Vista unstable and stops responding

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I am running XP Home SP2 and bought Vista Ultimate Upgrade. Now, before
letting go of my XP installation I wanted to test drive Vista on a separate
partition in test mode (without entering the activation key).

Installation went through without a hitch and the system booted into Vista
seamlessly. I was impressed. :)

But that's when the problems started. Vista started the auto-update and
rebooted. Upon reboot it the system soon became unstable and crashed/stopped
responding ("Unable to create system warning" message in Windows Explorer).

I thought to myself that maybe as long as it's not activated it can't be
updated so I reformatted the partition and re-installed but de-activated
auto-update this time. Same scenario: Installation without a problem but once
I was in Vista it soon became unstable and stopped responding. :(

My system specs:
Intel Core 2 [email protected]
2 GB of Ram
GeForce 7950 GX2
MSI 975X Platinum Motherboard
JMicron JMB36X Raid Controller
Onboard Realtek High Definition audio

Any ideas what could cause this?
 
First, thank you for the quick reply!

Yes, I did run the Upgrade Advisor (Your computer can run Windows Vista). It
told me that I need to upgrade the Realtek Audio driver which I knew. It also
told me that it was unable to find info on the JMicron Raid controller.

According to Jmicron I have a Vista compatible driver installed. However ...

I noticed the following info on Jmicron's driver site:
"Changing the disk reporting sequence for Vista. After changing, the
scenario should be as followings.
1. Install Vista with a mirror RAID of hard disk A and B.
2. Revert A to non-RAID disk in BIOS.
3. Booting with both A and B connected.
4. Booting with B alone will succeed.
5. Booting with A alone will fail.
- The setup program will overwrite all installed files and start
menu items with the newly installed files and items."

I don't really know what that means ...
 
I am running XP Home SP2 and bought Vista Ultimate Upgrade. Now, before
letting go of my XP installation I wanted to test drive Vista on a separate
partition in test mode (without entering the activation key).
Intel Core 2 [email protected]
2 GB of Ram
GeForce 7950 GX2
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Are you talking about x64 or 32-bit Vi$ta?

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The 32 bit version.

Man-wai Chang said:
Are you talking about x64 or 32-bit Vi$ta?

--
.~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2
^ ^ 20:54:01 up 24 days 6 min 0 users load average: 1.03 1.01 1.00
news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk
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Stormlight said:
First, thank you for the quick reply!

Yes, I did run the Upgrade Advisor (Your computer can run Windows Vista). It
told me that I need to upgrade the Realtek Audio driver which I knew. It also
told me that it was unable to find info on the JMicron Raid controller.

According to Jmicron I have a Vista compatible driver installed. However ...

I noticed the following info on Jmicron's driver site:
"Changing the disk reporting sequence for Vista. After changing, the
scenario should be as followings.
1. Install Vista with a mirror RAID of hard disk A and B.
2. Revert A to non-RAID disk in BIOS.
3. Booting with both A and B connected.
4. Booting with B alone will succeed.
5. Booting with A alone will fail.
- The setup program will overwrite all installed files and start
menu items with the newly installed files and items."

I don't really know what that means ...
Click to expand...

Yeah, that sounds like poorly translated Chinese, doesn't it? I don't
know what it means, either, but, in fact, your install DID succeed.
Tell us about your video card and that card's driver version.
 
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