I just gave vLite 1.1 “Final” a try with a new system I put together using the Asus Striker II (Nvidia 780i SLI chipset) motherboard and 4 GB of RAM (2x 2048 MB) with Vista Ultimate 64.

I slipstreamed (KB929777) using vLite and the hot fix “force during installation” option. I still get the blue screen crash during installation. Taking 2 GB of RAM out of the system will allow me to complete the installation. After getting into Windows with only 2 GB installed, it did show (KB929777) in the Windows update history. I then shut down and installed the remanding 2 GB and booted back into Windows with all 4 GB of RAM without any problems.

The odd thing about this issue is that just last week with an Asus Maximus Formula (Intel X38 chipset) based motherboard with the same RAM (all 4 GB installed), I had no problems installing Vista Ultimate 64 with a vLite/ (KB929777) slipstreamed disk.

Is this 4 GB/Vista issue chipset specific?

Problem is that even when hotfixes are normally integrated they are only active after install. Setup is just a tiny temporary Windows.

More info on the hotfix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

Talking about the fix for the fix in vLite; unfortunately it was confirmed few times that the fix does not help in the x64 versions, just x86.

If the cause is storage driver, maybe removing Drivers - Storage Controllers - nVidia and setting SATA in BIOS to IDE mode would help. And copy new nForce SATA drivers in some folder before making ISO so that you can browse to it if needed to detect partitions on boot.

This is just a wild guess but it's worth trying, it would be interesting to rule that one out.

indeed, i had to disable 1394 (firewire) in the BIOS too....

unfortunately it was confirmed few times that the fix does not help in the x64 versions, just x86.

If the cause is storage driver, maybe removing Drivers - Storage Controllers - nVidia and setting SATA in BIOS to IDE mode would help. And copy new nForce SATA drivers in some folder before making ISO so that you can browse to it if needed to detect partitions on boot.

This is just a wild guess but it's worth trying, it would be interesting to rule that one out.

Now I'm even more confused. When I tried my vLite/ slipstreamed (KB929777) copy of Vista Ultimate 64 with my Intel X38 chipset (Asus Maximus Formula) it installed without any problems with all 4 GB of RAM.

I’m not sure if I follow you with the storage driver suggestion. I do have this setup using two hard drives in RAID 0 with the Nvidia RAID drivers integrated with vLite.

djt, I was just referring to the note on that MS KB page as one of the causes:

"The computer uses a storage system that is running the Storport miniport driver."

Meaning it might be even connected to the HDD controller.

So if you remove the driver and use just the default IDE driver (if properly set in Bios SATA IDE), also possibly use the new driver when prompted if no drives detected, it might help.

Since yours is RAID then it definitely won't work as IDE but you might try to remove all Storage Controllers, copy your newest Nvidia raid driver into some folder inside the ISO and try it when prompted because no drives will be detected.

advocate_hf, can you please elaborate, what helped you and on which Vista?