First post, by AlienWeird
right so here's the deal: I got my hands on what appears to be a prebuilt from Gigabyte. It has a motherboard marked as GA-TBLGMH-GB1, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and a 1GB VRAM flavour of some no-name execution of the GeForce 9600 GT and it bluescreens whenever I try to install network drivers (it has an INTEL 82566DC LAN chip)... and it also doesn't like my random Logilink PCIe x4 USB 3.0 card I tried sticking in it. These isn't really its only problem, as it seems unreasonably picky when it comes to RAM and restarts itself when I try to update any type of SDI flavour I can find (whether I do it locally or using external storage). The bluescreen issue has gone away after I disabled the built-in ethernet controller though.
The only information about this that I've found comes from This Japanese blog-type thing which got me, through the Wayback Machine, this Gigabyte page. Which, sure, has some information but the CPUサポートリスト link returns an 'access denied' page. And let me be honest for a warm little minute here i'm not about to spend too too much time on this when I have better systems that I can just shove that GF9600GT into - it's just that my curiosity is piqued and I can't get anywhere with this.
i wonder if i should just stick Windows 8.1 in it... i mean i just might, it's not like i can mess anything up even more with that.
Any information and/or troubleshooting help is much appreciated - indeed and BIOS (it seems to be on the .F5 version) files would be fantastic since however much RAM I shove in it, Windows 7 always returns a '3.82GB useable' message. My current assumption is that the CPU is at fault somehow, since memtest86 doesn't report any errors. Which is why I would like any information when it comes to troubleshooting this particular board.
Attached are the markings on the motherboard and on the bottom of the case.
