aaron-kelley.net » 64-bit http://aaron-kelley.net My little corner of the Internet Tue, 01 May 2012 19:11:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 STOP 0x0000007E error during 64-bit Windows Vista install http://aaron-kelley.net/blog/2008/01/stop-0x0000007e-error-during-64-bit-windows-vista-install/ http://aaron-kelley.net/blog/2008/01/stop-0x0000007e-error-during-64-bit-windows-vista-install/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:41:06 +0000 Aaron http://aaron-kelley.net/?p=40 Here are the symptoms:

  • You have 4 GB of RAM (or rather, more than 3 GB).
  • You are trying to install the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
  • After the first reboot, when your computer boots off of the hard disk for the first time, Windows crashes with a BSOD with error code 0x0000007E.
  • Whatever hardware swapping you do doesn’t seem to help; it still gives you the blue screen at every boot.

A friend ran into this issue earlier today. After some searching and digging through a lot of not very useful information, we found out that the solution is pretty simple.

  • Remove 2 GB of RAM, or whatever it takes to only have 2 GB in the machine.
  • Run the Vista install.
  • Install the x64 version of the KB929777 hotfix from Microsoft.
  • Put your RAM back in.

Note that this particular issue should not occur if you are using a Windows Vista SP1 (or newer) install disc, it is only an issue with the RTM version.

Hope this helps someone. :-)

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