Vista 64 issues

[NathanE]

It sounds exactly like my memory problems, I had to downclock/reduce timings to stabilise the system. In the end, the ram had to be RMA'ed I hope the same is not true with you.

Strangely I had to do the same when I got Vista. 2 sticks of my supposedly "premium brand" Corsair memory were duff. Had to run Vista on 2GB for a couple weeks whilst the RMA went through

Won't be buying Corsair again that's for sure. Probably go back to me trusty old Crucial memory

 

[The Running Man]

Is it common for windows 64 to pretty much constantly be telling you one process or another has stopped working?

Its doing my head in! Either its the installer service, host process service etc etc etc.

Is this just my experience or is it just one of those things with being 64bit? my 32bit copy was flawless.

this should definately not happen.

it WAS happening to me, "xxx" service has stopped yadda yadda.

ive reinstalled 2 times now, changed some hardware configs about and now it doesnt happen. games shouldnt tab to windows to tell you a service has crashed out.

i am using Vista Ultimate 64

 

[matt100]

I came back to it the other day to find my screen a garbled mess, inevitably it was a knackered gfx card. The break was caused by a leaky EK waterblock and the gpu core was washing about in feser.

There was a fair bit in the pci-e slot too which I've cleaned out and now it all seems fine, I also changed psu from a 600 to a 620w but I doubt that had much to do with it but its been on an hour now with no processes stopping so, maybe it was the gfx card dying?

 

[BEn_2600+]

I came back to it the other day to find my screen a garbled mess, inevitably it was a knackered gfx card. The break was caused by a leaky EK waterblock and the gpu core was washing about in feser.

There was a fair bit in the pci-e slot too which I've cleaned out and now it all seems fine, I also changed psu from a 600 to a 620w but I doubt that had much to do with it but its been on an hour now with no processes stopping so, maybe it was the gfx card dying?

Oh noes, has the Gfx card recovered then? Naughty Feser, non-conductive my arse.

 

[matt100]

nope, dead as a dodo.

to be fair there was a fair bit of it in there and it wasn't shorting but I think over time it can become conductive.