vista just wont start up

[Guest]

i installed vista home premium on my computer, but during the installation,
it restarted and then once it came back on, it wouldnt continue the
installation, i tried and tried again, but nothing. so i installed it on
another hard drive in a different computer and put that hard drive in the
other computer, and it wont start up, even though its installed and working
and activated. the other computer that i actually installed it in is a older
computer, with older parts, and the one im trying to get it to work in is
almost completely new parts, so it should be vista capible, 3d connect ati
radeon x1550 graphics card, asus p5n-e sli motherobard, 3 gigs ddr2 ram,
adaquet cooling, i just have absolutly no idea why it wont install or work.
please help

 

[Daveg]

If I understand, Vista will install without issue on the 2nd machine.
When moving that same hard drive back to the original computer it will
not boot up.

first thing is go to hardware manufacturer website and make sure your
running the latest BIOS update.
Secondly, install a clean copy of any downlevel OS.
Within the downlevel OS run the following command.

bootsect.exe {/help | /nt52 | /nt60} {SYS | ALL | <DriveLetter:>} [/
force]

bootsect.exe /nt60 C:

Bootsect Command-Line Options
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...b66f-4b42-9563-04c218a1a6ac1033.mspx?mfr=true

Does the system boot successfully to the downlevel OS with NT60 code?
It should. If not, meaning your in a reboot loop, its possible
bootmgr.exe is never being called to load Vista.

I have seen this before using barebones box with Intel motherboard and
SATA drive. The boot sector was on 44 instead of where it normally is
on 63.

daveg

 

[Guest]

ok, how exatly do i do this, im pretty good at computers, but as for that....
well, lol i appreciate the help but could you be a little more specific, do i
run this in a command prompt or put it in RUN and start it from there???

 

[peter]

When you installed Vista onto your old computer it loaded the hardware
drivers for that computer.
When you moved the harddrive and tried to start on new system..nothing
matched..
Try a reinstallation from the Vista DVD into the same location .......
or
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/windows_vista_repair_options.htm
peter

 

[Guest]

well, ive installed it on that computer, and it did the same thing, nothing
ive done will get it to boot, ive installed vista so many times on that
computer with no result, i havent tried what daveg said, but any suggestions
would help please. thanks

 

[John Barnes]

What is your setup as to hard drives. Do you have a more than one drive.
You should disconnect all the drives other than the one you are installing
on. This is particularly a problem when you have IDE and SATA drives and
are trying to install on SATA

 

[Guest]

once more unfortunally, ive tried that, i do have one sata drive and im
installing it in a ide drive, but undoing all teh drives including cd rom and
dvd drives doesnt help at all.

 

[John Barnes]

Did you provide the SATA drivers for the drive?

once more unfortunally, ive tried that, i do have one sata drive and im
installing it in a ide drive, but undoing all teh drives including cd rom
and
dvd drives doesnt help at all.

 

[Paul Randall]

The bad thing about disconnecting all drives other than the one you are
installing on is that if you intend to install on a drive/partition that
will have a drive letter other than C: when other drives are connected, you
must somehow make that drive/partition have that same non-c: drive letter
during the installation. Otherwise, registry entries will be falsely
pointing to files on the c: drive when they should be pointing to files on
the non-c: drive.

-Paul Randall

 

[Guest]

well, ive tried it without disconnecting the drives, but with no change.

 

[Guest]

i havent been trying to install it on a sata drive, does that effect the
installation, should i supply the drivers anyhow???

 

[John Barnes]

Vista always install itself as C unless installed from within another OS.

 

[John Barnes]

Make sure you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO and install with the SATA
disconnected and make sure that the BIOS priority is set to the IDE as the
first hd.

 

[Guest]

i have installed vista without the sata drive with a new bios update, ive
updated it to the newest one out, and ive disconnected the sata drive and
tried to install vista, didnt work, still wont boot to finsih installation, i
tried it with teh drive connected, and still nothing, please help

 

[John Barnes]

How many time has it booted. Is this the first or second reboot. When you
say it won't boot to finish the install, could you be more specific as to
what you mean. Is it stopping at some phase of installation or does it tell
you it is going to reboot and then freeze, complete the shutdown, but not
boot into the final phase? If so, you could try hitting F8 just when it is
finishing the POST process, and see if you can boot into safe mode. If you
can it will tell you that it can't finish the install in safe mode, but you
will have a hint at problems. It really is necessary to have details of
exactly what has or has not happened before the install stops and exactly
the symptoms when it does stop installing.

 

[Guest]

ok, when i install vista, it will be installing, then come up with the window
saying that it is restarting then just like normal, it will restart, then
when it boots up, it will actually boot to the completeing installation then
it will restart, but it will go to the black page with the little bar at the
bottom, and it will be running smoothly, but after about 3 seconds of that
little bar going left from right, it will stop for like half a sec, and
continue for another second, then stop for half a sec, and start moving for
another sec, and it will do this literally forever, it never loads anything,
and ill shut it down by holding in power button, turn it on again, it will
say that windows didnt shutdown properly, and give me boot opitions, so ill
boot it in safe mode, and it will start to load drivers, and after a few
seconds, it will stop loading them and sit there with the drivers listed
forever. my motherboard is vista compatible, my graphics card, i dont have
any usb devices plugged in when doing all of this, the only thing i dont know
is vista compatible is hard drives, which are ide, and cd-rom drives, which
both of those i dont think would make a difference, and besides that, ive
disconnected them all and tried installing vista with the same thing, ive
tried different ram and nothing either, i know this computer can run vista,
ive done the upgradeing program thing where it scans hardware and software
and it said the only thing that wasnt good, was how much harddrive space was
left, which after reformatting hard drive, wasnt a problem. im so confused as
to why it will not work, please help.

 

[John Barnes]

Are you doing a clean install (which version, full or upgrade) or an upgrade
from XP? IDE is no problem no matter how old. At this time I would try
loading the latest drivers for your video card where you select the drive to
install on, or if possible temporarily swap video cards during the install.
I would also try using just 1 stick of your memory during the install. If
you have matched memory for two sticks, then leave in the two matched sticks
and make sure they are in the correct slots per the MOBO manual. If this is
an upgrade install there are other things you can have problems with, but it
would seem you are doing a full install.

 

[Guest]

yes, its a clean install, i have 2 identical sticks of ram installed properly
as well, i kinda suspect that it is in deed the video card becauase if i
remember correctly, when i did ahve vista installed on this computer, i had a
different graphics card. it was a ati 64mb graphics card in a pci slot, now
im using that 3dconnect ati radeon x1550 graphics card with 512mb.

 

[Guest]

i am currently reinstalling vista on that computer with a different graphics
card, its a ati radeon something.... with 256mb and its pci-e

 

[Guest]

well, i found how to fix it, i took out my grandmas ati radeon x1300 and put
it in and installed vista and it works, apparently for some odd reason. vista
just doesnt like my x1550 graphics card, but... i had it in my grandmas
computer and it worked like a dream, so im still confused as to why it wont
work with vista, actually i gave the card in exchange for the x1300 to my
grandma and she put it in the same computer i just said it worked in and she
cant get it to work, so somewhere, something has gone wrong.... ah well at
least its just the graphics card. i was thinkin it was my mobo or something
else really expensive thanks for all the help guys