Hey guys
I've owned Vista for a about a year and a half now, and anyone that knows me on these boards know I'm one of the first to defend it
I've never had a bluescreen or any crashes, any driver issues, nothing. It's been pure bliss, until now..
The other day I downloaded an SP1 ISO as I'm impatient and couldn't wait for the official release. Went to install it and it had obviously burnt the CD wrong as it couldn't access half the files. Had a mega disaster installing, crashes a load of services that its trying to update and just finally tells me the CD is borked basically.
Not liking a dodgy install like that, I decide to do a fresh install of Vista, it was about that time anyway. Except when I start installing, I get all sorts of errors, blue screens during the installation, dll errors. It literally took 17 attempts to get an install done
When I finally boot up, I get round to doing the normal routine, installing drivers. This is when I noticed something else, it kept giving errors when installing my X-Fi drivers, and wasn't actually installing the hardware. Another few reformats and that issue is sorted, but now, when I get as far as Windows Update, the 'Windows Module Installer' crashes everytime. If I install one update at a time it seems to be ok mostly but anything more and it just crashes and I have to restart. Never had this issue before even installing 50 updates at once
Again another few reformats and installing 50 updates one at a time, I get to the next bit, installing DirectX. Now the first few times I installed this it kept blue screening (so quickly I couldn't see what the error was) then restarting. Each time I tried installing it, it got one step further then blue screened until eventually I got it installed. This morning however (I reformatted again as something is not right with all these crashes) I went to install it and one of the services needing to install it just crashes everytime and it won't even start the installation
Finally, when installing Office it always gives an error about assembling a component, I've had it installed once but thats only after 5 attempts
What the hell is up with my machine, I've put everything at stock again so no overclocks. Each harddrive (one for the OS, one for the pagefile and one for everything else) has been wiped clean several times with full formats, partitions deleted etc. Did SP1 knacker my hard drives with that dodgy install. As before that I never had a single problem
And I'm getting to the point now where its really getting me down and I'm tempted to just sell up and use my MacBook
Please help
I've owned Vista for a about a year and a half now, and anyone that knows me on these boards know I'm one of the first to defend it
I've never had a bluescreen or any crashes, any driver issues, nothing. It's been pure bliss, until now..
The other day I downloaded an SP1 ISO as I'm impatient and couldn't wait for the official release. Went to install it and it had obviously burnt the CD wrong as it couldn't access half the files. Had a mega disaster installing, crashes a load of services that its trying to update and just finally tells me the CD is borked basically.
Not liking a dodgy install like that, I decide to do a fresh install of Vista, it was about that time anyway. Except when I start installing, I get all sorts of errors, blue screens during the installation, dll errors. It literally took 17 attempts to get an install done
When I finally boot up, I get round to doing the normal routine, installing drivers. This is when I noticed something else, it kept giving errors when installing my X-Fi drivers, and wasn't actually installing the hardware. Another few reformats and that issue is sorted, but now, when I get as far as Windows Update, the 'Windows Module Installer' crashes everytime. If I install one update at a time it seems to be ok mostly but anything more and it just crashes and I have to restart. Never had this issue before even installing 50 updates at once
Again another few reformats and installing 50 updates one at a time, I get to the next bit, installing DirectX. Now the first few times I installed this it kept blue screening (so quickly I couldn't see what the error was) then restarting. Each time I tried installing it, it got one step further then blue screened until eventually I got it installed. This morning however (I reformatted again as something is not right with all these crashes) I went to install it and one of the services needing to install it just crashes everytime and it won't even start the installation
Finally, when installing Office it always gives an error about assembling a component, I've had it installed once but thats only after 5 attempts
What the hell is up with my machine, I've put everything at stock again so no overclocks. Each harddrive (one for the OS, one for the pagefile and one for everything else) has been wiped clean several times with full formats, partitions deleted etc. Did SP1 knacker my hard drives with that dodgy install. As before that I never had a single problem
And I'm getting to the point now where its really getting me down and I'm tempted to just sell up and use my MacBook
Please help
