Installation BSOD STOP 5C -

I’m having a desktop with ECS RC410L/800-MGF Motherboard, Intel D 945 processor, 2G Patriot PC4200 RAM, and 400G SATA Seagate . I already have Windows XP running on this computer and now want to dual boot it with Windows Vista.

When I run the setup and it goes fine upto “Expanding Files” but here it suddenly gives Blue Screen with the following message:

“STOP: 0x0000005C (0x0000010B,0x00000003,0x00000000,0x00000000)”

My configurations seems ok for running Vista, I also tried running Memory Test and found everything OK, then what is the cause of problem? Any idea?

So far I have seen this Stop Error many times with vista and in most of the cases it use to be because of bad hardware. Anyways, as of now the oly thing I can suggest you is to try changing your power savings to either ASPI or ASAPI from BIOS. This helped to fix the said stop error in many cases.

I appreciate your help friend but doesn’t seems to be working in my case. I’ve tried almost all combinations of pwer settings but none of them worked.

Any other help please?

Nigel,

I have an ECS RC410L/800M, and received the same message while trying to install Vista. I have swapped out memory, hard drives, flashed the BIOS, and even swapped motherboards (it was the same model, though). All of these items were new. Apparently, the BIOS upgrade addressed a few early issues, except Vista compatibility. I tried every possible BIOS setting change, with no luck.

Unless ECS comes up with another BIOS flash, I guess the answer will be to switch to another motherboard, or go with XP.

Joe

Well the best i can suggest is to go with XP Pro because VISTA doesn't let you change out much of anything without barking up some sort of trash.