AHPI in Bios means BSOD - help! Gigabyte

[rizorith]

I have a gigabyte p35-DS3L and a e8400 overclocked running bios 8a. I also have 4 SATA drives, 2 hard drives and 2 opticals.

I installed vista 64 with AHPI off and everything was fine. After overclocking I put AHPI mode on and can't boot into windows.

I've done many searches and found some help for other gigabyte boards but not this one. One post suggests that I should have installed vista with AHPI enabled and I do need to reinstall so I'm thinking of trying that but before I go through it I want to find out if that's accurate.

Any other suggestions?


For what it's worth, the hard drive is an old 74gb raptor and a WD 250gb. The raptor has both SATA and PATA plugs. The two optical drives are pure SATA (one dvd burner one blu-ray)

 

[Sink41]

Have you tried this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

 

[rizorith]

I have but I'm confused on one thing. If I do a fresh install do I need to do anything other than enable AHPI in bios beforehand? This seems to be geared towards fixing a installation that is already final.

I'm going to be reformatting anyways and I just want to make sure it works from the start.

 

[rizorith]

Originally posted by: rizorith
I have but I'm confused on one thing. If I do a fresh install do I need to do anything other than enable AHPI in bios beforehand? This seems to be geared towards fixing a installation that is already final.

I'm going to be reformatting anyways and I just want to make sure it works from the start.

OK I just set it for AHPI and did a full reinstall and it's fine. I guess it's only a problem if you install it without AHPI and set your bios later.