Vista Blue screen of death?

[Guest]

I am upgrading to Busisness edition over XP Pro and i get to about the 21%
mark and i get the blue screen of death saying something about USB errors?
Any help appreciated.

Paul

 

[MICHAEL]

Unplug all USB devices. Except for your mouse or keyboard.

Plug them back in after the install.

-Michael

 

[Guest]

Michael,

thanks.
--
Dougy

Unplug all USB devices. Except for your mouse or keyboard.

Plug them back in after the install.

-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

You're welcome.

Post back and let us know if that helped.

-Michael

 

[Guest]

Michael,

Well that bit worked, but then got to about 60% of file expansion and the
BSOD came up with IRQL_MORE_OR_LESS_THAN and we get no futher than that, i
have done a memory test from Vista repair and it says no probs found, i have
checked ASUS website and i have the latest Bios installed, so am stuck now,
trying to find a solution.

Paul

 

[MICHAEL]

Dougy,

Can you do a chkdsk on the drive? Be sure to check "fix errors" and
"scan for and attempt recovery".

-Michael

 

[Guest]

Ok,

Will do, i will let you know outcome, thanks for your help

Paul

 

[MICHAEL]

You're welcome.

Please, let me/us know how it turns out.

-Michael

 

[Guest]

Hi Michael,

No, its not worked, i now get to about 70% of the final installation phase
and it fails to the IRQL message again. I have disabled my other 2 SATA
drives, so only have the main c: drive on the system now, as i had read about
problems with ASUS boards and Nvidia controllers.

I have a ASUS P5n32 SLI delux with 2 gb ram installed, Intel 3gb dual
processor, i ran chkdsk /f and am now doing a defrag, have unplugged all USB
devices and am about to pull my hair out!!! this software is an expensive
failure at £189.00 ?.

So dont really know where to go from here, i ll try again after the defrag,
i was also going to disable the on board LAN

Cheers Paul

 

[MICHAEL]

Pull the RAM out, switch slots, be sure they are pushed in
all the way, and try again.

Perhaps, if that doesn't work try one stick at a time.
I know you ran the memory test, but Vista is a bit
stricter on the "health" of the RAM.

It's either a RAM problem, graphics card, or maybe
you need a BIOS update. It's just really hard to know
with just that error- it can mean several things. Many times
a memory problem.


-Michael