I'm doing a dual boot with XP and Vista. I've installed Vista twice now, and each time the Windows Explorer crashes. The first time first the Gadget bar went, and then the Explorer. Each time Explorer crashes, I get a long error message concerning a DLL with the letters GDI in it (can't remember the full name, unfortunately). Once that happens, I have to shut the computer down with the power button, and then Vista won't reboot. It gets to the point where the mouse shows on a black screen for maybe a second, and then it crashes and reboots again.

I logged the boot process, and booting ended after loading the "monitor.sys" file. The first time I was running MS's driver for the Radeon X300. The next time I was running the Beta drivers from ATI. And after the second crash, the system had to run a chkdsk on the Vista partition.

One other thing. Every time I try to run the driver installer for my sound card (Creative Labs Audigy 2), it says "File system error (65535). Anyone know what that means?

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