Vista RC1 update failure

[Guest]

I was trying to update my copy of Vista Beta 2 to the newly released Release
Candidate 1 using the the DVD I was sent, the update went ok for awhile then
about the last 90% or so it restarted. Upon finishing the restart the new
Vista RC1 loading screen came up (The one with the green progress bar and the
black background) then just after that a blue screen came up full of text and
at the bottom I made out the line about it creating a dump file for some
reason, but thats all I could make out since the screen was there and gone in
2 seconds. Then it restarts, and does it again..... endlessly. I used the
memory tester program thats on the Vista RC1 DVD, but it passes all the
tests. I'm not sure whats happened, or if theres a way around it.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Probably not much you can do at this point, the old installation is probably
corrupted now and the new one will not complete. Format the installation
partition and do a clean install instead. Upgrades between builds of a beta
product are always iffy, even though this particular scenario is supported,
and this is why there are lots of warnings about not counting on them to do
everything right.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Sorry that got posted twice. IE gave me an error message both times, and I
wasn't sure if it made it the first time. Also, I went back and managed to
take a picture of the error and it gave me this line:

"*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x8883D6AC, 0x843E7890, 0x843E758C)"

Just would like to know what that means.

My Specs on the Vista PC:
Pentium 4 3Ghz HT Enabled
1Gb ram
Radeon 9700 Pro
50Gb HD space
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

How much hard drive space is available?

Disconnect attached devices not absolutely needed for installation,
especially usb devices.

Run some memory tests.