Windows Vista will not install on a HP DV8000t laptop

Posted: 08-17-2006, 04:52 AM

briangw

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Any help for this issue would be greatly appreciated. I've tried installing
on a seperate partition, upgrading, and installing to an external HDD, but
after the files are expanded and the laptop reboots, I get a very quick blue
screen that pops up and disappears and my laptop reboots. Same thing when I'm
prompted for Safe Mode. The laptop is a CoreDuo 2GHz, 2GB Ram, GRForce Go
7600 (256 MB Ram), 100 GB HDD.

The funny thing is that I have a sticket that says Windows Vista capable.
Well, not this one. Any ideas?

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Jane C

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Re: Windows Vista will not install on a HP DV8000t laptop

Posted: 08-17-2006, 05:48 AM

I am assuming that you still have XP installed. Go to control panel,
system, advanced tab, startup and recovery settings tab. Uncheck the box
for automatically restarting on system failure. That way you will at least
get the BSOD with the STOP error code. With the code numbers it will make
it easier to track down what is causing the problem, usually hardware or a
faulty device driver.

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"briangw" <briangw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96FB1170-5103-4287-9BE2-98393E56223A@microsoft.com...

> Any help for this issue would be greatly appreciated. I've tried
> installing
> on a seperate partition, upgrading, and installing to an external HDD, but
> after the files are expanded and the laptop reboots, I get a very quick
> blue
> screen that pops up and disappears and my laptop reboots. Same thing when
> I'm
> prompted for Safe Mode. The laptop is a CoreDuo 2GHz, 2GB Ram, GRForce Go
> 7600 (256 MB Ram), 100 GB HDD.
>
> The funny thing is that I have a sticket that says Windows Vista capable.
> Well, not this one. Any ideas?

Colin Barnhorst

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Re: Windows Vista will not install on a HP DV8000t laptop

Posted: 08-17-2006, 05:49 AM

Capable, yes. But only when the manufacturer releases drivers.

"briangw" <briangw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96FB1170-5103-4287-9BE2-98393E56223A@microsoft.com...

> Any help for this issue would be greatly appreciated. I've tried
> installing
> on a seperate partition, upgrading, and installing to an external HDD, but
> after the files are expanded and the laptop reboots, I get a very quick
> blue
> screen that pops up and disappears and my laptop reboots. Same thing when
> I'm
> prompted for Safe Mode. The laptop is a CoreDuo 2GHz, 2GB Ram, GRForce Go
> 7600 (256 MB Ram), 100 GB HDD.
>
> The funny thing is that I have a sticket that says Windows Vista capable.
> Well, not this one. Any ideas?

briangw

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Re: Windows Vista will not install on a HP DV8000t laptop

Posted: 08-17-2006, 02:57 PM

It is capable. I'm finding that others with the same model have it running
fine. I spent an hour with a HP Tech chatting last night and they are telling
me it's a problem with my hardware and they want me to ship it back to them.
I would doubt the laptop hardware would be a problem when it comes
preinstalled with Media Center and I wiped that and installed XP.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Capable, yes. But only when the manufacturer releases drivers.
>
> "briangw" <briangw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:96FB1170-5103-4287-9BE2-98393E56223A@microsoft.com...
> > Any help for this issue would be greatly appreciated. I've tried
> > installing
> > on a seperate partition, upgrading, and installing to an external HDD, but
> > after the files are expanded and the laptop reboots, I get a very quick
> > blue
> > screen that pops up and disappears and my laptop reboots. Same thing when
> > I'm
> > prompted for Safe Mode. The laptop is a CoreDuo 2GHz, 2GB Ram, GRForce Go
> > 7600 (256 MB Ram), 100 GB HDD.
> >
> > The funny thing is that I have a sticket that says Windows Vista capable.
> > Well, not this one. Any ideas?
>
>
>

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