Need help with install of x64 love9sick <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 11/29/2008 8:14:33 AM We have just put together a new PC. 750a sli XFX motherboard 650watt BFG PS AMD Phenom Quad core 1000gig Samsung hard drive 2x2gigs Crucial PC8500 DDR2 ram 8800 GTS 320mb We are trying to get a clean install on the HD with the 64 bit vista we bought. apparently we can't even get into the vista CD install manager anymore to even attempt to repair. The installation bar was going fine and than it stopped at a black screen when it finished. It booted up with an error. Now all it does is the mobo goes through the setup bios intro screen, a windows is loading grey/black prgoress bar...than either nothing and frozen or it gives a error screen with some type of error...it is sometimes even different. winload.exe I think was on average. We try to boot of the CD again to re-install or go to fix but it won't let us..it never even achieves the installation screen. It is driving us crazy. We are formating the HD now on a different PC and hoping to retry with one RAM stick only and the mother boards internal 3d card...but other than that we don't know what else to do. :( please help. Thank you Tom -- love9sick

Re: Need help with install of x64 "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> 11/29/2008 11:54:46 AM Hi Tom, Sounds like you're taking the right first steps. A few other things: - Make sure all BIOS timings are set to defaults, no overclocking - Remove any unnecessary peripherals (printers, scanners, etc.) - Check to see if there is a BIOS update for the motherboard, the included one out of the box may be several versions old - Run a software memory check (there is a tool on the Vista disk, or you can run one from oca or memtest) -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "love9sick" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:386d4780fd428a4d3ddaca224f4b2370[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > We have just put together a new PC. > > 750a sli XFX motherboard > 650watt BFG PS > AMD Phenom Quad core > 1000gig Samsung hard drive > 2x2gigs Crucial PC8500 DDR2 ram > 8800 GTS 320mb > > We are trying to get a clean install on the HD with the 64 bit vista we > bought. apparently we can't even get into the vista CD install manager > anymore to even attempt to repair. The installation bar was going fine > and than it stopped at a black screen when it finished. It booted up > with an error. Now all it does is the mobo goes through the setup bios > intro screen, a windows is loading grey/black prgoress bar...than > either nothing and frozen or it gives a error screen with some type of > error...it is sometimes even different. winload.exe I think was on > average. We try to boot of the CD again to re-install or go to fix but > it won't let us..it never even achieves the installation screen. It is > driving us crazy. We are formating the HD now on a different PC and > hoping to retry with one RAM stick only and the mother boards internal > 3d card...but other than that we don't know what else to do. :( please > help. > > Thank you > Tom > > > -- > love9sick

Re: Need help with install of x64 "John Barnes" <jbfoofy[ at ]nomailemail.com> 11/29/2008 1:02:30 PM In addition to Rick's suggestions, if the other pc has another OS other than Vista, make sure you delete any partition and recreate it and partition it using the Vista one located in Advanced on the screen where you select the location to install Vista. "love9sick" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:386d4780fd428a4d3ddaca224f4b2370[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > We have just put together a new PC. > > 750a sli XFX motherboard > 650watt BFG PS > AMD Phenom Quad core > 1000gig Samsung hard drive > 2x2gigs Crucial PC8500 DDR2 ram > 8800 GTS 320mb > > We are trying to get a clean install on the HD with the 64 bit vista we > bought. apparently we can't even get into the vista CD install manager > anymore to even attempt to repair. The installation bar was going fine > and than it stopped at a black screen when it finished. It booted up > with an error. Now all it does is the mobo goes through the setup bios > intro screen, a windows is loading grey/black prgoress bar...than > either nothing and frozen or it gives a error screen with some type of > error...it is sometimes even different. winload.exe I think was on > average. We try to boot of the CD again to re-install or go to fix but > it won't let us..it never even achieves the installation screen. It is > driving us crazy. We are formating the HD now on a different PC and > hoping to retry with one RAM stick only and the mother boards internal > 3d card...but other than that we don't know what else to do. :( please > help. > > Thank you > Tom > > > -- > love9sick