Common Thread with FAILED INSTALL,

Hello.

I have seen a common thread with installs that I experenced myself. Failure
of install with nVidia GeForce Video Cards. I am not saying that there is
anything wrong with the cards but the beta drivers from nVidia completely
messed up my system, and I had to boot to safe mode to remove the nVidia beta
video driver and run the Win Drivers.

I also had a problem with a HP DVD (HP DVD Writer 740e PATA) drive to the
point that the install would simply stop and then the dreaded error of "
can't find files to complete install" (paraphrased) what I did to to obtain
an install without problems was:

(past tense as I am installed) install XP SP2 on a PATA drive (SATA would
not seem to work even with xp SATA drivers loaded with install of RC1) then
copy the RC1 to a folder on the xp system , then do a windows install (open
the folder and start with the setup program).

I was able to do a upgrade with RC2 over the RC1 later when RC2 came out. I
also run Office 2007 Beta 2 and (the updated version) but not the B2TR (beta
2 Technical refresh) that completely hosed the Outlook data files, but on
removal of the B2TR and an reinstall of beta 2 (no TR) in the same folders I
had everything back. (outlook for some reason did an admin lock on the links
and attachments on any email that I had and would not open, back to the
original beta 2 office and everything works)

weird

quite complexe but everything is working very well and no problems.

I would hope that MS reads this and would look into these problems

system

BioStar P4M800-M7 A Motherboard
Intel 840 dual core 3.2 Ghz (not overclocked)
nVidia GeForce 6200 AGP w/512mb memory
2Gb PC3200 RAM
HP DVD Writer 740e PATA
Maxtor 6L300R0 PATA drive 300Gb (Boot)
Maxtor 6V300F0 SATA drive 300Gb
Maxtor 6V200E0 (2) in a RAID 1 VIA SATA 200Gb
HDS72252 5VSA80 SATA drive 250Gb
Iomega USB Drive 200Gb (think it is a seagate)
Hitachi DeskStar on USB Adapter drive 80Gb
500watt PS
Many cooling fans

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