5th time failure on Vista Ultimate setup...

[Guest]

I've tried five times to install Vista Ultimate. It seems to go well to the
very end, then, when it should boot Vista, I get a blue screen error message,
and the system continualy reboots. Error message is:

***STOP: 0x0000007E (0X0000005, 0X81836F72, 0X8246AA68, 0X8246A764)

My machine is very stable under XP Pro SP2, and I have the latest XP drivers
for my hardware. According to the provided tools, I should not have problems
using Vista on my rig. The machine details are as follows:

Power supply 470W Silent
Motherboard Asus P4P800 Deluxe (Bios 19, Intel chipset 865 drivers are the
latest)
CPU Intel PIV 3.4Ghz Prescott 800Mhz bus HT
RAM 2 Gb 400Mhz (4x512)
Video GeForce 7600GS 256Mb AGPx8
Audio Creative Audigy SE
2x IDE 120 Gb NFTS
Primary disk SATA 250 Gb NFTS
DVD-ROM Samsung S616E
DVD-RW Philips 1648P1
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card
3C940 Gigabit LOM onboard

Last try was with the SCSI card remove... same result. I've tested my RAM
using the RAM test included on the Ultimate DVD, and everything is ship-shape.

Any ideas? I am at my wits end with this... and it is awful to endure a 4.5
hours setup to have the thing blow up in the end...

 

[Adam Albright]

I've tried five times to install Vista Ultimate. It seems to go well to the
very end, then, when it should boot Vista, I get a blue screen error message,
and the system continualy reboots. Error message is:

***STOP: 0x0000007E (0X0000005, 0X81836F72, 0X8246AA68, 0X8246A764)

My machine is very stable under XP Pro SP2, and I have the latest XP drivers
for my hardware. According to the provided tools, I should not have problems
using Vista on my rig. The machine details are as follows:

Power supply 470W Silent
Motherboard Asus P4P800 Deluxe (Bios 19, Intel chipset 865 drivers are the
latest)
CPU Intel PIV 3.4Ghz Prescott 800Mhz bus HT
RAM 2 Gb 400Mhz (4x512)
Video GeForce 7600GS 256Mb AGPx8
Audio Creative Audigy SE
2x IDE 120 Gb NFTS
Primary disk SATA 250 Gb NFTS
DVD-ROM Samsung S616E
DVD-RW Philips 1648P1
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card
3C940 Gigabit LOM onboard

A 7E stop can mean lots of different things. Anything from bad memory,
to not enough space to install Vista, or some missing or outdated
drivers. You mentioned you have the latest XP drivers. You actually
need the latest Vista drivers ESPECIALLY for hard drive controllers
and sometimes video cards.

Did you run the Update Advisor? If so ANYTHING, and I do mean ANYTHING
it mentions, disable or remove. When that piece of junk says shouldn't
cause any problem it often translates to WILL cause problems once you
try to actually install Vista.

HOW far did you get in the install? Vista will reboot several times
before it is done. For me it took 7 reboots before it stopped
installing. How often it needs to reboot depends on your system and
what it finds.

1. Did you get past the first reboot at about 21%?
2. The second at about 56%?
3. The big one is you get dumped to a new but empty desktop that is
the new Vista theme. If you get this far one more reboot and you
finally see the new Vista logo, then the real desktop populated.

The one thing that jumped out at me is you have a SATA drive as your
primary. BAD NEWS! These (though not all) typically require to have
their Vista drivers (for their controller) either preinstalled if they
also work in XP, some do, others don't, check you motherboard vendor
site. Usually, but not always if they have new Vista drivers you may
have to do a clean install then very early hit F6 so the SATA drivers
you downloaded first while still running XP get properly installed
when you attempt to install Vista. Its one of the Catch 22 things.
Vista should ask if you have drivers to install very early on during
the install process. That's the one chance you get.

The other big thing that sticks out is your audio card. I would remove
it until you get Vista up and running. Keep the SCSI card out too
unless you need it boot off of. If I was you, I would also disable the
second DVD drive and the LOM for now. The idea is either remove or
disable all your hardware you don't absolutely need to install Vista.

That means you should only need a keyboard, pointing device like a
mouse, a DVD burner and have a video card installed. That's should be
it. If you think your video card is the source of your problems and it
could be while still in XP go to Device Manager or Control Panel if
needed and uninstall your video card drivers. Windows always has a
generics plain Jane VGA driver it will use to get you through install.
May not be pretty, but who cares till you get Vista up and running.

 

[mikeyhsd]

our friends at GOOGLE have lots of information related to this error.
generally it is a driver problem.

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

I've tried five times to install Vista Ultimate. It seems to go well to the
very end, then, when it should boot Vista, I get a blue screen error message,
and the system continualy reboots. Error message is:

***STOP: 0x0000007E (0X0000005, 0X81836F72, 0X8246AA68, 0X8246A764)

My machine is very stable under XP Pro SP2, and I have the latest XP drivers
for my hardware. According to the provided tools, I should not have problems
using Vista on my rig. The machine details are as follows:

Power supply 470W Silent
Motherboard Asus P4P800 Deluxe (Bios 19, Intel chipset 865 drivers are the
latest)
CPU Intel PIV 3.4Ghz Prescott 800Mhz bus HT
RAM 2 Gb 400Mhz (4x512)
Video GeForce 7600GS 256Mb AGPx8
Audio Creative Audigy SE
2x IDE 120 Gb NFTS
Primary disk SATA 250 Gb NFTS
DVD-ROM Samsung S616E
DVD-RW Philips 1648P1
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI card
3C940 Gigabit LOM onboard

Last try was with the SCSI card remove... same result. I've tested my RAM
using the RAM test included on the Ultimate DVD, and everything is ship-shape.

Any ideas? I am at my wits end with this... and it is awful to endure a 4.5
hours setup to have the thing blow up in the end...

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info! Tried for the sixth time... nVidia drivers unistalled,
most of the devices disabled... still the same error and the same problem.

My SATA drive is mandated by the bios to be managed via IDE (works pretty
well in XP), should I alter it on the bios to be managed via RAID, even
though it is a single?

Thanks again, this thing is frustrating me.

 

[Stan]

This is the same thing that happened with my Premium install. I notice you
have 2 gigs of ram. I did too. Take one stick out and see what happens.
For me, after several install errors, I happened to take a gig out and lo
and behold the install completed. After a while I thought I would put the
gig back in and.... BSOD. Rotated the two 1 gig sticks and both are okay as
long as only one is on the motherboard at a time (Intel DG965WH). With the
same hardware and Win 2000 Pro both worked fine.

I haven't had time to figure this out because I'm dealing with
Validation/Activation problems right now. I updated my BIOS trying to get
the 2 gigs to work (probably a mistake) and now I can't validate. I've been
emailing Vista Tech Support for about a week and a half with no luck. The
scenario is ridiculous. I'll get an email with something to try, try it,
send screen shots and info back and then wait two to three days to get a
response back and then start the same thing all over again. I'm waiting to
hear back from my last message sent at 8:17 AM on 3-2. Pathetic.

Stan.