other m/b drivers are an issue?

The size of the power supply has nothing to do with the size of the motherboard.

Ah sorry my bad! I think it's called a micro atx board over here, but quite possibly completely wrong on that!

 

[essenbe]

OK, can you show me the screenshot from cpuz mainboard tab from XP? If it's Micro ATX it should be what is on the board P7 H55-M

 

[Paulgo253]

Ok booting up XP. Sorry - where is CPUz at?

 

[essenbe]

CPU-Z CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting I hope it works on XP. It should.

 

[essenbe]

If you already have it installed it should be under Cupid

 

[Paulgo253]

thanks - Here we go!

 

[Paulgo253]

and the mainboard tab

 

[essenbe]

It says p7H55E too. Asus naming scheme usually adds an M on to it if it is an Matx. But, perhaps they are the same as far as drivers and bios.

 

[Paulgo253]

It was the board stickers that confuse me! But both the bios and CPUz say its a p7h55-e...

 

[Paulgo253]

Cross checked bios setting with my son's pc which has the same hardware as mine. But we discovered he has the p7h55-m board running bios 1101. He's upgrading his rig soon and when he figures out which new motherboard to get i might nab his old one!

Meanwhile - are we running out of options here do you think?

 

[Paulgo253]

Just found this FAQ on the asus site ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- FAQ for my board - is it worth trying as it wont boot in AHCI mode nomally?

install win7 in IDE mode，then change to AHCI，OS would be blu screen，how to slove？

Solution
1. Run regedit to open registry
2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ services \ msahci
3. In the "Edit DWORD Value " dialog box, the "Value data " box, the value of the number from 3 to 0 (Figure 2), click "OK" button
4. Close the "Registry Editor " window and restart the computer.
5. Restart your computer when you enter the BIOS settings screen, change the hard disk AHCI mode

 

[essenbe]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61869-ahci-enable-windows-7-vista.html This will show you how to do it, but I don't believe that is your problem. You can install either way. There is some other problem. I just hope the power outage didn't mess your board up.

 

[Layback Bear]

Power outages and or power surges when the power is restored can cause motherboard problems when a poor quality power supply is used. It is more possible when a surge protector is not used.
A quality power supply has a higher quality low and high voltage spike protection built in. Lower priced motherboards are more susceptible to voltages variations also because they have fewer capacitors.
I recommend a surge protector even when using a quality power supply.
Sometimes trouble shooting these problems is almost impossible without a lab designed to do such testing.

My computers and everything that hooks to my computers has a surge protector used.
A few bucks can save someone thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

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I have installed Windows 7 AHCI and IDE so I do agree with Steve that is probably not your problem.
It can't hurt to try both ways to the best of my thinking.

 

[Layback Bear]

Every thing I have seen or posted in this thread has shown the bios as 0504. Everything I can find online indicates that is the proper bios. Now can the bios be corrupted most likely NO but anything can happen with power surges. I would also suggest not to assume that a power surge only effected one piece of hardware. Power surges can also effect the video card bios.
I can not over state the importance of proper power and power protection.
If it sounds like I'm beating a dead horse to death so be it.

I think I will get some more coffee and sweeten with a little J.D. this time.

 

[essenbe]

Paul, I don't believe that tutorial will work on XP. It is for Windows 7 and it tells the values for Vista at the top.