Vista Reboots and Reverts to XP

G

Guest

I have an HP Pavilion m370n. I have upgraded it with 4 GB of RAM, 2 x 500 GB
HDD, a Sony Dual Layer DVD Burner and an ATI Radeon X1300. I ran upgrade
advisor and got the Green Check Mark. I was told I would need to upgrade the
Video Card Driver and one of my sound card drivers.

1)On a clean install Vista will State "Preparing to Load Vista for the first
time" about one minute later it just reboots then gives me the Safe Mode
option. I make my choice, either Start normally or in Safe mode. Vista loads
then an error pops up stating the installation was not completed, please
re-install. I tried repairing it.

2)Installed Media Center XP 2005 on the new HDD, tried to upgrade. No
problems with rebooting but when it loads for the first time, it states my
computer is incompatible and reverts back to Media Center 2005.

Any advice? I dumped $700 into new parts for this PC. I want to keep this PC
and Run Vista (Home Premium, by the way).
 
R

Rick Rogers

Hi,

HP doesn't list that system as Vista-ready, it may be that the BIOS is not
compatible (something that is not detected by the upgrade advisor). You
might try to figure out what make the motherboard is and check to see if
there is an update available. Be aware that using sources of this nature may
void any remaining warranty.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
P

Pflueger

Any advice? I dumped $700 into new parts for this PC. I want to keep this PC
and Run Vista (Home Premium, by the way).
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Just think if you were successful installing the Vista Premium after
spending all that and it behaved the way people on this ng have been
bitching about for two months. My advice would be to count your blessings --
your guardian angel was looking over your shoulder with her thumb on your
hard drive.

Enjoy your pimped-out XP machine for another year and just think of what
you'll save on aspirin. Then check back here when people start to act like
human beings again.

Vista is wacky, nonsensical, unpredictable, untrustworthy, and I predict the
eye opener for a consumer base that was getting fed up anyway. There is no
telling what problem will happen next -- even if it runs great for awhile
things will happen for no reason, and good luck if it is something quirky
like some problems that have cropped up for me, like all of a sudden every
time I use Start/Search Windows Explorer crashes and tells me it is trying
to fix itself then shuts down. I had a problem with an IE7 menu that
whenever it occurred, my cursor slowed to a crawl -- I'd go to adjust it and
the setting had been changed to the very slowest. Makes no sense. On my
desktop I checked "Hide icons" -- after this search stuff began to happen,
the icons reappear whenever I reboot and while remains unchecked in the
menu -- but to hide the icons I now have to click on "show icons". You can
ask 100 newsgroups and get no replies for many of the crazy problems.

I just backup files and reinstall Vista over again when it gets really
bad -- luckily I have OEM Premium on a new laptop I bought and still have my
XP desktop to depend on. It's going to take a year or two to get Vista
going well. Save yourself a lot of grief, with your upgraded system and XP
you are on top of the world.

Pflu
 
G

Guest

I have the same system how did you exactly upgrade the power supply on HP
M370N? where did you get your power supply at?
 
G

Guest

I went to Tiger Direct and purchased a Coolmax V-400 it was the only Power
Supply small enough to fit in the case.

I had to remove the DVD Drives completely and take off the P4's Heatsink and
Case Fan. But it angled in and and works great. Note the HP DVD Drives are
too long to co-exist with the new Power Supply. HP only tests their Mother
Boards up to 400w and anything more than 400w is too big to fit in the case.

Hope that helps.
I am still considering a new Processor. It is very hard to find a 3.2 P4
800FSB Northwood. She runs great and fast so I might just leave it until I am
ready for a New-New computer.
 
G

Guest

Thanks, already been doing that. ASUS said contact HP and HP said I am SOL. I
think HP will eventually look into it, but they said anything manufactured
before Oct 2006 is considered incompatable and HP will not offer VISTA
drivers.
 
G

Guest

what is the length of Coolmax V-400? why does the Coolmax V-400 Power supply
have two +12V=14A - +12v=15A? any idea why? the orignal Power supply for HP
only have +12v 10A.

Coolmax V-400
+3.3V +5V +12V +12V -12V -5V +5VSB
30A 28A 14A 15A 1A - 2.5A
 
G

Guest

I don't see any information on ASUS P4P800E deluxe if it's Vista compatible.
can give me the link.
 
J

jonah

I have an HP Pavilion m370n. I have upgraded it with 4 GB of RAM, 2 x 500 GB
HDD, a Sony Dual Layer DVD Burner and an ATI Radeon X1300. I ran upgrade
advisor and got the Green Check Mark. I was told I would need to upgrade the
Video Card Driver and one of my sound card drivers.

1)On a clean install Vista will State "Preparing to Load Vista for the first
time" about one minute later it just reboots then gives me the Safe Mode
option. I make my choice, either Start normally or in Safe mode. Vista loads
then an error pops up stating the installation was not completed, please
re-install. I tried repairing it.

2)Installed Media Center XP 2005 on the new HDD, tried to upgrade. No
problems with rebooting but when it loads for the first time, it states my
computer is incompatible and reverts back to Media Center 2005.

Any advice? I dumped $700 into new parts for this PC. I want to keep this PC
and Run Vista (Home Premium, by the way).
Click to expand...

I had a lot of trouble with this issue with the Beta Versions, it was
nothing to do with BIOS and Driver incompatability it was because the
DVD I burned from an image was corrupt.

If you have an official (boxed) DVD try borrowing one to see if that
works, if you downloaded and burnt Vista from an image do it again but
at the lowest possible burning speed and with nothing else running on
your PC during the process.

It should load and run at some level even if all the correct drivers
are not present Vista will run if you have a green advisory state.

Jonah
 
G

Guest

It is just shy of 6 inches. The box does not have the dimensions.

It is not a "replacement" in the HP sense. There is an additional 12v+
connection. The Amp difference does not cause an issue.
 

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