Vista dual booting

[Neil]

hi
I have a pc running win xp media centre
mp pc is dual core amd 64 bit 5200+ 2gb ram nvidia pcie 256mb graphics
my hard disk is partitioned and xp is installed on the first partition
I am trying to install Vista ultimate 64 bit on the second partition

The vista installation will not complete I get an error when it is
completing setup, saying that the pc shut down before installation was
completed & the installation can not continue.

The pc works fine under XP, are there any known installation issues with a
Vista XP dual boot system?

Thanks

 

[Mick Murphy]

You don't say HOW you are trying to install it!!!
That does help here!

 

[Neil]

Sorry about that!

Installing by booting from Vista OEM DVD onto 2nd partition of HDD
XP still works fine on first partition.

Thanks

 

[Mick Murphy]

Neil,; posters here report weird things installing 64 bit vista.
1. is having more than 2gig of RAM; that is not your problem
2. A supposedly good graphics card is often reported here as causing
probs(incompatibility!).
Can you try taking it out to install vista, use generic,, then reinstall it

 

[Neil]

Thanks for your reply.
Tried removing video card and using standard onboard video.
Installation still fails and pc continually restarts with same error message
(windows unexpected shutdown)

Thanks

 

[Neil]

Got it sorted now
Think it was an unsupported network card.
Removed video & network cards & reduced memory voltage - (got from another
post)

Seems to be working ok now, thanks for assistance