Problems Installing VISTA w/ IFL-90

I recently received my Compal IFL-90 from zzf. I ordered the following pieces as well:
INTEL Core 2 Duo T7700 Processor 2.40GHz FSB800MHz 4 MB FCPCA6

INTEL 4965AGNMM1WB Next-Gen 300Mbps 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express Mini Network Adapter
COMPAL 4090 Series FL90-S 15.4in DDR2 667 Barebone Notebook Black
Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST910021AS 100GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Panasonic UJ-85J-B 8X Slim DVD?RW Multi Drive (Black)
2x Corsair VS2GSDS667D2 2GB DDR2-667 PC2-5300 Value Select SO-DIMM Memory

After installing everything (following Intel training instructions, and other internet instructions). My computer will boot up to the BIOS fine, and then has nothing to run off.

I attempted to install Vista Ultimate 32-bit from the DVD boot, and it got to the Windows is Loading files...
After that screen, my computer goes to the Microsoft Windows loading screen (all black, windows logo, and small status bar scrolling underneath), then directly shuts off. I tried to take out the second card of RAM, still nothing.

I flashed the BIOS to version 1.13, tried to install again, same thing happens.

Does anyone have any ideas?
Please help,

Thank you.

 

was this a whitebox where you installed the cpu?

Sounds like you've got an overheat issue and the computer is shutting down to prevent a cpu meltdown

When you installed, did you use arctic silver or some other heat compound? Possible you have an air bubble?

 

Agree with gerryf19, sounds like you have heat issue.
Did you remove whatever that was on the heatsink for the processor?
Also, only remove the blue sticker on the rest of heatsink for chipset, etc.

 

Remove only the blue on the heatsink for the CPU....? I had to remove the thick clear plastic there since I couldn't screw it in due to it covering one of the screw holes...I was suppose to remove that right....?

 

I think we are having a communication breakdown here.

You bought your ifl90 barebones correct? And your CPU was an OEM or a retail box (with heatsink)?

The heatsink--or thermal module--came with your computer. It is a flat piece that his hooked to a copper thermal pipe that runs to teh exhaust fan.

You should have applied thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink (a thin coat).

There should not be anything else between them except for the thermal grease, so if you removed a piece of plastic, that should have been removed--but, you definitely need the thermal grease

 

Right, mine didn't come with any thermal grease...unless it was already on there. My CPU temps don't appear to be too high. Even under load.

 

How can you tell what the temp under load is if you cannot even load windows? I am not sure you know what "load" means.

Installing Windows actually entails a fairly heavy load...you have a lot of i/o from the CPU and the harddrive which means a lot of CPU activity, which means a lot of heat.

The CPU will cool fairly quickly--after your CPU shuts the sytem down to prevent itself from melting, by the time you start it up again, it will have already cooled some 15 to 20 degrees celcius as read in the bios settings.

I assure you, if you did not put thermal grease between your heatsink/heat pipe thermal solution, you are definitely running hot and you are in danger of damaging your CPU.

 

Er, I'm not the original poster by the way. I was just reading this thread and saw something that sparked a question. I have windows up and running and everything is running smoothly. Sorry if I caused any confusion, it wasn't my intention.

 

But you didn't use thermal grease (arctic silver) between the heatsink and CPU? That was a mistake

What are your temps?

 

@ Idle I am getting an average of 49C from both cores. And under load (test conducted only using the CPU test of 3DMARK06) it got up to 65C average.

 

you have 2x @GB mem installed.
Try to run the notebook with 2x 1GB mem, and update the BIOS to version 1.12 or 1.13.
Then replace the mem back for the 2x 2GB and see the system will run and install vista without any issue.

 

He should have thermal compound. The 'plastic piece' that was removed was there to protect/cover the pre-installed thermal compound.