Need technical bios advice, cannot install windows, get a does not support acpi message on a blue crash screen?

Question

I am bangin my head on the wall here lol, my sons computer crapped out, found multiple hard drive errors, removed hard drive and bought a new one, installed new freshly formatted hard drive and broke out my windows 7 cd. The computer previously had vista but the motherboard box said windows 7 ready on it so i thought i would put 7 on it. Upon fresh install it goes thru all the steps properly until the screen that says "starting windows" with the lil swirl icons, then i get the blue screen of death. It states that my current bios does not fully support acpi contact my pc vendor. I bought the mother board prob 2 years ago, its a asus M4A785-M, i have 6 gigs of ram in it and a amd athlon 64x2. Computer ran great last 2 years, i got the newest bios from asus site, followed microsofts directions, unhooked all but 1 ram chip, unhooked extra dvd drive, removed everything but mouse and keyboard, removed sound card (has onboard anyway) nothing made any changes, i reformated the hard drive and tried the original vista disk i had used before, i flashed the newest from a usb stick, same message. i read on asus forums that others had to go back to a older bios to get better windows 7 support, but i have tried vista and 7 with same message, any help will be much appreciated

Answer 1

Quote :- I am bangin my head on the wall here

Reply :- I was always banging my head on the wall with every version of windows period till I dumped it and move to Linux 8 years ago. since then I have never had a problems. I run the latest July 2013 Linux operating system on my 13yr old Dell laptop and my 12 year old Hp desktop, both have 512 megabytes of ram. When it says your computer is W7 ready they failed to mention after you upgrading the memory to a minimum of 4 gig. You find download and install all the MB manufactures hardware drivers for W7.



Your problem now sounds like W7 Hardware drivers, Have you 4 gig of ram in it which W7 needs minimum, My advice to you is do what I did move to Linux, go to this website check out this free operating system see what it can do that W7/8 can't do, if you like what you see then you can download it don't worry about software you get every thing you'll ever need free, and you will have no problems with hardware drivers, and there is a 64 bit system check it out here

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I would like to tell the captain in layman's terms his ship sank

Answer 2

I suspect either the motherboard is bad, or the windows 7 CD is bad.



By bad is laymans speak - hardware is broke. Possibly swollen capacitors or a dry solder joint somewhere are two most common issues that can be seen with the naked eye.

Answer 3

Boot into windows RE or from the set up disc and click on on the restore computer option and notice if this resolves the hindrance. Or boot into riskless mode and run "sfc /scannow" see if that fixes it.