P5Q-EM - Installing Vista

[RogueChampion]

Hello All,
I am new to this website and this is my first ASUS Mobo. I like it so far but am having some problems too.

I have a P5Q-EM Mobo with an Intel E7300 CPU, running 4GB of Corsair RAM, and a Western Digital 320GB SATA HDD.

I first tried to install Vista Ultimate and it came to a blue screen (not the BSOD) it was a GUI screen and then it froze. I could use my mouse, but there was nothing to click on. So after that I installed Ubuntu and that worked perfectly fine and it still does. After that, I tried to boot from another Vista Ultimate disc with the same result. I am not running any other graphics card than the X4500 HD, but that should be fine with Vista. I cannot find anyone else with this same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have ran memtest twice and everything is fine and my overclocking is disabled.

Thanks

Josh

 

[badge]

Vista Installation disc sometimes has problems loading up for install with a SATA DVD drive. Also, I have used a windows XP CD to format a new WD HD, then installed Vista without problems. HTH.

 

[Zenthar]

Known issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

The problem you are having might not fit the description exactly, but it has been know to manifest in different ways; seen someone who was able to do the install, but it would freeze on boot after.

 

[pbrigido]

Short and sweet...try installing Vista with only 1GB or 2GB of ram installed. Update to SP1, install remainder of RAM, and that should work.

 

[RogueChampion]

thanks all... what we did was install XP and upgrade to Vista from XP. From there I reinstalled Ubuntu and everything works great. Will run some stress tests for a day or so to ensure everything is stable. Thanks alot.

 

[badge]

Was the DVD drive you were using a SATA drive? If yes, if you had used an IDE SATA drive Vista would have likely loaded up from the beginning.