Frozen boot screen

[Guest]

Hello, (sorry but I can't speak English very well)

I've got a problem during Vista Beta 2 x86 installation :
1. I mount the ISO image as a virtual drive on my first partition
2. I choose to install Vista on a second partition
3. A few minutes later, the computer have to restart
4. The Windows Boot Manager appears
5. I choose "Setup"
6. A boot screen without windows logo appears
7. The white indicator moves approximately 3 times and then it stops, the
screen is frozen and I've to restart.

* If I choose safe mode in the boot manager, it stops at this line :
" Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys "

* If I try to boot on a DVD after burning the ISO image, the same boot
screen appears and there is the same problem.

* A few month ago, I had tried to install another build and there was the
same problem so I expected that the beta 2 would work.

My computer :
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
RAM : 512 Mb
VIDEO CARD : GeForce 6800GT 128 Mb

I whish you helped me.
Thank you in advance and sorry for my very bad English.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

English is very good actually ) Try a different method of installation -
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted - option 4

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[Guest]

I've tested all the methods but it didn't work.

English is very good actually ) Try a different method of installation -
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted - option 4

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» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

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[Guest]

I have the same problem. No matter what i try i can't get past the boot
screen with no logo. If i boot from the disk it does the loading files thing
then goes to the boot screen and there is no logo, it just hangs there left
it for a while and it still is there so i gave up and restored xp. I decided
to try it agian but it still hangs at the boot screen with no logo. Oh yeah
when i try to boot into safe mode the last thing it say before it freezes is
Loaded : \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\rivers\disk.sys.
My specs are:
P4 530j 3ghz
512 ram
Geforce fx5500
Gigabyte Mobo
2x Western digital 160GB hard drives.
Samsung DVD Burner

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz
RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram
GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500
1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives.
Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner

Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't
believe). But the problem seems to be physics.

 

[Guest]

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz
RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram
GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500
1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives.
Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner

Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't
believe). But the problem seems to be physics.

 

[Guest]

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ | P4 530j 3ghz
RAM : 512 Mo ( MB ) | 512 ram
GeForce 6800GT 128 Mo (MB) | Geforce fx5500
1 Excelstor Technologie 80Go (GB) | 2x Western digital 160GB hard drives.
Only a DVD reader | Samsung DVD Burner

Strange, nothing can explain our problem (maybe the RAM but I don't
believe). But the problem seems to be physics.

 

[Guest]

After being redirected by ShadowF i looked on the net for answers about the
disk.sys. First I am not sure if that's the problem or that it is the *.sys
file loaded after disk.sys. but it doesn't matter. I have succeeded in
installing Vista: This is how:
I disconnected my second HD and my DVD-burner. So now I only had a
DVD-player and a HD. (both as master on the primairy and secondary IDE) Now
setup loaded normally. after installing Windows Vista I connected the second
hard drive again. I't was recognised after start-up and Vista loaded fine. I
haven't connected the DVD-burner again (and don't have time right now).
I also read a story wich was simular where not the harddrives but the Dual
CPU was the problem, removing one CPU helped that person. His symptons where
simular.

 

[Guest]

So, i have exactly the same problem !

I installed Windows Vista 32bit version on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ with 512
MB RAM and an 60GB USB 2.0 Harddisk, because i dont want to damage my 180 and
120 GB HardDrives... so i unplugged the two IDE Harddrives and Started to
install Windows Vista to the USB HD, it worked very fine ... after an hour
the windows setup wanted to reboot... after this reboot it sounds like the
same problem as was written in this thread !
BUT my computer dont FREEZE instead i can see for less than a second a
bluescreen then my compute restart automatically...
Then i started the USB HD with Vm-Ware there i captured a screenshot of the
Error Bluescreen !

http://www.raydag.de/windowsforum/windowsvista.jpg

 

[Guest]

I solved my problem of the frozen boot screen :
I've reinitialized my BIOS parameters and it has worked. I'm writing this
message in Windows Vista : At the begining, Windows is very slow but now it's
faster (it's not perfect but with all effects with 512MB RAM it's good)

 

[Guest]

What did exactly did you change in your bios in order to get it to boot? I
have no idea why it shows the scrolling bar thing but not the logo. Also what
is the driver after disk.sys?

 

[Guest]

In the bios, I've reseted all the parameters so I don't know what element(s)
caused the problem. Disk.sys is the last driver, there isn't other driver
after.

 

[Guest]

Thanks a boat load Shadow finnally got it working. Now all i need is my TV
Tuner.