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8th Oct 2008, 04:52
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Hey guys, this may look too long, but please read
 I ran into a spot of bother tonight, trying to get rid of XP and bring in a fresh copy of Vista Home Premium x86 OK, so I boot from CD, all is good, I format my partition C, and it begins installing. After it finishes installing, the computer restarts itself and then brings up the black screen with all the full stops, saying, "Please wait while Windows starts for the first time." After this screen though, my monitor turns itself off and I can't do anything.  I have tried this with a CRT monitor and an LCD. Same thing happens. This has also happened to me when I tried to install Ubuntu 64-bit. The screen just turned off and I was stuck, so I had to put XP back on. Now I have tried swapping graphics cards as well, no luck. (Tried putting in my old 8500GT, as opposed to my 9600GT.) When I try to start in safe mode, I get to the part where 'Safe Mode' is displayed on each corner, then a popup box says "Windows cannot complete installation in Safe Mode". Any help would be great. I'm not going back to XP, as I just bought Vista and wanna use it dammit!! COMP: Intel Core 2 Quad - Q6600 4 gig RAM Gigabyte P35 DS3 MoBo GeForce 9600GT My two hard drives are pretty old. Not sure what they are exactly. All I know is that one's a Samsung 200gb. Thanks for reading  Jim |
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8th Oct 2008, 09:09
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Did you chose the "upgrade from previous version of windows" or click advanced and do a fresh install?
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8th Oct 2008, 13:04
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I don't think I had the option to choose...
I might completely wipe the hard drive using killdisk tonight. see if that works. now i gotta go to work :( thanks |
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8th Oct 2008, 14:47
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Do you have an on board gfx card? if you do, try using that as it might default to that when it boots up, therefore meaning there is no display to put on your monitor.
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Also, do you have more than 1 output from your gfx card (2 VGA or 2 DVI or 1 of each)? if you do, try connecting your monitor to the other one, and see if that works. My System: First OC
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9th Oct 2008, 00:17
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thanks for reply, i tried someone else's advice and took 2 gig of ram out. then i tried installing again.
now the installation got past the black screen which says please wait while windows starts...., and now it has frozen at "Completing Installation." It was probably doing this the whole time, only this time i can see it. Now, has anyone got an answer to this one? lol |
