Animalzilla1

SCSIraidGURU,

As usual people like yourself are probably right, I must be the problem there is no doubt about it.
It's my choice of hardware that has caused all this, It's my inability to look at the time it takes to install SP1 and note it down on here so everyone can see how much of an idiot I am. It's my fault I do not have the time to study every single aspect of computer building and programming to include every program ever written by a comapny, of which I must check their work just in case it's not quite compatable with Vista.
It's my fault I forgot to mention I formatted the hard drive and tried to install SP1 straight from a fresh install of Vista before loading ANYTHING on the system which cleared the event viewer which then said nothing of any errors. It's my fault I didn't notice that Vista X64 comes with it's own MEMtest and didn't use it, but instead I downloaded a copy, which because of my limited experience cost me several minutes of my precious studying time. It's my fault I didn't check to see if any of my hardware was vista compliant, even though my system was pre built by a PC professional, for which I have a receipt!
Again I am shamed at my lack of brains, because I did a full BIOS Flash with the latest BIOS stright from ASUS support and forgot to mention it, oh and also forgot to mention I reset the BIOS each time before attempting an install.

Oh wait a minute, what's that? OOOOOO it's another error on my part! Why should I as the end user of a pre built machine, with software provided by Microsoft have to do all this just to stop the system from crashing when it should have been a stable system in the first place.

But you're correct, it really is my fault.