Vista Beta 2 Goes Public Today

I'm having a wierd problem, I can't even get into setup! The initial loading after it boot from the CD is fine, but when I assume its meant to go into the graphical portion of serup the system just freezes.

Don't suppose anyone else has a clue whats wrong?

My system is:

3000+ Venice
nForce4 410 chipset
ATi X800
2GB GeIL value
160GB samsung on the nF4 SATA
 
well I'm thinking something went wrong with my install when I unplugged the drive with XP on it booted the Vista and repaired sent an error message to Microsoft.
shortly after it did it again and won't repair so I'm reformatting it and will try again tomorrow.

One thing I thought it could be, I have a dfi expert motherboard and a ati x1900xtx should I find drivers for them because when I checked on the vista update it said everything was OK.

I never got to try nvidia or ATI drivers, but having said that I haven't found which ones to use on Vista 64 could someone post me a link.

Will check back later then try again tomorrow.
 
Got 32 vista finally downloaded and installed.

So far everything in my sig is working fine including Creative XFI and Audio Panel

I had to install using only one X1900XT card as i would get a BlueScreen during install.

After i had everything installed, i popped the other X1900 in and installed the latest Catalyst Vista Drivers and so far so good.

Using Avast as AV as its supported and works fine

Im personaly finding everything more snapier than XP,

Just going to do some game testing later or tomorrow ,

:)
 
kimandsally said:
well I'm thinking something went wrong with my install when I unplugged the drive with XP on it booted the Vista and repaired sent an error message to Microsoft.
shortly after it did it again and won't repair so I'm reformatting it and will try again tomorrow.

One thing I thought it could be, I have a dfi expert motherboard and a ati x1900xtx should I find drivers for them because when I checked on the vista update it said everything was OK.

I never got to try nvidia or ATI drivers, but having said that I haven't found which ones to use on Vista 64 could someone post me a link.

Will check back later then try again tomorrow.
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yes the x64 vista drivers are hard to find on the ati site. click the vista link on the homepage and then look "oh there they are....." ;)

but here's a link anyway - https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/ati_LH_RC0_64.exe
 
marc2003 said:
yes the x64 vista drivers are hard to find on the ati site. click the vista link on the homepage and then look "oh there they are....." ;)

but here's a link anyway - https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/ati_LH_RC0_64.exe
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Got an error message from the link but found it here;
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712

Now trying to find the right ones from N Vidia I think these are the ones for the vista 64 beta 2 http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nforce_vista_x64_beta2.html
 
BillytheImpaler said:
An .iso does not need extraction. Burn the image to a disk straight-up.

I don't know much about easy CD Creator. Try downloading the Alcohol 120% 30-day trial and using that to burn the image. I bet it will take care of it without issue.

http://www.free-downloads.net/programs/Alcohol_120_
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Nice one m8 ;) In the end i went for the Complete CD & DVD Writer. It had no problems as there was an option to write the ISO image to CD/DVD even made it bootable :)
 
Right im pretty happy with Vista on my 160Gb. Im going to probably re-install it again.

Can I connect all my other drives, boot into Windows XP Home, then select install and put it on my other drive and allow me to dual boot?
 
If you go to install Vista and XP already exists, Vista will install a dual-boot bootloader. WHen you partition the hard disk, be careful not to nuke your XP installation. Just for safety's sake, back up anything vital on your XP partition before trying to install dual-boot. I'd hate for you to make a small mistake and lose soething important as a result.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
If you go to install Vista and XP already exists, Vista will install a dual-boot bootloader. WHen you partition the hard disk, be careful not to nuke your XP installation. Just for safety's sake, back up anything vital on your XP partition before trying to install dual-boot. I'd hate for you to make a small mistake and lose soething important as a result.
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Good good, exactly what I wanted. Cheers ;)

Im noticing some random file swaping for no reason. Like now, all I have is firefox open and the hard drives going nuts. :confused:

Im really impressed with Internet Explorer 7 64bit. Using now, Really quick and responsive.
 
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Well, I've been using Vista for a couple of days now. At first I didn't like it at all, but now that I've gotten use to it I think it's really good.

What's surprised me is how well it works, not had any compatibility issues yet. You'd think it was a release version and not a beta. :)
 
Ok first problem ive got.
Im trying to connect my livebox (wireless modem) it kept saying for ages the dhcp had failed and to check the firewall.

Now ive got past that bit, its trying to set my ip address as 0.0.0.0.0 which the modem then flashes up invalid IP and wont let me view the net even though the modem and computer are paired.

Any ideas?
 
Concorde Rules said:
One problem here

I can't burn DVDs on the PC, so I have to use the mac, yet the mac can't do boot sectors.

Ah balls. :(

Why is it more than 700mb? why why why why why why XP does fine :/

How much is the install, 4/5gb? you cant fit that on those 4gb i-Drive things.

WTF is microsoft thinking? :p

Any ideas? :(
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If anybody wants i will burn them a copy and post it out.
Free of charge. A donation of a quid or somet would be apperciated to cover the disk and the postage
 
Exsomnis said:
Well, I've been using Vista for a couple of days now. At first I didn't like it at all, but now that I've gotten use to it I think it's really good.

What's surprised me is how well it works, not had any compatibility issues yet. You'd think it was a release version and not a beta. :)
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Same here :D
markyb said:
Im noticing some random file swaping for no reason. Like now, all I have is firefox open and the hard drives going nuts.
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I'm getting that too, just got IE7 and WMP11 open. I'm guessing it could be the search things, indexing stuff from my data drive? I haven't bothered looking into the new search tools though so not sure how it works, that's my guess :)
 
Been upgraded to 8MB this morning and the download is going so fast. Just started the download and I should have the 3GB file within the hour. :D
Tried downloading it yesterday and it said it had 7 hours left to finish it.
 
Still getting issue continually with the x64 iso downloading as roughly 14MB. Tried their download manager, several other ones and have been retrying over the last few days.

Guess someone somewhere don't like me :mad:

I'm not even getting denied or busy anymore but its still reporting itself as 14MB.
 
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