Stable Vista on Asus P5? C2D boards?

[VivienM]

I'm trying to figure out the cause of my erratic BSODs that seem to be intensified by the latest NVIDIA drivers/control panels.

I note that according to Google similar issues have been reported on other Asus P5W DH/P5B/etc boards...

So, my question is very simple: if you are running Vista (RC2 or RTM) and have an Asus C2D-compatible board, please post what your hardware configuration is and whether you've had any 0x00000124 BSODs.

 

[VivienM]

And I guess I'll start off... 🙂

P5W DH Deluxe - 1707
E6600 at stock speeds
2 gigs Kingston DDR2-667 (replaced OCZ DDR2-800 that went bad)
PNY 7900GT - running 97.46 drivers from MS (far more stable than NVIDIA's 97.46 or 100.59)
2 Seagate 7200.10s in AHCI mode, Intel Matrix 6.2.1 driver installed
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty with latest beta driver
APC USB UPS with no APC software installed yet
One of the Gig. E. ports in use with Microsoft-provided Marvell driver
Windows Vista Ultimate RTM 32-bit...

And it BSODs...

 

[VivienM]

I'm restoring my XP image right now... This BSODing just got insane.

Is anyone happily running Vista on a similar system?

 

[Darkstar757]

wow thats my exact rig. dam not good news.

BTW what does AHCI mode do?

 

[Shawn]

If it works in XP then it's driver related.

 

[VivienM]

Originally posted by: Shawn
If it works in XP then it's driver related.

Any suggestions on good stress testing programs, especially for video card? I had a few odd little issues with XP and games, and given that Aero Glass is technically nothing but a DX9 'game...

I'm inclined to suspect the BIOS, too.

 

[VivienM]

Originally posted by: Darkstar757
wow thats my exact rig. dam not good news.

BTW what does AHCI mode do?

AHCI is the fancy way to access SATA HDs that requires a floppy for XP. My HDs were set to the legacy mode in XP due to a screwup when I built the box, but I had switched to AHCI for Vista.

What's your rig? You must have a different rig than the 3800+ in your sig?

 

[broly8877]

Asus P5B Deluxe (old August BIOS, don't recall which)
E6300 @ 2.4GHz
PQI 1GBx2 Turbo RAM
eVGA 7900GT on NV's 100 drivers
Seagate 320GB 7200.10 in AHCI (no Intel driver installed, Intel's site says RTM includes it...?)
Maxtor 500GB
X-Fi Xtreme Music with latest Beta Driver
Ultimate x64

No problems, going on two weeks of use

 

[lxskllr]

I had some mystery problems late last week. It turned out to be my memory. I got a ton of errors running memtest. I pulled both sticks out, blew them with air, and replaced them. It's been working great since. The problems started slowly, but got terrible last week. All of my apps were crashing, and Vista would shut down sporadically. That might be something to look into.

Edit: My bios is 1707 also

 

[VivienM]

I fixed it, it seems... by turning off SpeedStep in the BIOS (and RMAing the video card, but that alone didn't do it.). Vista's now been up 6 days without a BSOD.

(FWIW, I had to turn off AHCI because it was giving delayed write errors in the system log... legacy IDE works fine)