Hardware gurus, please help with new comp vista stability issues.

[Ringiho]

I seem to remember there being a few issues installing Vista with lots of RAM.

Tips were basically, install with 2GB then update it fully then add the rest. I think there is a Vista Update that fixes it.

Are you running SP1?

Good luck!

[echo]

Hi everyone, and thank you all for taking the time to help. Love this community

And thanks for the great tips! All I needed to do was change the bios setting for the memory from auto to manual, and use the factory specs (which wasnt on the packaging, had to google it out. lol) for the timing, and it hasnt crashed once yet! *knock on wood* actually, with the memory changes, it's more stable now at 8 gig then it was at 6 gigs with auto settings. with the 6 gigs on auto, I still had random crashes about 5% of the time.

Left the computer on today to run some automated tasks, will see if it's stable when I get home. Thank you all again for the help and have a great day!

p.s. (on a sidenote, with this setup and symlinks, I'm running around shat very smoothly atm for a change. amazing difference and a relatively cheap system for only $800 also)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

And immediately after a crash I checked the mobo hardware monitor, and my cpu is running usually around 45 degrees celsius right after a crash, so that shouldnt be it right? mobo temp is at 30 degrees celsius.

This is _invalid data_. My Q6600 will cool down from 65C under heavy stress to 35C in about 3 seconds, which is much shorter than it takes most motherboards to make it through a warm boot cycle and get back into BIOS. Do not judge by this! You can, however, load up 4-6GB of your RAM and run the Prime95 multicore stress app and see what your CPU goes up to after a couple of minutes. That will be a valid indicator.

[echo]

Good to know! Thank you for that tip Will go check that when I get home later today.