Vista Business 64bit
First Boot Freeze
Sunday, February 4, 2007 by CAClark | Discussion: Windows Vista
Hey Fella's
I'm really hoping you guys can shed some light here, cos everywhere else has drawn a blank.
I have Vista Business 64bit, which I clean installed to a seperate partition (D drive). The install proceeds and completes perfectly normally, but when Vista does it's final reboot to start for the first time and wrap up the installtion, it freezes on a black screen (with a small line of coloured dots in the top part of the screen). It can never be booted beyond this point. I have heard mention of nForce4 issues with raid systems, but mine is not running with raid enabled, just a single two partition 300gb drive.
My system is an Athlon X2 4800, Asus A8N-E, 4gb DDR400 Ram, ATI Radeon X850XT 256mb.
Having paid for the OS, it's annoying not to be able to use it, and the Vista support website is f**k all use squared.
Thanks!
I'm really hoping you guys can shed some light here, cos everywhere else has drawn a blank.
I have Vista Business 64bit, which I clean installed to a seperate partition (D drive). The install proceeds and completes perfectly normally, but when Vista does it's final reboot to start for the first time and wrap up the installtion, it freezes on a black screen (with a small line of coloured dots in the top part of the screen). It can never be booted beyond this point. I have heard mention of nForce4 issues with raid systems, but mine is not running with raid enabled, just a single two partition 300gb drive.
My system is an Athlon X2 4800, Asus A8N-E, 4gb DDR400 Ram, ATI Radeon X850XT 256mb.
Having paid for the OS, it's annoying not to be able to use it, and the Vista support website is f**k all use squared.
Thanks!
CAClark
Reply #2 Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:08 AM
Reply #2 Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:08 AM
I'm a film cg artist, and the software I use (Lightwave) is 64bit, which I have run up to now in XP64. So keeping the 64bit route is quite obvious for me to keep improved memory useage and stability. There ar ecertain 64bit vista headaches that are yet to be addressed in terms of drivers though.
At any rate, it turned out the install was not able to handle my decond monitor being connnected, so disconnecting screen two until after the install solved the problem.
Cheers!
At any rate, it turned out the install was not able to handle my decond monitor being connnected, so disconnecting screen two until after the install solved the problem.
Cheers!
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Reply #1 Sunday, February 4, 2007 8:11 AM