Windows Vista 64 OEM Will Not Run

I recently finished building a computer, installed vista with no problems.
Computer ran fine. Overclocked cpu vista crashed no hardware damage. Reset
BIOS but made the mistake of re-formating my RAID. Now i cannot get vista to
run or reinstall. Gets to the "completing installation" step and shuts down
but will not start back up and finish installation. When it restarts I get a
quick blue screen then immediate shut down. If I try and run windows without
booting from disc I get several different outcomes. One says installation
needs to restart due to instalation error. One is a quick blues screen
followed by imediate restart. Sometimes it just freezes while windows is
loading. I used command prompt to reformat and clear the RAID drives but my
RAID set up utlitly says there is roughly 936GB free? I have 2 500GB WD HD's
there should be more free space than that. Any suggestions would be great!

sounds like your still overclocked and vista don't like it. i'd check
your bios settings again.


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scrooge

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:34:11 -0700, Nick Muir <Nick
> wrote:

> I used command prompt to reformat and clear the RAID drives but my
> RAID set up utlitly says there is roughly 936GB free? I have 2 500GB WD HD's


No you don't. You have two 468GB drives.


> there should be more free space than that. Any suggestions would be great!



All hard drive manufacturers define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while
the rest of the computer world, including Windows, defines it as 2 to
the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes. So 1000 billion bytes is
actually about 936GB.

Some people point out that the official international standard defines
the "G" of GB as one billion, not 1,073,741,824. Correct though they
are, using the binary value of GB is so well established in the
computer world that I consider using the decimal value of a billion to
be deceptive marketing.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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In article <3508F1A7-B83A-4FA6-B687->,
Nick Muir <Nick > wrote:
>
>Any suggestions would be great!
>

Reset BIOS settings to failsafe defaults. Remove discs from
RAID. Boot Linux cd or dos diskette. Use fdisk and remove all existing
partitions.

Yea Vista def. doesn't like to be oc'd! Reset BIOS, formatted hds,
re-installed updated drivers from ASUS, re-installed Vista. BSoD several
times since but now seems stable after updates. Wierd any explinations or
suggestions? Thanks for the help!

"Nick Muir" wrote:

> I recently finished building a computer, installed vista with no problems.
> Computer ran fine. Overclocked cpu vista crashed no hardware damage. Reset
> BIOS but made the mistake of re-formating my RAID. Now i cannot get vista to
> run or reinstall. Gets to the "completing installation" step and shuts down
> but will not start back up and finish installation. When it restarts I get a
> quick blue screen then immediate shut down. If I try and run windows without
> booting from disc I get several different outcomes. One says installation
> needs to restart due to instalation error. One is a quick blues screen
> followed by imediate restart. Sometimes it just freezes while windows is
> loading. I used command prompt to reformat and clear the RAID drives but my
> RAID set up utlitly says there is roughly 936GB free? I have 2 500GB WD HD's
> there should be more free space than that. Any suggestions would be great!
>

couple of things to check,

1. is the raid setting set as the default first drive , that’s means is the
system able to read the boot sector after first boot.

2. is the RAM ok , BSOD usually could be because of that.

3. increase the DIMM voltage and/or check for DIMM errors

"Nick Muir" <> wrote in message
news:9EFD63FB-F7C5-42C7-99CF-...
> Yea Vista def. doesn't like to be oc'd! Reset BIOS, formatted hds,
> re-installed updated drivers from ASUS, re-installed Vista. BSoD several
> times since but now seems stable after updates. Wierd any explinations or
> suggestions? Thanks for the help!
>
> "Nick Muir" wrote:
>
>> I recently finished building a computer, installed vista with no
>> problems.
>> Computer ran fine. Overclocked cpu vista crashed no hardware damage.
>> Reset
>> BIOS but made the mistake of re-formating my RAID. Now i cannot get
>> vista to
>> run or reinstall. Gets to the "completing installation" step and shuts
>> down
>> but will not start back up and finish installation. When it restarts I
>> get a
>> quick blue screen then immediate shut down. If I try and run windows
>> without
>> booting from disc I get several different outcomes. One says
>> installation
>> needs to restart due to instalation error. One is a quick blues screen
>> followed by imediate restart. Sometimes it just freezes while windows is
>> loading. I used command prompt to reformat and clear the RAID drives but
>> my
>> RAID set up utlitly says there is roughly 936GB free? I have 2 500GB WD
>> HD's
>> there should be more free space than that. Any suggestions would be
>> great!
>>