Vista unstable and stops responding

[Guest]

I am running XP Home SP2 and bought Vista Ultimate Upgrade. Now, before
letting go of my XP installation I wanted to test drive Vista on a separate
partition in test mode (without entering the activation key).

Installation went through without a hitch and the system booted into Vista
seamlessly. I was impressed.

But that's when the problems started. Vista started the auto-update and
rebooted. Upon reboot it the system soon became unstable and crashed/stopped
responding ("Unable to create system warning" message in Windows Explorer).

I thought to myself that maybe as long as it's not activated it can't be
updated so I reformatted the partition and re-installed but de-activated
auto-update this time. Same scenario: Installation without a problem but once
I was in Vista it soon became unstable and stopped responding.

My system specs:
Intel Core 2 [email protected]
2 GB of Ram
GeForce 7950 GX2
MSI 975X Platinum Motherboard
JMicron JMB36X Raid Controller
Onboard Realtek High Definition audio

Any ideas what could cause this?

 

[Guest]

Did you run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor?

You could have a driver that needs to be updated.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...83-C24F-4863-A389-3FFC194924F8&displaylang=en

 

[Guest]

First, thank you for the quick reply!

Yes, I did run the Upgrade Advisor (Your computer can run Windows Vista). It
told me that I need to upgrade the Realtek Audio driver which I knew. It also
told me that it was unable to find info on the JMicron Raid controller.

According to Jmicron I have a Vista compatible driver installed. However ...

I noticed the following info on Jmicron's driver site:
"Changing the disk reporting sequence for Vista. After changing, the
scenario should be as followings.
1. Install Vista with a mirror RAID of hard disk A and B.
2. Revert A to non-RAID disk in BIOS.
3. Booting with both A and B connected.
4. Booting with B alone will succeed.
5. Booting with A alone will fail.
- The setup program will overwrite all installed files and start
menu items with the newly installed files and items."

I don't really know what that means ...

 

[Man-wai Chang]

I am running XP Home SP2 and bought Vista Ultimate Upgrade. Now, before

letting go of my XP installation I wanted to test drive Vista on a separate
partition in test mode (without entering the activation key).
Intel Core 2 [email protected]
2 GB of Ram
GeForce 7950 GX2

Are you talking about x64 or 32-bit Vi$ta?

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[Guest]

The 32 bit version.

Are you talking about x64 or 32-bit Vi$ta?

--
.~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2
^ ^ 20:54:01 up 24 days 6 min 0 users load average: 1.03 1.01 1.00
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[Ron Miller]

First, thank you for the quick reply!

Yes, I did run the Upgrade Advisor (Your computer can run Windows Vista). It
told me that I need to upgrade the Realtek Audio driver which I knew. It also
told me that it was unable to find info on the JMicron Raid controller.

According to Jmicron I have a Vista compatible driver installed. However ...

I noticed the following info on Jmicron's driver site:
"Changing the disk reporting sequence for Vista. After changing, the
scenario should be as followings.
1. Install Vista with a mirror RAID of hard disk A and B.
2. Revert A to non-RAID disk in BIOS.
3. Booting with both A and B connected.
4. Booting with B alone will succeed.
5. Booting with A alone will fail.
- The setup program will overwrite all installed files and start
menu items with the newly installed files and items."

I don't really know what that means ...

Yeah, that sounds like poorly translated Chinese, doesn't it? I don't
know what it means, either, but, in fact, your install DID succeed.
Tell us about your video card and that card's driver version.