Woah! How retarded is Vista!?!

Hi dark_shadow, It would be highly advisable to run your system at stock settings for the moment, just until you get your system up and running.

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My OC settings for anyone interested:
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The CPU voltage looks very low for an overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E6300. If you download Core Temp and install it. Then, take a look at the "VID" option and see what voltage is set for it. This is your default VCore for your E6300.

After you have found it out, go back into the BIOS, set the "CPU Frequency" to "266". "DRAM Frequency" to "667" and "PCI Express Frequency" to "101" (It doesn’t really need to be 110). You can leave the "PCI Clock Synchronization Mode" at "33.33 MHz". Then, "Memory Voltage" to "1.90V" - "2.00V" and "CPU VCore Voltage" to what CoreTemp" - "VID" displayed it as.

Now, as for the "NB VCore", "FSB Termination Voltage", "SB Vcore (SATA, PCI-E)" and finally ICH Chipset Voltage, set them to the lowest value you can, not "Auto" though.

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Those settings look absolutely fine.

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Now, as far as the timings go, you should be absolutely fine with 4-4-4-12.

After you have run your system at stock settings and you don't experience any more problems with Windows Vista and have the operating system configured the way you like, then overclocking is in order. :D:)

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If you find it annoying just turn User account control off, it reduces your system security but it saves a bit of time and relieves some stress from having to confirm every new thing... Fire Wizard is one of those guys who reckons you shouldn't turn it off as it reduces the security and he doesn't mind confirming things, but imo it's really rubbish and if you reckon you can keep your pc secured fine then you can just disable it...
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The main reason you shouldn't turn it off is so you can run in a standard user account successfully.
 
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Hi Fire Wizard,

Thanks for the informative post. Should I reformat and try vista again before I try the above . . . because I've reverted to my XP config on my raid setup, which has been running smooth for the past 20 months without a reformat.

As said, with the above settings, they've been running for 20 months without a hitch :)

Edit: The VID is 1.25v :)
 
Hi dark_shadow, I would personally run your system at stock settings, then reinstall Windows Vista and once you have configured the operating system the way you like, then overclock your system. This way, if you do have any problems, you can rule out the overclock that is possibly causing the problems you may be experiencing. :)
 
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I would run memtest for around 4 hours, one hour isnt the best lol.

I tend to do it overnight, so 8hours + usually.
 
The default for PCIE is 100 not 120 so set it back to 100 or 101 and see if it makes a diff. Also the way Vista uses system resources can show up problems more so then when running XP.
 
I've heard people setting PCIE to 101MHz, what does this exactly do ? I never understood!
 
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The default for PCIE is 100 not 120 so set it back to 100 or 101 and see if it makes a diff. Also the way Vista uses system resources can show up problems more so then when running XP.
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101 or 100 may give the pci-ex1x bug for his board, I've had it too and had to use 110 at least to fix it along with a notch extra on the northbridge volts ( so 1.45 like he has atm)...

mrk said:
I've heard people setting PCIE to 101MHz, what does this exactly do ? I never understood!
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Bug on the p5b series, mainly the deluxe...
101 sometimes fixes it, sometimes not, the board is stubborn.
@100 + an overclock you're almost guaranteed to have your pci-express slot reset to 1x...
 
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The hardware might be running perfectly fine, you just may have some dodgy drivers.

Are you using the latest Vista drivers for all your hardware? Non-beta drivers?

You also mention you've installed software that says it's not compatible with Vista - any chance of listing the software you've installed? In my experience the latest version of all the software I use has installed perfectly on Vista so it may well be that one of these applications really needs to be patched.
 
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If explorer's crashing, your pc is probably broken.
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thats not true at all, explorer crashed for me each time i tried to click explore on ANY drive..

had to type E: or D: and ENTER!!!!

@OP re-boot and hope it is fixed...

i find that bugs are rather strange, sometimes they happen and sometimes they dont, even if you do exactly the same thing 100 times, your gonna get different bugs
 
The animosity shown to a genuine question is quite astounding sometimes

Fair enough IF it was brand new kit, then helpful posts about how to resolve the issue by turning down the oc is one thing, but OP has said a few times that the kit has been running XP for nearly 2 years

Admittedly I wouldnt install an OS with any oc at all to start with until its completely set up - but even so the sly comments arent helpful at all

OP - Vista can take some getting used to, and being that its a completely different OS underneath, I would seriously install with no OC at all (yes I have heard of the PCIE bug also and leaving that on 105 I have always done in the same situation doesnt count in my book as an oc)
 
Similar kind of problem. Working on a laptop that had explorer freezing on bootup. Backed up data and reinstalled Vista basic and now the laptop will not boot into the OS at all, just keeps rebooting. No idea what is wrong. I ran HDD diagnostics and memtest and there were no probs reported.
 
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