BSOD in 64-bit Vista Ultimate

[Carskick]

Hey all,

About a month ago, I upgrade my signature desktop to Vista, the one I got for free for being a beta tester. Well, they gave me 32-bit and 64-bit, and I didn't notice, and accidentially installed 64-bit. Well, I figured it would be fine, but I have gotten a few BSODs, mainly relating to the sleep mode.

The error changed after I messed with it a bit, but the BSOD I get now says Driver_Power_State_Fail.

I have updated my video card drive to the latest, the nforce 4 chipset driver, Creative Sound Driver, and Vista updates to the latest. Any ideas on how to fix this, other than just not use sleep mode?

When I am using it, I haven't had a BSOD, except once, maybe twice. One time it was durring loading pictures with Picasa, not sure about other time, if there was one. Otherwise, the computer is stable in gaming and everything else. When it had XP, it was rock stable. Now sometimes upon going into auto sleep mode or returning from it, I get this BSOD.

Any ideas? Thanks

[pat]

Have you installed SP1 for Vista? and Do you have any IEEE 1394 devices connected (firewire)?

I ask because about all I can find is referenced in these links to MS bulletins.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929762&sd=RMVP

http://aumha.org/a/stop.php#0x9f

[Carskick]

Pat:

I have done both already. I found several firewire patches, and performed them, no cigar. Strangely enough, my computer does not have any firewire ports, though it may have a chip on the board, not sure.

JA: SP1 was installed as soon as I installed vista. I had it pre-downloaded, andd put it on before an antivirus or anything else.

Strangely enough, I have not had a BSOD since I posted this. I have used sleep many times, and it has been working properly. Maybe one of the recent Windows Updates fixed the issue? Very strange.

Now I am having trouble upgrading my RAM to 4GB, but I determined it most likely to be bad RAM and sent it back. Even memtest froze part way in with it in. For now, all is well.

Thanks

[Carskick]

Aint it the truth!

Newegg received my RMA'd RAM yesterday, so hopefully I will get my replacement RAM by the end of next week. Can't wait to be crankin' on 4GB.

I knew I needed more RAM when I was burning a DVD and booted up Warcraft 3, then everything nearly hung because I was out of RAM. It would have worked in XP, as XP would have had 500MB more free RAM than vista, so I knew it was time for an upgrade! I'd also like to be able to handle more photos at the same time in Photoshop. So this new RAM better work, and my board better not have any incompatibilities, or I will be one unhappy camper!

[Carskick]

Got the new RAM, and Vista began to boot, then BSOD!

Lowered timings and Mhz, still BSOD.

Booted into Linux, only recognized 2.3GB. Strange...

BIOS update; everything works!  :o  ::)

ASUS mentioned nothing on their page or FAQ about needing a BIOS update for 4GB of RAM to work properly. I tried it on a whim, and now I am computing with 4GB of RAM! I was able to maintain DDR400, 2.-3-3-6, but it wouldn't boot with 1T timings.  >:(

Because of this, my vista memory score went from 5.8 to 5.0.  :(

Will it really matter or effect performance? I doubt it. The extra RAM will probably make up for it. At least it is still running dual channal, full speed, and tight timings otherwise.