Woofmeister
Golden Member
OK, I'm absolutely baffled.
I'm trying to go to Vista 64 bit from Vista 32 bit to take advantage of my new 2 GBs of RAM. I used to have Vista Ultimate 32 bit installed on my RAID O drives. I booted a brand new Vista Home Premium 64 bit DVD and started the install process. I formatted the partition where my old Vista 32 bit OS resided and then installed.
Seemed like normal install but then got BSOD on next reboot. Afterwards, each time I attempt to boot from the installation DVD I get same BSOD. After several reboots with same result, I change my RAID configuration to a regular drive, reformat first visible Raptor Drive, install 64 bit driver and install again. Now I show multiple versions of Vista but they are still all 32 bit and none will start because the 32 bit exectution file is missing.
A repair using Vista 32 bit disc doesn't help. If I boot the 64 bit disc, I get a BSOD before I can even get to the Repair option.
I think I've got a 32 bit driver somewhere that I can't get rid of combined with some old BCD data that won't be overwritten.
Any ideas?
Updated Problem solved. I'm using the pre-SP1 version of Vista that I got at a discount. Searching here showed issues with Vista 64 bit and 4 GB of RAM. Removing two RAM modules cured the problem of the BSODs and got me a full install. Hopefully there's an update for this.
Second Update Even after installing SP1, I still couldn't get Vista not to BSOD with 4 GB of RAM installed. Installing this hotfix finally solved the problem.
I'm trying to go to Vista 64 bit from Vista 32 bit to take advantage of my new 2 GBs of RAM. I used to have Vista Ultimate 32 bit installed on my RAID O drives. I booted a brand new Vista Home Premium 64 bit DVD and started the install process. I formatted the partition where my old Vista 32 bit OS resided and then installed.
Seemed like normal install but then got BSOD on next reboot. Afterwards, each time I attempt to boot from the installation DVD I get same BSOD. After several reboots with same result, I change my RAID configuration to a regular drive, reformat first visible Raptor Drive, install 64 bit driver and install again. Now I show multiple versions of Vista but they are still all 32 bit and none will start because the 32 bit exectution file is missing.
A repair using Vista 32 bit disc doesn't help. If I boot the 64 bit disc, I get a BSOD before I can even get to the Repair option.
I think I've got a 32 bit driver somewhere that I can't get rid of combined with some old BCD data that won't be overwritten.
Any ideas?
Updated Problem solved. I'm using the pre-SP1 version of Vista that I got at a discount. Searching here showed issues with Vista 64 bit and 4 GB of RAM. Removing two RAM modules cured the problem of the BSODs and got me a full install. Hopefully there's an update for this.
Second Update Even after installing SP1, I still couldn't get Vista not to BSOD with 4 GB of RAM installed. Installing this hotfix finally solved the problem.
