Installing Vista RC1

[Guest]

Hi,
having downloaded the RC1 release and trying to install it, both as a clean
install and as an upgrade to Beta 2 with no success whatsoever. I cannot get
this release to install. I get as far as completing installation and
completing upgrade and that is as far as it gets, my machine has been at this
stage now for about 3 hours this on this attempt. Has anyone else encountered
this or is it just me?
Equipment being used is Packard Bell Easynote, 2.8Ghz Pentium, 512Mb Ram,
40Gb HDD. This machine runs Beta 2 with no problems but I cannot get RC1 to
install on it no matter what I try.
I have just cancelled the installation because I am getting hacked off
waiting for the installation to complete.
Any help or advice to resolve this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Ghost

 

[Ted F]

You may have to do a clean install of RC1 release. If you have any files
unsaved back them up first, then put the DVD installation disk in the
computer cdrom drive. Reformat the partition there and begin the
installation.

Goodluck!!

 

[Guest]

Hi Ted,
Thanks for the quick reply I have already tried that. I did a clean install
of RC1, the machine hung on the restart. I then did a clean install of the
Beta 2 downloaded and installed all of the updates and tried installing RC1
as an upgrade, with the same result.
I am now in the process of trying to install RC1 as a clean install again. I
can't figure out why this is happening when Beta 2 installs and runs no
problem.

 

[Guest]

On the latest attempt to install RC1 the system has restarted 3 times on the
completing installation screen. I now have a black screen with no HDD
activity, if I didn't know better I would say that the computer had shut
down, the only way I know that it hasn't is that from time to time the CPU
cooler kicks in.
This attempt at installation is a clean install. Could the reason be down to
the download? I don't know anymore I'm lost on the point of giving up which
is something I don't want to do as I want to see how RC1 looks and behaves.

 

[Steve]

The black screen happened to me also, I hit reset, the computer restarted
and finished the installation. Every thing works fine.

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve,
thanks for the reply at the moment this latest installation has been running
since 09:26(GMT) and once again I have reached a black screen and no HDD
activity. I have reset the computer as on previous occassions and nothing is
happening. It's getting to the stage where I am trying to decide what window
to throw the laptop through or should I just jump up and down on it? That
won't fix it I know but it will relieve the stress. I can install Beta 2 with
no problems whatsoever but for the life of me I can't figure out why this
will not install and that is what makes it worse as I know that this machine
runs Vista with a rating of 1.
Thanks once again, any more ideas to install this will be much appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Hey,
i have tried to install vista also and it gives me an error message at the
very end saying that there has been an error in installation and your system
will be reverted back to its previous version can someone help?

 

[Guest]

I don't get any error messages, just a black screen then nothing.
I've just tried another upgrade with the same result, so I give up. I guess
I'll never know what this is meant to look like as I'm going back to the Beta
2 build the one that works.

 

[Robert R. Johnson Jr]

A couple of more things to try. Load the Beta 2. Disable any advanced
features such as Aero. Go to the device manager and uninstall the video
driver but do not restart. Disable all power management features. Try the
RC1 upgrade again.

 

[hobregon]

I had this "black screen of death" problem when doing a clean Vista RC1
install booting from DVD. I finally got Vista to work by FIRST installing a
clean Windows XP Pro SP2, adding nVidia WHQL certified drivers (from
nVidia's site) and then UPGRADING to Vista RC1 running setup from within XP
Pro SP2.

Happy now, runs really fast, much better than previous builds.

Hector Obregon
MSDN Regional Director
Mexico City

 

[Brian P Fielding]

I have a similar experience.

I have not been able to a clean install of Vista x64 or Vista x86 from
booting from DVD. Only had success installing through the corresponding
Windows XP (Win XP x64 for Vista x64) using the latest nForce XP drivers.

I could install the Beta2 from the booting the DVD and using the appropriate
nVidia Vista drivers. Strangely, I cannot now clean install beta2 versions
by booting from the DVD.

Hope nVidia / MS come up with a solution soon.

Brian

 

[Guest]

My Video drivers are SISm661fx for onboard graphics. I'm now toying with the
idea of installing onto my main machine, something I don't really want to do
as much of the Apps I have on here did not work with the beta 2.

 

[Guest]

Hi,
as I am unable to install RC1 onto my laptop although as i have said before
it is running June version of Beta 2 quite happily, I am going to install
onto my desktop and see if this works.
Spec as follows.
2.6Ghz Pentium
1.5Gb PC3200 Ram
HDD's 80Gb (Boot Drive) 200GB (2nd Drive) 120Gb Sata (3rd Drive)
Nvidia Geforce 5200 Graphics card.

I know that the following didn't work in Beta 2 so they will be removed and
cleared from the registry.
Norton System Works
Nero
iTunes
Mobile Phone tools

Going to go for a Clean install. I have moved everything that I want to keep
to my third drive so I won't lose anything important.
So here goes and if all goes well next time you hear from me will be from a
machine running RC1
Thanks for all your replies and advice.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I've done it. I just got RC1 running on my main machine. What a
difference from the Beta 2 release. it's quicker, slicker and looking good.
Just in the proces of putting all my files back to the where they belong even
this is quicker than the previous releases.
So the verdict at the moment is I'm glad I took the gamble and installed it
on here looks like I'll have to put XP onto the laptop.
Thanks once again your all help and suggestions.

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

Hi,
having downloaded the RC1 release and trying to install it, both as a clean
install and as an upgrade to Beta 2 with no success whatsoever. I cannot get
this release to install. I get as far as completing installation and
completing upgrade and that is as far as it gets, my machine has been at this
stage now for about 3 hours this on this attempt. Has anyone else encountered
this or is it just me?
Equipment being used is Packard Bell Easynote, 2.8Ghz Pentium, 512Mb Ram,
40Gb HDD. This machine runs Beta 2 with no problems but I cannot get RC1 to
install on it no matter what I try.
I have just cancelled the installation because I am getting hacked off
waiting for the installation to complete.
Any help or advice to resolve this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Ghost

Man! I didn't know Packard-Bell was still making "computers". A
cheapen P-B was my first "new" Windows machine.

Man, what a piece of crap it was!!!

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[Guest]

Man! I didn't know Packard-Bell was still making "computers". A
cheapen P-B was my first "new" Windows machine.

Man, what a piece of crap it was!!!

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Donald L McDaniel
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so that it may not become broken.
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[Guest]

Man! I didn't know Packard-Bell was still making "computers". A
cheapen P-B was my first "new" Windows machine.

Man, what a piece of crap it was!!!

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Donald L McDaniel
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Hi,

I've been having the same or similar problem installing and also upgrading
to RC1 in a Microsoft Virtual PC.

I get a hang at the "Completing Install" and "Completing Upgrade" step.

Just befor the hang happens I see a black screen momentarily, then the
vista install screen re-appears and then on the Network status icon on the
bottom of the virtual pc window, I see some activity and then the red "light"
on the icon is on solid. Another time is was green solid. Also the progress
dots (. .. ...) don't appear on the "Completing Upgrade" step.

Using the performance monitor (CTL+ALT+DEL) shows cpu activity on the
client as at 100% or close to it.

On the upgrade attempt I ran the upgrade advisor and it said I could
upgrade.

I hope this information will help.

 

[Guest]

OK, further update.

I d'loaded VMWare Virtual Server and was able to install Vista. Also VMWARe
Virtual Server was able to process the vista iso as a CD. In Microsoft
Virtual PC I used Daemon tools to mount the iso to a pseudo CD. Microsoft
virtual PC had no problem recognizing this. It did however have a problem
mounting the iso itself.

I hope this post is usefull.