pc freezes and reboots while booting from Vista HP OEM

[Tommy]

Hey

I want to format my whole HDD. My current OS is XP pro.

After reboot, I press a key to boot from disc.
The screen saying "Windows loading files" loads fine, but when it gets to
the screen after, I only see the "Microsoft Corporation" and the boarders of
the loading bar..thats all, everything freeze and after about 5 sec. the
system reboots.

Tried it on another computer, and it booted just fine from the disc.

I've disconnected my USB HDD, as mentioned in another post, and I've tried
another dvd-drive, and also remove some RAM.. No progress.


What can I do to fix this problem?


My comp:

- ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (chipset - Intel 975X Express / Intel ICH7R)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
- Asus GeForce 7950GX2 1GB GDDR3
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA2



Thanks in advance

 

[Ron]

I am experiencing similar problem to Tommy. I can boot my Vista HP(home
premium) OEM 64bit with a single 2Gig memory stick, but when I add a second
stick, I boot to the scrolling green bar then in 10-15 seconds I get the Blue
screen of death with a 0x0000007e error. My post shows the correct amount of
ram and all but Vista 64bit will not boot. I found a Hotfix item that may
help but I don't know where to download it from. Of course OEM software does
not come with support and I dont want to shell out $60 and not fix my
problem.

The hot fix can be seen here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941021

Here is what I do know.
Tried to load Vista Ultamite but 32bit with my full compliment of 4 sticks
of 2Gig each and it loaded and ran but 32 bit and of course it only sees
3-4Gig I want all 8 that is why I got 64bit Vista HP. I can load 64 bit with
one 2 gig stick. My MB XFX 680i LT manufacture told me it is a memory timing
issue and I should relax them from the mfg spec. However they did not tell
me how to do it. I know its in the BIOS but I dont know which way to change
the numbers. I dont want the hit and miss and countless reboots if someone
knows what to do.

Ron

 

[Tommy]

The hotfix doesn't work for me, since I don't get any error message of any
kind, and no blue screen of death.

My Vista DVD works fine while running it in Windos.

What I want to do is:
- Format my HDD
- Remake partitions
- Clean install Vista HD OEM 32-bit

Problem is:

I boot from my DVD, get the screen "Windows is loading files...", then there
will be a second loading screen, with a green loading bar, and this is where
nothing happens, it doesn't load, and after about 5 - 10 seconds the system
restarts.

 

[John Barnes]

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