5728 Blue Screen - what were the odds?

[Guest]

I installed RC1 5600 fresh (not an upgrade) onto a 150GB SATA drive. After
Vista was installed and working with no issues, I installed the SATA raid
drivers for XP and could then see my RAID 0 drives. The RAID 1 drives were
never recognized as RAID and appeared separately. I then installed Trend
Micro PC-cillin 14.56. Other than some gadgets, those are the only non-Vista
changes made and the system was stable.

I upgraded to 5728 and the system would briefly blue screen and reboot when
trying to start Vista (after, I assume, the upgrade was completed). I could
not start the system normally or in safe mode.

Right now I'm installing 5728 fresh on the same drive after deleting the
original partition to see if the issue is with 5728 or the upgrade process
and my configuration. If I can install a stable version of 5728, I'll delete
it and try to recreate the original upgrade scenario that caused the blue
screen.

This is the first issue I've had with Vista and have run three or four of
the previous versions. At this time I don't know what could have gone wrong.
<cough> Trend Micro <cough>.

ASUS A8N-E MB (1013 BIOS)
ATI X1300 video card
150 GB SATA drive dedicated to Vista
1GB RAM
Belkin pre-N wireless network card
2 other SATA drives RAID 0
2 other IDE drives RAID 1

 

[Guest]

Forgot to mention: I also had drivers for the Belkin Pre-N Desktop card and
my audio drivers. However...

I have 5728 running just fine with all the previous drivers loaded with the
exception of Trend Micro. Hmmm...

 

[Guest]

Out of interest why did you select upgrade install to this new version?
previous versions I have always made a clean install is it still possible to
do this with 5728?

The only AV I could get to work with previous versions was Trend - oh dear
if it doesn't work with 5728. I only use minimal install for TIS perhaps this
would help you if it is their firewall which is the fault.

 

[Guest]

Hi pippin:

Normally I only do a clean install. The "buzz" in this forum is that 5728 is
a build where the upgrade path is being evaluated. I reinstalled with a clean
install and all is fine now. I did cheat and decided to go with Symantec for
anti-virus protection instead of Trend.

While I suspect Trend was the issue, I don't have anything other than my
suspicions. Hopefully you will have better luck with a fresh install.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the new version but as yet have held back
with installing. I noticed on the link the fact it may not be possible to
upgrade from the new version although we don't know if this would even be an
option from RC1.

According to one source I read the new version feedback is not for the RTM
after RC1 - something about a code name vienna now.
I am unsure about installing the new one at the moment althiugh I have it on
disc if I change my mind over the next few days. A stabel RC1 v unknown 5728
one thing it was only released to a selected few and within days it was open
to all of us - wonder if the takeup was low for the new release.

I have had RC1 installed as soon as it was ready but the DVD copy still has
to arrive - shipping in the UK side is dreadful for any of the releases

Thanks for the confirmation about upgrading v clean install

 

[Dave Balcom]

}I upgraded to 5728 and the system would briefly blue screen and reboot when
}trying to start Vista (after, I assume, the upgrade was completed). I could
}not start the system normally or in safe mode.

Same issue on my system. Downloaded 5728 x86 and burned to disk with
Imgburn (verified OK). Did an upgrade install and got to the completing
install stage, was at 64% and then Windows rebooted (was at about 1 hour
which was less time than I have seen here). Got to the windows screen
and then a BSOD. Said something like IRQ_NOT_EQUAL or something similar
and then a reboot (was too quick to write down). I tried booting in safe
mode but it said Windows had not completed the install. I then tried
doing a repair twice which showed there was no partition table.

I was able to test the restore complete PC option as I had my C drive
(RC1 and programs) backed up to an external HD. Only took about 15
minutes to restore back to a working RC1. That was refreshing.

}Right now I'm installing 5728 fresh on the same drive after deleting the
}original partition to see if the issue is with 5728 or the upgrade process

Please let me know how that works out. I didn't want to install all my
software again but may have no choice...

Does anyone have the md5 hash for the x86 version of 5728? All I found
posted here was for x64. This was my first BSOD with Vista in 4
revisions so I guess I was due.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Guest]

Signatures of the ISO file:
32-Bit
MD5 hash: 79cbef523e8afa557a25688349dc8dac
SHA1 hash: d58852a8f68a6d8f5b634edd50c1a8b3908ede09

HTH

 

[Dave Balcom]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:41:02 -0700, pippin

}Signatures of the ISO file:
}32-Bit
} MD5 hash: 79cbef523e8afa557a25688349dc8dac
} SHA1 hash: d58852a8f68a6d8f5b634edd50c1a8b3908ede09

Thanks! I got the hash from another thread here and it matches...

I wonder if the BSOD is related to the SATA HD issue in 5600? I have a
250 GB SATA II on plug 1 in my system.

 

[Clark]

On mine, it was the modem--seems they did something to mess up one of the
drivers (probably modem.sys). Worked fine in build 5600, but blue screens
in boot in 5728

Clark