Installing Vista Business on Dell Vostro 1700

[Guest]

When I try to install (the supplied) Vista Business on a brand new Dell
Vostro 1700, it hangs at around 60% with 'Completing...' . I've left it in
this state for several hours and it never finishes.

I've seen elsewhere it could be the SATA drives being in AHCI mode, but I
thought Vista supports this.

Any more suggestions?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Vista does support AHCI mode, but sometimes it still needs a manufacturers
driver file. If you are getting to the 60% mark, I don't suspect that's the
problem. I'd be more inclined to think it might be video related.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

I have a drivers disk. How can I install the video (or sata) driver before
installing Vista?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

You don't in the case of the video drivers, it'd have to be part of the
image. What video adapter is in use?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[DanBrunn]

Hi,

You don't in the case of the video drivers, it'd have to be part of the
image. What video adapter is in use?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com







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I'm having the same issues, just got the laptop today (Vista Business)
and it booted up once and complained about the OS after installing
updates and rebooting. I re-booted tried re-installing the OS from
the DVD they gave me and it hangs at the "Completing..." stage.

Were you able to come up with a solution or do I have to return it?

 

[Guest]

Go into the BIOS setup (F2 during boot).
Set the SATA mode to ATA (not AHCI).
Disable the Flash Controller (as the message specifies).
Then re-install Vista.

I understand you can actually leave AHCI enabled and insert the correct
driver disk during installation, but to be honest, I found my pro audio
hardware doesn't have Vista drivers, so I spent the last weekend installing
XP.

 

[DanBrunn]

Go into the BIOS setup (F2 during boot).
Set the SATA mode to ATA (not AHCI).
Disable the Flash Controller (as the message specifies).
Then re-install Vista.

I understand you can actually leave AHCI enabled and insert the correct
driver disk during installation, but to be honest, I found my pro audio
hardware doesn't have Vista drivers, so I spent the last weekend installing
XP.

Thanks, that worked!

 

[Guest]

After hours and hours of searching posts and trying a multitude of
suggestions - this was the only solution. Many thanks!