Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM
Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx
RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM
Yes - I have a Dell Precision that has 4GB RAM, and which has had both Vista x86 and x64 on it and it doesn't BSOD. The issue in the KB seems to be with devices that use DMA and you have more than 4GB of RAM. That used to cause issues on XP as well (which is why I believe SP2 for XP limited the amount of RAM that could be utilised to 4GB for 32bit editions). STOP 0xA is pretty common. If you want a detailed explanation of what's going on, then check out Part 1 here: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/tags/Debugging/default.aspx http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/tags/Debugging/default.aspx Do you have minidump files handy? I'm happy to have a look if you want. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx
Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM
I didnt configure the memory dumps for this machine. I assume a kernel dump is preferred over minidump? Either way I will check and let you know. Thanks for the reply. On 1/11/07, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - I have a Dell Precision that has 4GB RAM, and which has had both Vista x86 and x64 on it and it doesn't BSOD. The issue in the KB seems to be with devices that use DMA and you have more than 4GB of RAM. That used to cause issues on XP as well (which is why I believe SP2 for XP limited the amount of RAM that could be utilised to 4GB for 32bit editions). STOP 0xA is pretty common. If you want a detailed explanation of what's going on, then check out Part 1 here: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/tags/Debugging/default.aspx Do you have minidump files handy? I'm happy to have a look if you want. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx
RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM
Minidump is 100kb, whilst a kernel dump is 150MB+ I would prefer you to email me a 80-100kb file in the first instance if that is enough to solve the problem :-) Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM I didnt configure the memory dumps for this machine. I assume a kernel dump is preferred over minidump? Either way I will check and let you know. Thanks for the reply. On 1/11/07, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - I have a Dell Precision that has 4GB RAM, and which has had both Vista x86 and x64 on it and it doesn't BSOD. The issue in the KB seems to be with devices that use DMA and you have more than 4GB of RAM. That used to cause issues on XP as well (which is why I believe SP2 for XP limited the amount of RAM that could be utilised to 4GB for 32bit editions). STOP 0xA is pretty common. If you want a detailed explanation of what's going on, then check out Part 1 here: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/tags/Debugging/default.aspx Do you have minidump files handy? I'm happy to have a look if you want. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@
Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM
Sure ;-) I was just trying to get as much info as you needed the first time ;-) Sending the minidump offline On 1/11/07, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minidump is 100kb, whilst a kernel dump is 150MB+ I would prefer you to email me a 80-100kb file in the first instance if that is enough to solve the problem :-) Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM I didnt configure the memory dumps for this machine. I assume a kernel dump is preferred over minidump? Either way I will check and let you know. Thanks for the reply. On 1/11/07, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - I have a Dell Precision that has 4GB RAM, and which has had both Vista x86 and x64 on it and it doesn't BSOD. The issue in the KB seems to be with devices that use DMA and you have more than 4GB of RAM. That used to cause issues on XP as well (which is why I believe SP2 for XP limited the amount of RAM that could be utilised to 4GB for 32bit editions). STOP 0xA is pretty common. If you want a detailed explanation of what's going on, then check out Part 1 here: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/tags/Debugging/default.aspx Do you have minidump files handy? I'm happy to have a look if you want. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Thu 11/01/2007 12:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ Sorry! I meant to ask is there anyone with a Vista RTM X86 PC with more than 2GB of RAM. Thanks M@ On 1/11/07, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Sorry for the OT topic. I have a PC I use as my lab with VMs. It has Vista Ultimate and only has 2GB of RAM and was working fine. However I tried to upgrade the memory by using a 512MB module and the PC wont boot now. It blue screens with a message similar to KB 929777. I tried getting the hotfix from technet+ with no luck. Its stage is private and wont be released until the 30th Jan. My Premier connection doesn't seem to allow download of the hotfix either. I would like to know before I try and escalate this whether there is anyone out there with a Vista RTM PC with more than 4GB of RAM. I have run memtest86 on my PC and it reports everything is working. However I'd appreciate if I can get some confirmation that there are others who either have the issue or dont. Cheers M@ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx
