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Vista Clean Install problems...can anyone help?
Tried to install Vista RC1 to my second SATA hard drive. Got to the screen where you select the drive to install Vista. Selected the drive and formatted it. I can't find any Vista drivers for the 8400 on Dell's web site and Intel lists nothing on their download page for the 925 chipset. Mike.

Windows Boot Manager issue
That is as it should be in the Update Driver screen. But we don't want it also showing up in Device Manager. VP930 monitor - %VCDTS21367-1% (I have no idea what .... Comparing your abridged .inf to mine, I see nothing startlingly bad. Although I'm not a perfect expert, my impression seems corroborated in that your

System Lockup Installing Vista Home Premium
This development culminated in the excretion of Vista: it's nothing but a chromed turd of mammoth proportions, The Vista kernel is mostly new code. Even last week, when a terminally frustrated Vista laptop buyer begged me to install Linux on his machine, the bloat-and-crawl of Vista became apparent once more.

Why can'tI install Vista home preimum on XP Pro SP2 system ...
I won't pick on you or anyone for running Vista but absent a truly compelling reason to go to it, like you need it for specific SW or because you bought a new PC, I wouldn't even dream of upgrading yet. I sincerely hope that you didn't try to install 16 updates in one one and without manually setting your own RP!

My screen is yellow after a failed Update
After hitting the "restart now" button, Vista shut down normally, and my machine restarted. I selected the Vista install, and the Vista loading bar comes up. After that, the screen goes blank, as in the monitor doesn't get a signal. I looked up a fix for it from Nvidia, and they say: "Window Vista,

Install/startup problem: Vista on Intel RAID controller (ICH8R etc
His issue is some other hardware issue perhaps, but nothing to do with the amount of ram. Just a thought. "Carlos" <Car...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E251978F-0B24-40D7-BFA7-28E594401A0C@microsoft.com... Hi, Install Vista with only 2 GB RAM present. Those BSOD's are a known issue with Vista

Blue screen under installation
Bruce Chambers wrote: ccchar...@inbox.com wrote: I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n. I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and WinXP Installed http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with licensing issues, per se;

I need help - perhaps your ati radeon x1600 is the cause?
Since Installing Vista (Beta 2), the screen orientation does not automatically change when I rotate the screen. I'm sure this is some Toshiba utility that For example, the one that (under XP) used to change the screen orientation now starts mail, and the 5 way butrton starts IE on a press, and does nothing on a

Upgrading drivers?
And you really must have the option I'm speaking of, located in *WU's Change settings" area, if you're using Vista. Here's the pertinent section of it: http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/737/wulq9.png So, there's no URL's, nothing to install, no browser to run. In Vista, MU has been subsumed into WU.

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
PirateKing PirateK...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent If I insert my OEM OS disc nothing happens. When starting the machine I do get my MSI Platinum motherboard splash screen for a second which instructs me to

"tricking" Vista ultimate upgrade to install on clean HDD?
jarhedch jarhedch.357...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup ok, re running install, had windows check all 4 gigs of ram, now even if i run the install disc on either setting the windows loading files bar comes up, it finishes, and the screen goes blank and nothing happens.

Desparate!!! please help BSOD on install
I'm trying to install Vista on a 40gb partition of my harddrive, and I've made sure to remove the boot flag from the other partition during install. Nothing happens. Eventually, I cut power and start it up. It tries to load up Windows, but stays perpetually on the load screen (green bar, and that's it).

boot stuck on black screen with cursor pointer
Leaving the Key info blank will not prevent you from installing. Entering your key will. From within your new installation of Vista, install Vista one Be sure to choose upgrade, and not clean install, when Setup prompts you. An Upgrade install takes longer, so don't panic when nothing seems to be happening.

UMPC screen size and resolution
It stays in this empty background with nothing happening. I can move the cursor around but the only thing there is the big background picture. It never progresses past that point. I thought maybe it was a BIOS issue, so I installed XP, downloaded the latest BIOS and flashed the motherboard. Tried installing Vista

Can't Install Vista on Virtual PC 2007
This happens many times a day, but generally seems tied to high hard drive utilization, such as installing an app or trying to back up the hard drive. I am running vista ultimate on a sony VGN-FZ290 laptop (2.6, 4gb RAM, 200gb 7200RPM drive). I have yet to see a blue screen and the hard drive isn't making any

Blue screen while installing Vista 64 bit
So, what I have now is that I'm trying to install vista from the dvd. I get to the install screen and choose install, it says please wait and seems to be copying files for a while (maybe 5 minutes or so the hdd light flashes) but since the last hdd flash it's been sitting for the last 3 hours doing nothing.

PC boots to black screen. How to reinstall Vista ("upgrade", not ...
I made the attempt to install Vista Ultimate 32 bit upgrade DVD over XP Pro SP/2 w/ NET 3.0 also installed, on the system described above. All they contain are pointers to the new folders in vista where that data is now stored. There is no need to get into them because there is nothing in there, and changing

Vista Clean Install Hangs
At the bottom of the screen there is a setting to change the Product Key. Be certain to enter the correct key for the version of Vista which you have. Granted nothing is perfect, but in my experience getting the latest updates really helps Vista. Again, like where we started above (prior to installing Vista),

Desparate!!! please help BSOD on install
The installation went fine until it rebooted, then i got a screen telling me to run a repair from the dvd. I did so and it didnt work. Formatted the drive in xp After rebooting nothing worked in vista: could still not connected to the web, could not install or uninstall programs etc. Again i formattet the hdd

Blue screen while installing Vista 64 bit
After you click a button labeled Start in the Thank You dialog box, Vista's login screen will eventually appear. Enter the username and password that you selected during the first install. You're done upgrading to Vista. Step 11. Within 30 days, you must "activate" your copy of Vista or it'll lose functionality.