Vista beta won't startup on Dell Inspiron 6000

[Chet]

Hello world,
I installed the Windows Vista Beta3 ? (maybe it was 2) on my Inspiron
6000 laptop the other day and now when I try to start the machine I
just get the word "Microsoft" on the bottom with a little dot the moves
from left to right over and over. (A new bsod maybe?). I didn't set
the laptop up as a dual boot system. (My mistake) It did boot once on
safe boot but I couldn't get it to repeat that again. When I start it
in safe boot mode it will just have 'safe mode' in all four corners of
the screen. Anyone have any ideas on fixing this thing? I have no
idea what went wrong.

Thanks,
Chet

 

[peter]

Vista Beta has its own newsgroup over on
News.microsoft.com...Microsoft.public.windows.vista............
peter

 

[S.Sengupta]

Apart from consulting Vista news grs.try using Last Known Good
Configuration.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Michael Stevens]

Hello world,
I installed the Windows Vista Beta3 ? (maybe it was 2) on my Inspiron
6000 laptop the other day and now when I try to start the machine I
just get the word "Microsoft" on the bottom with a little dot the moves
from left to right over and over. (A new bsod maybe?). I didn't set
the laptop up as a dual boot system. (My mistake) It did boot once on
safe boot but I couldn't get it to repeat that again. When I start it
in safe boot mode it will just have 'safe mode' in all four corners of
the screen. Anyone have any ideas on fixing this thing? I have no
idea what went wrong.

Thanks,
Chet

This is not a Vista newsgroup, look on the msnews.microsoft.com newsgroups
for vista newsgroups
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP Shell

 

[Geir Haraldsen]

"Chet" <[email protected]> skrev i melding
news:[email protected]...

 

[Plato]

I installed the Windows Vista Beta3 ? (maybe it was 2) on my Inspiron
6000 laptop the other day and now when I try to start the machine I
just get the word "Microsoft" on the bottom with a little dot the moves

Please contact the Author of the BETA OS you are testing out and get the
fixes from the Author of the OS.

 

[Larry Samuels]

Boot from your Vista DVD and run a repair install.

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