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Lang--
*What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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1 of the teams I think share resonsibilty for Device Manager is the User
Experience team. CH "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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Chad,
Wow... I feel my reply will be woefully inadequate given the effort you put into your response to my question. LOL! I have not been running setup from the Vista desktop... if that's what you mean. I have been putting the 5536 and 5600 DVD's in the drive and restarting the PC. Vista setup starts and gets to the place where I provide the SATA controller drivers, after which, when I click the Next button on that page, the screen goes black for a second or two and then the blue screen appears. I'm not doing dual boot and only have one hard drive in the box. When I browse for the SATA controller driver, I can see all drives as expected. I haven't bothered to go look for updated drivers because it worked fine in 5384 and 5472 and, frankly, I don't have the patience of a saint to attempt to navigate the byzantine paths of figuring out exactly which Intel Application Accelerator I need to download because the driver I -have- worked in 5384 and 5472 and I can't imagine that there's been a new driver released in the last 2 weeks for hw that's closing in on 2 years old. I think I would end up spending 30 minutes finding the right download and then figuring out how to extract just the drivers I need because it seems they, any vendor, pick one... don't seem to think that making it easy for people is a good thing. And after all that... I'd end up with the same driver! I'm guessing... Anway... something changed between 5472 and 5536 that let my SATA controller driver install successfully in the former and fail in the latter. I anticipate that MS will mark this bug as closed with an external, i.e., Intel, solution. I guess if I want to run Vista RTM on my Dell XPS Gen 2, I'm going to have to look for updated drivers. No biggie. Maybe I'll install SuSE on it... ;-D Thanks for taking the time and effort to respond in such detail; much appreciated. Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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I did go and rummage around on the Intel site last night. I'm beginning to
think that maybe the reason my SATA controller was installed on 5472 and below was an error and that the newer builds "fixed" that error and now, LOL, Vista won't install the Intel iastor drivers. The reason I think that is: when I go into DevMgr on 5472, there are conflicting drivers listed, i.e., 8xxxxER in one place, 8xxxxEB in another place. The Intel site says if you have one type, use their driver, if you have the other type, use the MS native driver. (Don't have the seat up and have to jump on a con call in a couple of minutes...) Sidebar: The Intel site has woefully inadequate instructions for using Windows DevMgr to identify which Intel chipset is installed. Laughable, actually. Something like... "Open device manager. See if the chipset is listed in an embedded fashion." I mean... it literally says "see if..." Wow. Highly technical detailed work instructions, that. NOT! LOL! Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... 1 of the teams I think share resonsibilty for Device Manager is the User Experience team. CH "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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Lang--
Yes I couldn't agree more. When I ran that upgrade advisor and it told me wrongly that I wouldn't be able to use Vista after I had been using it for a year I drilled Intel's site and also VIA's because the upgrade advisor said they wouldn't work on Vista so I decided to see how I could update these device drivers on my box (wrong) and I found the chipset explanations and endless web pages laughable and byzantine to the max. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... I did go and rummage around on the Intel site last night. I'm beginning to think that maybe the reason my SATA controller was installed on 5472 and below was an error and that the newer builds "fixed" that error and now, LOL, Vista won't install the Intel iastor drivers. The reason I think that is: when I go into DevMgr on 5472, there are conflicting drivers listed, i.e., 8xxxxER in one place, 8xxxxEB in another place. The Intel site says if you have one type, use their driver, if you have the other type, use the MS native driver. (Don't have the seat up and have to jump on a con call in a couple of minutes...) Sidebar: The Intel site has woefully inadequate instructions for using Windows DevMgr to identify which Intel chipset is installed. Laughable, actually. Something like... "Open device manager. See if the chipset is listed in an embedded fashion." I mean... it literally says "see if..." Wow. Highly technical detailed work instructions, that. NOT! LOL! Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... 1 of the teams I think share resonsibilty for Device Manager is the User Experience team. CH "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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Lang thanks for the info. There are a number on here you know who have good
experience with SATA controller drivers. And I believe you're dead on right that some things changed as to some of these driver between 5472 and 5536. I didn't get the error messages I wrote about until 5472. I can't install it from XP anymore but have no trouble installing from a restart. I get the error that my IDE controller is preventing the installation of Vista from XP but no problems from a restart. I'm going to try to contact some one on the setup team later this week and see if I can learn what might be generating that error. The error shows up on the setup screen after I put in the PK and then click on custom install to (the drive I want to park Vista on--I'm using a dual boot). CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Chad, Wow... I feel my reply will be woefully inadequate given the effort you put into your response to my question. LOL! I have not been running setup from the Vista desktop... if that's what you mean. I have been putting the 5536 and 5600 DVD's in the drive and restarting the PC. Vista setup starts and gets to the place where I provide the SATA controller drivers, after which, when I click the Next button on that page, the screen goes black for a second or two and then the blue screen appears. I'm not doing dual boot and only have one hard drive in the box. When I browse for the SATA controller driver, I can see all drives as expected. I haven't bothered to go look for updated drivers because it worked fine in 5384 and 5472 and, frankly, I don't have the patience of a saint to attempt to navigate the byzantine paths of figuring out exactly which Intel Application Accelerator I need to download because the driver I -have- worked in 5384 and 5472 and I can't imagine that there's been a new driver released in the last 2 weeks for hw that's closing in on 2 years old. I think I would end up spending 30 minutes finding the right download and then figuring out how to extract just the drivers I need because it seems they, any vendor, pick one... don't seem to think that making it easy for people is a good thing. And after all that... I'd end up with the same driver! I'm guessing... Anway... something changed between 5472 and 5536 that let my SATA controller driver install successfully in the former and fail in the latter. I anticipate that MS will mark this bug as closed with an external, i.e., Intel, solution. I guess if I want to run Vista RTM on my Dell XPS Gen 2, I'm going to have to look for updated drivers. No biggie. Maybe I'll install SuSE on it... ;-D Thanks for taking the time and effort to respond in such detail; much appreciated. Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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Chad,
Gee, I have to admit... I'm totally confused. Intel's site says: Start Quote *********************************** "If you have a chipset based on the Intel 82801EB I/O controller hub (ICH5), please use the Microsoft* native storage driver built into Windows*. The Microsoft native storage driver supports both Serial ATA and Parallel ATA hard drives. If you have a chipset based on the Intel 82801ER I/O controller hub (ICH5R), please use the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition. The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition supports the RAID controller in ICH5R and will not work with an ICH5 I/O controller hub. Note: There are two different ICH5 I/O controller hubs: ICH5 and ICH5R. Intel® 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms may use either the ICH5 or the ICH5R I/O controller hub. This depends on the specific motherboard." End quote ************************************* Now, the way I read this, there are two separate and distinct controller hubs. The EB and the ER. On my Dell XPS Gen 2 desktop running 5472, Device Mgr tells me: Under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers: Intel 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 24DB (using, as Intel says, the MS driver) Under Storage Controllers: Intel 82801ER SATA RAID Controller (using, as Intel says, the Intel driver [from 2004]) So... anyway, that's why I thought that maybe something was broke in builds prior to 5536 that allowed the above situation to even exist. I haven't found a way to verify which Intel chipset I'm using as their chipset ID utility won't run in Vista and their instructions to "see if..." I can determine the chipset from visually scanning DevMgr output don't help very much, to put it lightly. I can't map 82801 to any of their listed chipsets. Well, now hold on a sec... I've been rootin' 'round while writing this and finally found some -almost- definitive information... LOL. Wow, I actually found a table in which I found my chipset which is not even hinted at in DevMgr in any way, shape, or form... 875P. Unbelievable! And I had to map both the storage controller and the memory controller to figure it out. Furthermore, which is what adds to the confusion, is they list both the EB and ER controllers. Now if I go back to the above statement, I have to assume what they mean is the 875P chipset is going to use one or the other, not both. Here's Intel's DWI for using DevMgr to discover one's chipset: "After Device Manager is launched, see if the device name of the chipset is listed. The device name may appear in a string similar to the following: "Intel® 955X Processor to I/O Controller - 2774" In this example, the chipset is an Intel® 955X Express Chipset." Holy crap! Thanks for nothing guys! OK, 875P is listed in DevMgr, but as 82875P. Now, maybe those with more experience with Intel Chipsets than I would look at it and go "Hey, you've got an 875P chipset" and maybe, going forward, I'll be able to figure that stuff out, but, geez... if the standard naming convention is 82xxxY, then why not disclose that for folks trying to discover their chipset? Ah, whatever. Sorry this post wandered all over the back forty and back again, like some bovine with "Mad Cow's." Frustrating to expend so much time and energy figuring this crap out. I ain't getting paid to figure out how to get my own personal XPS box running RC1. But I bugged it, at least. Thanks, Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- Yes I couldn't agree more. When I ran that upgrade advisor and it told me wrongly that I wouldn't be able to use Vista after I had been using it for a year I drilled Intel's site and also VIA's because the upgrade advisor said they wouldn't work on Vista so I decided to see how I could update these device drivers on my box (wrong) and I found the chipset explanations and endless web pages laughable and byzantine to the max. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... I did go and rummage around on the Intel site last night. I'm beginning to think that maybe the reason my SATA controller was installed on 5472 and below was an error and that the newer builds "fixed" that error and now, LOL, Vista won't install the Intel iastor drivers. The reason I think that is: when I go into DevMgr on 5472, there are conflicting drivers listed, i.e., 8xxxxER in one place, 8xxxxEB in another place. The Intel site says if you have one type, use their driver, if you have the other type, use the MS native driver. (Don't have the seat up and have to jump on a con call in a couple of minutes...) Sidebar: The Intel site has woefully inadequate instructions for using Windows DevMgr to identify which Intel chipset is installed. Laughable, actually. Something like... "Open device manager. See if the chipset is listed in an embedded fashion." I mean... it literally says "see if..." Wow. Highly technical detailed work instructions, that. NOT! LOL! Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... 1 of the teams I think share resonsibilty for Device Manager is the User Experience team. CH "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |
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Hello, Chad, I didn't have much trouble at all with Beta2 with Santa Cruz on
a Dell computer but after installing RC1, my Santa Cruz sound card stopped working. I tried your steps your described. However I got an error message at the step where I manually update the driver from Device Manager after installing 4193. I had 4146s installed on another drive with XP. The error I got at this step after pointing the path for install the driver to "xpdrive:\program files ....WDM" is this "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it." I tried various things, removing everything and do cleaning installing with different versions and with your methods. None worked. The only time the driver can be installed is when I use the 4112 install CD from Dell but this cause RC1 get blue screen immediately. I had to get into safe mode to remove it. Anyone has the same problem? Is there a solution? Thanks. Shawn "Chad Harris" wrote: Lang-- *What I thought would help you was the reverse--that if you had been running setup on those machines that had a problem (since you installed succesfully on most of your boxes) that trying setup (it has been my experience lately--see below) from a restart might do the trick. I understand you may have been there and done that long ago. If the drive letters change you could hack them back to what you had, but I haven't found that a big deal. I have to think a little bit though when I want to modify a notepad from my XP drive and when I go to save on Vista it won't let me until I rename the location to save to my Vista Drive\Users\Documents.* And I would really like to hear some of the regulars comment on this or anyone who understands it. I'd like to hear Darrell Gorter's take on this too who once in a while will chime in and help in the public groups because he's on the setup team. 1) I had been setting up from XP always on a dual boot box because I quickly learned over a year ago that the drive letters will be changed by the bios if you restart. 2) However, I had to forgo this practice beginning with 5472 and subsequent builds because when I tried I got something I never saw before. In the setup screen that comes immediately after your Product Key is accepted, I began to get a message with a little explanation point bang aka error message logo that said: "Error: You must install drivers for your IDE controller to continue Vista setup." I figure this came from someone on the Windows Error team working with the setup team or some non-intuitively named subspecialty team that Redmond is so good at putting together, but I don't understand it. Colin and Mark V. have been good about reminding people who have SATA and RAID arrays that they must install the appropriate drivers to complete Vista setup. But I don't have either. I also wonder if for those people that this requirement is vintage some of the last builds back to Beta 2 5384 or one of the interim builds, because I don't remember that it was needed before but I might be wrong about that for people who had those setups. When this happened to me the first time I ran the so-called Vista upgrade advisor, and it looked like a neat idea except it's totally wrong much of the time as I began to experiment on different people's boxes and put Vista on them. It told me that I 1) Couldn't install Turtle Beach Santa Cruz --a pretty good sounding decent quality card although they retired it around 2001. So did some guys from Creative on the Beta and a slew of others. That proved DEAD WRONG. The way is unconventional and I can't say I understand it fully but on a dual boot it is to install an older driver on XP and the newest one they made on Vista and install the TB Control panel on Vista. 2) It said that my IDE controller would not work in Vista and had to be updated. That proved DEAD WRONG. 3) It said that my BUS host controller (VIA OHCI compliant IEE Host Controller wouldn't work on Vista. Given that indication from the completely wrong Vista Upgrade Advisor and the error message requesting me to install drivers from a disc in setup, I drilled some byzantine convoluted Intel Sites and the Byzantine halariously written VIA sites for drivers--with explanations of the explanations --it remineded me of the byzantine convoluted Norton KBs at times and their site and I updated the drivers to the newest most appropriate from both sites, and it didn't matter for setup with XP. So Lang, when I asked you in a couple threads whether you were setting up from XP or a restart with your Vista DVD, it came from this experience I began having with the release of Build 5472. My experience has been when faced with this obstacle that I don't have any problem at all setting up Vista's latest builds after 5472 when I do it from a restart. I don't get the misleading and frankly a little bit crazy error--I'd really like to talk to the setup team about this and I mean to email them and see what they say or for that matter the Device driver team or both. Maybe I can also find one of them MSDN blogging and reach them. There has to be a reason why they conjured up the false error message but it's a mistake on the Vista teams' part--that much I know. The reason the Upgrade Advisor spews what Nancy Anderson, Associate General Counsel at MSFT and VP Legal Affairs, and self professed "tough guy" Brad Smith learned in law school is a USC 18 § 1001 False Statment with their Upgrade Advisor I believe is more sinister. I think OEM VP Scott di Valerio and other decision makers at MSFT want to falsely scare people into buying hdw they don't need so they can increase the sales of Vista on OEM preinstalled desktops that of course can't reach Win RE's startup repair just like they couldn't reach XP's repair install via so-called "recovery CDs that are code shorted by OEMs" or "OEM hidden partitions. I always note with Mr. di Valierio's decisions which screw small hard working system builders who truly love computers and even Windows, and reward the 300 multinational named partners like Dell, Sony, HP, Acer that Mr. Valiero's background is as an accountant not as someone with IT training and it shows. That MSFT who has thousands of IT trained employees lends support to this, is regrettable and reminds me of what would happen it Tony Soprano ran MSFT. I guess when he was at Cornell, Stevie Sinofsky absorbed just a little more of NY City 3 card Monte on the street than people think. That legal brain trust is fresh from a $375 million dollar fine from the European Union and it's growing like Topsy with additional judgmenets and penalties. I know for Nancy and Brad that's valet parking for the night in the Queen Anne district of Seattle or at some restaurant but that's to me a significant amount to lose because of 2 years of pure arrogance. I'd put their appeal chances right at the success of rubbing the start button on your monitor and having 3 wishes granted. MSFT has found a much different climate than when they got Judge Lamberth booted from their anti-trust suit and then the DOJ subsequently caved with a new adminstration and MSFT's hiring Jack Abramoff best friend and partner Ralph Reed as a $27,000 per month lobbyist and defending it for a while until Reed was exposed in the Abramoff emails. I would enjoy a Christmas Video this Christmas from the Vista team that had Nancy Anderson and Brad Smith and Steve Sinofsky marching around a Christmas tree or Hanuka bush waving Windows Logo flags and shouting "Abramoff Abramoff Reed Reed Reed." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oft+Ralph+Reed Another Stumble for Ralph Reed's Beleaguered Campaign By Thomas B. Edsall Monday, May 29, 2006; Page A05 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052800964.html The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 29, 2005; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Microsoft's $1.6 Million Man He's righteous conservative consultant-turned-candidate Ralph Reed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...801588_pf.html Bill Gates has correctly given some money to liberal causes like the California embryonic stem cell campaign--Gates is keen on health issues and I suspect has little tolerance for the moronic anti-science stance of the Bush adminiistration, so I wonder how he feels making a millionare of one of the most intrepid right wing religious based anti-science lobbyist scam artists. I'd like to ask the questions at a Gates Balmer press conference on Reed. It's be genuine fun. You'd get a quick "we're not going to discuss internal business strategy even if it showcased the ethics of pond scum" answer though. Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. [I'd sure increase the Christmas bonus of the legal team involved in this litigation--great going boys and girls--give yourself a big MSFT "Attaboy!" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5171126.stm CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... Think I get it now... install XP and run RC1 setup from within XP? Lang "Chad Harris" wrote in message ... Setup from XP or restart--if have not restarted try that. CH "Lang Murphy" wrote in message ... 5600 installed fine on Dell D620 and D820. Having same problem installing on Dell XPS Gen 2 as 5536: setup BSOD's right after supplying SATA controller driver with a STOP 7. 5472 still running fine on it, so I don't think anything's come loose inside or anything like that... puzzled. Lang |