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Guest
Figured out what driver files to install.
When installing Vista from DVD, I would consistently get a BSOD when
expanding files (during a reboot) with a machine_check exception. I knew that
I probably needed to provide a SATA driver but just sticking my driver floppy
in would not work and Vista would say "no driver files found".
I then opened my driver floppy in XP and dragged the XP driver files-- three
of them-- onto the desktop and sent them to a formatted floppy. I left the
floppy in the drive and inserted the Vista DVD into the DVD drive. I then
did a custom install from within XP pro. The installer gave me the option of
installing additional drivers, I accepted and the installer immediately came
back with the correct driver from the the floppy. I left the disks in the
drives and the installer handled everything without a glitch.
I had ZoneAlarm working and it asked me to allow or deny Windows permission
to set boot flags and I clicked "allow". The computer rebooted a number of
times and I did not touch any keys but just let it do its thing. No glitches.
I did the update installation while connected to the internet.
I had my Nec 3550 DVD as Primary Master and I moved that to the Secondary
Master because of some threads that I had read about here, but I really don't
think that was my BSOD problem-- I just wasn't getting the SATA driver
installed, I think.
My system:
Gigabyte K8U -939 -Uli
AMD64 3200+ Venice
Maxtor 250 GB SATA hdd
2 gb Corsair ValueSelect ram
Sapphire ATI Radeon Atlantis 9600 (using DVI)
19 inch HANNS-G HN199D LCD monitor
NEC 3550 DVD
Internal floppy
I partitioned the hard drive when doing a clean install of XP pro sp2 to
give me room for Vista. My C: drive has XP and the D: drive has Vista. The
D: drive shows 77.5 GB with 67.6 free.
So far, Vista seems to work very well. I like the interface-- seems pretty
clean and uncluttered.
Anyway, that was my installation experience.
When installing Vista from DVD, I would consistently get a BSOD when
expanding files (during a reboot) with a machine_check exception. I knew that
I probably needed to provide a SATA driver but just sticking my driver floppy
in would not work and Vista would say "no driver files found".
I then opened my driver floppy in XP and dragged the XP driver files-- three
of them-- onto the desktop and sent them to a formatted floppy. I left the
floppy in the drive and inserted the Vista DVD into the DVD drive. I then
did a custom install from within XP pro. The installer gave me the option of
installing additional drivers, I accepted and the installer immediately came
back with the correct driver from the the floppy. I left the disks in the
drives and the installer handled everything without a glitch.
I had ZoneAlarm working and it asked me to allow or deny Windows permission
to set boot flags and I clicked "allow". The computer rebooted a number of
times and I did not touch any keys but just let it do its thing. No glitches.
I did the update installation while connected to the internet.
I had my Nec 3550 DVD as Primary Master and I moved that to the Secondary
Master because of some threads that I had read about here, but I really don't
think that was my BSOD problem-- I just wasn't getting the SATA driver
installed, I think.
My system:
Gigabyte K8U -939 -Uli
AMD64 3200+ Venice
Maxtor 250 GB SATA hdd
2 gb Corsair ValueSelect ram
Sapphire ATI Radeon Atlantis 9600 (using DVI)
19 inch HANNS-G HN199D LCD monitor
NEC 3550 DVD
Internal floppy
I partitioned the hard drive when doing a clean install of XP pro sp2 to
give me room for Vista. My C: drive has XP and the D: drive has Vista. The
D: drive shows 77.5 GB with 67.6 free.
So far, Vista seems to work very well. I like the interface-- seems pretty
clean and uncluttered.
Anyway, that was my installation experience.