0x0000116 BSOD - Vista Install, Final Stages Ray Frangie 6/13/2007 1:03:03 PM Hi All, I'm getting a 0x0000116 BSOD in nvlddmkm.sys in the middle of the "Completing Installation" phase of Windows Vista Ultimate install. This is the x86 RTM Copy off Technet. The following is the setup of this machine: 1 x AMD Athlon 64+ 3400 Single Core CPU 2 x 512Mb Corsair DDR 1 RAM Modules 1 x ABIT KV8-MAX3 Motherboard 1 x Inno3d Nvidia 7600GS AGP Graphics Card 2 x ASUS DRV-1814BLT DVD-RW SATA Drives 4 x SATA Hard Drives - Sil3114 Serial ATA Raid Controller (No Raid Setup) 1 x Zalman 500W True Power Supply I'm doing a fresh install on one of the Hard Drives (400Gb) which i've just formatted, defragged, and run chkdsk /r on. Looking around the web shows a lot of issues with the NVidia Series of Cards... I know... :( First Attempt was with Driver Version 9.3.7.1, failed... When it starts to fail, the screen goes black, 6 Musical Character looking ASCII Symbols appear, black on white, random location, then the screen goes blank then 10 or so seconds later, the blue screen appears with the details above. Second Attempt, updated to the latest drive for the Video Card (9.4.6.4) and the latest driver for the Serial ATA Raid Controller, but the same thing is happening... Does anyone have any idea on what else could be causing this error? From the error message I know it seems to be pointing to an NVidia Driver but i have no clue what this file does... Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated Cheers, Ray.

Re: 0x0000116 BSOD - Vista Install, Final Stages "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv[ at ]invalid.org> 6/13/2007 5:24:02 PM Ray The details of this error code can be found on the following website. Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa469184.aspx I would recommend changing the driver for the video card or removing the card completely and reinstalling with the latest official driver after the installation. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Ray Frangie" <RayFrangie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FB4C2072-5383-41A4-8FEA-892A8A6E95F8[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi All, > > I'm getting a 0x0000116 BSOD in nvlddmkm.sys in the middle of the > "Completing Installation" phase of Windows Vista Ultimate install. > > This is the x86 RTM Copy off Technet. > > The following is the setup of this machine: > > 1 x AMD Athlon 64+ 3400 Single Core CPU > 2 x 512Mb Corsair DDR 1 RAM Modules > 1 x ABIT KV8-MAX3 Motherboard > 1 x Inno3d Nvidia 7600GS AGP Graphics Card > 2 x ASUS DRV-1814BLT DVD-RW SATA Drives > 4 x SATA Hard Drives - Sil3114 Serial ATA Raid Controller (No Raid Setup) > 1 x Zalman 500W True Power Supply > > I'm doing a fresh install on one of the Hard Drives (400Gb) which i've > just > formatted, defragged, and run chkdsk /r on. > > Looking around the web shows a lot of issues with the NVidia Series of > Cards... I know... :( > > First Attempt was with Driver Version 9.3.7.1, failed... When it starts to > fail, the screen goes black, 6 Musical Character looking ASCII Symbols > appear, black on white, random location, then the screen goes blank then > 10 > or so seconds later, the blue screen appears with the details above. > > Second Attempt, updated to the latest drive for the Video Card (9.4.6.4) > and > the latest driver for the Serial ATA Raid Controller, but the same thing > is > happening... > > Does anyone have any idea on what else could be causing this error? From > the > error message I know it seems to be pointing to an NVidia Driver but i > have > no clue what this file does... > > Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated > > Cheers, > Ray.