Vista Upgrade - Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear

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Guilbert said:
I work in computers and know a lot about them. Did my first upgrade from XP
Pro to Vista Business today.

It was on a 15 month old PC that I built myself and that has run XP Pro with
no problems since I built it.

Ran Vista upgrade advisor and it said there were no problems.

Began the upgrade and it ran for about 2 hours and seemed to go fine.

On final reboot got blue screen of death with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Blue screen disappeared so quickly could not read any more.

Got screen where you can reboot in various safe modes, would not work. Tried
doing repair, would not work.

Tried all sorts of other things, but could not get Vista to boot at all.

Got the blue screen quite a few times, BUT IN ALL CASES IT WENT SO QUICKLY I
COULD NOT SEE ANY MORE DETAILS OF THE ERROR. VERY ANNOYING !!!!

After trying for about an hour I gave up. Luckily this was a "spare" hard
disk (and I have XP backed up with Ghost anyway) so was able to recover.

I feel sorry for anyone who gets a problem like this and has now trashed
their working copy of XP.

I shall not touch Vista again and stick with XP until Microsoft "finish"
Vista.

Good job Microsoft are not designing the software for the Nasa space launch
!!!
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Guilbert, I see all the replies appear to be about everything but the answer
to your question. I am curious if you have found any solutions. I am having
the exact same problem. The install gets to the very end where it says
something like Completing Installation and Saving Settings and right at about
60% the screen goes dark. After about two minutes the system restarts and at
the point you see the Windows logo with the progress bar moving, the BSOD
flashes and the system restarts to get the same thing again and again.

My specs:
ASUS P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Corsair 2gig dual channel C4
NVidia 8800GTX
2 WD SATA in RAID 0
2 Samsung DVD burners
750w power supply

The update advisor says there are no problems with updating to Vista
Enterprise.
Thanks to anyone that can stay focused and help. I am a college junior
studying computer science specializing in software engineering and I can
respectfully say I do NOT know very much about computers. I do know that
Microsoft tends to integrate third party drivers into the Kernel directly
unlike Linux and Sun Systems Unix, which if anyone knows, the Kernel is
system critical and when bad code gets executed in the Kernels layer it
causes a stop error (BSOD). That is why UNIX and Linux are known for being
more stable platforms. Keeping the Kernel simple, keeps the systems
performance high, adding drivers to common devices in the Kernel layer
increases the complexity of tasks the kernel has to perform which creates
lower performance and stop errors when code doesn’t do what it was intended
to do. Sorry for running on.
Abel
 
You can examine how messages actually will be sent. Select work offline.
Send the message. Look in the Outbox. When satisfied send all after deselecting
work offline. The CR+LF deletion quirk used to be due to a bug in mshtml.dll.
 
Guilbert said:
I work in computers and know a lot about them. Did my first upgrade from XP
Pro to Vista Business today.
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These two sentences are contradictory. If you know a lot about
computers, you would not do an upgrade install of a MS OS (or any
serious commercial OS for that matter) and expect it to work.

DOS 5 -> DOS 6 rarely worked

Win3.1 -> Win 95 rarely worked
Win 95 -> Win 98 rarely worked
Win 98 -> Win 98SE rarely worked
Win 98 -> Win ME rarely worked (Win ME rarely worked generally)
Win 2k -> Win XP rarely worked

And you expect Win XP -> Win Vista to work?

To be fair, it probably does work if you only use software that complies
exactly with how Microsoft says it should be written. Unfortunately,
most software doesn't.

Do a clean install.

Alun Harford
 
Guilbert, do you have SATA/RAID in you system. If so this could be the
problem. There are a lot of messages in the NG that Addresses the issue
about SATA/RAID
 
My newsreader will probably horribly mangle this post, sorry. =(

I ran into this article--
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http://vistasupport.mvps.org/


disable_automatic_restart_to_read_blue_screen_messages.htmabout
turning off automatic rebooting upon blue screens, which *may* helpyou
dig out a little further information here. =\--Speaking for myself
only.See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.This
posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
check for bios update.
Bob Eyster said:
Guilbert, do you have SATA/RAID in you system. If so this could be the
problem. There are a lot of messages in the NG that Addresses the issue
about SATA/RAID
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