windows crashes

I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian

Have you run a memory test?
"Adrian" wrote in message

I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian

Yes I have and it shows nothing wrong.
Adrian
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Have you run a memory test?
"Adrian" wrote in message I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian

It's gotta be a driver. If you can boot to safe mode within a reasonable time, then it's one of the drivers that safe mode isn't loading. Take a look through Device Manager. Maybe you can determine which driver's causing the problem.
"Adrian" wrote in message

I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian

You may get an idea of problems through two different ways both in the Control Panel. "Performance Ratings and Tools" and "Problem reports and Solutions." My bet is the graphics. "Adrian" wrote in message

I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian

I had mega problems with a gigabyte SINXP1394 mobo What helped was loading the Sil 3112 driver with F6 at install time This is my configuration Vista beta 2.0 build 5472 July CTP
PC boots to Vista from c:
PC boots to Windows XP pro from d:
Gigabyte sinxp1394 motherboard
Apollo Geforce FX 5500 (256 Mb video memory)
512 Mb ddr 400 Twinmos memory running at 400
Hitachi ata bootdisk, two partitions, c: and d:
Maxtor SATA II 160Mb disk on a Sil 3112A controller with the newest Silicon Image supplied ,,base'' driver installed with F6 at installation, two partitions G: and H:
Memorysticks on f: and k:
DVD RAM on e:
LG DVD writer connected over USB on I
NVIDIA driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install
AC 97 driver by Microsoft, driver collected from Microsoft at install
Applications installed: Corel Paintshop Pro X (runs fine)

Next step: Install .NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 sp1, Visual Studio 2005, Workflow extensions, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Office 2007 beta2, Wacom tablets and -the now available- Wacom Vista Beta driver, US Robotics Maxg Wifi system, Palm TX PDA synchronizing over WiFi
"Adrian" wrote in message

Yes I have and it shows nothing wrong.
Adrian
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Have you run a memory test?
"Adrian" wrote in message I have just reinstalled Vista for the 10th time and every time I try to start vista it crashes at various stages of bootup.These are the symptoms It took 3 hours to install it takes 17 minutes to boot to the logon screen from the time I press on button. When I press the logon button it will do one of three things It will go to a grey screen with hour glass cursor and nothing else. It will go to desktop screen and lock up no cursor movement. It will boot "normally" and as soon as I try to do anything eg press mouse button or take the cursor to bottom of sceen to bring up task bar it immediately crashes.
I have a reasonable spec machine Gigabyte M/B Celeron 2.8Ghz 1 Gb ram an nVidia6600 video card. As anyone else had these problems?
Adrian