Windows 7 x64 on Z, getting massive BSOD attacks

Okay, so I decided to try out Windows 7 x64 on my Z, build 7600. I download all the vista64 drivers from sonys website and installs Windows 7.

and then, I'm going to install the drivers, so first of all I go to windows update and it says I have 3 updates, I click to update, BSOD. restart, click search for new updates instead, BSOD.

Confused as I am I start to install drivers from sony instead, chipset and display driver installs fine..

I ran the intel wireless driver installer, BSOD

then i try to install shared library, BSOD. setting utility series, BSOD, event service, BSOD.

and about there I pretty much just gave up and wrote this post wondering w t f is going on.

anyone got any ideas? I'm sure I cant be the only one here trying to get W7 x64 on his Z?

 

lol that's what i met b4. when i tried build 7000 i could even not finish the installation procedure at all! there were just loads of bsod

 

you should run memtest for you laptop, might be bad ram, i have x64 win7 running perfectly, never seen a single bsod.

 

i had the same damn issue , 4 install attempts later I said screw it and installed 32 bit. No BSOD after that.

 

Seems I am not the only one after all ^^ I'll try 32-bit in that case, darn!

 

I had BSOD as well but I haven't tried 32bit yet. I wonder why someone has BSOD, other not...

 

Yeah I'm wondering that too..

I managed to get w7 x64 installed on my Z but the following caused bsod:

- not partitioning the hard drive, everything needed to be in one partition or I would get a bsod later.

- No password for login, entering a "hint" for the password caused a bsod during setup.

- After first time setup was done, bsod appeared. seemed fine after.

- Installing certain drivers and software causes bsod.

- using windows update causes bsod.

- random bsods during bootup.

conclusion:

I am removing it

 

Is your hard drive partitioned as GPT? The factory hard drive comes partitioned as MBR and 64 bit windows Vista/7 will have trouble installing since the installation expects GPT with EFI (which all sony laptop uses instead of BIOS). I was able to modify the windows iso disk to skip this GPT detection but this caused all sorts of errors (including BSOD) during the final stage of installation.

In the end, I used diskpart to completely clean out my hard drive and converted it to GPT partition table format. Ever since I never have any problems with Windows 7 RC x64 Build 7100.

 

Yes, my DD was partitioned as GPT, but I had BSOD when Windows asker for username, password, key...

 

Strange you guys are getting all these BSOD's, I'm running Windows 7 x64 on an older machine, the SZ, and so far not a single BSOD and all the hardware pretty much running as it should (except for some minor things like inability to switch between Nvidia<>Intel whilst on).

I'd recommend to get your drivers from here: http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/preinstalled/index.aspx?l=en_GB&m=VGN-Z4

 

I acutally solved it now, it was something with the disc.

for other people getting bsods during installation and after:

Windows 7 creates a small partition it uses for system files etc. It's supposed to be ONE partition not two. The disc I used which gave me massive bsod attacks made two partitions, so I'm guessing the ISO was tampered with.

So now Windows 7 x64 works fine on my Z, no bsods at all.

 

My disk also create 2 partitions. So you found another disk that create 1 partition? Or you find out how to create only 1 partition?

 

It's another disk, it creates one partition instead of two when installing and is working fine. Also, the windows logo never appeared during bootup on the "bad" disk.

Not sure if these do matter but its a clear difference from what worked and what didnt work.