Install fail

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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.
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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!
 
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.
 
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