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New install ... reboot ... nothing
Hi,
I am doing a new install. The install starts up, tells me I need to do a custom installm since there is no way to do an upgrade, I enter key, it installs, reboots, and the message about pressing a key to boot from CD comes up and I wait for the last dot and nothing. It just sits there. The cursor still flashes and the message is still there, but the boot process is not advancing. I was like okay there might be a bug in the disk and continue loading at the end of that message, so I take the DVD out and reboot, but there is nothing but a blank screen. And it sits there, the only difference, no message saying if want to press a key to boot from the CD, so the same exact thing that is blocking it from booting any further is still there, so not the boot disk. This happened with both the Beta 2 DVD that MS sent me and the new RC1 that I just DLed off their server today. So, what's going on? Is there a way to actually boot into the OS? The computer has a P4 2 Gig, 1 gig mem, 60 Gig HD, GeForce 4 MX 420 Graphics Card, and a plug in Firewire card. This should all be standard hardware. Although, it is a Dell system. Is there an issue with Dells and using a different Windows version? |
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New install ... reboot ... nothing
Is your HD just connected to IDE1 or is it a SATA drive or some Raid
configuration that requires that a driver be loaded when you install the operating system? That may be your problem since it occurs on everything you've tried to install. "Jon" wrote in message ... Hi, I am doing a new install. The install starts up, tells me I need to do a custom installm since there is no way to do an upgrade, I enter key, it installs, reboots, and the message about pressing a key to boot from CD comes up and I wait for the last dot and nothing. It just sits there. The cursor still flashes and the message is still there, but the boot process is not advancing. I was like okay there might be a bug in the disk and continue loading at the end of that message, so I take the DVD out and reboot, but there is nothing but a blank screen. And it sits there, the only difference, no message saying if want to press a key to boot from the CD, so the same exact thing that is blocking it from booting any further is still there, so not the boot disk. This happened with both the Beta 2 DVD that MS sent me and the new RC1 that I just DLed off their server today. So, what's going on? Is there a way to actually boot into the OS? The computer has a P4 2 Gig, 1 gig mem, 60 Gig HD, GeForce 4 MX 420 Graphics Card, and a plug in Firewire card. This should all be standard hardware. Although, it is a Dell system. Is there an issue with Dells and using a different Windows version? |
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New install ... reboot ... nothing
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. It's a dell computer from 2002. The Drive is plugged into the first IDE chain as the master. It is IDE and not SATA. On install it detects the HD and runs it just fine and installs just fine. It's an Intel Chipset. Windows XP loads just fine on it and boots. There are Drivers for the controller on the Dell website, but I would figure that if XP supported it then the drivers would still be in Vista. Cheers. "Rick" wrote: Is your HD just connected to IDE1 or is it a SATA drive or some Raid configuration that requires that a driver be loaded when you install the operating system? That may be your problem since it occurs on everything you've tried to install. "Jon" wrote in message ... Hi, I am doing a new install. The install starts up, tells me I need to do a custom installm since there is no way to do an upgrade, I enter key, it installs, reboots, and the message about pressing a key to boot from CD comes up and I wait for the last dot and nothing. It just sits there. The cursor still flashes and the message is still there, but the boot process is not advancing. I was like okay there might be a bug in the disk and continue loading at the end of that message, so I take the DVD out and reboot, but there is nothing but a blank screen. And it sits there, the only difference, no message saying if want to press a key to boot from the CD, so the same exact thing that is blocking it from booting any further is still there, so not the boot disk. This happened with both the Beta 2 DVD that MS sent me and the new RC1 that I just DLed off their server today. So, what's going on? Is there a way to actually boot into the OS? The computer has a P4 2 Gig, 1 gig mem, 60 Gig HD, GeForce 4 MX 420 Graphics Card, and a plug in Firewire card. This should all be standard hardware. Although, it is a Dell system. Is there an issue with Dells and using a different Windows version? |
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(fixed. Microsoft employees read how, potential bug)
New developments here. I deleted all partitions on the drive and then
rebooted, I didn't get a boot disk in the drive in time and the same black screen came up. I thought this was weird considering I had no partitions at all. Normally one is suppose to get the error message about the bios not finding a bootable media whether on a floppy, CD or Hard Drive. So, I booted up a special boot disk and formatted the MBR. I then booted the Vista boot disk for RC1, made a partition and installed. I now have a bootable installation. So, if there are Microsoft people reading this, this is a bug. Basically, the Vista installation did not overwrite a previous bootloader installed on the MBR. A person not knowing much about computers will not know to format the MBR, or how, or even know what the MBR is. :P So, the installation needs to take this into account and ask permission to overwrite a bootloader if one is pressent. I tried to do the system recovery options and I selected the fix boot items but that did not fix the issue. I had to format the MBR. That was time consuming to figure out. Thanks all. Jon "Rick" wrote: Is your HD just connected to IDE1 or is it a SATA drive or some Raid configuration that requires that a driver be loaded when you install the operating system? That may be your problem since it occurs on everything you've tried to install. "Jon" wrote in message ... Hi, I am doing a new install. The install starts up, tells me I need to do a custom installm since there is no way to do an upgrade, I enter key, it installs, reboots, and the message about pressing a key to boot from CD comes up and I wait for the last dot and nothing. It just sits there. The cursor still flashes and the message is still there, but the boot process is not advancing. I was like okay there might be a bug in the disk and continue loading at the end of that message, so I take the DVD out and reboot, but there is nothing but a blank screen. And it sits there, the only difference, no message saying if want to press a key to boot from the CD, so the same exact thing that is blocking it from booting any further is still there, so not the boot disk. This happened with both the Beta 2 DVD that MS sent me and the new RC1 that I just DLed off their server today. So, what's going on? Is there a way to actually boot into the OS? The computer has a P4 2 Gig, 1 gig mem, 60 Gig HD, GeForce 4 MX 420 Graphics Card, and a plug in Firewire card. This should all be standard hardware. Although, it is a Dell system. Is there an issue with Dells and using a different Windows version? |