install fail

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

try reburning the ISO at a low speed, 2x recommended, also do a CRC check on the ISO to find out its integrity. Nero MD5 Verifier is a recommended choice. If setup still fails, its likely a bad download.
I use the one from Ahead Nero http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/eng/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html
Here are the MD5/CRC values for x86 or x64 depending on which every ISO you downloaded:
x86 - File Size = 3.12 GB (3,355,598,848 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x67E089E0 - MD5 Value = 0E733AB1A8E8FF9A8684FD3639332773 x64 - File Size = 4.01 GB (4,309,368,832 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x48697711 - MD5 Value = E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
Paste the MD5 Checksum for either x64 or x86 depending on which one you want check in Step 1, Step 2 - Browse to where you stored the ISO on your drive and open it and it will automatically start the varification process and generate the has in the third field, if it matches Step 1, then you are safe. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"JMiller" wrote in message

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

Thanks, I suspected that. I am going to re-download to be sure, reverify the download and then burn it low and slow... I usually have no data integrity problems when burning to DVD (I use Nero) but this could be different.
Thanks!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

try reburning the ISO at a low speed, 2x recommended, also do a CRC check on the ISO to find out its integrity. Nero MD5 Verifier is a recommended choice. If setup still fails, its likely a bad download.
I use the one from Ahead Nero http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/eng/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html
Here are the MD5/CRC values for x86 or x64 depending on which every ISO you downloaded:
x86 - File Size = 3.12 GB (3,355,598,848 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x67E089E0 - MD5 Value = 0E733AB1A8E8FF9A8684FD3639332773 x64 - File Size = 4.01 GB (4,309,368,832 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x48697711 - MD5 Value = E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
Paste the MD5 Checksum for either x64 or x86 depending on which one you want check in Step 1, Step 2 - Browse to where you stored the ISO on your drive and open it and it will automatically start the varification process and generate the has in the third field, if it matches Step 1, then you are safe. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"JMiller" wrote in message I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

Ok here I am again. First, I re-downloaded, verified the download with not one, but two verifiers (NeroMD5 and FileCheckMD5) both match. I don't think it's a bad download. Second, I burned at 2x the iso images (32 and 64 bit) and then checked those against MD5. Both good.
SAME EXACT PROBLEM. ...on an IBM branded computer that checks out 100% with Vista Advisor.
All the files get unloaded, then the file 'expansion' begins. At some point during the extraction, the system is required to reboot and that works good. Back to the expansion... it gets to the end of that, looks like it want to do another reboot and then BSOD. (Always the same "paged memory error")
I need to note at this point that this particular IBM is an R40; 2Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 40Gb HDD (2 NTFS partitions) I removed the Anti-Virus software just to be sure. XP Pro SP2 runs PERFECTLY on this machine.
I have not yet tried the 64bit image on my homebrew 64bit machine. I figure if Vista won't run on a "Spec" machine, how's it going to work elsewhere?
Any ideas? I don't think it's the DVD or the download. It's something else for sure.

"JMiller" wrote:

Thanks, I suspected that. I am going to re-download to be sure, reverify the download and then burn it low and slow... I usually have no data integrity problems when burning to DVD (I use Nero) but this could be different.
Thanks!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
try reburning the ISO at a low speed, 2x recommended, also do a CRC check on the ISO to find out its integrity. Nero MD5 Verifier is a recommended choice. If setup still fails, its likely a bad download.
I use the one from Ahead Nero http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/eng/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html
Here are the MD5/CRC values for x86 or x64 depending on which every ISO you downloaded:
x86 - File Size = 3.12 GB (3,355,598,848 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x67E089E0 - MD5 Value = 0E733AB1A8E8FF9A8684FD3639332773 x64 - File Size = 4.01 GB (4,309,368,832 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x48697711 - MD5 Value = E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
Paste the MD5 Checksum for either x64 or x86 depending on which one you want check in Step 1, Step 2 - Browse to where you stored the ISO on your drive and open it and it will automatically start the varification process and generate the has in the third field, if it matches Step 1, then you are safe. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"JMiller" wrote in message I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?