Quote Originally Posted by chiman2 View Post
im using a xp 64 bit to eliminate ram errors. im on the first sata ports. speeding hdd is off. i dont have access to a sata dvd drive though.
Sorry I was taking about your Vista CD, if you made a copy then the CD could have errors, that is why I would re-burn it.

Also place the HDD that will hold your OS on SATA 1 and update your BIOS to 0901 if you have not to see if this is the problem also.

I am running XP/64 with no problems.

You never said if you are using just Vista without SP1 or not, If only Vista, then you should slipstream SP1 into a new CD or DVD