Wilco TooManyBytes,
I am begining to think it is a number of problems and now top of my list is
the ASUS P5E motherboard. The ASUS utility (ATK 0110 ACPI utility) seems to
have a growing reputation for causing blue screen failures and there is no
cure at the moment.
If I find anything else out I'll post it.
OP
"TooManyBytes" wrote:
Quote:
> 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
> news
39AA081-A7AE-431E-82C7-E4E6E771BB88@xxxxxx Quote:
> > 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.
> >
>