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Vista locks up frequently
Tried your link, but when I went to error messages, nothing seemed to directly apply. Nearist one was Stop 7B Vista changing SATA mode of Boot Drive. said When installing Vista Home Premium, I get as far as Expanding Files, then it has to restart. When it restarts I get a blue screen saying 'A problem has been

UMPC screen size and resolution
Upgrade Advisor told me nothing in the four times I ran it which suggested that wouldn't be an option. And yes, for many people the cost is a/the determinate factor; "claim elsewhere you can install Vista Home Premium over XP Pro." Please post the source. You can use windows Easy Transfer and install Vista,

Screen Saver help needed
Every time after I had finished installing Vista, I installed all the Windows and Lenovo updates (using System Update). I was very surprised to find If it shows a busy bar running at the bottom of the screen then it is restoring from the hard drive and it did make it to hibernate. I am not sure from your post

Can we use Win98SE Explorer in Win2K?
I use nothing but 1394 devices for externals and have never seen a blue screen booting up while one was on in 2 pc's so perhaps it's a virtual pc problem, While I won't argue with the contention that many Vista-related problems could be caused by people who refuse to read the manual and install it on older

The Spontanious Rebooting Machine
hoping to dual-boot - clean install is the only option for upgrading XP Pro to Vista HP - it all went haywire! When Vista Setup did its first reboot, it went into a loop and continuously rebooted until I grabbed the 'Previous Version of Windows' option on the dual-boot screen.

Installing Vista Question
___ Basic problem: No video from built-in LCD screen on notebook - only video from external VGA port. Switching output via the notebook's keyboard (from LCD screen to external VGA output) does nothing. Repro steps: Grab a Gateway M505 notebook with built-in Radeon Mobility 9600 Install Vista 32 bit Business

Dual Boot Install of Vista on XP pro x64
For me, the OS (Vista Business x86 upgrade) would install and after first reboot, it would hang/freeze at various places. I've gotten as far as the black/white "Windows is preparing to start for the first time" screen and it hangs there too. Like you, I'd disabled all on-motherboard resources (sound, USB, etc.

Intel Matrix Storage Manager RAID controller
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "jarhedch" <jarhedch.357...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message it back to disable. 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.

Vista SP1 released to manufacturing
There's nothing wrong with the computer or the DVD - or even the hard drive, except that it does not have the necessary drivers in place. The Vista DVD has drivers for Just have your WD drivers disk handy and watch for the prompt when it gets to "Where do you want to install Vista" and follow the instructions.

Blue screen while installing Vista 64 bit
When I start the install process, on the screen where you select the custom option, it says that upgrade is disabled. I assume this means it did not detect my previous OS? I did not continue from this point. I can install my Win 2k on the hard drive where I wish to install Vista. In the past however, when I had the

Ping Katy
That's in itself is a very minor issue, but is a little scary, especially if you're not use to installing Windows and are a little afraid of the install process, Vista does no hand holding. In fact it can be down right scary to you a couple times. The screen goes black, no warning, seconds tick by, nothing seems to

GA-K8U-939/Sata/Vista
BTW, I changed my screen-name, sorry. What am I missing? It has a brand-new 600w PSU also. I got it from Geeks, but I will admit it's a generic one. $15 special. If nothing else, I will reformat the drive, start from a fresh platform, and maybe install Vista. I have looking for an excuse to format.

Vista on New Apple macbook
That one will allow you to choose to re-install Vista or "repair" Vista. Choose REPAIR. Another screen will appear called something like Recovery Options. "scotwolf" wrote: hi, my computer was installing an vista automatic update last night 13/02/08 and just kept running and running and did nothing for 2-3

Screen rotation and buttones on a Toshiba M4
In article <eprhta$9s...@news.datemas.de>, "SaberX" <billwhee...@gmail.com> wrote: Anyone know for some good web sites to show how to do this? http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ http://macwindows.com/winintelmac.html Apple says nothing about installing vista with bootcamp, they only mention XP.

Upgrading XP Media Center Edition (2005) to Vista Home Premium
I am attempting to install Vista Ultimate which I have also purchased. I do everything that I am used to doing such as altering the bios to boot from CD. I kept on repeating and I could get as far as chosing my language but the screen would go black. I flushed my bios and tried again, still nothing.

Failed Install of Vista Beta 1 Build 5112
I'm building a Vista machine for my cousin and I'm wondering how to pre-install software on Vista. I can just about remember the days when I bought computers from system builders like Dell and I always noted how when you booted them up for the first time you'd be presented with the Windows post-install screen,

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
My OS is Vista Basic (I hate Vista just to let you know). My screen saver had worked just fine until about 2 months ago when my DVD/CD drive quit functioning. After three Geek Squad phone calls, they determined that I needed to uninstall the DVD/CD "driver", then re-install the driver.

Blank Screen, Vista Bootup stops.
When I try to install Vista from a bootable cd, it does it's initial load of the setup files and crashes once it gets to the splash screen. Nothing is OC'd. -- --------------------------------- http://www.myspace.com/araxen "The worse part about the Yankees losing, is we can't watch the Yankees lose anymore.

Heavy Battery Drain after Hibernation
In either case, there's nothing Microsoft can do - it's up to the user and app developers to deal with the superior intelligence of Windows. ignore it and refuse to reboot otherwise, By that logic, why doesn't Windows XP refuse to boot and force the user to install Vista, which is supposed to be more secure?

Trouble with new display and Device Manager
In getting my XP machine ready to install Vista on, I went to the HP web site, and found I had to order the drivers for Vista. not work (no matter what I do), and all the screen savers listed do not have options. I see the preview, but nothing else happens. Can you tell me when these options will be released?