vista install troubles :-/

Hello,

I'm building a computer for a client and we've been going at it for
several hours now.

The first time we booted I got a blue screen immediately after windows
copied system files. No pertinent data as to why I got a stop error. I
went into bios and manually set RAM timings and speed instead of auto.
This let me boot into vista setup just fine.

On night one, i was unable to write to my hard drive. "windows may not
be able to write to this drive..." (I wish i could remember more, but
i cant even get that far anymore).

I came back the second night and magically I can write. So I
installed, and after it finished i blue screened again. Now every time
windows tries to load it blue screens and restarts, so fast that I
cant read the error.

Windows memory diagnostics turned up no results, but I'm going to run
memtest anyway.

Thanks for any help

-Bret

I had the same sort of problem when I first installed Vista.
I had to set the memory voltage in the BIOS since then not one crash or blue
screen.


"Bret" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm building a computer for a client and we've been going at it for
> several hours now.
>
> The first time we booted I got a blue screen immediately after windows
> copied system files. No pertinent data as to why I got a stop error. I
> went into bios and manually set RAM timings and speed instead of auto.
> This let me boot into vista setup just fine.
>
> On night one, i was unable to write to my hard drive. "windows may not
> be able to write to this drive..." (I wish i could remember more, but
> i cant even get that far anymore).
>
> I came back the second night and magically I can write. So I
> installed, and after it finished i blue screened again. Now every time
> windows tries to load it blue screens and restarts, so fast that I
> cant read the error.
>
> Windows memory diagnostics turned up no results, but I'm going to run
> memtest anyway.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> -Bret
>