Hi, At the weekend, I bought a new motherboard, proccessor, memory and two new 9600gt graphics cards. Oh and windows Vista 64bit.

When I put it all together, I powered it up, it started to boot, from CD, then all I could get was a error message:

Stop: 0x0000007e (oxffffffffc0000005, oxfffff8000a58b369, 0xfffffa60005af4b8, oxfffffa60005aee90)

I could not get it fixed, so not sure what has gone on :confused:

I have taken it to PC world, but not sure how good they are at jobs like this??

Anyone think they will be able to fix it? or know what might be wrong??

Cheers

There appears to be a bug with the Vista 64 SP1 installation media with certain combinations of hardware. The solution is to use a Vista 64 installation disk that does not contain SP1, or try swapping some components temporarily from your old computer (eg. graphics card) to see if it will install then.

How much ram have you got in the system? I had problems with over 2Gb ram when trying to install Vista 64. It wouldn't recognise my RAID either, I had to install the RAID drivers before installing Vista.

Hi, At the weekend, I bought a new motherboard, proccessor, memory and two new 9600gt graphics cards. Oh and windows Vista 64bit.

When I put it all together, I powered it up, it started to boot, from CD, then all I could get was a error message:

Stop: 0x0000007e (oxffffffffc0000005, oxfffff8000a58b369, 0xfffffa60005af4b8, oxfffffa60005aee90)

I could not get it fixed, so not sure what has gone on :confused:

I have taken it to PC world, but not sure how good they are at jobs like this??

Anyone think they will be able to fix it? or know what might be wrong??

Cheers

First of all get it back from PCworld.. they will mess it up even more..

That stop error you stated is a driver-related error... can you tell us what it said underneath?

also any way of checking if you have the latest bios?

as said by Manny - try booting it up with the minimum of hardware on it you can.. ie just hard drive, cd drive and one gfx card connected.. also try removing some RAM.

heres a couple of links:

Link1

Link2

I started with six GB of Ram, but then put it down to 4Gb that were a matched pair, and just 2Gb with two cards. This just made the system reboot having got to the same place, but it did not display the blue screen for long before rebooting.

I did also try remove one card, but again no joy.

I should have said, my system i had on my HDD was Vista 32bit, a 8800gtx card.

This is the new cards I bought PNY Technologies Europe manufactures and provides computer memory upgrades

and a intel quad core Q6600

XFX NFORCE 680I LT SLI INTEL SOCKET 775 DDR2 motherboard

I think I might be able to upgrade the BIOS but I'm not too great!

The PC is with the guys at PC world, I can't pick it up for a few days, are they really that bad???

Edited 17 November, 200817 yr by L&KDET

Are you trying to install the 64bit vista over the top (eg. upgrade or repair), or are you trying to boot the already installed 32bit version.

Hi sorry for the delay!! yes I was trying to install 64bit over 32bit. I now have it back working, they said it was to do with the BIOS and RAID?? but all almost okay, appart from I'm missing a hard drive?? I will ask in another post. Cheers

The PC is with the guys at PC world, I can't pick it up for a few days, are they really that bad???

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