Installing Vista BSOD

mattj

mattj

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I am also having a hard time installing Vista Ultimate x64 on my machine. I have the proper hardware yet in the middle of the installation it freezes or bluescreens. I will give you a more detailed report of what the BSOD stop code is if you need it. Here are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Mobo
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD
SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner SH-S203N
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner LH-20A1L-06

I feel like it might be a problem with my hardware because I couldn't get 64bit versions of Ubuntu or Xubutnu to install either. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
 

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    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
Re: installing vista

mattj said:
I am also having a hard time installing Vista Ultimate x64 on my machine. I have the proper hardware yet in the middle of the installation it freezes or bluescreens. I will give you a more detailed report of what the BSOD stop code is if you need it. Here are my specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Mobo
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD
SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner SH-S203N
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner LH-20A1L-06

I feel like it might be a problem with my hardware because I couldn't get 64bit versions of Ubuntu or Xubutnu to install either. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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Hi MattJ,

If you have the BSOD code handy I can look it up for you ;)

Steven
 

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Hello mattj.

Try removing 2GB of your RAM. There has been people that have had issues with installing with 4GB of RAM.

Unless you have Vista with SP-1 already in it that could be your problem.
 

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hey mattj,
joel406 is right. i literally have the same exact machine you do. i built it 6 months ago and was having the same problem. It was because i was using 8GB ram when i was trying to install. I took 3 of my sticks out (6GB) leaving only a single 2GB stick in there and it worked fine. give that a try. good luck.
 

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Thanks for the tips. I will give it a try and let you know. After installing did you put the rest of your RAM back in your machine without problems?
 

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  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
yup, after installation is successful just shut down, unplug the power, pop the rest of the ram back in and reboot. once rebooted make sure your system recognizes all of the ram. good luck.
 

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Thank you 3 for your help. The install went perfectly well. I haven't popped my RAM back in but I don't see why that will be a problem. Thanks a ton for your help!
 

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  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
i have a gateway dx4200 amd phenom quad, Vista 64bit, w/ 6gb of ram, that I have reduced to 2gb (2 x 1gb) to avoid stop codes. I have not been able to reinstall extra ram (2 x 2gb). looking for answers for past 3 months when i have time...gateway support just wants to reinstall to as built -- f__ that. I think it must be a Microsoft Vista 64-bit problem, since so many different systems suffer from same problem.
 

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    gateway dx4200-ub001a x64 based pc
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    amd phenom 9550 quad 2.2ghz
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    ami bios 7b3p081g, 5/5/08
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI 3480
I did end up putting my other 2GB back in but would get the same BSODs after about 10-15 minutes of up time. Any ideas? Again, I can check for stop codes if needed.
 

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  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
Use Memtest 86 ISO CD and test your RAM. Don't overclock until you are stable. Make sure your memory is identical.
 

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    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
Memory is identical and I don't overclock so we can rule those out. I will run memtest on the RAM to make sure.
 

My Computer

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  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    nVidia 8800 GTS 320bit
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar 500GB 7200 Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200
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