Quote:
Originally Posted by DJT298
As mentioned by chickendippers opening the case will not invalidate your warranty unless you cause damage to any of the components through neglect. The reason they fit the seal is to confirm to you that the computer hasn't been tampered with during the time it left the factory and arrived with you.
What motherboard do you have fitted? The workaround you have linked applies to Intel chipsets but normally the motherboards Mesh supply have Nvidia chipsets so that link wouldn't apply (proberbly why you can't find the heading in the BIOS).
There are a number of possible causes for the problems you are encountering. Firstly vlite is designed to be installed prior to the install of Vista. the fact that you already have Vista installed on your machine would require you to perform a complete format first, then install vlite, then install Vista.
Secondly the recovery disc provided by Mesh although containing a full version of Vista isn't the same as a retail disc therefore some features are missing. I assume vlite requires the full retail version.
Finally as vlite requires you to make a new iso copy of vista for the install it could be that this has somehow become corrupted or the disc damaged.
|
Thanks for confirming the warrant situation.
The motherboard is an ASUS p5n E SLI has the jmicron controller that causes people problems.
THe mesh disk or any disk based on it will not load the installer on this machine. THey will all work perfectly in a virtual machine. So the disk is fine. Vlite is not bothered by the version of the disk. I understand how vlite works and yes I want to completely wipe the mesh setup and perform a clean install. I am not trying to solve a problem other than removing the junk form Vista that I don't want .... like 1gb of printer drivers and all of the mesh oem software.
I know I have an Nvidia chipset the intel article provides fixes that appear to work across a range of MB. My bois does not have the option suggested - the Jmicro chipset does support it. Mesh do appear to customise the bios so they could be masking the option out. And I cannot update the bios because I have no floppy drive - ASUS don't appear to have a windows based solution.
As an aside I can slipstream XP with the jmicron driver and install that fine. But that does not solve the vista install problem
At this point in time the only option I can think of is to install an IDE drive and then install vista onto that is not a great option as I don't have a spare ide drive nor do I really want one