Vista x64 Install

cr!spy · 23 Nov 2007 at 20:59

Just installed Vista x64... install went fine, machine rebooted, but when it started back up it blue screened on the Windows logo. Rebooted the machine again and it keeps doing the same!

C2D 6700
Asus P5N32-E
4GB Crucial Balistix
8800 GTX
150GB Raptor
Corsair HX 620W

Any ideas?

Final8y · 23 Nov 2007 at 21:14

Could be faulty ram, try with one stick & if it still crashes swap the stick.

cr!spy · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:08

It's not the ram, I've still got XP running fine on my old hard drive.

mattyrigby00 · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:25

take all but 2 or even 1 memory sticks out, if it installs successfully install this patch: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777 and put the rest back in

sammie377 · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:28

Did you use any drivers before it went wrong?

Datamonkey · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:30

have you got the hdd set to achi in the bios? did you load an achi driver?

also can you catch what the 00x0000000 code was?

you can learn a lot from that via google, often turns up some good results on it.

Failing that probably mem as already said.

cr!spy · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:33

Yup that's done it Matty! Cheers mate!

Will the patch come down with Windows Update anyway?

Final8y · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:56

cr!spy said:
It's not the ram, I've still got XP running fine on my old hard drive.

xp 32 & vista-64 do not address the same memory space at install or at run time.

cr!spy · 23 Nov 2007 at 23:01

Well we've established it's not the memory... seems it's a problem with certain motherboards when installing Vista x64 running 4GB of ram.

Running on 2GB's at the moment fine, just need to know if that patch comes down in the Windows Updates or not?

cr!spy · 24 Nov 2007 at 12:32

Patch installed, all 4GB's running perferct now!

Glaucus · 24 Nov 2007 at 12:36

cr!spy said:
It's not the ram, I've still got XP running fine on my old hard drive.

That means nothing, as Vista is better programmed it needs tighter tolerance. where xp would put up with faults, vista wont.

Vista is showing how some hardware is broken at manufacture.

edit - just seen you sorted it