Vista Shuts down halfway through insatallation

[mherrington]

About halfway though the install when it says expanding files at 100% the computer cuts off and never resumes the install. I'm baffled by this.

System Specs.
Intel Pentium dual core 2.5 ghz

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

pny geforce 9600 pci-e

Western Digital SATA HD

Sony CD DVD burner SATA

 

[Kill@dor]

How much space do you have on your hard drive? Is that copy of Vista legit?

 

[mherrington]

How much space do you have on your hard drive? Is that copy of Vista legit?

Yes it is a legit copy of vista ultimate 500GB technically like 498

 

[Kill@dor]

What kind of memory are you using...and how much? Is this 64-bit or 32-bit?

 

[Kill@dor]

If i were you, i would try going back to the install...delete the partition and format a new one...then reinstall.

 

[mherrington]

Kingston Hyper-X 4gb dual channel. 64bit

 

[mherrington]

If i were you, i would try going back to the install...delete the partition and format a new one...then reinstall.

Tried that multiple times even used gloader to format hd that didnt work either

 

[mherrington]

i feel like it is some mundane tiny detail

 

[Kill@dor]

Take out 2 sticks of ram...or keep 1x 2GB or whatever you have....only keep 2GBs in the system. Then try again.

Also...reset everything in the BIOS to default!! Are you sure the format is NTFS?

 

[mherrington]

Take out 2 sticks of ram...or keep 1x 2GB or whatever you have....only keep 2GBs in the system. Then try again.

i only have 2x2 ram but i dont think that would bother the installation i think it would actually help it

 

[Kill@dor]

Just for testing...you never know man. I know it shouldn't bother it tho...

Have you tried installing on another hard drive?

 

[mherrington]

not yet but i feel that could be a problem i cant work on it right now i am at work but i was planning on that tonight any other ideas

 

[Kill@dor]

Ok, here is what you should do:

Clear the CMOS!! Take the battery out from your mobo for 30mins-1hour. 30 mins is fine...

Since you have 2x2GBs of RAM, take one stick out...that will leave 2GBs. Check the RAM voltage...i would increase it to 2.0v...or at the least 1.9v. One of your sticks of RAM could be bad causing a crash...so if one set does not work...change it to the other and reinstall (if it crashes again only)

Go to your BIOS and change the boot order. Make sure your CD-ROM is first then the hard drive...you can disable anything else like Floppy unless you have one

This one probably isnt an issue, but before you start just check the temps in BIOS...

 

[mherrington]

there dual channel i cant just use one

 

[shortstuff_mt]

there dual channel i cant just use one

You can run a single stick of RAM, it will just run in single channel mode. That's a very common thing to do when troubleshooting. I agree that the RAM could be causing these problems. What exact RAM kit do you have?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000147%201052315794%201052108080&Description=Kingston%20Hyper-X%204gb&name=240-Pin%20DDR2%20SDRAM

You should manually set the RAM speed/timings/voltage to the manufacturers specs in the BIOS and run Memtest86+ for a few hours to test for RAM errors.

 

[mherrington]

ok ill try that thats my ram Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2K2/4G - Retail

 

[topper743]

Do the install with just 2gb ram.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=ejUDSrCwCZ2qtgfkovmYBw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=can+vista+be+installed+with+4gb+ram&spell=1

 

[Kursun]

Update your bios. Gigabyte puts boards to sale before bios is perfected.

 

[shortstuff_mt]

Wow, I would definitely say the RAM is the problem! That RAM needs insane voltage to work correctly. The DDR2 standard is 1.8v and that RAM needs 2.3v!

It looks like you should manually set the RAM to DDR2 1066 @ 5-5-5-15 timings and 2.3v (+.5v in the BIOS).

 

[Kill@dor]

Let us know how it goes ^_^

 

[mherrington]

i will thanks for the help guys

 

[topper743]

mherrington post the exact model ram you have before you volt it.

 

[shortstuff_mt]

mherrington post the exact model ram you have before you volt it.

He already did - KHX8500D2K2/4G. Do a search for that on Newegg and it only returns one kit. That's how I came up with the suggestions to set the RAM at DDR2 1066 with 5-5-5-15 timings at 2.3v. That's what the RAM specs show. The Kingston product page shows the same specs.

http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/PartsInfo.asp?root=us&LinkBack=http://www.kingston.com&ktcpartno=KHX8500D2K2/4G