The saga began months ago when I tried to do the Vista Ultimate 64bit upgrade and booted from the DVD to get to the point where Vista has the green progress bar after the gray file loading screen when the whole thing freezes and I go and get a coffee or a beer depending on the time. I put this down to being a dirty install and was busy so I shelved it for a few months until I had the time and a new drive to install on.
That time has come and it was yesterday and today
. I went out and bought a new SATA drive formated it and went to install, alas, same problem. Went online did a bit of searching and so I upgraded my BIOS and the firmware in my DVD drive etc. Try again, same problem. Ok, disconnected all non critical USB connections and so on...Try again, same problem. Hmmmm, what have I done wrong here? Upgrade advisor says all good
What's going on.
Only course of action I figured out with no help from my 35 minute tech support call with microsoft...is, Memory. I took out 1024MB of memory leaving me with a poultry 1024MB and guess what Vista installs no problem and runs ok albeit with 75% of RAM in use constantly. Once installed I placed the other stick back in and the whole thing fails again. Now I've tried substituting the sticks and am 99.9% sure it is not a problem the sticks themselves. I can boot into safe mode without issue and the OS reports the correct amount of memory.
My question is, How can I get Vista to boot with the 2048MB of memory?
I don't usually have these problems and can sadly admit...this one has beaten me. I've read a few threads about stop errors with 4GB+ installed but I can't seem to find anyone with my issue
Lucky them!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Sorry my machine specs are
Vista Ultimate 6000 build
AMD3700+ 2.4Ghz (Socket 754)
2048MB Corsair 400Mhz Memory
Nvidia 7800GT (7.15.11.5818 Drivers)
Nforce4 MB (Version: 15.00 Drivers)