Re: A few vista issues

I have installed, and run, every version of Vista since beta 1 on my Asus
A7N8X2.0 Deluxe (nForce2) M/B.

In each, and every, instance I have performed a clean install that has
included deleting the existing partition, creating a new partition and then
formatting said partition. I have never experienced any problems during the
install.

Vista runs fine here. Remember though that Nvidia has ceased all updates for
this class board.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Emory Tech" <Emory Tech@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1550857A-0C8C-4EA0-8FC4-0B7B364025FA@microsoft.com...

>I have a few questions about vista. I heard that nvidia cut support for the
> nforce2 motherboards, but quite a few users actually got vista to install
> just fine on that board. Unfortunately I have not been able to. I get
> right
> to the part of the setup after vista is copying files and it gets to the
> boot
> loading screan with that thingie that moves back and forth. The little
> boot
> thingie moves about 2 steps to the right and then everything goes all
> black
> and freezes up. So I never actually get to the windows setup. I have tried
> running the setup as an upgrade to xp, I have tried it booting from the
> dvd(installs fine on other systems so the media is ok), I have tried it as
> a
> customized install and it always freezes up at the same spot. Anyone know
> what could be causing this? My board is a Abit A7N nforce2.
>
> My next issue is work related, while trying to get sysprep working in
> vista
> I always get the same error. My master machine is a dell gx620 and I will
> being using that same image on alot of other dells including laptops. It
> seems to always either errors out or just freezes up. The image seems to
> load
> fine on identical hardware but on any other system it fails. Anyone else
> got
> this issue?
>
> Also partially related to sysprep, I did go back and check my image and I
> found one minor issue with my unttend.xml file. For some reason it does
> not
> pass the install key to the OS. If I load the image on identical hardware
> and
> it works I cant activate. It gives the same error as if I had not entered
> a
> cd key. I know that is the issue with that because as soon as I enter the
> right key it activates fine.
>
> Lastly I wanted to know if there was a way with imagex to split the image
> down to 2gb? The biggest files I could put on dvd are 2 gb files for some
> reason. I was trying to make a custom setup file once I work out all the
> sysprep bugs. Sorry for all the questions, it is just that hardly anyone
> can
> help me with this because vista is so new.