New Build, Vista Home Premium Crashing

[trickeriche]

This is a new system that I've just put together. Got my vista OEM home premium disk, loaded it up, setup installed, computer restarted, got to point where there is a horizontal status bar with Microsoft Corp below and computer restarts.

Here's my specs.
m/b-Gigabyte 965-dq6
processor- pentium d 820(not overclocked--yet)
hard drives--2 X seagate barricuda 7200.10 SATA2 500 gb raid0
ram-2gb (4X500mb)a-data ddr2 800
vga-sapphite radeon x 1950 pro
dvd+rw-asus ide
dvd-asus sata
power-silverstone 560W
cooling-thermaltake bigwater 735

I am using a flash drive to load sata drivers during install. Install does recognize the raid hardrive. I am running the hard drives on the gigabyte sata controller, not the intel southbridge.

 

[pkellmey]

This may not be the case, but the ASUS forum is full of people having similar problems until they went to the latest BIOS for the m/b. Have you tried that yet?

 

[trickeriche]

I was hoping to not have to update the bios yet since I don't have a floppy. I'm going to try and use my flash drive.

 

[kona]

HP has a cool little utility for flash drives that makes them bootable and which your machine will see them as a floppy ...you can then load your drivers from the floppy on to your flash drive. I forgot what its called but I have it and I tried it. It works well.

 

[trickeriche]

I had vista stop at the error code and my error is stop:0x0000007B (0X82006BA0, 0XC00000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) This seems to be an error related to the SATA. I'll look into more later, gotta go to work.

 

[PLAT1NUM]

Forgive me for not remembering the exact source, but I believe I remember reading somewhere that it was better to install the OS in Standard IDE (non-RAID) mode when doing fresh installs to SATA drives. Once you're up and running, then you can switch it over. Just a suggestion, I am by no means an expert. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it helps.

 

[hobojoe_2006]

I am having the same exact problem (the freezing at the display of the status bar)....although I am not running my hds in raid.

Here's my specs:

m/b - Abit IL9 Pro
processor - pentium d 945
hard drive#1 - Maxtor Sata 200GB
hard drive#2 - Seagate Sata 300GB
ram - 2gb (4X512mb) kingston ddr2 533mhz
vga- xfx Geforce 7800GT
dvd+rw - Lite-On
dvd+rw - LG
power - Raidmax Volcano 630W

I've also updated the bios.....could I just have a bad copy of the OEM dvd?

 

[Skweez]

I am having the same exact problem (the freezing at the display of the status bar)....although I am not running my hds in raid.

Here's my specs:

m/b - Abit IL9 Pro
processor - pentium d 945
hard drive#1 - Maxtor Sata 200GB
hard drive#2 - Seagate Sata 300GB
ram - 2gb (4X512mb) kingston ddr2 533mhz
vga- xfx Geforce 7800GT
dvd+rw - Lite-On
dvd+rw - LG
power - Raidmax Volcano 630W

I've also updated the bios.....could I just have a bad copy of the OEM dvd?

Same problem here, also with an Abit IL9 Pro and a SATA hard drive..

 

[hobojoe_2006]

What cards do you have in your pci slots?

 

[Skweez]

What cards do you have in your pci slots?

Ok, that was the problem: the dvb-t hauppauge pci card that I had in a pci slot :?
At last I could install WVista

 

[hobojoe_2006]

I had the same problem...an ati tv wonder elite. I never could get the computer to boot with it in though, and later found out it just wasn't compatible.....

 

[Skweez]

I had the same problem...an ati tv wonder elite. I never could get the computer to boot with it in though, and later found out it just wasn't compatible.....

Same here. When connecting the WinTV NOVA-T at PCI slot, Windows Vista doesn't boots. I also tried with other WinTV HVR-1300, and Vista has the same behaviour.

It's really weird because these two cards are supposed to be Vista-compatible :?

 

[Skweez]

Hi.
I've been keep trying some things...
If I connect two Hauppauge WinTv on the same motherboard, then Windows Vista boots 8O

So, it boots with no pci-cards or with 2 pci-cards, but it freezes just after loading the driver "crcdisk.sys" if only 1 pci-card is detected.
Anybody has any clue to solve this strange behaviour? I'm getting mad!