Well, we share some stuff:
SATA
NVIDIA
Quad Core CPU (2.66)
More than a little RAM
My MB is an Infinity, not overclocked ... yet
I built the machine to be a burner, power supply is, well, big.
All of the drivers, including BIOS and Chipset were upgraded.
Aside from the fact that I feel ripped off after paying $234 for this
useless OS, I guess I am more than a little unhappy.
I wound up having that machine a dual boot; XP and openSUSE, and it seems to
be working great. I use the DVD to repair my notebook, VISTA keeps breaking
it, too.
Sigh,
"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
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.
>> >
>>