Major problems. I need help ASAP.

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bass_ec

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I've got some major problems.

Let me start from the beginning.

I was running my 8800GT rig with 169.25 drivers. I decided to upgrade to 175.12. Within maybe 3-5 minutes within LOTRO, I would get 30 second or so lockups where the game wouldn't respond.

So, I tried to Driver Clean back to 169.25. That didn't work out so well, as Vista wouldn't even boot up. Weird, I thought. It was about time for a reformat anyways, so I decided just to start new.

No problems with the reformat. I then started with TweakTown 174.74 drivers. BSOD in LOTRO within 3 minutes. Ok, so I tried to Driver Clean back to 175.16 official drivers. Again, BSOD within 3 minutes. Tried to Driver Clean back to 169.25, again, BSOD.

So, I tried to reformat again this morning. I *thought* everything was going ok, but after the initial phase of the Vista installation, the computer wouldn't boot up due to an error with "system/config". Again, I tried to reformat again...this time, after the first phase of Vista install, Vista wouldn't even complete the install due to a "disk read error."

One last attempt to reinstall and I can't even get Vista to start the installation.

I get an error "Windows Setup could not reinitialize the deployment engine. To install Windows, restart the installation."

I'm thinking hard drive failure. What do you all think?
 
Sounds like a hard drive issue, I would run diagnostic software for the hard drive. If that turns out to be inconclusive, I would probably run Memtest and see if it is your memory that is acting up.
 
tazzmissionx said:
Sounds like a hard drive issue, I would run diagnostic software for the hard drive. If that turns out to be inconclusive, I would probably run Memtest and see if it is your memory that is acting up.
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I've run Memtest and there isn't a problem.

Where would I get diagnostic software for my HDs that I can run without an OS?
 
So my scan froze about 10 minutes in. I'm starting to lose my patience with this! Why would the scan itself freeze if it was a hardware failure? Wouldn't it just report back to me?
 
looks like you get the pleasure of trouble shooting.

Sounds like ram to me and ram is an easy test run memtest.

do you have an extra computer or extra computer parts? If so start swapping parts tell you find the problem.
 
My intuitions were right. My second HDD ran the test fine and encountered no problems. Going to try installing Vista on the second HDD, then will report back.

Like I said, Memory has already been tested and is fine. Ran memtest for atleast 30 minutes, if not more.
 
So luckily I already had a 500gb drive that I ordered a few weeks ago due to a cheap price (about $60) from buy.com

Since I had my alternate 250gb drive full with media files, I couldn't install Vista on there (not enough room for temp files)

Threw my new 500gb drive in, ran a memtest86 just to be sure it wasn't RAM (it wasn't), and then went ahead with the Vista install on the 500giger. No problems, as I'm typing on the computer now. Just doing Vista upgrades via Windows Updates, then will start installing drivers and stuff. Hopefully I'll be good to go.
 
bass_ec said:
Like I said, Memory has already been tested and is fine. Ran memtest for atleast 30 minutes, if not more.
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IMHO that's not enough. New builds / RAM upgrades around here run Memtest86+ (all tests) for at least 24 hours, error free, before they get an OS installed or returned to service.

Sounds like you may have found the problem, but I don't think you can completely rule out RAM yet.....
 
BlindedByScience said:
IMHO that's not enough. New builds / RAM upgrades around here run Memtest86+ (all tests) for at least 24 hours, error free, before they get an OS installed or returned to service.

Sounds like you may have found the problem, but I don't think you can completely rule out RAM yet.....
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Oh wow. I'll try to run memtest86 for 24 hours. But so far, I've been running error free on my new install of Windows. I will run memtest overnight then all day tomorrow though.

Thanks for the tip.
 
BSOD in LOTRO after about 10 minutes. Could be a driver issue, but I'm running a memtest86 for at least 24 hours before I do anything else just to rule out the RAM.

Like I said though, I've heard that certain drivers are causing this particular BSOD. We'll see what happens with this memtest.
 
A few questions:
- What are the specs of your PC?
- Are you overclocking? If so, put everything back to default speeds.
- What do the BSODs say?
 
Danny Bui said:
A few questions:
- What are the specs of your PC?
- Are you overclocking? If so, put everything back to default speeds.
- What do the BSODs say?
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e4300
4 gigs of DDR2
Creative XtremeMusic
BFG 8800GT OC
abit AB9 QuadGT mobo

I'm not over clocking. I changed everything back to default.

BSOD reads "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"
 
Whenever I see that message it's usually RAM related. You are using Memtest+ correct?
 
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