Hello
I have the same problem with a quad core cpu, too (Q6700, 8 gig ram.) After
months attempting to get my machine running, I simply gave up and put
openSUSE on instead.
Vista would run in safe mode or in a virtual pc, but not by itself.
This OS is just so far away from being ready I can't believe it was
released.
Anyway, the openSUSE runs like a champion, and I am close to getting rid of
everything MS.
But I am curious, if you get an answer would you let me know?
"Old Pilot" <Old Pilot@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Gentlemen,
>
> I hope that you can help. I have built a new system to game with and have
> 2
> new hard drives, on one I put XP Pro and then on the other I loaded Vista.
>
> I have more or less completed all the driver upgrades and windows updates
> but I keep getting repeated boot failures of Vista. I can always get into
> Safe mode but in Normal mode the boot fails just after the first spash
> screen
> at the point when the screen goes blank to be replaced by the small
> circular
> Vista logo. After 2 or 3 attempts it succeeds to load but then the
> problem
> seems to reoccur, particularly when I have been back to XP for a while.
>
> I had a similar problem with XP but that seems to have sorted itself out.
>
> I have tired looking in the logs for faults and failures but no clues
> there.
>
> I am running an ASUS P5E MB with Intel Quad 6600, 4Gig RAM, GeForce 8800GT
> and 2x250Gig HDs.
>
> Thanks.
>