Hi all,

I'm new to this forum/newsgroup and desperately seeking help with Microsoft
Windows Vista Ultimate version 64 bit that I just bought two days ago and I
haven't enjoyed 1 complete hour working effectively on that operating
system.

I was using WinXP PERFECTLY before I install Vista, First, here are my PC
specs:

1 PSU Ace 580 WW
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2
Gigabyte M59SLI-S5 AM2 Socket
4x512 MB (2 Gigs) Kingston RAM DDR2
1 Maxtor 120 Gigs ATA
1 Hitachi 160 Gigs Sata 2
1 Western Digital 320 Gigs Sata 2 (Just bought it with Vista cus I didn't
have enough space)
1 Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2 XXX

My System scores 5.0 in that rating thing.

My Mobo has a sticker that says "Vista Ready" and ofcourse I knew my GPU is
supported by Vista, so thought why not upgrading, and since I didn't have
enough space I bought the WD Harddrive.

Updated latest Bios version for the mobo and there I begun the Vista setup.

First time setup, On the Western Digital Harddrive (Failure, freeze when:

1.The setup goes perfect until it reaches the Completeing Installation...
and you know the three dots fade in and fade out, the mouse is moving, but i
left it for like 2 hours but the progress bar is not moving anywhere, and
the red light for the harddrive is ON (meaning the harddrive is working) but
actually there is no progress, after 2 hours, I decided to restart..

Second time setup, On Western too (success)

The setup continues the part it was failing at and Vista starts, no hardware
conflicts, started windows updates, and i get a failure downloading updates,
gave me an error code, did my research, found out that BITS services needs
to be up, I had bit problems turning it on, was total mess, so then I
re-installed again.

Third time setup, On western too (success)

Setup fine, Vista fine, Updates downloading, installed 8/9 and when it came
to the 9th update (was an update for 64 bit processors) <- Failed to
install, While I was copying things from my old Hitach harddrive to the
Western harddrive, Data about 2 gigs, it randomly hangs, mouse moving, but
window freezing, then i click start button, works for a couple of mins, then
hangs, tried again several times, then I thought of a harddrive problem So,

I thought about freeing up some space on my old harddrive and installing
Vista on it, done that, ran well, then was installing Alcohol then I got on
boot failure to load SPTD.SYS , Then I loaded my WinXP which was installed
on one of the old harddrives, when i was trying to copy stuff from the old
harddrive to the new harddrive, I used to get Windows Write Delayed failure
balloon popup on XP, So i decided its a harddrive problem,

Ran chkdisk, found some bad blocks, fixed it, ran a couple of other apps,
fixed some stuff, then I tried re-copying some stuff, still didn't work,
Went back to the company I bought the harddrive from,

Replaced the harddrive with a new one, tried re-installing, I still get
random freezes while doing anything, copying files, running updates,
listening to music on windows media player..hangs, freezes all the time...

Windows Event Viewer sucks .. doesn't help much...

Can anyone help diagnose my problem please?

Thanks