My guess would be dying hdd, or at least an inappropriately sized drive for the time. Despite being formatted down to 2GB FAT16, the games might not know how to get to that part of the drive. They shouldn't care, the BIOS should be taking care of that, but...Bethesda... Can confirm that both run on …

Necro-posting because this came up in a Google search for me, so others might stumble on this thread as well. I have a GA-5AX revision 3.0 board. The official latest F4 BIOS on Gigabyte's site works for PCBs 3.0, 4.1, and 5.x. CRC32 of the BIOS file 5AX.F4 is 59917B47. https://www.gigabyte.com/ …