[maxshan1138]

Hello, everyone! Pity we all have to meet under these circumstances, though.

Anyway, I have a GA-EP43-DS3L, bought yesterday, among with an Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz AND 2x1GB Kingston HyperX 8500 CL5 Dual-Channel at 1066 MHz.

I cannot install any new OS (so far I've tried XP Professional - can't get past the first steps, in which the runtime thing gives you activity details, that is EVEN BEFORE I can get to the partitions stage, I get a BSOD - and Vista Ultimate, BOTH on x32).

The interesting thing is, though, before I got the new parts, I had another Gigabyte motherboard (oldie, but goodie) and an Intel Pentium 4. I can actually run the Windows XP that is already installed on the HDD, prior to the upgrade (very messy, but it runs, I even played some serious games, so I think the RAM isn't a problem, tested it with RAM-eating applications, too).

The thing is, I want to be able to install my OS in some point in the future, so just standing by with the current one is not a sollution.

I've tried the manual tweaking of the memory, till it reached the 1066 frequency from the BIOS, nothing. I went with the default settings, still nothing, can't get past the install warm-up (I've encountered some start_stop loops, but they are gone now). Even enabled the NATIVE IDE option (which, in the manual, is said to be for installing Win XP, still no luck).

I really can't recally anything else, just that the Vista install got me into an on-going memory test (passed about an hour, still going).

In the attachment, you'll find the BSOD from the XP install procedure.

*BIOS versions used: F2 (default), F3 (needed for the Q6600, upgraded with @BIOS) and F7. - currently on F3.

The post with the solving is for GA-EP45-DS3L, so I wouldn't advise changing the BIOS for the 43 with that of the 45.

Thanks and good luck to us all... hope it'll be a thing of the past (heard they solved it for the DS3R and the EP45-DS3L)