system can not find the file

[John]

Vista Home Premium 2

New system board and processor. Won't boot.
An i7 950 and gigabyte board with high speed 1600 memory. Doing repair
doesn't work. Reports something wron with system timings/speed etc. as
well could be.

Memory folks (OCR) ask me to run memtest400 (it passed all the vista
diagnostics).

In install I go to command prompt and try to run mt400.exe. It says,
"The system can not find the file." If I do dir e:\mt400.exe it fins it
just dandy. I tried copying it to a number of other places but get the
same response. Even copied it to the loading directory under a number of
folders.

Now what? Is it impossible to run exe files in vista installer?

John

 

[Curious]

What memory dims do you have installed. Vista requires that all memory
installed be running at the same speed and it tests for this when it boots.
If you are running DDR2 memory and you are not using a matched pair of dims
this could be your problem.
Another option is to test running all memory at a slower memory speed. Or
if using 4GB drop down to testing with 2GB.

 

[John]

Triple channel ddr3 1600. 6 megs at 2 2 2. I talked to the memory
folks... they said it should run ok and must be a board problem... of
course. Haven't had time to talk to the board people. Vista's memtest
ran fine.

John

 

[DL]

www.memtest.org
Download create the bootable floppy or cd

 

[Curious]

Have you tried slowing it down yet?

Triple channel ddr3 1600. 6 megs at 2 2 2. I talked to the memory folks...
they said it should run ok and must be a board problem... of course.
Haven't had time to talk to the board people. Vista's memtest ran fine.

John

 

[peter]

And of course you checked your BIOS settings to make sure they match
your processor and RAM modules??

memtest is best run of a floppy or CD/DVD
http://www.bootdisk.com/

peter

 

[John]

New system and don't have a floppy or cd burner yet. Was hoping to use
the option with memtest to run from a thumb drive. Guess that won't work.
John

 

[John]

Yeah... tried slowing it down, speeding it up... lots of things.
John

 

[peter]

Which Gigabyte Mobo??
what RAM??

peter