After 2 1/2 HOURS to install - I CANT DO ANYTHING!

[Guess Who]

Uggghhhh This is killing me!

I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to
download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download,
but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!

The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to
see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows,
but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and
apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP,
explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)

I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce
6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course,
that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in
safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these
drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for
NOTHING!

I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no
RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP
drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).

Hardware:
Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz
Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express
Audigy 2 ZS sound card
3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS
9 in 1 Card reader
16x DL DVD +/- R/RW
48X CDRW
external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate)
Canon LIDE 60 scanner
Konica Minolta 2400W laser

I Think that's about it.....

How do I get this thing running???

 

[Travis King]

Those sound cards are sometimes pretty difficult to get going in Vista.
Have you tried going here yet? If not, give it a try.
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=en.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Maybe you can give beta 2 a try when it becomes available.
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[Travis King]

Yeah, I would also do that. I would recollect that it will be
astronomically better than 5308. My guess is it will be coming out in a
week or thereabouts.

 

[Mike Williams]

I'm not sure I can trust recollections from the future....

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

LOL!
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[Frank]

Uggghhhh This is killing me!

I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to
download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download,
but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!

The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to
see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows,
but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and
apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP,
explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)

I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce
6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course,
that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in
safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these
drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for
NOTHING!

I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no
RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP
drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).

Hardware:
Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz
Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express
Audigy 2 ZS sound card
3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS
9 in 1 Card reader
16x DL DVD +/- R/RW
48X CDRW
external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate)
Canon LIDE 60 scanner
Konica Minolta 2400W laser

I Think that's about it.....

How do I get this thing running???

Welcome to Betaville!
Frank

 

[Puppy Breath]

Have you tried booting in safe mode? I get BSOD with certain drivers
installed. For example I keep getting drivers for a Matrox card from Windows
Update. But every time I install one I get a blue screen at startup. If safe
mode gets you around the faulty driver, you may be able to disable the
corresponding device from there.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

I got a BSOD every once in a while - totally random but reinstalled the
whole thing and this time instead of taking 8 hours to do (literally did,
went to bed and woke up and still bloody installing), it only took an hour
and a half - the wireless drivers still don't work and cause it to BSOD but
still, at least it doesn't randomly restart )

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[Peter Foldes]

Did you install to the same partition or a different one?

 

[Guess Who]

No, I installed to a different, empty, partition. Tried again in vain
tonight, no luck. I can move about fine in Safe Mode, but I really can't do
much there. Changed a few settings, but could not install anything.

I tried on my laptop tonight -- after 3 1/2 hours, and the screen just
sitting there, no disk activity or anything, I just shut the laptop off and
my XP pro was restored.

What a HUGE letdown!


Did you install to the same partition or a different one?

 

[Peter Foldes]

re-install

 

[Guess Who]

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2
hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours to
install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why 2 -
2 1/2 hours?

I finally got to install on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1705) when deleting
the XP Partition altogether and installing 5308 to C:\, but again, I have no
wireless access, things are EXTREMELY slow, I can't install a graphics
driver, and it's practically useless.

I do hope the newer builds will install under 2 hours and can be used for
something other than staring at a 640 x 480 ugly screen.



re-install

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

The best you can do is to try the next available build which is BETA 2,
expected to be released on Tueday.

 

[Mark Gillespie]

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2
hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours
to
install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why
2 -
2 1/2 hours?

LOL, when Vista was still longhorn, Microsoft were promising it would only
take 20 minutes to install!!! Perhaps they missed off the "2 Hours And..."
bit...

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

They said that staged builds would surprise us, so far it has not. Still,
there is a ways to go until RTM, so I am gonna play optimist game until
then.
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I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2
hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours
to
install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why
2 -
2 1/2 hours?

LOL, when Vista was still longhorn, Microsoft were promising it would only
take 20 minutes to install!!! Perhaps they missed off the "2 Hours And.."
bit...