did you make sure that your bios is reading that big a hard drive..did you
check for something like that..ever,,vista is a bloated operating
system..needs space on the hard drive..i have had cd roms get old and
wouldnt spin the disk and read the disk..vista dont like old stuff.i had to
go out and buy a new dvd burner with vista approved software...
"Puncrawq" wrote:
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>
> System Specs:
> Asus M2N-E MB
> AMD XP 6000+ 64 CPU
> 4gb Patriot DDR 2 (two 2gb sticks)
> Geforce 8500gt 512mb DDR 2 VGA
> 2 case fans, 1 graphics card pci vent fan,
> 500w PS with sata connections (even though non are needed just yet)
> dvd rom (samsung 18x)
> cd burner (cant remember specs right now)
> no floppy drive
> 500 gb seagate barracude hdd
>
>
> Brand new system just built it. Trying to get past hte last hurdle.
>
> Problem :
> after installing vista and foramting the new drive wich only had
> windows me, then xp on it before (all fresh installs) vista loads and on
> the last reboot vista goes to start for hte first time and it hangs up
> gives the bsod real quick does a memory dump real fast and reboots. just
> does it over and over again.
>
> I tried booting from the vista dvd and using the repair feature to no
> avail. just reports a "failure during setup" and offered no codes or
> other reasons. As it is a new fresh system I can not print screen the
> message. a couple of things that happened prior were
>
> the HDD registered 500gb with windows ME then my sick for windows xp
> came in the mail so I installed that and the HDD now read at 372gb so
> then i learned xp doesnt support 4gb ram so i bought vista and decided i
> might as well build my dream computer while i had the time and money. so
> in comes vista premium 64 i load it still only read the HDD at 372gb but
> it loaded correctly read the memory fine everything was good except the
> HDD not reading correctly. so I reload xp thinking i should format the
> drive again and maybe it would see the remaining space but to no avail i
> reloaded vista and now im getting the error mentioned above. Did I fry
> the HDD? It doesnt seem to be the VGA at least to me it seems
> uncharacteristic but I could be wrong...any ideas?
>
>
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> Puncrawq
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