black screen of death during Vista RC1 (build 5600) installation

[Guest]

I managed to fix the problem in my system. I have a dual booting system with
XP. I went back and booted with XP. The I went to drive with vista then to
the windows folder/system 32/ drivers and deleted all of the files that start
with ATI. I rebooted and Vista loaded up normall :0_

 

[Guest]

As below is stated it seems that we have to be patient. Does anyone else has
this experience?

Marco

 

[Guest]

I'm replying to your thread because I can't seem to post a new message
because their system's down. I hope you get your RC1 installed.

I do not see any provision to install the drivers for my SATA RAID drives.
Any suggestions?

I tried the upgrade over win xp pro and got a blue screen halfway thru. when
I tried disabling some drivers and hardware and installed again, the message
was the upgrade was disabled, I had to delete C:\Users, or rename it. I went
into the DOS box and did this, but the next message was I had to do this to
C:\ProgramData... I could not find this on a directory search.

doing a boot up install, i get a pretty wallpaper design for 45 minutes with
an hourglass that basically does nothing and goes nowhere.

I understand this is a release candidate and all the drivers and hardware
aren't yet supported; if you have any suggestions they would be greatly
appreciated.

I plan on keeping windows xp on C: and installing vista on a separate
partition.

 

[Guest]

It could be, I'm running the x64 version of RC1, and my monitor is on the
x1800 CrossfireEdition card. It encounters the same problems where the
installation completes fine except when Vista gets ready to run for the first
time, the screen goes into power save mode (no signal) at startup.

Some other people with similar problems have recomended starting in lower
resolutions via the F8 key at startup.

So I'll try both that as well as loading up on the x1800XT card instead and
see if any of those changes correct the problem.

 

[Guest]

Love the black screen o' death! Always nice to know others are having the
same issue. Only problem is i don't have an ATI card...

Sounds like i'm having the same issue though. Upgrade, clean install no
difference. Beta 2 worked like a charm.

VISTA X64
Dual-Boot with XP
Athelon Dual Core
nVidia 7800 Graphics card

Huh? Guess I'll try the same routine deleting all the ATI stuff. any help
would be much appreciated.

 

[Guest]

same problem here... with NVidia Card 7950 GX2. Install works fine then after
completion... Black screen

 

[Guest]

To solve the problem do this:
1. Visit support.ati.com
2. Download the driver for Vista RC1
3. Unpack the driver (by running the install) somewhere you are able to
reach it when running Vista
4. Start or continue the Vista installation and choose Safe Mode (press F8
after booting if necessary)
5. When the message appears that Setup can not continue because it's in safe
mode, press Shift-F10
6. Enter 'devmgmt.msc' at this command prompt
7. Go to the video driver section and choose to update the drivers, then
select the downloaded driver folder and use that driver

This worked for me! Fantastic!

 

[Guest]

I'm having the exact same issues as dash.
Toshiba A105 CoreDuo Satellite with Intel graphics chipset.
Goes through the install until it reaches "Completing installation" step,
then the screen blinks once or twice and goes black. HDD light blinks for 15
seconds or so followed by no response. Manual shutoff and reboot yields
message that install was unsuccessful, please restart and try again.
These results are consistent from every possible install scenario:
Upgrade, Clean install (wipe HD of old OS), dual boot into separate
partition, etc.

Notice that this is a system becoming unresponsive, not a black screen with
"Vista Build 5600" in the lower right corner as some people have reported.....