Vista died hard

yer_averagejoe

yer_averagejoe

yer_averagejoe

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Hi. I've had vista ultimate set up for a few months now and had no problems whatsoever. It ran fine yesterday and I shut it down as normal. Now, I turned it on today and every time it booted, it blue screened within a minute. (stop error 0x000000D3 and 7E). bearing in mind no updates had been installed, no driver or hardware changes, no nothing. So I tried a fresh install: completely wiped my hard drive, full format, new partitions etc. and installed it again. this time it wont even get into windows before blue screening. how can an install of windows in exactly the same conditions as the last install (which worked perfectly) not work? I'm absolutely baffled. Anyoen experienced this? Lucky I had my trusty XP still installed on another drive.

Cheers for any help in advance. Joe :)
 
If this was my machine I'd be :

1 - Setting defaults in my BIOS (just in case)
2 - Removing any devices that I don't need at the moment (in my case I could take out my soundcard, 2 HDDs and a DVD drive).
3 - Re-installing

If that doesn't work I'd be :

4 - Shifting my memory around
 
Yeah I set it all to stock before reinstalling. I'll try shifting reseating things/shifting memory around later. Shouldnt be a hardware problem though as XP isn't kicking up any errors. Does the boot sector of a hard drive get wiped on a full format?
 
yer_averagejoe said:
Yeah I set it all to stock before reinstalling. I'll try shifting reseating things/shifting memory around later. Shouldnt be a hardware problem though as XP isn't kicking up any errors. Does the boot sector of a hard drive get wiped on a full format?
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IIRC, theres something about vista not formattign properly so you just end up installing windows on top of an old install. that might explain it

sid
 
yer_averagejoe said:
Yeah I set it all to stock before reinstalling. I'll try shifting reseating things/shifting memory around later. Shouldnt be a hardware problem though as XP isn't kicking up any errors. Does the boot sector of a hard drive get wiped on a full format?
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I remember at least one report of someone complaining about about Vista not installing on their PC with similar errors to you and that they never had any problems under XP. Chances are as Vista is being more hardware intensive or sensitive than XP and that it's pushing things enough to cause BSODs.

Try installing with one stick of ram. Better yet try memtesting it.
 
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