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I have found the install of Vista to be very speedy with one exception:
On one machine with a Highpoint 2240 Raid card, I get to the "Load Drivers"
screen, point it to the source (diskette) of the Highpoint vista 64-bit
drivers, the drivers get read, and then the system goes into "Thumb in bum,
mind in neutral" mode for over 5 minutes. I don't mean "A Long Time", I mean
"over 5 minutes". There is absolutely no activity visible from any LED, and
of course it's at the stage where I can't see what processes are active.
This period is so long that I actually restarted the machine twice before,
on the third attempt, when I was sitting there finding the Highpoint phone
number and waiting on tech support, the system suddenly burst back into life
and continued with the install.
I've looked at the .inf file and there's nothing that I can see would cause
any delay. And it doesn't apply to other Highpoint cards that I've installed
Vista on (e.g. 2320).
I have two potential theories to explain this:
One: There's a hidden dialog box that says something like "You really should
reboot in order to make these drivers work. If you do not reply in 5 minutes,
we will continue with install."
Two: Highpoint and/or Microsoft have decided I have a good combination to
donate 5 minutes of 3 GHz 64-bit cycles to some SETI-like project
This situation also exists with the "Load Drivers" variant in the System
Restore.
The rest of the install and subsequent reboots show none of this problem.
Does anyone have an inkling of what's going on here, or even a better theory?
On one machine with a Highpoint 2240 Raid card, I get to the "Load Drivers"
screen, point it to the source (diskette) of the Highpoint vista 64-bit
drivers, the drivers get read, and then the system goes into "Thumb in bum,
mind in neutral" mode for over 5 minutes. I don't mean "A Long Time", I mean
"over 5 minutes". There is absolutely no activity visible from any LED, and
of course it's at the stage where I can't see what processes are active.
This period is so long that I actually restarted the machine twice before,
on the third attempt, when I was sitting there finding the Highpoint phone
number and waiting on tech support, the system suddenly burst back into life
and continued with the install.
I've looked at the .inf file and there's nothing that I can see would cause
any delay. And it doesn't apply to other Highpoint cards that I've installed
Vista on (e.g. 2320).
I have two potential theories to explain this:
One: There's a hidden dialog box that says something like "You really should
reboot in order to make these drivers work. If you do not reply in 5 minutes,
we will continue with install."
Two: Highpoint and/or Microsoft have decided I have a good combination to
donate 5 minutes of 3 GHz 64-bit cycles to some SETI-like project
This situation also exists with the "Load Drivers" variant in the System
Restore.
The rest of the install and subsequent reboots show none of this problem.
Does anyone have an inkling of what's going on here, or even a better theory?
