IT LIVES, IT LIVES!

I spent the past few days fumbling around but finally got serious last
night. I disconnected/removed everything but mouse/keyboard/HDD/DVD-ROM. I
disabled everything in the BIOS except what was needed for the drives and
ACPI. Vista installed smoothly and is running rock solid. I enabled the
integrated LAN and that went smoothly, the new IE is smooth but I hate the
black area at the top.

My problems were likely with the older winmodem and/or PCI TV tuner card I
was using.

I'll start a new thread if I have any other problems.

Thanks,

Donald



"Richard Urban" wrote:

> I have had to do that in the past with Windows XP. I do think you have a
> hardware related problem. Remember, a lot of hardware has built in code on a
> chip, to identify itself to the O/S. If this code somehow throws up an error
> in Vista there is no telling what the result.
>
> Use only 1 hard drive, DVD drive, set the bios to its default settings (in
> case you have changed something that may affect the install), monitor,
> keyboard and mouse. Then add the cards and other plug-in hardware one at a
> time, rebooting in between.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>