I tested the memory and I know it is GOOD.Īny ideas anyone. I tried clearing my BIOS and rebuilding BIOS configuration but the problem remains. I am now in a loop of boot & crash - it stops at CRCDISK.SYS everytime. Strange, since VISTA has been running on this Mobo for months quite happily. I tried to boot up into the Vista from the CD to try for repair console but as the last item loads up it crashes and says my Mobo does not do ACPI properly and I need a BIOS update.
I tried to start up normally, then safe mode with networking, then safe mode. When I started it back up, BIOS saw the extra memory and correctly ID'd 4Gb. SO I shut down my machine, disconnected everything and installed the memory. I now had 4 DIMM's from the same manufacturer that were identical. WHen I say identical, I mean I bought another two of the original purchased ram. I decided to add an additional 2Gb of RAM to the system and purchased two identical memory units. I built this machine from scratch and it has been working flawlessly for months on end. The Startup Repair or Recovery Your Computer feature, available from Windows Vista onwards (including Windows 7 and Windows 8 or 8.1, as well as Server 2008 and Server 2012) can be used to both attempt to correct the problem as well as perform system diagnostics in an attempt to pin-down what the specific underlying cause of the reboot loop, in the presence of the split-second BSOD or otherwise.
