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Moving from one Vista version to another

Jon Isaksson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:48:49 GMT

Hello

I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate for the last 60 days or so (using the trial period) but I am quickly coming up to the end of the 120 days trial period.
I have now purchased Window Home premium. Is there anyway to "convert" my existing Vista Ultimate install to my Windows Home version?

Regards
Jon

Reformat to XP from Vista question about SATA hard drive problems with XP Please help ^^

winrii — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:04:03 GMT

Hello =)

I built my computer last year around march when Vista was first coming out. I decided to buy all my hardware as "Vista Ready" however a lot of it seems to have computability issues with the hardware. Everything including my hard drive is SATA. I have decided to reformat to XP because my hardware just doesn't seem to have the proper drivers for Vista and unfortunately the companies of the hardware aren't putting out any new drivers =\. I purchased XP and am ready try a reformat loading from the CD drive. I saved all my disks for all my hardware and will make sure I have all the XP drivers needed for each piece. ^^

HOWEVER, I read about SATA issues with XP installation especially with the hard drive. I had read posts online like this one about doing a reformat to XP on a computer:

"Also if your using Sata hard drives and your sata controller is in compatability mode and not ahci you should not need addional drivers for the controller. If you do need the Sata drivers be sure they are on a floppy and use the f6 install to specify the controller drivers."

1. How can i make sure my sata controller is in "compatibility mode" and not ahci? My motherboard literally has all SATA and I can only assume then that I am naturally in "compatibility mode"......is this right? Is there an option in my bios to check to make sure its in "compatibility mode"?

2. The quote above says to make sure I have SATA drivers on a disk........is this quote just talking about the drivers that my hardware (which is all SATA) need in order to make my computer user ready?

I am not completely computer retarded, but I am just worried about reformatting my computer and screwing up. I was wondering if SATA hardware is going to have trouble with XP or something. I'm scared but I want to switch back to XP. The vista is arguing with all my hardware. It's a disaster. =(

Please offer any advice you may have. I love to learn about computers so honestly this is fun for me. ^^ Thank you and wish me luck lol. ^^

Can't load RAM

WildcatWhiz — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:46:59 GMT

Hi forums. I'm new here.

I have an HP tx1000 tablet notebook with Vista Business 32 bit SP1

I just bought 2X2GB PC-2 5300 RAM sticks. I know that 32 bit Vista will only address a theoretical max 4GB.

That's not my problem. My problem is that I think one of the sticks is dead. With both installed, I can get through BIOS and into Vista. With both, or just the one I think is broken, can't even post BIOS screen.

I have installed the lastest BIOS flash, still no avail. Any way to tell if RAM is busted? Other than dropping it into another laptop?

Thanks.

Install vista

rakesh — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:42:09 GMT

My new Dell laptop has C:(140 Gb) and D:(10 Gb). D: is a recovery drive. i want to create more partitions.Disk management shows that four partitions are already created on basic disk.

can i delete D: and proceed with shrink option or do i need to reinstall vista.

Rebuilding a Vista Ultimate Laptop

mslaga — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:24:39 GMT

I am planning to rebuild my laptop (it's been a year, time to clean house so to speak). I've also ordered a new hard drive (7200rpm) in hopes of getting a little higher performance.

Before I rebuild, is there a way to "un-activate" or "un-register" the copy of Ultimate that is currently loaded so I can re-activate it after it has been rebuilt?

I ran into something similar when I loaded it originally on a test machine before loading it on my laptop. Had to get on the phone with One-Care ($50) so they could "unregister" it. I'm hoping that there is a way to do this without having to call One-Care again.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

Vista home premium

aguila1 — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:34:23 GMT

I installed vista home premium in a new computer, I copy my folders from my old computer which had windows XP home edition, but, when I try to put my CDs wiht the information in my Vista (E) cd reader it doesn show nothing, somebody has a solution?

Thank you

Toshiba laptop w- Vista problems with Internet Explorer and general operations

gluggo — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:10:51 GMT

My first post I had a problem with my new Toshiba Lap Top. It has the Vista home premium installed. Its a Satellite P105-S6197 laptop. I have had it for about 3 weeks and it just started to not allow my internet explorer to come up. It would come up 1 time and then would not respond after that. I did put a few downloads on the computor but nothing important. This is my 4th laptop I have owned but my first with vista. My 2nd Toshiba laptop. Anybody else had this?

Last night I was disgusted so I ran it through the Toshiba recovery disk and whiped it clean. The disk worked without a flaw and now I am back to where I was after I first bought the laptop. This time I made a restore point right after the recovery disk did its job. But I am still at a loss as to why the problems.

The control panel was not responding as well as the movies when I tried to play them. Even the uninstall programs refused to work.

I am glad to say that now everything is working great. I think the only real update to the laptop was a

HP printer 7410 software I added.

MS Office 2007 full version I added

MS Office 2007 Proffessor

I did add Sony Sonic Stage ver 3.2 for network walkman it never did work I tried to download the vista version online and did but never did get it working. But that was early in the first days and had not problems until about 3 weeks later. Just throwing this out there just in case someone else has had this problem. Like I said its now fixed due to the reformatting disks.

About to install SP1, anything I should know beforehand?

Ferraz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:25:38 GMT

Basically I don't want my compy to stop working at this point as I have far too much important stuff on it. I've gotten all the other updates installed and I'm currently downloading SP1. Is there anything special I should know about before installing it (e.g. disabling/uninstalling AVG, etc)?

Windows e-mail sending duplicates

Quercus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:16:56 GMT

I've been running Vista for three months without Windows e-mail problems. I'm now finding that I'm sending duplicate e-mails but there is no indication in my Send folder that two messages have gone out. I wondered if it was a problem emanating from using the spell checker and have switched it off - the problem remains

Installing New Motherboard and Processor and Vista

warlord — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:05:40 GMT

OK, just ordered a E6600 Core Duo along with a 775 Socket Motherboard to replace my outdated 939 AMD and 4400+ Dualcore everything else is remaining the same...I have Vista Ultimate 64Bit installed and was wondering if I have to do a clean reinstall in order to get up and running...I would like to not have to reinstall all my current programs ...Does vista give the option to install all the new hardware without having to blow it away or am I looking for trouble if I go that route, I understand it will require a reactivation after the hardware is installed..I just don't look forward to reinstalling everything....

[SOLVED] SP1: Setup did not complete. Reverting changes.

howejustin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:41:40 GMT

Hey all,

I have an issue with Vista SP1 installing (No seriously! Nobody else having the issue, right??). It gets through 100% of stage 3 of 3, then after a minute or two says the "Setup did not complete. Reverting changes." message. Before the Microsoft super wizard got on the phone with me, I had already done a memory scan, chkdisk, scannow, file cleanup, defrag, nothing helped (I have Home Premium, and I do have the two required updates installed as well). When he connected to my computer, he tried to install right off the bat (a stupid thing to do, considering I wouldn't be calling if I didn't have the issue) and it of course failed. Then after checking to make sure no antivirus etc was active (which I uninstalled the day before) he disabled all non-Microsoft services from startup and disabled my TV card, sound card and graphics card, then tried again. Still didn't install. Lastly he installed some kind of tool from Microsoft's update site and tried to install SP1 again, this time from the standalone 500+mb version. No luck.

He scheduled a call today between 3 and 5pm from one of their research and developement team members to get deeper into the problem, but do any of you have any ideas what's going on?

Here is my computer and it's specs:

Dell Inspiron 531

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
2GB DDR2 RAM
320GB HD (168GB Free)
DVD±RW
22" Widescreen flatpanel Dell monitor
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTX
Windows Vista Home Premium

I've been working as a software engineer and in the I.T. industry for 15 years now, I have no idea why this thing won't install.

Dual Boot Vista - Linux

Microsft Desabused — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:42:00 GMT

After successfully installing a dual boot of PCLinux OS on my laptop running MS Vista Home Edition and playing with it (Linux) for a while, I rebooted my laptop.

Everything went fine, I was able to choose MS Vista in the GRUB boot menu.
Vista started fine...looking good looking good.

THEN....some weird thing happened in Vista, I had problems with my Windows Explorer, problems with detecting my external hard drive.

I rebooted and then....CRASH!!!! WITHOUT MY AGREEMENT, VISTA STARTED TO SLICE AND DICE THE GRUB START-UP MENU AND GAVE ME THAT F*CKING SCREEN!!!

You know what? If Microsoft can't tolerate other Operating System. Why don't they design themselves a new one???? Hey Bill? Never thought about creating another OS in parallel of Windows??? It never occured to you that the best way to control it's competitors is to create them instead???

I'm switching back to XP...Vista is the worst thing that happened since the appearance of "Plug & Pray" systems...

[SOLVED] Dual boot drive letter question

kbfan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:50 GMT

I'd like to install Vista and XP dual boot on a new system. I need to install Vista first, because it's the OEM version. I'll leave room on the disk for a partition for XP when I install Vista, so I won't have to shrink the Vista partition. Otherwise, I'll follow one of the many guides out there for installing XP second (recovering the Vista boot sector and all that.), like the APC guide linked in the sticky at the top of the forum.

I have a question about drive letters. When I install Vista, it will be on the C: drive, and the partition that will eventually hold XP will become D:. When I install XP, and when I'm running XP, I would like XP to map the second physical partition that I reserved for it as C:, and the Vista partition as D:. I don't want XP to think it's on D: when it boots, just to avoid the hassle of things like driver installation programs that shouldn't be, but are sensitive to stuff like that. (Plus you just get used to having Windows on the C: drive). In other words, when I boot Vista, I'd like it to map partition 1, its boot partition, as C: and partition 2 as D:. However, when I boot XP, I'd like XP to map partition 2, its boot partition, as C: and partition 1 as D:.

If I follow the usual procedures to install XP dual boot, will this happen automatically, or is there some magic I can do (Disk Management in control panel or whatever) that will achieve this effect?

incompatibility issue with a supposed compatible program

mazzers — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:09 GMT

Hi, I am new here and new to Vista. I have a Toshiba dynabook TX/67E running Japanese OS Home Premium and can't get a number of programs to run.

The program is Neuroprogrammer.

For those of you who are more computer literate then me and could help, here is a breakdown of the APP crash. If I can't get this to work, then I will have to reinstall the OS from scratch.

Hope someone has some ideas as to how to solve this! Thanks.

製品
Neuro-Programmer 2

問題
動作が停止しました

日付
2008/04/14 7:29

状態
レポートされていません

問題の署名
問題イベント名: APPCRASH
アプリケーション名: Neuro-Programmer 2.exe
アプリケーションのバージョン: 2.3.6.0
アプリケーションのタイムスタンプ: 45df724a
障害モジュールの名前: StackHash_92c6
障害モジュールのバージョン: 6.0.6001.18000
障害モジュールのタイムスタンプ: 4791a7a6
例外コード: c0000374
例外オフセット: 000b015d
OS バージョン: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
ロケール ID: 1041
追加情報 1: 92c6
追加情報 2: 503e05cb95ab3bd56a00680b78e713a1
追加情報 3: 4a1b
追加情報 4: ef9d52361a42875499f1f1b8d5ced721

問題の説明に役立つファイル
Version.txt
AppCompat.txt

BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASS" COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments"
FILE_VERSION="2.3" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 1999-2007"
VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="01/21/2007 21:53:25" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/21/2007 21:53:25"
EXPORT_NAME="BASS.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x4798F2D6" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.3"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASSenc"
COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments" FILE_VERSION="2.3"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 2003-2007" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.3" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="01/08/2007 15:15:54" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/08/2007 15:15:54"
EXPORT_NAME="BASSENC.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x4B652538" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x84C47"
LINKER_VERSION="0x10000" LINK_DATE="04/17/2005 20:46:53"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="04/17/2005 20:46:53" EXPORT_NAME="BASSTools.dll" />
CHECKSUM="0x5B4E6572" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x830AB"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/08/2007 18:58:46"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/08/2007 18:58:46" EXPORT_NAME="MIXWRITE.dll" />
CHECKSUM="0xFABC72B1" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="BASSWMA"
COMPANY_NAME="Un4seen Developments" FILE_VERSION="2.3"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 2002-2006" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x20003"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.0.2" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.0.0"
LINK_DATE="11/25/2006 14:20:13" UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/25/2006 14:20:13"
EXPORT_NAME="BASSWMA.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (英国) [0x809]" />
CHECKSUM="0x7E443E0A" BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Neuro-Programmer 2" COMPANY_NAME="Transparent
Corporation, www.transparentcorp.com" PRODUCT_NAME="Neuro-Programmer
2" FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="Neuro-Programmer 2.exe"
INTERNAL_NAME="Neuro-Programmer 2.exe" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright
2003-2007 Transparent Corporation All Rights Reserved" VERDATEHI="0x0"
VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="2.3.6.0"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="2.3.6.0" LINK_DATE="04/20/2005 06:29:36"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="04/20/2005 06:29:36" VER_LANGUAGE="ニュートラル言語 [0x0]" />
CHECKSUM="0x62CCD3A7" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.1.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.0.0"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Help & Manual Multimedia Viewer"
COMPANY_NAME="EC Software" PRODUCT_NAME="HMV" FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="hmv.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="HMV" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c)
2001 EC Software" VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4"
VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.1.0"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.1.0" LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17" VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (米国) [0x409]" />
CHECKSUM="0x5A0AA736" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0"
LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="11/22/2003 09:36:52"
UPTO_LINK_DATE="11/22/2003 09:36:52" />
CHECKSUM="0x34F983C0" BIN_FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="51.44.0.0" PRODUCT_VERSION=""
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Setup/Uninstall" COMPANY_NAME="" PRODUCT_NAME="Inno
Setup" FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="" INTERNAL_NAME=""
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Jordan Russell. Portions
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Martijn Laan." VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0"
VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="51.44.0.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="51.44.0.0"
LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17" UPTO_LINK_DATE="06/19/1992 22:22:17"
VER_LANGUAGE="英語 (米国) [0x409]" />

CHECKSUM="0x385B84D2" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="NT レイヤ DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation"
PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System"
FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)"
ORIGINAL_FILENAME="ntdll.dll.mui" INTERNAL_NAME="ntdll.dll"
LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved."
VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2"
MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x135D86" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" LINK_DATE="01/19/2008
07:32:54" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/19/2008 07:32:54" EXPORT_NAME="ntdll.dll"
VER_LANGUAGE="日本語 (日本) [0x411]" />

CHECKSUM="0x7E15918F" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT ベース API クライアント DLL"
COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft(R)
Windows(R) Operating System" FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000
(longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32"
INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c) Microsoft Corporation.
All rights reserved." VERDATEHI="0x0" VERDATELO="0x0"
VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32"
PE_CHECKSUM="0xE6C61" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000"
UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000"
UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.6001.18000" LINK_DATE="01/19/2008
07:31:57" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/19/2008 07:31:57"
EXPORT_NAME="KERNEL32.dll" VER_LANGUAGE="日本語 (日本) [0x411]" />

Vista OEM + XP Retail?

kbfan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:12:14 GMT

I'm building a new machine, so I bought Vista OEM (64 bit). I want to dual boot, so I bought the retail version of XP. My reasoning was that I won't need to transfer the Vista to a future PC, but if I upgrade down the road, I'd like to move XP to the new machine. (Vista may be fine, but to borrow from the late Charlton Heston, MS can take my XP away from my cold dead hands!)

So, my guess is that I need to install Vista first. However, I'm wondering if that's true. The OEM version won't upgrade a partition that already has XP, but does it insist on a completely unformatted disk? If I already have an XP partition, can the OEM version of Vista leave that alone and install one a new, second, partition on the disk?

(I have a related post about how to get both Vista and XP to see their respective boot partition as C: and the other partition as D:. )

Blue Screen crashes with USB since installing SP1

Argonaut — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:33:42 GMT

I have a USB HDD (powered) ... all working OK with any of my PC's
SP1 installed .. since then if I turn on the USB HDD when VISTA running it crashes .. bluescreen and creates dumps.
If I try to start PC up with drive already switched on PC will not start, keeps rebooting once it gets to Windows splash screen.

The USB HDD still works fine with other PC's ... as I use it daily for backups and file storage.

Did SP1 screw up USB ??

The last time it worked OK on VISTA was immediately before the SP1 upgrade when I took a full system back up .... since then it will not work with VISTA.

After a crash .... I have to switch off USB HDD or unplug i to get VISTA to boot ... often have to do a safe mode start up first , followed by shut down then a normal start.

Vista report ..."Restart after crash, shall I check for solution" but returns nothing ... not even a "nothing found" message.

About screen does tell me I have "Vista Ultimate 2007 Service Pack 1"

PC is Dell 9200 2GB RAM 6600 2.4GHz 2 x 330GB HD RAID 0

USB HDD is connected via a Belkin powered USB hub ... which works fine with XP machines - and worked OK with VISTA prior to this issue.

Boot up problem

norman52 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:07:11 GMT

After a number of failed installs and then trying to reinstall XP I finally got to get Vista up and running. Works great!

The problem is when I boot up i get the start up screen and it shows my old failed install attempts (Old windows) and (Setup) and then Windows Vista. How do I remove the

(old Windows) and (setup) options? I just want my computer to turn on and then boot up to Vista. Now it sits there and waits for me to select which operating system I want.

so my boot screen looks like this

old windows

Windows Vista

Setup

and then it asks me to select one.

I want to remove old vista and set up but I have no idea how?

Installing vista ultimate on xp machine...

500sd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:51:21 GMT

Ok so I picked up a copy of vista ultimate today...and well things didn't turn out as expected.
I get this error after the compatibility report during installation:

Close Windows installation and contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for these devices:

o IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers: Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller

HELP?

Gateway MT6728 Install Vista Ultimate Freezes

David123 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:25:23 GMT

Hi -

I just purchased the Gateway MT6728 laptop and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. I want to completely wipe the hard drive and re-install Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. The install of Ultimate is fine until it gets to "completing installation" and it hangs up and quits responding. I've tried re-installing Home Premium (disc I received with laptop) and it does the same thing. Now I cannot get anything installed.

My guess would be something to do with the SATA drivers. When I get to the drive screen, it shows the drive and when I select Disk Driver, nothing is recognized. I've tried using the downloadable drivers from Gateway and noting appears compatible with my system.

I saw another post topic in this forum with the same probem but not sure if it was ever resolved. The moderator mentioned changing the BIOS to disable EIST and to change the SATA mode to IDE from AHCI but this laptop has Phoenix BIOS and I cannot find anything in the BIOS to change either setting.

The hard drive is a Hitchaci HTS542516K9SA00 and I cannot find drivers for this drive anywhere.

Am I missing something? Do I need to pre-install some other type of BIOS/motherboard drivers for this to work?? Also, I keep reading that I need a floppy drive to install SATA drivers but I thought this was only the case with XP??? When I select Hard Drive Drivers in the Vista install, is this not the same way to install SATA drivers?

Any and all help will be greatly, greatly appreciated...
David

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS TO INSTALL A SECOND TIMES MY WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE

kervin007 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:54:18 GMT

HI EVERYBODY , I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY PROSPEROUS YEAR 2008

I AM HAVING PROBLEMS TO INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE , I AM GETTING INSTALLATION ERROR CODES OX 80070241 CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME TO RE INSTALLED MY WINDOWS VISTA AGAIN. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

MR NUCKCHADY M C

37 STEVENSON STREET ROSE-HILL MAURITIUS

sound drivers

rajithrox — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:37:29 GMT

im using P5PE-VM mothrboard.. my sound driver are still not wking .. mom using windows vista so i need vista drivers.. and error msg also cming lyk dis SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio (TCSUS_CH5) F5410AMR is missing..

please help me.

rajithh15@hotmail.com
rajithh15@gmail.com
rajithh15@yahoo.com

Dual booting Vista and XP

WAW8 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:29:41 GMT

There are two scenarios with dual booting a machine with both XP and Vista: (1) XP installed first, (2) Vista installed first.

The link below is to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, where XP was installed first (and you're now installing Vista):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista [/url]

The link below is also to a set of detailed steps that will walk you through the process of setting up a dual-boot machine, but in this case, where Vista was installed first (and you're now installing XP):

[url] http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp [/url]

How will my computer handle Vista

Tarp07XLT — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:26:05 GMT

Hi everyone! So here is the deal I know my computer will handle Vista but Im curious how well. I will be getting Vista Ultimate as this is what is available to me. My question is how well well my hardware handle it? Here are my specs.

AMD Turion 64X2 Mobile Technology
TL-50 1.6GHz 246KB + 256KB L2 cache, up to 1600MHz system bus
I currently have 1 gig DDR2 but am upgrading to 2 gigs DDR2 RAM
120 Gig Hard Drive 5400 RPM
and a NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Graphics Card with up to 128MB shared memory.

So what do you think. And yes I am not too technically savy when it comes to the parts of a computer.

Thanks for any input.

P.S. Love the site so far. Lots of good info to research!

Windows Vista Install Stops - error 80073712

vaderag — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:00:02 GMT

This is killing me. I see that loads of other people are having similar problems to me - the download stops in windows update and it gives me the error code 80073712

I've tried the numerous solutions on the net (short of re-installing vista, which is not something i'm prepared to do at the moment)

I've searched these forums, and found mention to a pinned thread that i cant seem to find!? I'm pretty sure that i'll have tried everything in that thread anyway...

Can anyone help with this matter?
Thanks

[SOLVED]weird problem when trying to boot from dvd

kostas_8 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:15:07 GMT

Hi all. I have a problem when trying to install windows vista 32 bit on my pc. I try to boot from cd but when i press a button to boot from cd the cd stops spinning and i get my pc restarted. same thing everytime.

ASUS M2N motherboard
2GB Ram
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3Ghz
ATI HD3870 512MB

I don't know why this happens.
i have 2 IDE HDD (120+250 GB) and a IDE converted with an adaptor to SATA, DVD drive. waiting for help :/

Uninstalling Vista SP1

WAW8 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:31:35 GMT

Some folks are reporting that Vista SP1, rather than improving their "experience", has caused major problems. If you're one of those, or if you just want to remove SP1, here's a link to the MS KB that explains how to do that:

[b][url] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948537/en-us [/url][/b]

Vista Compatible/Incompatible Hardware List

Jason — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:56:58 GMT

NOTE: This is an old list from BETA RC1 so a lot may not apply after the latest updates by microsoft to the released version of Vista.

Feel Free to add or remove any of the following information:

Compatible Hardwares

Motherboards
Fully Vista Compliant motherboards (all drivers installed and working)

ABIT

NF7-S v2.0 (sil3112r not included on dvd, raid boot rom must be enabled in bios/ Other drivers loaded post install via update)

ASUS

A7N8X v2
A7N8X-E Deluxe (with additional updates from Microsoft Post installation)(32-bit)
K8V (32 bit)
P4P800 Deluxe (32 bit)
P5WD2
P5WD2-Premium
A8N-SLI Deluxe (Vista RC1 64 bits)
A8N-SLI Premium (Vista RC1 64 bits)
P5ND2-SLI Deluxe (Vista RC1 64 bits)
P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (32 bit)

DFI

LanParty UT nF3 250Gb (32 bit & 64 bit)
nF4 Infinity (32 bit & 64 bit)

ECS (see also Elitegroup below)

N2U400-A nForce2 (32 bit)
RS480-M

GIGABYTE

GA-965P-DQ6 (32 bit)
GA-945GM-S2 (32 bit) (64bit) both smooth install on triple boot with W2K
GA-8I945PLGE-RH (32bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-8IPE1000 (32-bit) Vista has all it's own drivers and even the Realtek Audio Program
GA-M59SLI-S5 (32 bit & 64 Bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-K8N ULTRA-SLI (32 bit) Vista installs it's own drivers
GA-K8N51GMF-9 (32 bit & 64 bits) Vista installs it's own drivers through Windows Update
GA-K8N51GMF-9-RH (32 bit & 64 bits) Vista installs it's own drivers through Windows Update

Intel
T.B.D.

MSI
MSI 945 PL Neo F (64bit)

Shuttle
FN41U

Elitegroup
RS480

Graphic Cards

AGP:
ATI Radeon 9600XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
BFG 7600 GS OC 512mb (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically)
Nvidia GeForce FX 5900XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
Nvidia Geforce 6600GT (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit & 64 bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6200 (64bit mem) (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
XFX Geforce 6800XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)

PCI-Express:

ATI Radeon x300 (128MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 bit)
ATI Radeon x600 (256MB)
ATI Radeon x800 GTO (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
ATI Radeon x850 XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
ATI Radeon x1800 XT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (64 Bit)
ATI Radeon x1900 XTX (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6600 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6600GT (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6700GT (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800GS (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7300GS (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7400 (128 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit) (turbocache not working correctly, system only shows physical memory amount)
Nvidia GeForce 7600GT (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) 32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX (256MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 7900GT (512MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit & 64 Bits)

PCI:

NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 (256 MB) (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically) (32 Bit)

Onboard:

Intel GMA950 (Aero Glass Enabled Automatically with 1GB+ System Memory) (32 Bit)
Nvidia GeForce 6100 (Aero Glass Enabled with default drivers, disabled when beta ForceWare drivers are installed) (32 bit)

IDE/S-ATA/RAID-Controllers

Nvidia Nforce4 AMD SATA RAID 0 (as an upgrade no clean install yet, 32 bit).
ST3160023AS ATA HD
3ware 7000/8000 ide/sata (32bit) (upgrade and clean install with xp drivers 7.7.1)
Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink Controller (32 bit) (FMI - CompUSA Brand with drivers from installation CD)
Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller (32-bit)

Imaging Devices

Creative WebCam Pro PD1030 (32-bit)
Recognizes as "Dual Mode USB Camera Plus"
Creative WebCam Live! (32-bit)
Intel® PC Camera CS331 (32-bit)
Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX (32-Bit) [Works either by installing XP driver or by using Windows Update Reg-Hack]

Input Devices

NOTICE: full functionality on many input devices will not be available until Vista drivers are released. For example, any keys that require the Logitech Setpoint software to function are unusable but these are rarely needed anyway.

Apple Supermouse Optical USB
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Logitech MX Duo (MX700 Mouse) (32 bit)
Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Mouse
Logitech MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Logitech G7 Wireless Mouse (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical
Microsoft Optical Mouse
Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard (32-bit)
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (32-bit)
ALPS Touch Pad (Dell Laptop)

Sound Cards

EGOSYS - ESI PRO : Wamirack 192 L/X and Waveterminal 192 X/L/M :
MME/WDM/ASIO compatible with Vista 32bits only and with 5.01 drivers only - don't use the drivers V6 in beta - WRT new audio drivers (VISTA core audio) are missing. (Wave RT - realtimeaudio). Playback sound is incredible and fine.
NVIDIA nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit (nForce2 Integrated Audio) (32 Bit)
NVIDIA nForce MCP Audio Processing Unit (nForce430/6100 Integrated Audio) (32 Bit)
Realtek High Definition Audio (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
SoundMax Intergrated Digital Audio (32 Bit)
Creative Audigy 4 (No full hardware acceleration, limited EAX support) (64 bit)
Creative Audigy 2 (Use Beta Vista drivers from Creative site - full surround and CMSS working!)
Creative Audigy SE (Vista installs drivers - install from Creative site only if problems - CD software doesn't work but not needed)
Echo Indigo IO (Use latest drivers from Echo site)
CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device (32-bit)
RealTek ALC850 AC'97 Audio Controller Use driver from RealTek's site or Vista 5728 x86 has a built in driver.

TV Cards

Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 PCI (32-bit)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 PCI (32-bit)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-550 PCI (32-bit)
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100 PCI (32-bit) : works with Vista Media Center using Hauppauge's vista driver
Leadtek TV2000 XP RM (32-bit)
Terratec Cinergy 400 - Works under x32 and x64, but deinterlacing is disabled. Also there are problems with audio input, I only managed to get it working by 'Audio preview' option.

External Storage

5.25" FireWire & USB 2.0 Aluminum External Enclosure FMI - CompUSA Brand with Seagate Barracuda ST-3200822A 200GB Drive. USB interface connected. (32 bit)

Audio Devices: NOT SOUND CARDS

Altec Lansing AHS302i Stereo/Micrphone Headset w/ USB Adaptor (Native 64-Bit: Sounds better w/ USB Adaptor)
Creative Zen Micro (5GB) - Installed JB3 driver from CD

PCI Modems

HSP56 Micro Modem (32bit) (supported via post install update)
Intel 537EP (32 bit) (BestData Brand)
In-Build CX11252 modem (32-bit)
Motorola SM56 Modem (32 bit)

USB Modems
T.B.D.

USB Devices

HERCULES DJ CONTROL MP3 : ok work with vista 32bits
Kworld 310u usb dual tuner will install original drivers fine but Hypermedia need to be run as XPSP2 compatability. mce picks up the hd tuner and works good
Memorex Traveldrive 2C 1Gig USB flash drive works fine, but not Readyboost capable

Network Cards

Belkin 802.11g Wireless Desktop Network Card (F5D7000 v3) (32 bit)
Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigibit Controller (32 Bit)
Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless (32 bits & 64 bits)
D-Link DWL-G520 AirPlusXtremeG PCI (detects as Atheros Wireless Network Adapter) (32 Bit)
Gigabyte Super G PCI Adapter (GN-WP01GT) (64 bit) : works with XP64 driver
Intel PRO/1000 PM Network connection (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter (WMP54G) (32 Bit & 64 bit)
Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (32 Bit & 64 Bit)
Nvidia nForce Networking Controller (nForce2 onboard NIC) (32 Bit)
NetGear 108 MBPS Wireless PCI Adapter (WG311T) (32 Bit)
NetGear 108 MBPS Wireless PCI Adapter (WG311T) (64 Bit) : Get Atheros AR5002G Wireless
Netgear 54 MBPS Wireless USB Adapter (WG111v2) (32-bit) : works with XP driver
Realtek 8111B/8168 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (32 bit)

Printer / Scanner

HP Deskjet 6940 (via Network, auto driver) (32-bit)
HP Laserjet 5L (32bit)
hp color LaserJet 2550L (32-bit)
HP Officejet 4200 (32-bit)
HP PSC 1401 All-In-One Printer (32-bit)
Lexmark 240N (Native Driver x64).
Microtek Scanmaker 3600 (32-bit)
Samsung ML-2010 monochrome laser printer (32-bit)
Epson R220 (32 bit)
Brother HL 1030 works after adding a printer manualy and installing as a brother 1430 (32bit)
Dell Photo AIO Printer 964 (32-bit)
HP Laserjet 4plus (32bit)(64bit) with HP Jet Direct as LPR on Standard TCPIP Port
HP DeskJet 845c (32 bit)

Driver Downloads

ATI LDDM Driver
Product series supported:

Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850 series
Radeon X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900 series
Mobility Radeon® 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800 series
Mobility Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800 series
CrossFire Xpress 3200 series
Radeon Xpress 200, 200M series

Realtek High Definition Audio
Product series supported:

Realtek ALC260, ALC262, ALC861, ALC880, ALC882, ALC883 Integrated Audio Chip

NVIDIA Beta Drivers

List of Hauppauge WinTV products that should work with Vista RC1 and drivers
Product series supported:

WinTV-PVR-150/500, WinTV-PVR-250, WinTV-PVR-350, WinTV-PVR-USB2 29xxx, WinTV-PVR-USB2 24xxx,
WinTV-HVR-1100, WinTV-HVR-1300, WinTV-NOVA-T Stick, WinTV-NOVA-T USB2, WinTV-NOVA-T 500,
WinTV-GO+, WinTV-Radio

Problems which can be solved

Motherboards

MSI

K8T Neo (MS-6702)
Promise 20378 on-board SATA - Unable to load driver when installing Vista RC1 or once installed.
Build 5600 Solution: Disable in bios and use only the on-board VIA VT8237 SATA until Promise are able to supply a compatible driver.
Build 5728 Solution: I was able to get the Promise 20378 Controller to function with the Win NT driver. I'm certain this didn't work with build 5600. It seems to work fine.
Build 5728 Solution (x64): Setup a 1 disk Raid0 in the BIOS and load the Promise 20378 Windows x64 driver when setting up drives during Vista install.

Realtek 8110C/8110S LAN - Conflict may exist between on-board LAN and Via VT8237 SATA when booting.
Solution: Disable Realtek LAN in bios and install LAN card. You may have to manually clear the CMOS with the on-board jumper to gain access to the bios to disable the on-board LAN.

Realtek ALC655 - Vista will automatically install VIA AC '97 sound driver. General sound issues such as skipping and hiss may be heard.
Solution: Install Realtek AC 97' Vista Beta Sound Driver (6156) [Note: Tested Beta Sound Driver fine in build 5728]

A major problem with many systems with SATA Controllers is that sound, specifically when playing MP3s, will skip when using the new drivers supplied with Vista RC1.
Solution: "Downgrade" the driver for your SATA Controller, the Via VT8237 in this instance, for a fairly recent XP driver. Sound skips are now a thing of the past.
Note: This problem has been fixed with build 5728 so there is no need to change the Via VT 8237 driver from the installed MS Vista driver.

Graphic Cards

AGP:

ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600XT (128MB) (Aero Glass Compatible) (32-bit)
TV/Video capture functionality inoperable. No drivers yet will detect the Rage Theater chip (NTativrv01) on the card. All other functionality works just fine.

ATI Radeon X850XT ViVo (256MB) (Aero Glass Compatible) (32-bit)
Video capture inoperable : same problem as ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600XT (see above)

PCI-Express:
Nvidia PCIe x16 Quadro (64MB+Shared) (Download alpha driver from manufacture and Enable Aero Glass) (64 Bit) (working fine, but a bit slow when working with many running windows)

PCI:
T.B.D.

IDE/S-ATA/RAID-Controllers
sil0680 chipset Ultra ATA 133 PCI (download drivers from www.siig.com) (32-bit)

Network Cards
NetGear 108 MBPS Wireless PCI Adapter (WG311T) (64 bit) - Works only with the Atheros AR5002G Driver

Sound Cards
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (Use Beta Vista drivers from Creative site, rear speakers not working)
RealTek ALC850 AC'97 Audio Controller Use driver from RealTek's site or Vista 5728 x86 has a built in driver.

TV Cards
Terratec Cinergy T² USB DVB-T adapter : works with Vista Media Center using BDA driver v 2.3.0.24 but prevents computer getting into hibernation or sleep mode. Must be first disconnected before getting into these modes.
Hauppauge HVR-1x00 (64 bit) Must download unofficial drivers from hauppauge UK forum, and press f8 at boot up to load unsigned drivers.

Audio Devices
T.B.D.

Printer / Scanner

Epson Perfection 1640SU (install twain driver 5.71A from Epson Site (may take 4 tries but eventually takes) you must power down and then repower scanner before each use to get it to work) (32-bit)

Epson Stylus CX7800 (printer status monitor crashes, printing is OK, scanning is OK) (32-bit)

QMS Magicolor 2300 DL (works fine using usb interface, crown print monitor will install but will not work) (32-bit)

HP All-in-one 2170 series: Windows recognizes it natively, but specific software stalls at 63%, when you need to plug in the scanner, it never gets recognized. You can scan through the built in "scanners and Faxes wizard", but no editable text.

Samsung ML-1740: Vista will not be able to automatically find driver. Download file "20040130094447375_ML-1740_Print.exe" from www.samsung.com. Choose install option without connecting printer. Once driver successfully installs, go to Control Panel > Printers, right click ML-1740, go to properties. Finally, navigate to Ports tab and switch to USB port if necessary.

UMax Astra 3450: Install the VistaScan V 3.75 driver and the XP Patch from the UMax site. The USB Scanner will still be flagged in the Device Manager. Re-install manually, and select the USB Scanner and the driver install will complete.

Tier 1 Systems

HP xw9300 (Tyan K8WES2895) - This was a clean install (HD Low-Leveled) and not an update/upgrade and first done with BIOS 2.05 then 2.06, factory 2GB ECC RAM, Seagate 15K RPM u320 SCSI HD, Opteron 250 Single Processor installed, NV-285 pulled and Saphirre 1300Pro w/ 256MB PCIe video card installed. Get latest NVidia RC1 Beta Drivers along with ATI's RC1 Beta Drivers and expand to removable media (e.g. Floppy, USB, CD-ROM), choose CUSTOM for install and search media for driver locations, choose specific drivers required and then proceed with install. Before first reboot of OS after it has done a complete installation and up for first time, install complete ATi package, then re-boot. This xw9300 was the only system, out of three, with non-factory video-card and installation took six time to get correct. Previously, this system was used for Beta 2 release and had a pbATi PowerColor x600 PCIe video card and the install was flawless. The Saphirre x1300Pro has been used in this system for nearly two months now while running Vista Beta2 without problems and was also done from a clean install. (x64)

Incompatible Hardwares with heavy problems

IDE/S-ATA/RAID-Controllers
T.B.D.

Printer / Scanner

Canon Canoscan LiDE 35. Installs with XP drivers but doesn't appear in the scanner and camera list

Lexmark Z617. Appears to install using XP drivers, and creates printer entry, but cannot connect to printer through USB. Device manager shows bad driver.

Samsung ML-1740. Shows driver installed in 64 bit, but no support. Remove driver and Vista 64 wants to reinstall the same driver. This device works properly in RC1 x86, see above, though the x86 driver must be used.

HP Scanjet 3400c Installs whit the WInXP Driver but doesnt work like image device in vista – Same for HP ScanJet 4600 series.

Network Cards
T.B.D.

Sound Cards

Creative Labs Audigy 4 Model SB0106 (64bit)
All M-Audio products specifically firewire 4/10

TV Cards

MSI

TV@nywhere Master (MS-8606) (detected by Vista as "Hauppauge WinTV 88x (unused Audio function)" but not detected as a TV Tuner in WMC; also no Radio)

Compro

Compro PVR TV/FM. (Detected corectly by Vista but will not work at all. Using XP driver, it will give a "No saa7134 Driver" error)

Imaging Devices

Mikomi Webcam with Mic (SN9C103) - driver install fails : not enough storage available ? (32 Bit)
Tevion - Medion pc30 - 8508i Webcam installs Audio but video fails not enough storage available ? (32 Bit)

Other Devices

Uniden Win1200 Windows Live Messenger Dual Phone (No Drivers for Vista)
Vguard 7146 Serial Device (VGC4-XP CCTV Card) Drivers will manualy install but Cheatau XP Eats 50% cpu while running under any compatability mode

WinMatrix.com

Genuine advantage

ksebruce — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:15:12 GMT

Hi, I bought a second hand laptop which turned out to have a pirate version on Vista Ultimate installed. I got the message from m/soft and purchased "genuine Advantage" which is a Vista Ultimate disc. I have now bought a new laptop and need to know if I take it off the old machine can I install my Genuine advantage Ultimate on my new pooter? Thanks in anticipation. :)

No SP1 but should'nt I be able to get it now?

ClypsoArt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:46:51 GMT

I have a gateway NX860XL laptop running Vista home premium. WU does not offer SP1 as an option for this machine. I read about all the possibilities that block SP1. I discovered that my machine had one of the Sigmatel drivers that was listed. I removed the driver, and on restart Vista loaded it's own. Now in device manager the Sigamtel driver properties shows a driver by Microsoft. However, Vista still will not offer SP1. Will Vista ignore me as long as I have this component in my machine? Many reports say that Vista's speed is improved with SP1. I'd really like to have that. It would be really nice if I could get it to go from a jog to a sprint.

FYI on Gateway. From day one I was very disappointed with the speed of this machine and Vista, lack of a proper nVidia driver for the video, and even more so that Gateway had offered to sell me 4gb of memory (additional $1000)even though 32bit Vista cannot see it or address it. (At least I didn't go for that.)

Thanks

[SOLVED]service pack 1

twist3d — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:38:27 GMT

hey guys,

i'm having really bad problems installing SP1... its downloaded and says its doing the usual install routine, then restarts and continues the install at the welcome screen. This gets to about 50% the says its reverting changes. the error code its giving is 80070059. I can only find things related to this code about the release candidate (which i've never installed). Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks

Martyn

My specs are:

Vista home premium x64
amd x2 6000+
2Gb Corsair XMS ram
2x80Gb western digital wd800j HD's in raid 0
radeon 2900xt
creative x-fi

Can't Install Windows Vista on my PC

xaviermerino — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:17:43 GMT

Hi! Thanks for reading this post. I bought a Windows Vista Home Premium License. I had my PC 3 years ago, and I want it to run Windows Vista 32-Bit Edition. I had [b]Linux Ubuntu 6.06 LTS[/b], now I erased the linux partition and format the disk with a utility called [b]Dban[/b]. I had to make a bootable CD in order to format it. When the disk was in blank I inserted the [b]Windows Vista DVD[/b] and the screen said [b]"Windows is loading files"[/b]then the progress bar of Windows Vista appears however [b]it stops.[/b] I waited there 1 hour, but nothing happened so i thought it was because I didn't format it to [b]NTFS[/b]. Then I used GParted to format it to NTFS. I tried again, however it gave me the same results. Please I need help. I love the Windows Vista Graphic Interphase, that was my reason to change. However I can't even install it. Please Help!

[b]Thanks in advance[/b].

KB947821--Strange Happenings

cfsdoriga — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:42:52 GMT

So far this update has downloaded and installed itself successfully 11
times. It has never required a reboot. I gather that this particular
update is to correct problems which might be preventing the update to SP1
and that SP1 will not be available through Update until these problems are
corrected. Every time I check for updates, this one is still there and will
once again download and install! Help!!

KB947821--Strange Happenings cannot install SP1

cfsdoriga — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:55:09 GMT

Cannot install SP1

nicthemighty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:38:41 GMT

SP1 is not appearing on Windows Update for me.

All I have available to update is KB937287, but I checked through the update history, and KB937287 was installed multiple times, and now just fails to install.

I've downloaded the standalone installed for KB937287 but that fails as well...

Any ideas on how I can fix this and get updates and SP1 working?

How to get your notifications icons back after SP 1

WAW8 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:32:04 GMT

If you're like me, and apparently a lot of other folks as well, after installing Vista SP 1, some (or all) of the standard "system" icons are now absent from the notification area -- what used to be called the system tray on the lower-right corner of the screen.

The link below shows you several ways to get them back:

[b][url] http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html [/url][/b]

Vista SP1

Marmaduke — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:33:38 GMT

Hi all. Been a while. My son has Vista on his computer. we have a dial-up connection. I usually download large files at work and bring them home on a USB drive.

Found KB936330 Vista SP1 Five language standalone this morning. Can't get the one computer update from work. What I am trying to find out is what other updates are required before SP1 can be installed? Microsoft has KB937286 and KB947821 as recent updates.

From looking around, I'm getting the impression that SP1 might have all the updates I need and it will install what is needed prior to the SP1 install. Yes/No ?

Thanks for any help.

Why Vista SP1 may not be available for your machine

WAW8 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:12:35 GMT

Saw this article today, thought I'd better post it in case folks try to install Vista SP1 and get rejected the process:

[b][url] http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=948343 [/url][/b]

Does Vista support LPT1 ?

sf44 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:10:10 GMT

This is a long-shot on a possible solution to a stubborn problem. We've got a LaserJet 4250 on a wireless home network. It's being driven by an *XP* computer via LPT1. Printer works perfectly with our XP computers but I can't get our one Vista laptop to recognize it. What we get is an error msg saying "Cannot access printer--access denied."

Both computers *do* seem to be working on the network--they can transfer files and see each others' public or shared folders--so it doesn't seem to be an RF problem. And the Vista machine has its own LJ driver installed.

In any case I installed the fix for XP computers that enables Vista computers to recognize 'em on a network--no help. Have tried 30 variations of "add printer", following various how-to's from both Microsoft and users--no luck.

Yesterday I read a comment that Vista did NOT support LPT1. That strikes me as pretty unlikely, but then again I wouldn't have thought Micro$oft would have released such a buggy piece of c**p as Vista appears to be, judging by the number and wide range of reported crashes, no-workies and other bugs.

Anybody know if Vista does support LPT1? And has anyone had a similar experience with a Vista m/c not being able to network w/ a printer installed on an XP machine? Thanks.

Microsoft TechnNet notes on Vista SP 1

WAW8 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:36 GMT

For those of you curious regarding what's included in Vista SP 1, or at least, what MS is willing to tell us is included, click the following TechNet link (may require IE to work). Once in the page, scroll down to the [b]Getting Started[/b]: section and click the second link.

[b][url] http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/b984ce70-701b-4565-868e-51d1ba47555d1033.mspx?mfr=true [/url][/b]

help with installing vista home

rookie01 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:09:26 GMT

hi i have gateway mt6728 32 bit laptop that came with vista home premium i tried to do a clean install of ultimate but it freezes on the complete installation so i decide to go back to the home premium with the dvd that came with laptop but that also freezes at the complete installation screen. any help will be appreciated thanks.