Another Black Screen grumble

[Larry Schuldt]

After booting and running fine a few times, RC2 now boots to a black
screen. If I boot to Safe Mode, all is fine. I'm using an NVIDIA
GeForce 7300 GT video card and a Athlon X2 mobo with NVIDIA chipset, 4
gig of RAM, and SATA drives in RAID1 configuration. The OS is
installed in the second partition of the second RAID set (I have 4
drives in 2 RAID sets).

Has anyone figured out what's going on with all the black screens? It
really seems to be a recurrent problem.

tia,
larry

 

[Yoshi]

What driver are you using? The one from Microsoft or the lastest beta from
nVidia?

 

[Larry Schuldt]

What driver are you using? The one from Microsoft or the lastest beta from
nVidia?

Yoshi,

I'm currently using the latest NVIDIA beta. I have an idea of what
might be going on. First, I noticed that the OS is not coming up
completely, despite the disk activity. When I press the power button
briefly, the OS does not shut down, so I think that it's not loading
completely.
Next, I disabled the USB in the BIOS. The OS booted and ran in normal
mode. I'm thinking that the OS is seeing the USB memory card reader in
my PC and thinking that it the reader is a real disk and getting
confused about where to load the rest of the OS from. I DO have to
unplug the memory card reader to get Vista to install.
Any ideas about how to work around that?

larry

 

[Yoshi]

I have that problem when I have a USB device plugged in while booting. I
remove my USB memory cards before booting, then i plug them in.

It fixed my problem.

 

[Larry Schuldt]

I have that problem when I have a USB device plugged in while booting. I
remove my USB memory cards before booting, then i plug them in.

It fixed my problem.

Yoshio,

I don't have anything plugged in. The card reader shows up as drives
under XP, so I think that Vista gets confused during the boot process.
Maybe if I had Vista on the first drive it would work ok; I'm sure it
would if I had it in the first partition of the first drive, but it's
only in test mode for now...

I guess I'll have to turn off the USB in BIOS when I want to test apps
on Vista. I sure hope MS fixes this one.

larry

 

[deebs]

Did you do a fresh install?

The reason I ask is that Viast (or whatever OS) seems to think it is on the
first drive anyay.

I did encounter problems at POST when I left a card in the card reader - it
seems so easily done.

But since realising that XP Pro, Vista 64 and vista 32 run ever so sweet.

 

[Larry Schuldt]

Did you do a fresh install?

The reason I ask is that Viast (or whatever OS) seems to think it is on the
first drive anyay.

I did encounter problems at POST when I left a card in the card reader - it
seems so easily done.

But since realising that XP Pro, Vista 64 and vista 32 run ever so sweet.

Yes, it's a fresh install. It would probably work fine on the first
drive, but the first drive is already used by Windows XP and XP 64.

 

[John Barnes]

Why don't you just unplug the memory card reader when you boot like has been
suggested leaving your USB BIOS setting active. Wouldn't be the first time
the driver is incompatible with a certain card reader. If it works in safe
mode and when USB is set off, just replace it if it is that important to
have. X64 has reported this problem many times and has been resolved by a
different card reader.