Problem Installing Vista, corrupt file!

yantorsen · 28 Sep 2007 at 18:59

after I've installed vista and it loads into windows for the first time the following message appears? I formatted my hdd, and tryed again, and it did the same?

Why is it doing it, what can I do?

It's Vista Home Premium 64-Bit OEM

system specs in my rig.

Thanks in advance.

riddlermarc · 28 Sep 2007 at 19:01

My initial guess would be a corrupt source dvd, do you have a copy a friend could lend you (obv use your own key)?

yantorsen · 28 Sep 2007 at 19:05

nope I don't :S

Is it possible to return it and swap it?

yantorsen · 28 Sep 2007 at 19:23

anyone else got any suggestions?

If you need anymore specific details then just ask.

yantorsen · 28 Sep 2007 at 20:02

hohum · 28 Sep 2007 at 20:31

Memtest?

riddlermarc · 28 Sep 2007 at 22:46

yantorsen said:
bump

Is your Trust mail your main one? I can prob lend you a copy for the meantime.. seeing as you have the serial key and everything..

rtatts · 28 Sep 2007 at 23:15

My initial thought would be corrupt DVD as mentiond above.

PARUK · 28 Sep 2007 at 23:36

Could be a problem with your Vista disc as suggested, but don't discount hohum's suggestion. I always let a new build do a good few loops of MemTest86's test 5 before loading the OS, just as a very basic hardware check. That error you're seeing could well be memory related!

GraemeUK · 28 Sep 2007 at 23:43

Someone had to

But I'd do a memtest first, try http://www.memtest.org/ or use the one on the vista disk.

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 00:18

GraemeUK said:
Someone had to

But I'd do a memtest first, try http://www.memtest.org/ or use the one on the vista disk.

lol

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 00:20

riddlermarc said:
Is your Trust mail your main one? I can prob lend you a copy for the meantime.. seeing as you have the serial key and everything..

cheers mate, but I've managed to get it to work now. No idea how I just reinstalled for like the sixth time, didn't change a thing, and it suddenly worked lol.

although I'm confused now with all the drivers, my vista base score for my gfx card is only 1.0 :confused:

gizmoy2k · 29 Sep 2007 at 00:32

Did you have your system OC'd at any level? I have seen this happen before and solved it by loading BIOS defaults. Least you sorted it now :cool:

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 00:40

nope, it wern't oc'ed at all, everything was on default. oh well it's working now

still not 100% sure how stable it is though.