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Thread ID: 112734	2010-09-20 06:17:00	A tricky problem - Vista wont / cant get to the install screen	Speedy Gonzales (78)	Press F1

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1138486	2010-09-21 05:58:00	No, it was because of the USB legacy support option in the BIOS (it was enabled). I didn't have any USB drives, or flash drives plugged in (at the time). It may have been because of the wireless adapter (the kb and mouse are wireless). Altho, I replaced it with a PS/2 mouse and kb. It made no diff. The printer does have a card reader, BUT it was off at the time. Just strange that its never happened before (and the version of Vista I tried to install, has been on the hdd before). I couldnt install it because the install screen never appeared	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1138487	2010-09-22 01:30:00	Hmm think I know what the prob was now. There's a USB / firewire card in a PCI slot. Just noticed in device manager there was a prob with 2 USB hub entries. So, I deleted the entries in DM. It hung again on reboot. So, I removed this card and it booted again. So, I put it back in, and put a molex connector on it (its got a connection for power). And it booted again. The PCI slot probably didn't / doesn't have enough power to run it?? Funny that it was fine before now (without connecting the molex connector). But it only hung in Vista (w/o the power). It was fine booting into Win7	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1138488	2010-09-22 02:41:00	Just thinking - Unless it's something to do with Vista recognizing the molex connector - is it USB? If it is - then maybe an IRQ may have been assigned (e.g. via USB Controller) to it recently somehow - perhaps from the BIOS. Maybe check IRQ's/Resources?	kahawai chaser (3545)
1138489	2010-09-22 02:45:00	No the molex connector is from the PSU. It can provide power to this PCI card. Well this PCI card didn't need power before (it was working, from the PCI slot itself).	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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