memory management blue screen

Dear Newsgroups,

Hello all, I have been struggling to install RC1 and hope someone out there
can show me the light.

Story so far....

- install failed first time, since on reboot the CD was in the drive, so
then wanted to do a separate install, instead of the upgrade I was trying.
- if I remove CD, this went ok, through all install steps, it then sits on
Completing Install... (the last step) for quite a while, I then get Blue
screen and memory management error.

- This has now happened 4 times !!!!

My machine

AMD 64 +3800
Asus A8N Deluxe Mother Board
3GB RAM in 3 x 1GB Dimms
6800GS 256MB PCI-E Graphics

My thought is, like windows XP, it cannot handle 3GB of memory.

Any ideas?? Or should I hope and pray this is fixed in the final release.

Many thanks

Mark Wiltshire

I have been running Vista RC1 and RC2 on my PC that has 4GB of memory with no
issues. Your RAM may be going bad. Check the RAM first.



"MarkW21" wrote:

> Dear Newsgroups,
>
> Hello all, I have been struggling to install RC1 and hope someone out there
> can show me the light.
>
> Story so far....
>
> - install failed first time, since on reboot the CD was in the drive, so
> then wanted to do a separate install, instead of the upgrade I was trying.
> - if I remove CD, this went ok, through all install steps, it then sits on
> Completing Install... (the last step) for quite a while, I then get Blue
> screen and memory management error.
>
> - This has now happened 4 times !!!!
>
> My machine
>
> AMD 64 +3800
> Asus A8N Deluxe Mother Board
> 3GB RAM in 3 x 1GB Dimms
> 6800GS 256MB PCI-E Graphics
>
> My thought is, like windows XP, it cannot handle 3GB of memory.
>
> Any ideas?? Or should I hope and pray this is fixed in the final release.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mark Wiltshire

When booting there is a memory diagnostic option (when chosing vista or older
releases) (use tab to get there)

or try http://www.memtest.org/

let the test run for some time (may be hours)
I've had this problem too and needed to replace my memory

"MarkW21" wrote:

> Dear Newsgroups,
>
> Hello all, I have been struggling to install RC1 and hope someone out there
> can show me the light.
>
> Story so far....
>
> - install failed first time, since on reboot the CD was in the drive, so
> then wanted to do a separate install, instead of the upgrade I was trying.
> - if I remove CD, this went ok, through all install steps, it then sits on
> Completing Install... (the last step) for quite a while, I then get Blue
> screen and memory management error.
>
> - This has now happened 4 times !!!!
>
> My machine
>
> AMD 64 +3800
> Asus A8N Deluxe Mother Board
> 3GB RAM in 3 x 1GB Dimms
> 6800GS 256MB PCI-E Graphics
>
> My thought is, like windows XP, it cannot handle 3GB of memory.
>
> Any ideas?? Or should I hope and pray this is fixed in the final release.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mark Wiltshire