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Blue screen of death!
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Posted by: pdnielsen
I was wondering if anyone's had any success in installing Windows Vista. I keep running into a wall when I try to install it. I enter the installation key and then sit here waiting for quite a while for the install and when it reboots the PC I keep getting the blue screen of death asking me to remove the new hardware that I haven't installed in the first place and restart my computer.
Technical infomation:
*** STOP 0X0000009C (0X00000004,0X833DE9A8,0Xb2000000,0X00070F0F)
Posted by: deshana
I probably won't even touch it until I buy a copy. Can't seem to get the beta...
Posted by: pdnielsen
If you have broadband internet access you can. It's available at www.about-vista.com but it takes 2 or 3 days to download even a 2.8 megabytes/ second. I finally figured out the problem though. Vista Beta 2 doesn't play nice with SATA drives and this causes the setup program to stop because it's CHICKEN! I am having few problems running it on an IDE drive, so maybe later I'll copy this drive to a second partitiion on the SATA drive. For now, I am somewhat impressed. I'm running it right now. It as IE 7, Windows Media Player 11 and so on. The only programs I haven't been able to run so far have been either from the Real Networks or needed a bit of updating to get them to work right. Installation was a bit slow, but then it is not surprising considering that IDE drives are 13% slower than SATA and I've gotten used to the faster drive.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Almost forgot - this downloaded version has a install code that Mircosoft won't accept for activation, so I'm expecting this to stop working in 2 weeks...
Posted by: matt.modica
Try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=329284
Posted by: goranpaa
I googled for that Vista error code. And it seems that quite many people gets it. One suggestion whas that is due to bad BIOS coding. So maybe if you update your BIOS?
But beta stuff is still beta stuff.
Posted by: pdnielsen
It only happens when I try to install to a SATA drive, not to an IDE drive. I think maybe it is just because beta is beta. I googled for different solutions and encountered an entire 3 page article about Windows Vista by a Microsoft MVP (a person outside of Mircosoft who's been been cited by co-workers for his technical skill and given that status by Microsoft after a 5 or 6 month application review) listing suggestions on how to be sure you're ready for when Vista is released to the general public. He suggests that people might wanna get a SATA drive with 8MB cache to increase the speed at which it saves and retrieves data. Nice suggestion except for the fact that 16MB cache drives can't use the current betas. I spent much of the day yesterday using the Maxtor tools disc and the Western Digital version of the same trying to simply copy an IDE partition to the SATA drive. It didn't work. On boot it will not find the Vista OS. So for now I am using the Vista beta only on an IDE drive.
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