krazieaznboi

i have a DFI NF4-D board with the tmod bios but i recently modded my board with SATAII and SLI. after this, i noticed my computer gets BSOD alot. do i have to upgrade my bios?

txtmstrjoe

Not necessarily.

The first thing I'd try is reset everything to default settings, then see if you still get BSoDs. If you do, it would be helpful if you could get the error code that Windows spits out with every BSoD. This would give you a place to start your troubleshooting process.

Hope this helps!

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krazieaznboi

win32k.sys
driver not equal
something about paging or pagefile


i know its not my ram because it can memtest for 14hours without errors.

txtmstrjoe

krazieaznboi, did you get the numerical code too (I'm assuming Vista has a similar 10-digit error code to WinXP)? It often looks like: 0x0000008e (that's one I've seen recently here at work).

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krazieaznboi

ill have to wait for the next BSOD to find out

krazieaznboi

okay, so i just got a BSOD but i forgot to turn off automatic restart so i didnt get a chance to see the error code. now my computer is stuck in a restart loop. the only way i can turn on my computer is to reset CMOS but after resetting CMOS and if i want to restart my computer or shut it down, the next time i try to turn on my computer it gets stuck in a restart loop again. so basically everytime i try to turn on my computer i have to reset CMOS.

txtmstrjoe

Oh wow. Sounds fairly serious.

This requires some fairly in-depth research. I'll check back when I find something promising.

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krazieaznboi

ya... so thats y i think it might be a problem with the bios.

txtmstrjoe

krazieaznboi, your instinct might be correct here. I suppose it's possible that the SATA drivers now don't match because of the flashed BIOS changing the SATA type on the board (am I understanding things correctly here?).

Perhaps you can update your SATA drivers?

By the way, I hope you have any critical data files backed up during all these troubleshooting steps. It's always a good idea to back up, but especially when dealing with storage-related issues.

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krazieaznboi

thats sounds like a pausible solution. ill give it a tr and report back.