That dreaded black desktop!

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I'm a bit stuck here. I've attempted to install Vista Beta 2 as an upgrade to
XP.
I went through a few blue screens during the final part of the installation
(something about a bad_pool_call I think). Anyway, I've ended up at that
dreaded black desktop, with the Vista blurb down the bottom right and a
moveable mouse pointer.

I've read in a lot of these posts that it's most likely video-related, but
how do I fix whatever's wrong now that I have the black desktop in *both*
Normal and Safe modes?!

I've left it running for at least 10 minutes in each mode but it just sits
there.
Help!
 
How much video memory do you have? I installed on a laptop with 64meg video
mem and it took way longer than 10 minutes for the desktop to come up the
first time. I suspect that the less video mem, the longer it takes. After
that first time it will work normally.
 
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