Some Observations on installing WIindows 64 bit ultimate OEM

schford

schford

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My Vista install just seems ot be hanging on the cOmpleting Installaiton section - the green bar has not progressed in 20 mins but the little dots are sitll moving.

Second time It has done this and I even set motherboard to no overclock to check if it was that - no joy though.

Anyone got any ideas?

Stuart
 
Ermm dont know pal, just installed Home Premium on this comp but i did notice that it was rather slow at actually starting up the installation process, ie the screens where u put the cd key in etc. But it flew through when it got to the intallation.
 
yup it is pit slow with all the screens up front - most of the copy was quick then it jjust hung there - I am trying over now.

The bit where it hangs is after the first reboot well I think I will give it 30 or 40 mins and just see - trouble is no error messages.

It also recognises my RAID array fine so dont see how it could be that *sighs*

Stuart
 
got some updated drivers so if this one fails after a while will try them - failing that then its try without raid time - sighs....
 
I dont use RAID for hard drive - only with SATA-II hard drive directly from Nvidia NF4 Ultra that work fine but I havent install Vista yet until I download motherboard and other hardwares drivers first - I got Vista Ultimate but I dont have TPM chipset for using BitLocker - other way I can do is use USB pen drive to store password that can work for all motherboards that dont have TPM chipset. I let you know after I download drivers first and I find out Vista Ultimate installation that will be next week.
 
great downloaded nvidia update now it is blue screen of deathing *sighs*

safe mode and last knowngood mode dont work - complete new install coming up I suppose!
 
Well that was painful but all working now :-) just downloaded some beta 8800 drivers from 3dguru so lets see how they do.
 
just fried the os turning the overclocked settings back on ..... repair works fine though - looks like I will have to start working out what I can get away with ocing now then *sighs* this new OS laugh is not easy is it!
 
dirtydog said:
I thought Vista was supposed to prevent crashes like that. I guess not.
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Graphics has a bit more resilience, but it's still Kernel Mode. And nVidia's drivers aren't even passable yet.
 
I thought the point was that poor quality drivers shouldn't be able to bring the system down, in Vista. That was supposed to be one of its big selling points.
 
dirtydog said:
I thought the point was that poor quality drivers shouldn't be able to bring the system down, in Vista. That was supposed to be one of its big selling points.
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Kernel Mode drivers can still bring a system down. Nearly all drivers were moved to user mode - except graphics.
 
schford said:
It was an nvidia update for the raid drivers that caused blue screen of deathing and complete new installl...
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Oh, in that case it's a situation where windows loses contact with the disc. No program files, no page file - not really anything else to do but crash.
 
csmager said:
Oh, in that case it's a situation where windows loses contact with the disc. No program files, no page file - not really anything else to do but crash.
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Why doesn't Windows detect that the new drivers are crap, and revert back to the old ones or something. It might lose contact with the hard drive but it doesn't lose its RAM does it.

How is it better than XP in this regard then?
 
csmager said:
Kernel Mode drivers can still bring a system down. Nearly all drivers were moved to user mode - except graphics.
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Im lucky enough not to have to install any grahpics drivers for my ATI.
Its using what it wants and to be honest i can tell no differance.
Its picked out a nice res, and my games work flawlessly
 
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