Just installed Vista 64 on my EP45-UD3P (specs below), and everything was going well (except I had to go down to 1 2GB stick of RAM because with 2x2GB installed, it got caught in a reboot loop - I believe it's an issue with OCZ Platinum RAM and this mobo). Anyhow, I had installed Windows and some apps and then I got a little greedy and was playing with Easy Tune. QuickBoost worked fine - went up to 3.60 with no problem. Then I click on the "Smart" Tab and clicked on Turbo and the system hung. I rebooted and it had to load the backup BIOS - uh oh!
Next, Windows would not load - even in Safe Mode. I tried to use last known good config and that did not work - maybe made things worse, because this morning I went into the BIOS and loaded the "Fail Safe" defaults and tried to boot and I got a "No Operating System Present" message ... Crap. Not a huge loss as it was a clean install, but how the heck did this happen and do I have to reinstall???
System:
Mobo- GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P, bios F5a
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz
Memory - OCZ Platinum 2GB PC2-8500
Video - EVGA 8800 GT
HD - 2x250 WD, RAID 0
Coolermaster 550W PSU
Windows Vista 64 Home Premium
Next, Windows would not load - even in Safe Mode. I tried to use last known good config and that did not work - maybe made things worse, because this morning I went into the BIOS and loaded the "Fail Safe" defaults and tried to boot and I got a "No Operating System Present" message ... Crap. Not a huge loss as it was a clean install, but how the heck did this happen and do I have to reinstall???
System:
Mobo- GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P, bios F5a
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz
Memory - OCZ Platinum 2GB PC2-8500
Video - EVGA 8800 GT
HD - 2x250 WD, RAID 0
Coolermaster 550W PSU
Windows Vista 64 Home Premium
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