64 bit

[DiscipleDOC]

Originally Posted by K007

Couldn't you get hold of W7 64bit?

Good question...it's much better than Vista 64bit....

[trivium nate]

i can probably get a hold of W7 ultime 64 bit i tihnk i have it ill try it i think last time I tried it I got an error message while it was installing it i will re try it

Ya, if you can get a copy of W7, it's ten fold over Vista.

[trivium nate]

okay thanks

[trivium nate]

okay i just tried both W7 ultimate and vista ultimate 64 bit and got a bsod with both before I even got to install i pulled a stick of ram out but same thing i changed some memory options in my bios I put
memory clock frequency to ddr2 1066
dram ganged mode to enable cuz it said its for dual channel ram
and memory hole remapping is enabled and has been

Last question for trouble shooting... do you actually own the OS? It's known that illegal copies experience ALOT of BSODs from drivers used to by pass the validation system...

[trivium nate]

Yes both 32 bit and 64 bit vista ultimate editions I got free from Microsoft for doing the 3 month customer feedback panel thing i singed up for it selected vista ultimate and my free thing for doing it(next day microsoft ran outa copies) and got them in the mail win 7 i downloaded

heres an update I got vista 64 bit installed on my c drive partition i go to login i get a bsod but it says win32k.sys when i get the bsod so im going to google it and see what I get

[LydianKnight]

Originally Posted by trivium nate

okay i just tried both W7 ultimate and vista ultimate 64 bit and got a bsod with both before I even got to install i pulled a stick of ram out but same thing i changed some memory options in my bios I put
memory clock frequency to ddr2 1066
dram ganged mode to enable cuz it said its for dual channel ram
and memory hole remapping is enabled and has been

Maybe it's not related to a memory issue but a disk one, in my motherboard I had to deal with the way the controller sees the SATA interface, so when I fired up the Windows 7 x64 edition (btw... 300€ a box hurts... A LOT ¬¬) and if I just proceed to tell it to install it BSOD'ed.

As my motherboard uses the GeForce 8100 chipset, I downloaded the nForce installer, unpacked it without installing, copied the contents of the sata_ide folder to a USB stick and before starting the installation I told the installer to look for the SATA drivers on the USB stick and... voilá!! worked...

Not sure if that could be your case, but I'd suggest you try look on your BIOS what kind of function does the SATA layer relies on... in my case it was IDE by default, using the USB stick guaranteed me to be able to use the AHCI layer, which is the correct one.

Hope this helps.

Julio

[trivium nate]

ok i could change it from ahci to ide thanks

[LydianKnight]

Originally Posted by trivium nate

ok i could change it from ahci to ide thanks

Ugh... I meant the opposite way, for SATA disk the best option is AHCI and not IDE, but anyway... I've taken a look at your motherboard, and I see you're also using NVIDIA chipsets so I think my suggestion could work for you.

So you need to download the nforce installer, unpack it (not installing), get the sata_ide folder contents and drop those files in a USB stick or a floppy, whatever means you have, and fire up now the Windows installer and chosee 'Load drivers' in the disk partition screen, I think it's all.

[trivium nate]

okay

[LydianKnight]

Originally Posted by trivium nate

okay

could i put the files on a cd to?

if you have a secondary optical drive, sure... why not?
if it's not the case... I doubt it, as the optical drive would be 'busy' with the Windows installation disc :S