Vista install

[Davey W]

Hi starfish_001,

Testing an installation under a virtual machine is good for ensuring the software works in principal, but the hardware the virtual machine emulates is nothing like what you actually have inside your system so software incompatibility should not be ruled out. That would only cover your own creations though as the Recovery CD we provide would have been tested and found working with the hardware we have supplied.

If the partition configuration has not yet been changed, essentially you are able to boot into our original install, then there should be no reason why the Recovery disc provided would not work as I said in my previous post.

What is the current status of the system setup? Have you made any alterations to the configuration or partition line up?

In addition to the above, have you added any of your own hardware to the system, in particularly the external kind that most overlook as a possible cause of problems.

Davey

[starfish_001]

Originally Posted by Davey W

Hi starfish_001,

Testing an installation under a virtual machine is good for ensuring the software works in principal, but the hardware the virtual machine emulates is nothing like what you actually have inside your system so software incompatibility should not be ruled out. That would only cover your own creations though as the Recovery CD we provide would have been tested and found working with the hardware we have supplied.
Davey

In my experience testing under a VM is worthwhile .... yes the hardware is different but if the disk is not properly integrated it will normally fail. In any case the original Mesh disk always fails as well on the Mesh pyhsical machine.

Originally Posted by Davey W

Hi starfish_001,

If the partition configuration has not yet been changed, essentially you are able to boot into our original install, then there should be no reason why the Recovery disc provided would not work as I said in my previous post.
Davey

The machine boots fine - the vista install media does not work. The windows_RE may work - I have not tried it. I want a clean install from the Vista dvd media

Originally Posted by Davey W

Hi starfish_001,

What is the current status of the system setup? Have you made any alterations to the configuration or partition line up?

In addition to the above, have you added any of your own hardware to the system, in particularly the external kind that most overlook as a possible cause of problems.

Davey

The system is as delivered no new hardware. The partitions are the same as delivered.

The media used is the mesh supplied - ie I have tried to use the Mesh disk rather than a vlite disk - the result it always the same .......fails to load the vista installer first GUI screen.


My working assumption is that mesh copy an image on to blank disks and then install them in to the hardware....... Mesh have never tried to use the supplied media to undertake a clean install on the machine as supplied?



It seems my options are:

1. buy an IDE disk for the install.
2. disconnect 2nd mesh hard disk and any other expansion slot hw
3. Install on different harware and then image and use HIR to move the image.
4. Buy another controller.
5. Migrate a VM machine to the Mesh hardware V2P

Not impressed at this point ... Supplied Vista install disk should simply work with the Mesh machine in the delivered config

[Davey W]

Hi starfish_001,

Looking at your specification the only thing that jumps out at me is the issue where a 32bit installation will fail during setup where 4gb is installed. There is more to it than that if I recall, where it is actually a multiple of a certain figure that gives the problem. I intended to link the knowledgebase article but at the time of posting Microsoft's KB search facility is down.

I would suggest trying the installation again with 1 of the 2gb sticks of RAM removed to see if this is the problem you are experiencing.

Regarding virtual machines, my point was that it was not a sufficient test to guarantee success, only sufficient reassurance that it is likely to succeed. In my experience VM testing is worthwhile in only situations where the intended hardware is unavailable. It has it's uses and as powerful as such software can be, it also has it's limitations.

Davey

[starfish_001]

Originally Posted by Davey W

Hi starfish_001,

Looking at your specification the only thing that jumps out at me is the issue where a 32bit installation will fail during setup where 4gb is installed. There is more to it than that if I recall, where it is actually a multiple of a certain figure that gives the problem. I intended to link the knowledgebase article but at the time of posting Microsoft's KB search facility is down.

I would suggest trying the installation again with 1 of the 2gb sticks of RAM removed to see if this is the problem you are experiencing.

Davey

The 4gb memory issue generally results in Stop 0A, my error is just a hang of the installer no BSOD - from the KN article your solution or rebooting can lead to success ((IRQ remapping)


I am convinced my problem relates to the Jmicron controller or bios version niether of which I can easily change


At this point I wish I has chosen a different motherboard

[ja9ae]

Originally Posted by starfish_001

Thanks for confirming the warrant situation.


The motherboard is an ASUS p5n E SLI has the jmicron controller that causes people problems.

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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

I am having this issue too with the P5N board. When I run the vista recovery disk it crashes just after the first "green bars" screen. I have removed all extra hardware etc and am booting with just the mainboard, dvd & hdd, mouse & keyb.

Having read around this board & generally on the web re the P5N, I tried truning off the SATA support. Hey presto the install disc booted, but can now not see the HDD without the SATA support.

This leaves me wondering do I have to:
A) Buy an IDE disk?
B) Buy a floppy drive and try the load drivers option with the bios SATA support off.

I don't really want to do A as the installed disk as AOK, and I don't want to go B either as it involves buying extra hardware and might not work with SATA support off.

Can someone suggest any ideas? It seems quite clear from reading other forums that this is a problem with the P5N which leaves me scratching my head as to a solution which doesn't involve replacing the hdd.

JA.