Vista - Vista Ultimate installation problems

I run the Upgrade Advisor and it says my hardware passed. All I have plugged
in is video, hard drive, 1 rom, floppy, keyboard and mouse.
Right after it says Windows Vista is going to run for the first time, I get
a blue screen indicating that the device driver gets stuck in an infinite
loop, usually being a problem with the driver itself or with the device
driver programming the hardware incorrectly. The technical infromation reads
"stop: (0x848da7e8, 0x0000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
The computer restarts and I have the option to go into Safe Mode, Start
Normal etc. Doesn't matter which one I choose it says Windows wasn't
installed properly, run the installation from the cd/dvd again.
I bought new 1GB RAM to eliminate the possibility of the problem being my
RAM. I have tried three different hard drives, Western Digital, Maxtor,
Fujitsu with more than adequate space. I had a friend try my HD and video
card in their computer and Vista works fine.
What more can I try to make this work.

My System
ASUS P4P800 motherboard
478 Chipset
3.0 GHz
1 GB Ram
ATI Radeon X1600 video
Western Digital 250 Gig IDE HD
Floppy

You may have a hardware problem...

Try to disconnect a hardware device and test (example : open your pc,
disconnect your graphic card and test with another graphic card, idem for
memory, etc)

And disconnect all USB's and Peripherals

"Wheeler" <Wheeler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FCBEA2C7-FB0C-41EC-8301-92F1C146C6EE@microsoft.com...
>I run the Upgrade Advisor and it says my hardware passed. All I have
>plugged
> in is video, hard drive, 1 rom, floppy, keyboard and mouse.
> Right after it says Windows Vista is going to run for the first time, I
> get
> a blue screen indicating that the device driver gets stuck in an infinite
> loop, usually being a problem with the driver itself or with the device
> driver programming the hardware incorrectly. The technical infromation
> reads
> "stop: (0x848da7e8, 0x0000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
> The computer restarts and I have the option to go into Safe Mode, Start
> Normal etc. Doesn't matter which one I choose it says Windows wasn't
> installed properly, run the installation from the cd/dvd again.
> I bought new 1GB RAM to eliminate the possibility of the problem being my
> RAM. I have tried three different hard drives, Western Digital, Maxtor,
> Fujitsu with more than adequate space. I had a friend try my HD and video
> card in their computer and Vista works fine.
> What more can I try to make this work.
>
> My System
> ASUS P4P800 motherboard
> 478 Chipset
> 3.0 GHz
> 1 GB Ram
> ATI Radeon X1600 video
> Western Digital 250 Gig IDE HD
> Floppy
>

Dear Wheeler,

I am having the exact same scenario you are having except that I am running
the ATI Radeon X1300 Video Card. The upgrade install goes thru ok and when
widnows boots for the first time I get the stop error

(0x84ac8020, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) My stop error is slightly
different, but It looks like the video card is a common thread.

I ran all the upgrade advisors and everything comes up clean........and I
dont have another video card.

Bob

"Wheeler" wrote:

> I run the Upgrade Advisor and it says my hardware passed. All I have plugged
> in is video, hard drive, 1 rom, floppy, keyboard and mouse.
> Right after it says Windows Vista is going to run for the first time, I get
> a blue screen indicating that the device driver gets stuck in an infinite
> loop, usually being a problem with the driver itself or with the device
> driver programming the hardware incorrectly. The technical infromation reads
> "stop: (0x848da7e8, 0x0000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
> The computer restarts and I have the option to go into Safe Mode, Start
> Normal etc. Doesn't matter which one I choose it says Windows wasn't
> installed properly, run the installation from the cd/dvd again.
> I bought new 1GB RAM to eliminate the possibility of the problem being my
> RAM. I have tried three different hard drives, Western Digital, Maxtor,
> Fujitsu with more than adequate space. I had a friend try my HD and video
> card in their computer and Vista works fine.
> What more can I try to make this work.
>
> My System
> ASUS P4P800 motherboard
> 478 Chipset
> 3.0 GHz
> 1 GB Ram
> ATI Radeon X1600 video
> Western Digital 250 Gig IDE HD
> Floppy
>