I just built a new system, and Vista STILL won't install (never did on my old one either). What happens is I get through Vista setup, and it reboots my computer, then it's on the step of "Completing Installation", when all of a sudden the backlights on my keyboard flicker and flash, and I get a BSOD that references the file nvlkddm.dll, or something very similar. The BSOD flashes so...

Hello, When the install gets to where its ready to start the desktop, my screen will go blask. First with a blinking cursor line in the top left of the screen. After 3 or 4 minutes, the whole screen goes blank. When I reboot and get to the boot menu, the only choices i see are to either un-do the Vista install or boot to XP. There's no option to boot Vista. I'm thinking that there's an issue...

I'm unable to get Vista to install on this motherboard, this is the newest latest and greatest Core 2 Intel P965 Chipset motherboard and it has a JMicron JMB363 PATA/SATA Controller that handles the PATA connector used by the cdrom drives. If I boot from the Vista media (5536/5472/5384) it detects the ICH8R controller handling the hard drives but it gives an error stating it doesn't have...

Well I down loaded pre-RC1 and found that the nforce4 beta raid drivers, for beta2 do not work for the pre-RC1 install, so I had to install it on an 80gig IDE drive, now the silly thing is after it installed, it showed the raid0 drive, in my computer so pre-RC1 must have the raid drivers, so being the smart guy that I am, I figured ok i'll just reinstall pre-RC1 and tell it to install on the...

Hello All, Here is what I found out.........today. 1. IF you have any anti-virus on the Beta 2, Unstall it. I had McAfee 8.0i installed with Beta 2. (per thier instuctions) and it crashed on the final leg of UPdating to the Pre-RC1 "Finalizing Installation", it then reverted back to the Beta release. 2. When I Insatlled a new copy of the PRe-RC1 in renamed the Beta

Greetings! I installed the 32 bit version of Windows Vista Public Preview Beta as part of a dual boot with Windows XP. Windows XP Pro SP2 is on the boot drive, and the 32 bit version of Vista is on a second HDD. After installing Vista, the computer boots using the "Windows Boot Manager" interface installed be Vista, this interface offers me the choice of "Microsoft Windows" (this is...

I guess I am late to the beta-testing. Didn't quite make the CPP and now I downloaded the pre-RC1 without a PID. Can I still install my download?

I'm unable to get Vista to install on this motherboard, this is the newest latest and greatest Core 2 Intel P965 Chipset motherboard and it has a JMicron JMB363 PATA/SATA Controller that handles the PATA connector used by the cdrom drives. If I boot from the Vista media (5536/5472/5384) it detects the ICH8R controller handling the hard drives but it gives an error stating it doesn't have...

On one of the PCs I installed 5536 on, the boot loader had a bug/syntax problem for the 'Windows Legacy OS Loader' identifier of {ntldr}. The device value was not set: Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device unknown path \ntldr description Earlier Version of Windows

Get error message: Windows cannot be installed on this computer with the current system BIOS version. Contact your computer manufacturer for a BIOS update, install the update, and then start Windows installation again. OEM Name: TOSHIBA; OEM Model: TECRA M3; BIOS Version: v1.40 ; BIOS Date: 20051115000000.000000+000 Workaround is to install clean from DVD and then it works. -- Wendell Ying

Hi, I'm trying to write an installer for a Vista kiosk application, and wonder if someone can help me with the issue of applying a user policy to the lockdown user account during installation. These are the issues I'm facing: 1) Unable to use a run once to apply the policy due to Vista ACL which requires elevation in order to write to the policy reg keys.

Hi, I'm trying to write an installer for a Vista kiosk application, and wonder if someone can help me with the issue of applying a user policy to the lockdown user account during installation. These are the issues I'm facing: 1) Unable to use a run once to apply the policy due to Vista ACL which requires elevation in order to write to the policy reg keys.

I cannot get past the Launcher. I get to "Downloading _aunchpad.exe" and the status bar quits moving and the program dies. I have turned off the firewall and I cannot run it. Any suggestions to get EQ2 to actually run under Vista? This is build 5536. It used to work before I did a fresh install with this Pre-RC1 build HELP! "dfeifer" wrote: Had about the same experience as well, once I...

Downloading went fine, but i cant find the ISO find it in my dokuments folder ?

'A simple way to create a Windows Vista x64 test environment' (http://tinyurl.com/jbkts) 'VistaBootPRO - Vista System Boot Configuration Program' (http://tinyurl.com/hj94q) -- panisz

I've downloaded the RC1 ISO image and burn it to the DVD. But I cannot install RC1 as it require the product key and my product key for beta 2 is no longer valid. How can I get it? Thanks.

Andy, My aplologies for the late reply but I was away from my PC for a few days but many thanks for replying. I must agree with your comments made on dual booting with reference to: "If you make the new primary partition active, you won't get dual booting". There is a good chance that if I made the Vista primary partition active, the computer would boot every time to Vista and I wouldn't...

Hi all, I am currently downloading Vista and plan to burn it onto a CD and then, hopefully, install it onto a separate partition. Some questions: 1. When I boot the computer from the CD, will Vista automatically give me the option to set up a dual boot, if I am leaving XP on the C drive? 2. What new files are installed onto the C drive when I set up a dual boot system?

I can get the Akami download manager to run just fin, and I hit save as with the name of the file, but it thinks the file size is 906 bytes. I've tried downloading it several times now and every single time, it's 906 bytes. Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi, I had a few teething problems installing Vista but eventually got it sorted thanks to the newsgroups and a bit messing about (namely resetting my PC just after the updates had been applied in the setup - got the error about setup could not continue and would roll back the changes) Any-hoo.... once in Vista Beta 2 I don't have IE7 - I have the icon but nothing else. There are a few other...