No matter what installation fails

[Guest]

All I have hooked up is Video, HD, Optical drive, Floppy, Keyboard and
Mouse. ALL other devices are unhooked including USB. I had a friend running
Vista try installing using my HD and Video card in their computer and it
works fine. I tried brand new RAM, I even bought new Monitor that was
certified for Windows Vista, (gave me an excuse to upgrade to widescreen lol)
but it still didn't install..

So I know HD, Video, RAM, and Monitor are good and I still get the same
result.

I start installing Windows Vista Ultimate (full version), then it does its
first restart. Next I see on my screen Windows Vista is going to start for
the first time, I wait a minute or two then I get a blue screen for two
seconds 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. It doesn't matter
which one I choose, I get the blue screen each time.
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

 

[Chad Harris]

If it installed in your friend's PC but not yours, I would check your bios
settings, and uninstall each peace of hdw one by one. None of the other
hardware you have hooked up *should make any difference, but the only way
you'll know is to try.

CH

 

[Microsoft MVP]

Problem is you bought Vista.

 

[JW]

Have you also checked for an updated BIOS for your MOBO?

 

[Guest]

I looked for an updated BIOS, the most recent is a couple years old. I
figured it would have to be more recent if it was for Vista. I have never
updated a BIOS before so I'm a little concerned about doing it. Can I mess up
my computer bad?

 

[JW]

Just follow the instructions on the Vendor's Web site very closely. Some
MOBO vendors give you more than one option on how to update and you want to
pick and download the version that runs completely automatically. Then when
you run it you have to wait till it says is complete done because if you
stop it in the middle you can have major problems.
Nowadays most vendors MOBO BIOS update instructions tell you what you have
to do in order to recover if it does fail in the middle.