Vista BSOD after 10 minutes

Allabaster · 10-12-2007, 12:33 PM

Alright, This is going to be my first post to this forum, but is being done in conjunction with another over in the BIOS section of the site.

The story here is that I got a copy of Windows Vista Business Edition through my local college's MSDNAA agreement with Microsoft. I got it downloaded and installed to the brand new Seagate Barracuda 250 GiB SATA hard drive as a dual boot with my current windows XP SP2 copy.

Well, the install went fine the first time, I got logged in, and got my intenet connection set up quickly so I could update the copy of Zone Alarm I had installed offline (I had done it as the Windwos Vista install, not the Windows XP install file). Shortly after wards I began getting cascading "Such and such has failed" messages, and then the machine gave me a BSOD. So I logged back in figuring it was just the new OS jitters or some such. It continued happening the rest of the night, so I went back to XP to research my problem. After two hours the only real issues I could come up with were either driver issues or my BIOS being out of date.

So I reformatted the drive completely and tried a clean install, this time with only the bare essentials plugged in (PS/2 Keyboard and mouse) and logged in. 10 minutes later, BSOD. That to me says its not likely a Driver problem.

So, to date, every time I have logged into Vista, it has BSOD'd on me. I eventually decided to do what I should have done in the first place and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, which then told me that there were no drivers for my scanner (which was unplugged the 2nd time anyways) but that everything else should be dandy.

So I reformatted again and tried a THIRD install, and this time there was an error on the install, where right after POST the system just hanged there, the screen was recieving power, but no imagery, and the CPU and hard drives were not doing any data processing, so I shut it down and rebooted, and it went through POST fine but then gave me a message saying the install had failed, and it was removing the bad Vista install.

My system specifications are:
P4C800 motherboard with an AMIBIOS P4C81106 BIOS chip at revision 1019
Intel P4 3.2 GiHz HT CPU
GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB Graphics Card, AGP 8x
Seagate Barracuda 250 GiB SATA drive
Maxtor 120 GiB SATA drive
Maxtor 250 GiB IDE drive
4 GiB RAM
Unknown PSU.

If anyone has any thoughts on what else could be causing the issues I described above other than the BIOS needing an update?

10-12-2007, 12:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Allabaster Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 8 OS: Windows XP SP2	Vista BSOD after 10 minutes Alright, This is going to be my first post to this forum, but is being done in conjunction with another over in the BIOS section of the site. The story here is that I got a copy of Windows Vista Business Edition through my local college's MSDNAA agreement with Microsoft. I got it downloaded and installed to the brand new Seagate Barracuda 250 GiB SATA hard drive as a dual boot with my current windows XP SP2 copy. Well, the install went fine the first time, I got logged in, and got my intenet connection set up quickly so I could update the copy of Zone Alarm I had installed offline (I had done it as the Windwos Vista install, not the Windows XP install file). Shortly after wards I began getting cascading "Such and such has failed" messages, and then the machine gave me a BSOD. So I logged back in figuring it was just the new OS jitters or some such. It continued happening the rest of the night, so I went back to XP to research my problem. After two hours the only real issues I could come up with were either driver issues or my BIOS being out of date. So I reformatted the drive completely and tried a clean install, this time with only the bare essentials plugged in (PS/2 Keyboard and mouse) and logged in. 10 minutes later, BSOD. That to me says its not likely a Driver problem. So, to date, every time I have logged into Vista, it has BSOD'd on me. I eventually decided to do what I should have done in the first place and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, which then told me that there were no drivers for my scanner (which was unplugged the 2nd time anyways) but that everything else should be dandy. So I reformatted again and tried a THIRD install, and this time there was an error on the install, where right after POST the system just hanged there, the screen was recieving power, but no imagery, and the CPU and hard drives were not doing any data processing, so I shut it down and rebooted, and it went through POST fine but then gave me a message saying the install had failed, and it was removing the bad Vista install. My system specifications are: P4C800 motherboard with an AMIBIOS P4C81106 BIOS chip at revision 1019 Intel P4 3.2 GiHz HT CPU GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB Graphics Card, AGP 8x Seagate Barracuda 250 GiB SATA drive Maxtor 120 GiB SATA drive Maxtor 250 GiB IDE drive 4 GiB RAM Unknown PSU. If anyone has any thoughts on what else could be causing the issues I described above other than the BIOS needing an update?