Thank you John,
Yes the MB and video drivers were my first port of call, along with Vista
updates and I have the very latest. I am running the GeForce 8800GT Super+
which has 1 Gig of video memory but doesn't have a specifc driver and uses
the generic 8800. Novatech assure me that the 8 series of drivers are
correct and should work fine.
Nick
"John Barnes" wrote:
Quote:
> Since you get into Safe mode and not Normal mode, the odds are you have a
> driver problem. Especially make sure you have the latest video driver for
> you card.
>
> "Old Pilot" <OldPilot@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E5569D8B-46E0-47E1-91F6-CC67E77EFC9B@xxxxxx Quote:
> > 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
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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.
> >> >
> >> >
>