Check the BIOS settings for ACPI...are they on? acpi subcomponents are
required....



From: "JW"
Subject: Hyper-threading hangs OS loading
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM

Did you fdisk and reformat the old disk in the new machine before trying to
install?
Do you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO?
I had no trouble installing Vista RC1 or RC2 on a HT system after doing the
above.

"Jussi Palo" wrote in message
...
This same freezing occurs on the first boot when installing Vista to a
clean
HD if I have HT enabled.

The answer to your question is, yes, but on another machine, meaning that
on
my old computer (2.4 GHz HT) this very same installation installed and
worked
just fine. I actually moved the HD from old machine to new one, but this
is
not the problem in this case since Vista won't even start installing on
the
new machine.

I also suspect this is a driver issue, but is it possible to load
motherboard/chipset drivers during the Vista install before the first
reboot?
I've done it with NT 4.0 and SCSI drivers, but are we talking about more
fundamental drivers here?

- Jussi

"Michael O" wrote:

Did you install Vista with hyperthreading enabled?



"Jussi Palo" wrote in message
...
Hi,
having experienced this problem already on Beta 1 version I now finally
sat
down and begun tweaking my BIOS settings on my RTM Vista Ultimate. It
turned
out that whenever I have Hyper-threading enabled in BIOS Vista hangs on
boot,
on the screen where you see the progress bar (and the nice invisible
Vista
logo). The progress bar just freezes.

I can boot the system in Safe Mode just fine and also if I disable HT
in
BIOS. I've run Windows Update and there are nothing to update. I also
cannot
find anything on this from on the net, nor on Intel, AOpen, etc. sites.

Any ideas on what I should do to get Vista working with HT enabled?

Here are the specs, please let me know if you need more details.

Computer: AOpen XC Cube EZ915
CPU: Intel P4 3.0 GHz HT (775)
MB: based on Intel 915G
RAM: 2 x 512 MB Kingston 3200 (removing one didn't make any difference)
BIOS: 1.11 (newest, from early 2005)
More details:
http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specif...0.aspx?Auno=13

Yes, the only ACPI component in my BIOS is set to S1&S3, so it is enabled.

- Jussi

"tino" wrote:

Check the BIOS settings for ACPI...are they on? acpi subcomponents are
required....



From: "JW"
Subject: Hyper-threading hangs OS loading
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM

Did you fdisk and reformat the old disk in the new machine before trying to
install?
Do you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO?
I had no trouble installing Vista RC1 or RC2 on a HT system after doing the
above.

"Jussi Palo" wrote in message
...
This same freezing occurs on the first boot when installing Vista to a
clean
HD if I have HT enabled.

The answer to your question is, yes, but on another machine, meaning that
on
my old computer (2.4 GHz HT) this very same installation installed and
worked
just fine. I actually moved the HD from old machine to new one, but this
is
not the problem in this case since Vista won't even start installing on
the
new machine.

I also suspect this is a driver issue, but is it possible to load
motherboard/chipset drivers during the Vista install before the first
reboot?
I've done it with NT 4.0 and SCSI drivers, but are we talking about more
fundamental drivers here?

- Jussi

"Michael O" wrote:

Did you install Vista with hyperthreading enabled?



"Jussi Palo" wrote in message
...
Hi,
having experienced this problem already on Beta 1 version I now finally
sat
down and begun tweaking my BIOS settings on my RTM Vista Ultimate. It
turned
out that whenever I have Hyper-threading enabled in BIOS Vista hangs on
boot,
on the screen where you see the progress bar (and the nice invisible
Vista
logo). The progress bar just freezes.

I can boot the system in Safe Mode just fine and also if I disable HT
in
BIOS. I've run Windows Update and there are nothing to update. I also
cannot
find anything on this from on the net, nor on Intel, AOpen, etc. sites.

Any ideas on what I should do to get Vista working with HT enabled?

Here are the specs, please let me know if you need more details.

Computer: AOpen XC Cube EZ915
CPU: Intel P4 3.0 GHz HT (775)
MB: based on Intel 915G
RAM: 2 x 512 MB Kingston 3200 (removing one didn't make any difference)
BIOS: 1.11 (newest, from early 2005)
More details:
http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specif...0.aspx?Auno=13