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davemole
10-06-08, 23:59
hi trying o do a clean install of vista on my system, and its coming up after i boot with:
INFO- WINDOWS FAILED TO LOAD BECAUSE A CRITICAL SYSTEM DRIVER IS MISSING OR CORRUPT
STATUS- 0XC0000098
FILE:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/RAMDISK.SYS

ANYONE KNOW HOW TO SLOVE THIS PROBLEM?

SYSTEM SPECS:
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9300 2.5GHz Socket LGA775 (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=CPU-EU80580PJ0606M)
MSI GeForce 9600GT 512MB Overclocked PCI-E (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=GCX-MS-9600GTOC)
Asrock PENRYN1600SLI-110DB 650i Sli Socket 775 Motherboard (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=MB7-ASR-PENRYN1600SL)
OCZ 4GB PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth (2x2GB) (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=MEM-OCZ-OCZ2RPX800EB)
OCZ 600W GameXStream SLI Ready PSU (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=POW-OCZ-600GXSSL)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products?search=FAN-AC-FREEZER-7)
500gb sata drive

marsey99
11-06-08, 00:57
dont know what the problem is but you could try only using 2gb of ram to do the install, then update vista and make sure you get the 4gb ram fix. then put the extra 2gb in.