It's official I hate Windows Vista

[shaeman]

Just to update you all - the blue screen of death was down to nvidia drivers nvlmm*.sys.

A common problem it seems. I tried loads of things, including getting various different drivers (even going to beta).

I turned off vista 64's insistence on properly signed drivers, and that didn't help.

I was checking in the bios when I noticed that cpu overclocking was set to auto, I took it off of auto and set it to the next option (would have gone on to the 2nd option if that failed) but all of a sudden the system booted up.

So I presume that the autoclocking mode was stressing out the graphics card so all was working well. I managed to install a set of usb dongle drivers that someone had modified (not an official release) and got the pc running.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look in to upgrading the motherboard drivers.

[d0z3rr]

So the manufacturer shipped out an overclocked unstable PC and Vista64 is to blame?

Crazy.

[shaeman]

d0z3rr , A bit uncalled for dont you think?

Did you read all of the thread or did you just read my first post and my last post - and completely miss the fact that I stated that it wasn't vista's fault and that it was probably third party drivers.

(that's my second post). I then thought it was a drivers issue - as the error message I got related to a known problem with nvidia and vista. I then corrected this incorrect assumption.

So I don't see anything crazy in the posts - just a progression from being frustrated and thinking it was vista - to posting corrections to my post so that others wouldn't think it was down to vista.

Thanks to all those that tried to help and posted something constructive.