Recently a lot of people had problems installing Vista due to the 0x0000000A error vista installation was throwing. This is caused in PCs running with 4GB or more system ram. A workaround was posted in Microsoft support. To make life easy I thought of posting the steps to install vista and to stop getting this annoying error.
Here they are
1. Remove your memory modules and bring down the total system RAM to 3GB or less. (Preferably 2GB)
2. Install the OS (Whichever build or edition)
3. After install is completed reboot and shutdown and add your extra ram modules which you removed earlier.
4. A Patch was released by Microsoft Support to address this issue.
32-bit : Download the KB929777 package now
64-bit: Download the KB929777 package now
5. Merge it with your Vista Installation disk using V-Lite, so that you can avoid future instances of this same error whilst installing.
Thanks for this, just the answer i needed!
Hi,
How do I get there to download that kb929777 fix. I have total 4 GB. I installed Vista Ulti on 2 GB and now I am trying to boot with 4 GB total and it goes bang bsod. Now I remove one RAM, left with a total of 2GB and now I got to Microsoft.com to download the kb929777 fix and it says “update not required” since it thinks it has 2GB which is correct. If I have 4GB I get BSOD, If have 2Gb it says not required. Plz help
@How do I get in:
Are you installing the update on a Vista Ultimate with SP2?
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The above update is for machines that have problems installing Vista. After its installed the PC should work ok.
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Try switching ram cards and ram slots and see what happens.
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What you should do is do a memory test. And since both ram cards cannot be plugged in use one at a time and do a mem test(you can use Windows inbuilt or from http://www.memtest.org/). I think one of your ram modules has a problem or it conflicts with your hardware.