Another case of "Black Screen" woes

[Guest]

Experiencing same issues as multiple other posters here. Using a new SATA
drive (no RAID). Installed XP Pro, then tried installing Vista from DVD
choosing "Upgrade" option. Install proceeds until the first reboot point, at
which the system will hang at a black screen. Restarting and using "safe"
mode shows that the last driver loaded prior to the "black" screen is the
disk.sys driver.
I have redownloaded and reburned the Vista .ISO image as per previous
posted suggeestions. I have also burned the image at 2x speed.
A "clean" install of Vista will not work either.
I read in a previous post about forwarding log files to Microsoft for
analysis. Should I do so in this case? Can anyone offer any additional
suggestions?
Thanks..

 

[Guest]

Lary I have the same thing going on but I do not even get to safe mode. My
system just hangs at the black screen with the loading bar on the bottom.
This is with a upgrade from XPpro and with a totally clean install.

I also have SATa drive not in raid configuration and usually am able to load
the drivers when loading 2k or xp. If I come to any answer I will post it.

Good luck,

iam

 

[Guest]

Check your MB bios. Try disabling everything to do with RAID. Had a simular
problem and it worked for me. Havent had a black screen for sense then.

 

[Guest]

I have neither Raid or SATA disks in my machine but get the same symptoms -
machine freezes after the first swish on the black screen. Micro seconds
before the pc freezes the keyboard light will flash on and then it hangs. I
have to power the system off to do anything.
Happens on a clean or an upgrade installation.
I'm not sure what logs to forward or where to forward them.
Running chkdsk on my windows partition let the machine run slightly longeer
- must have had 4 or 5 swishes run through - normally it crashes just after
one.
Safe mode doesn't help either - crashes after disk.sys

 

[Guest]

You may not have Raid or SATA disks but that wont stop Bios from loading
Raid. It might think it has it just because the MB says it can. If thats
not the problem then im at a loss on what to do. Could also do a check disk

 

[Guest]

No SATA or Raid information in the Bios that I can see - it's a AMI K7S8X190
Bios, with an Athlon XP 2200+ processor in it. (if that helps)
I have previously run chkdsk but i'm wondering if something is funny as
ubuntu only shows me an unpartitioned disk rather than the 4 partitions I
currently have.
I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....

 

[Guest]

I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....


Fdisk didn't make any difference either :-(

 

[Guest]

One less case of those woes.

I took the advice of Coltrus and combed my bio for raid. I found two. One
for the ROM and one for the PCI slot. When I diableed the ROM Raid entry the
bios could not find my hard drive, but when I just disabled the PCI Raid
Controller option. Vista came up fine and is now loading and working like a
dream.

Thanks for the your time and knowledge, Coltrus.

Larry I hope it works for you also. Though you may not be using a RAID
config, it could be in the BIOS somewhere so comb through.

I wish you the best,

iam bennu

 

[Guest]

I tried looking up your bios info Andy h and had a bit of trouble finding
your motherboard type or much for enlish sites. Did the fdisk work? I dont
know if it will help much but is your bios the most recent version. One more
thing you might check (another thing that i dont think will help much but may
be worth a try) Check your strapings on your Hard drives and CD/DVD see what
it looks like.