Installation Failure

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I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire
process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and
then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one
time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)

I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the
DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus
and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.

Any ideas?
 
What is your computer setup?

How did you try to install, from within XP or from boot up DVD disc?

Do you have IDE drives or SATA

Bill
 
Finally got it installed after about ten tries. What I found out was this:

I couldn't install on a secondary primary partition. It had to be a LOGICAL
partition.

I had to run CHKDSK thoroughly several times on the formatted logical
partition.

I couldn't do an upgrade install it HAD to be a clean install (probably
better anyway)

The ATI Radeon driver that came with Vista Beta 2 is defective and will
cause critical OVERHEATING. I have retried and verified this. In order to
have enough time (before it overheated and caused a shutdown) I had to put my
entire laptop in the FREEZER (yeah I said freezer - it's an old trick) for an
hour. That gave me enough time to get an internet connection and update the
ATI graphics driver (a fix was available from windows update) that solved the
problem. It works great now!

That was my experience, your mileage may vary.
 
I am having a simalare problem except the DSOD showes up on my secondary
monitor for a second then the system restarts. I can get it to boot into Safe
Mode and was able to finish the setup process there. I have installed the
Nvidia Geforce Vista 64 beta2 drivers in safe mode as well but no change.
Any clues?
 
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