Vista Installation Issue at Gathering Files Stage

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It is because you are running an upgrade and not a custom installation. I
haven't done that in a couple of months.

If you do not have a mobo cd with a program for generating a driver diskette
then my guess is that you do not need to load a driver. If you do have such
a makedisk program then you can copy the driver to the root of the C: drive.
It will probably not see the driver files if they are in any folder. We
had to that routinely during the early beta 1 builds before the Load Drivers
button went live.
 
Page fault in memory. Bad ram, incompatible hardware, or incompatible
driver.

Remove any unneeded peripherals, especially usb. Reseat the video card and
memory cards. Try again.
 
And check those SATA connectors!

Colin Barnhorst said:
Page fault in memory. Bad ram, incompatible hardware, or incompatible
driver.

Remove any unneeded peripherals, especially usb. Reseat the video card
and memory cards. Try again.
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Not to my knowledge.

Mark Austin said:
Just one question, does the Windows Rollback and Previous Windows options
actually work? These are the 2 options I see besides the Windows Vista
boot
option.
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Well I'm glad to say that I ahve finally managed to upgrade to Vista
Ultimate!! In the end the problem was solved by disabling AC97 within the
BIOS. I tried disabling USB support first of all but I still got the BSOD.
But I read somewhere (can't remember exactly) that someone had a similar
problem and disabling AC97 fixed it. So as a last resort I tried disabling
AC97 within the BIOS and the upgrade continued without any further issues.
Although I then caused myself another problem when upgrading my NVIDIA
drivers to a vista beta version.....the PC rebooted after the install of the
drivers but the screen remained black and wouldn't display the logon screen.
So I had to reboot in safe mode and roll back the driver!! Anyway, as is well
now. Just starting to get used to the O/S and am looking to get myself visat
compatible AV and firewall.
 
Congrats! Do you have sound?

The bundled firewall is bidirectional. Just do a search on "antivirus" on
the ng and you will get more info than you can handle.
 
Yep, got sound now after updating the Realtek AC97 driver.

As for AV and firewall, I've downloaded the beta version of Windows Live
OneCare to see how that works out. Looks good.

Only thing I did notice when I had the "blank screen" problem after
installing updated NVIDIA drivers was that when the PC booted up, I could get
into the BIOS without any problems by hitting the DEL button. But when the
screen was displayed where you can select whether to start in Safe Mode,
Normal Mode etc, I wasn't able to use my keyboard to select the Safe Mode
option. I'm using a Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard. So to get around
this I had to plug in a normal PS/2 keyboard in order to select the Safe Mode
option and fix the NVIDIA driver issue. Not a big problem. Just curious as to
why my cordless keyboard would work at that point in the booting up of my PC.
 
No driver loaded yet.

Mark Austin said:
Yep, got sound now after updating the Realtek AC97 driver.

As for AV and firewall, I've downloaded the beta version of Windows Live
OneCare to see how that works out. Looks good.

Only thing I did notice when I had the "blank screen" problem after
installing updated NVIDIA drivers was that when the PC booted up, I could
get
into the BIOS without any problems by hitting the DEL button. But when the
screen was displayed where you can select whether to start in Safe Mode,
Normal Mode etc, I wasn't able to use my keyboard to select the Safe Mode
option. I'm using a Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard. So to get around
this I had to plug in a normal PS/2 keyboard in order to select the Safe
Mode
option and fix the NVIDIA driver issue. Not a big problem. Just curious as
to
why my cordless keyboard would work at that point in the booting up of my
PC.
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Hmmm, that's what I thought. But I ran a search on Google and couldn't find
any suitable drivers for Logitech Cordless Keyboard. Strange thing is that
the keyboard does work within Vista itself. It's just on that one screen
where you select whether to boot in Safe Mode, Normal Mode etc!!

Erm, one more question, can anyone recommend vista compatible spam software.
I used to use McAfee Spamkiller but I understand they don't have a vista
compatible version yet.
 
Ok, I've got a new problem now.....quite a major one. I was simply
uninstalling a program that I no longer use (Corel Paint Shop Pro X) when the
system blue screened half way through the uninstall process and promptly
rebooted itself. But on boot up I get the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT
SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Well I tried putting my original Vista DVD into
the drive and pressed enter but the message still appears. Any ideas??
 
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