Apparently though some users are experiencing an STOP 0×0000000A Error when installing Windows Vista on computers that have four or more Gigabytes of RAM installed. Users receive a Blue Screen of Death with the Stop error message.

The workaround solution from Microsoft was to try the installation again or remove enough memory modules to reduce the installed RAM to less than 3 Gigabytes and put them back in once the installation completed successfully.

A patch was released shortly after that which apparently cannot help users who are trying to install the operating system from scratch. Microsoft suggests to update the Windows installation source files which is something not a lot of users can or want to do.

Your best bet is to reduce the memory modules and install Windows Vista this way. Once Vista has been installed I suggest to apply the patch and add the remaining memory modules to the computer.

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I had recently purchased parts to build a new PC and had encountered a Dicken’s of a time getting it to install at all. Now here’s the whacked out part: I followed the advice from online that Intel recommends I set the BIOS to RAID versus leaving it at SATA. This is because once the OS is installed, it can’t be changed without blue screens of death.

After selecting RAID, I tried to install Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. It won’t recognize the SATA drives. It sees them, even formats them. But won’t install to them.

When I put in a PATA drive, Vista all of the sudden let’s me install onto the SATA drives. But when I remove the PATA drive, Vista doesn’t recognize the SATA’s again. I wound up installing Vista on the PATA and using the SATA as program and data drives, respectively.

Parts:

Motherboard: ECS Elitegoup’s GF7100PVT-M3 with built-in nVidia 7100 VGA/DVI 256meg video.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M
RAM: 2x G.SKILL 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 PC2 6400 (4 gig total)
HD: 2x 500gig Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS SATA II drives
DVD-R/W: Lite-On LH-20A1S SATA

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