an't finish Home premium upgrade, black screen

[Guest]

I've tried several different times to install vista home premium upgrade from
winXP home. It says before install that there might be problems with my
nVidia drivers but I've updated them completely from the nVidia website.
Each time the installation goes fine until after the screen where it says
vista is loading for the first time, then my monitor goes black like it is
getting no output at all. I read a post saying to be patient and it will
work itself out, and that didn't work, it rebooted a once and eventually went
to sleep after being on for a long period of time. It looks as though I'm
not the only one have nVidia problems with vista but I should at least be
able to load it. I am running an MSI NS6600-TD128E which is part of the
nVidia Geforce 6600 series.

 

[CanaKiwi]

You need to install the drivers once VIsta is installed. Download them to a
location that you have access to or a CD etc.

Restart computer and when it is booting up hit F8 and boot into safe mode.
Once it has booted install the new XP Video Drivers from NVidia.

 

[Guest]

I tried saving the new vista drivers to both a cd and my hard drive. If I
put into safe mode, it kicks me out saying that it cannot finish the
installation in safe mode. I tried accessing the drivers from the DOS prompt
in repair installation on the vista disk but recieved an error message when I
ran that too. On the 32 bit install it would load the setup before giving an
error, with the 64 bit install it says "The system cannot execute the
specified program". Thanks for the idea though, thats what I thought of when
I first saw the error.

 

[CanaKiwi]

will the install continue if you select VGA mode?

 

[Guest]

How do I select to boot up in VGA mode? I didn't see anything in my BIOS or
in the boot menu.

 

[CanaKiwi]

It is one of the options accessed from the advanced boot menu using F8.
Sorry, it used to be referred to as VGA mode but is now called:

Enable low resolution video (640 × 480) Starts Windows using your current
video driver and using low resolution and refresh rate settings. You can use
this mode to reset your display settings. For more information, see Change
screen resolution and Correct monitor flicker (refresh rate).