Windows crashes

[Guest]

I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start
vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms
It took 3 hours to install
it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on
button.
When I press the logon button it will do one of three things
It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else.
It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement.
It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse
button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it
immediately crashes.

I have a reasonable spec machine
Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card.
As anyone else had these problems?

Adrian

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Have you run a memory test?

 

[Guest]

Yes I have and it shows nothing wrong.

Adrian

Have you run a memory test?

 

[R.U. Zerious]

It's gotta be a driver. If you can boot to safe mode within a reasonable
time, then it's one of the drivers that safe mode isn't loading. Take a look
through Device Manager. Maybe you can determine which driver's causing the
problem.

 

[Bob T.]

You may get an idea of problems through two different ways both in the
Control Panel. "Performance Ratings and Tools" and "Problem reports and
Solutions." My bet is the graphics.

 

[Tony Thijs]

I had mega problems with a gigabyte SINXP1394 mobo
What helped was loading the Sil 3112 driver with F6 at install time
This is my configuration
Vista beta 2.0 build 5472 July CTP

PC boots to Vista from c:

PC boots to Windows XP pro from d:

Gigabyte sinxp1394 motherboard

Apollo Geforce FX 5500 (256 Mb video memory)

512 Mb ddr 400 Twinmos memory running at 400

Hitachi ata bootdisk, two partitions, c: and d:

Maxtor SATA II 160Mb disk on a Sil 3112A controller with the newest Silicon
Image supplied ,,base'' driver installed with F6 at installation, two
partitions G: and H:

Memorysticks on f: and k:

DVD RAM on e:

LG DVD writer connected over USB on I

NVIDIA driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install

AC 97 driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install

Applications installed: Corel Paintshop Pro X (runs fine)



Next step: Install .NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 sp1, Visual Studio 2005, Workflow
extensions, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office, SQL Server 2005 Developer
Edition, Office 2007 beta2, Wacom tablets and -the now available- Wacom
Vista Beta driver, US Robotics Maxg Wifi system, Palm TX PDA synchronizing
over WiFi