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| Thread ID: 77769 | 2007-03-21 11:02:00 | Wow - Vista Nightmare | Twelvevolts (5457) | Press F1 |
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| 534887 | 2007-03-21 11:02:00 | Ok so against advice (and common sense) I had to go and buy Vista and try and install it on my PC . Yes I know - just about every thread on here said don't do it! I got it home and off I went to install it but hit a point where nothing happened . OK -took me a while, but I remembered eventually that one of my hard drives had a dynamic disk - not supported of course by Vista Home Premium . Change it to a Simple disk . Great - I'm on my way . Nope - although the Vista Upgrade Advisor tells me all my hardware meets the Vista requirements, it still won't install and hangs right at the last step . Must be the Visat disk is faulty - try another disk (ultimate this time) and same thing happens . Back to Dick Smith for my money back - oh no you'll have to ring Microsoft . Microsoft - sorry we only take calls before 6 pm - who gets home before six pm??? Ring them from work - have you tried reformatting etc . Yes - but only about ten times so that might not quite have done it . What about your SATA controllers sir?? Yeah right I think but I try all the suggestions and it still doesn't install . Turn off the anti-virus, connect to the net, don't connect to the net, put the serial number in, don't put the serial number in, check your XP is legal (it is), disconnect printer, disconnect anything else that moves, need I go on . Don't see me getting the money back - so any ideas what might be happening here . 2 . 40 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo Board: Gigabyte 965P-S3 NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 1 GIG DDR2 SDRAM BENQ DVD DD DW1620 Western Digital Sata Drive 320 gig Seagate IDE drive 160 gig Brother Printer Oh software compatibilty per the Vista compatibility says it doesn't like the exisiting Microsoft software like Active Sync, Messenger or Explorer - at least that gave me a laugh . I'm out of ideas - it just won't install! |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 534888 | 2007-03-21 11:40:00 | Does XP still install? Good luck on sorting it out. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 534889 | 2007-03-21 13:19:00 | Home Premium doesnt support dynamic disks? Bugger... Good luck getting it fixed, no idea sorry... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 534890 | 2007-03-21 13:52:00 | Sell it to some other ignorant bugger on some web auction site, then use the few dollars to buy an obsolete Playstation. | Greg (193) | ||
| 534891 | 2007-03-21 14:25:00 | Sell it to some other ignorant bugger on some web auction site Join the queue on 'TradeMe' There's a lot of em there already Now we know why! :badpc: |
DUNK (1527) | ||
| 534892 | 2007-03-21 20:19:00 | I have it and it rocks baby!!!!! Do a clean install and not an update. Re-install all your other stuff later. PC's always run better on a clean install of their O/S rather than an update. If you are using a SATA RAID did you put the driver disk in and if so the right one? I found Vista Ultimate not only installed 100% from fresh it found and configured every single peice of hardware my PC has. Something that XP has never been able to do on any of the 12 installs I have done on about 7 different PC's |
Big John (551) | ||
| 534893 | 2007-03-21 22:14:00 | Big John: Unlike me, you're obviously not using an SB!Live 5.1 channel sound-card, or an nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 are you: au.creative.com www.nvidia.com Dont get me wrong, Im trying it out also, but its not something Im impressed with by any stretch of the imagination! On the up side, the default Vista display drivers are much better at 3D than the XP ones :) Still... Im not impressed though! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 534894 | 2007-03-22 01:37:00 | Yeah I'd have to agree with Big John, Vista is pretty slick, I had no issues doing a clean install of Vista Ultimate. I have two issues though... driver problems I think. First: Not too sure about this one but I think there's an issue with the driver for my X800's ATi Rage theatre chip. Second: This is a funny one, no driver for my creative gameport for some reason. I've used Vista certified drivers for the X800 as well as my SB Audigy card. Anyone else have issues with ATi and or Creative Labs hardware. Cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 534895 | 2007-03-22 02:31:00 | Correct, I have an NVidia 8800GTX and use the internal HD sound chip and pipe it out through coax to my Creative SB2 8.1 | Big John (551) | ||
| 534896 | 2007-03-22 02:50:00 | Hi Twelvevolts. Are you going to dual boot with XP? There is plenty on Google re installing a clean install on a separate HHD with XP still in place and not over-written. It requires you to install Vista WITHOUT using the serial code and then to reinstall WITHIN Vista but using the code. It's relatively easy to do and works well if you can get it installed. However you should have a clean partition to install it on a separate HDD. I know that doesn't answer you immediate problem but I hope it might help. If you do get it installed as a dual boot, download a copy of Vistaproboot into Vista as this will replace the boot options and you can customise it too. Good luck. |
Bryan (147) | ||
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