[Mr77]

Phew, glad i got that BSOD sorted.

My first PC build went worryingly pear-shaped recently. Could not get my Vista 64bit to install correctly. Kept getting BSOD after anything between 5 seconds and 5 minutes on my desktop!!!

My system

CPU: E6600
MOBO: ASUS P5N-E SLI,
RAM: Corsair XMS2, http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/T...048-6400C4.pdf
GPU: Geforce 9600GT

Anyways, hardware seemed to install correctly. It was installing Vista 64bit i had issues with.

After trying the RAM in different slot combinations i was left wondering what the hell was up with my system. A freind at work, who knows what they are doing (fortunatly for me!) had a look at it and realised that the BIOS version on my MOBO was very old, specifically version 0401.

He had to flash my BIOS with a floppy through MS-DOS, updating it to the latest version, which was 1201 i think.

This, i am glad to say, totally cured my BSOD problem

Happy days

Thought this may be of help to some. Thanks

[Spencer2004]

crap i was going to get that motherboard and you wouldnt catch me dead with a floppy disk!! thanks for the heads up!

[thingie2]

Glad you got it working in the end and Spencer, some motherboard now (atleast all gigabyte ones so maybe other makes too) support updating the BIOS from within Windows, or from a USB stick.

[computeruler]

glad its all working!!!! must be something was incompatible with the current hardware or something like that

[Bubba]

Make sure you get the latest WHQL drivers for your nVidia GFX card Mr77. Vista 64 gets sqirrely without the latest drivers.