I've just built a new PC running Windows XP Professional X64 (64 bit).
\[My PC consists of an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 / 2.66 GHz chip, 4GB OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 HPC Edition RAM.]
I keep getting a bluescreen (see above) when trying to run the lastest version of VMware workstation on my new PC runnign Windows XP Professional x64. I also get the same error when trying to run the VMware Player (have a sepate post for this in the VMware Player section).
I can see the following error in the Event log:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 11/07/2007
Time: 23:49:59
User: N/A
Computer: GEM64
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000050 (0xfffffadf919ff0ba, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff80001034faa, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.
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Also this error:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 11/07/2007
Time: 23:51:12
User: N/A
Computer: GEM64
Description:
The Vstor2 WS60 Virtual Storage Driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
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Windows error report reports the following:
Are you installing the VMware Workstation software using the "Local Admin" account and not a domain account?
Did this PC have any other VMware software installed before you installed WS 6?
Are you installing the VMware Workstation software
using the "Local Admin" account and not a domain
account?
Did this PC have any other VMware software installed
before you installed WS 6?
I'm using a local admin account.
Well after installing Windows XP Pro 64bit, I then installed VMware Player - this was bluescreening. So then I installed VMWare Workstation and the same problem is happening.
Anyway I'm going to do a fresh install of XP 64bit and try installing VMware again.
It would be great to get VMWare working on XP 64bit, I've just finnished doing a test install of VMware on XP 32bit and created a clone of my old PC and VMware is just FANTASTIC in what it can do!
Okay, just a quick heads-up. I did a complete new install of Windows XP Pro x64 and VMware Workstation under the Administration account created during the installation (something I think I did not do the first time) and IT ALL WORKS! )
ARGHHHH!!! Spoke too soon!
Blue screen is happening again BUT I've found the cause of the problem.
I have an MSI/Nvidia GE Force NX8600GTS Graphic card and when I install the driver for this. Then I get the blue screen. The problem is that even when I unstall the driver I still get a blue screen. I have to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP to fix it \!!!
I'm using a 64 bit driver found here
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winxp64_158.22_uk.html
I dont know how to resolve this??!!
I'm having exactly the same problem and I'm using exactly the same video card, the NX 8600GTS.
I'm using XP 64 bit with the Administrator account, I haven't tried reinstalling Windows because I don't want to reinstall windows at this stage.
I click the start to start the vmware and the computer just blue screens, as soon as I click the start button thing on the vmware screen.
Pretty bad if my XP 64 bit machine decides to corrupt and not start