Hi Guys,

Another wasted evening... Here's the situation. Last year I did a clean
install of Vista x64 SP1 (slipstreamed). 4GB of RAM (specs below).
Everything was running great until today. Today I added a new HDD (1TB
WD Caviar Black). Power up, and... endless reboots with the dreaded
0x0000007E (at the point it tries to load crcdisk.sys). 4 hours later,
after doing whatever not it was happening again even when booting from
the installation DVD! 5 hours later I found out it's only happening with
4 GB of RAM installed -- 2GB - fine -- 3 GB fine. Note that both the
hard drive and memory are completely fine and work great provided I
don't put in the 4th stick... I did some heavy searching and found the
ancient KB929777. Out of desperation I tried installing it, and of
course it didn't work because I'm already using SP1 and this is
supposedly part of it (my hal.dll is from 01/28/2008 or something like
that).

I'm at a loss... it appears to be a memory access violation / mapping
conflict between the memory resources allocated to the HDD / memory (and
an unhandled exception) or something related.

I searched a lot and found people with similar problems, but no
solution. Help! :-)

Specs:
MB Asus Rampage Formula, Q9550
4GB RAM 1066 (4x1)
nVidia GTX 295, 1x WD Raptor 1x WD 640 GB, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black

Thanks.


--
Breach

I suspect a power problem. Do you have another PSU you can try? When you
have everything installed the PSU is overloaded and the power is unstable
causing the errors. Removing one device gets the load down to something the
PSU can handle.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/


"Breach" wrote in message
...

Hi Guys,

Another wasted evening... Here's the situation. Last year I did a clean
install of Vista x64 SP1 (slipstreamed). 4GB of RAM (specs below).
Everything was running great until today. Today I added a new HDD (1TB
WD Caviar Black). Power up, and... endless reboots with the dreaded
0x0000007E (at the point it tries to load crcdisk.sys). 4 hours later,
after doing whatever not it was happening again even when booting from
the installation DVD! 5 hours later I found out it's only happening with
4 GB of RAM installed -- 2GB - fine -- 3 GB fine. Note that both the
hard drive and memory are completely fine and work great provided I
don't put in the 4th stick... I did some heavy searching and found the
ancient KB929777. Out of desperation I tried installing it, and of
course it didn't work because I'm already using SP1 and this is
supposedly part of it (my hal.dll is from 01/28/2008 or something like
that).

I'm at a loss... it appears to be a memory access violation / mapping
conflict between the memory resources allocated to the HDD / memory (and
an unhandled exception) or something related.

I searched a lot and found people with similar problems, but no
solution. Help! :-)

Specs:
MB Asus Rampage Formula, Q9550
4GB RAM 1066 (4x1)
nVidia GTX 295, 1x WD Raptor 1x WD 640 GB, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black

Thanks.


--
Breach

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...page%20Formula
See the Qualified Vendor's List. (Rather restricted for 1067 memory.)

Is your BIOS up to Rev 410 (which fixes various memory compatibility
issues)?
(Note: Rev 803 is available.)



"Breach" wrote in message
...

Hi Guys,

Another wasted evening... Here's the situation. Last year I did a clean
install of Vista x64 SP1 (slipstreamed). 4GB of RAM (specs below).
Everything was running great until today. Today I added a new HDD (1TB
WD Caviar Black). Power up, and... endless reboots with the dreaded
0x0000007E (at the point it tries to load crcdisk.sys). 4 hours later,
after doing whatever not it was happening again even when booting from
the installation DVD! 5 hours later I found out it's only happening with
4 GB of RAM installed -- 2GB - fine -- 3 GB fine. Note that both the
hard drive and memory are completely fine and work great provided I
don't put in the 4th stick... I did some heavy searching and found the
ancient KB929777. Out of desperation I tried installing it, and of
course it didn't work because I'm already using SP1 and this is
supposedly part of it (my hal.dll is from 01/28/2008 or something like
that).

I'm at a loss... it appears to be a memory access violation / mapping
conflict between the memory resources allocated to the HDD / memory (and
an unhandled exception) or something related.

I searched a lot and found people with similar problems, but no
solution. Help! :-)

Specs:
MB Asus Rampage Formula, Q9550
4GB RAM 1066 (4x1)
nVidia GTX 295, 1x WD Raptor 1x WD 640 GB, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black

Thanks.


--
Breach