gogogadgetearl . Vista won’t install!!!
2007.06.14
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OK, I just got my Pentium D 940 and Gigabyte GA-8i865GME-775 RH motherboard in. So last night I tried installing Vista on it. When I first start the install, booting from the cd took 3 minutes before the first screens even show up. Then I am waiting almost 20 seconds for each consecutive screen, until it starts expanding files, which I suppose is the "copying files" process for XP. After 10 minutes of expanding files, it reboots and begins the actual install process. Total running time at this point is 13-15 minutes.
This is where it gets hairy. on the reboot, it picks up the drive without problems and says that Windows is preparing to start for the first time. A minute or so later it is back to the install screen saying it is completing the installation. After 5 minutes or so, when it gets about 70% finished, it Blue Screens and reboots! After POST I get a prompt asking me which way I need to start windows, whether normally, with safe mode, etc. It doesn't matter which one I pick, it will bring up the same window saying that the installation was interrupted and I need to start over.
Three tries later, it does the exact same thing, and I even used a totally different disc.
I picked around in forums for a bit this morning but the closest thing to comfort I found is that someone had a similar problem with it crashing slightly after install so they pulled a stick of RAM to see what the deal was. I am running 1.5GB, (1GB x1 and 512MBx1, I only have two slots on a m-ATX board) so it is running in single channel mode. Would that be causing the hang up? I plan on trying again during lunch today, in which I plan to trade the 1GB stick for a matching 512MB stick to put the RAM in dual channel.
P.S. it runs XP just fine, and the performance increase over my previous AMD64 +3200 is very well noted.
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hmmm....you got me, dude.
- [ 2007.06.14 | 11:38:00am ]
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update...after all possible combinations of sticks of 512MB DDR and 1 stick of 1GB, all end in the same result. It gets about 70% finished, then the screen goes black with a cursor for a few seconds, then the monitor blips out like the video feed is cut before a reboot, then it blue screens for a split second and reboots to a warning message that says I must restart the installation process after the previous attempt was interrupted. I really would hate to have to send this motherboard back, especially after having learned that it is no longer available at newegg. what a freakin crock.
Maybe it's a hard drive failure, although I am not thinking it's likely as it gets so far into the installation. And now I can't concentrate at work.- [ 2007.06.14 | 1:03:55pm ]
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The memory slot could be bad?
- [ 2007.06.14 | 1:13:34pm ]
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can't be, it's reading all the RAM I have loaded across both slots, recognizing dual or single channel RAM accordingly, and it still pages it properly in XP.
My ultimate goal with this project is to get a video network link up and running between my PC and my 360 so that I can eventually toss my crummy Phillips DVDR HDD player. If anything, I have a copy of Media Center Edition stashed away somewhere just for such an occasion, although I fear I will inevitably need Vista in order to run Microsoft's IPTV when it finally hits. Of course, that is what the 360 is for I suppose.- [ 2007.06.14 | 1:49:22pm ]
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Final Update:
Forget Vista, I am gonna go with MCE 2005. It has everything I need/want in an OS: reliability, (It is XP, after all), a snazzy new desktop skin, (it isn't Aero, but it's shiny, I like shiny :-D ), and of course, the Media Center. Windows Media Center has thus far blown me away at its speed and build quality. Its sound effects are kinda cheesy, but overall I can deal with them. As soon as I get a tuner card and start recording, I will see what the big stink is about this crazy file format I keep hearing about. But I am sure it is nothing Transcode360 can't handle, considering that is what it was built for.
And then of course there is the general lack of necessity for gobs of RAM and power, my current system is using a mere 1GB of dual channel DDR400, and it seems more than capable, although when i get my photoshop and such reinstalled I will probably consider investing in another 1GB stick to compliment my current one so I can run those in dual channel as well. In the meantime my 940 D CPU is running like a champ. Although being a native AMD user, I have a question, with a Pentium D processor, does windows recognize it as an actual Pentium D or a Pentium 4 with two clock speeds? I am curious about this, because my office machine is a p4 HT and it appears the same as my machine at home. I certainly do not a virtual processor when I have a physical second core in there.- [ 2007.06.15 | 1:02:35pm ]
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ah man...i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but, after comparing WMCE2K5 and VU, i must say that VU is much better. In a system that has a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM, WMCE2K5 ran at about 70% of the speed of VU. i can't really explain why, but it's the truth. the video card on that machine can't support Aero, but it's not a big deal since we just watch tv on it.
just my $0.02...- [ 2007.06.16 | 5:00:24pm ]
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I wholeheartedly agree, and really wish I could load Vista on it, but after more than a dozen tries and failures at the exact same point, I am gonna stick with what works until I know for sure what the cause is. I don't have the cash to just continue to throw at it for little knick-knacks like a new HDD, more RAM, etc...All that mess adds up to a new machine, and I really could have gone with an HP m8000 or something comparable that will run VMC and still have the kick to run Photoshop and the like.
- [ 2007.06.17 | 7:56:36am ]
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i had a similar issue when i put vista on my computer. the install process would either crash immediately, or it would complete and then the machine would blue screen as soon as i started configuring vista.
for me, it was the ram. the ram itself was good. i did some long diags tests on each stick individually and never encountered a problem. all of us guys at my office concluded the issue must have been the ram being not totally compatible with the mobo. after i got some different ram, vista installed fine and has been running beautifully since (minus all the little frustrations i've mentioned elsewhere).
but it sounds like you've had a little bit more trouble than me--so going with 2k5 may not be such a bad idea for the time being. and if you're feeling a little frisky, you could try linux mce. i couldn't get it to install on my computer--but i've heard it's pretty slick.- [ 2007.06.17 | 9:41:19pm ]