Windows Vista Beta 1/2 Install

kevinw27 · 06-06-2006, 04:39 PM

I have a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz Processor, Asus 5v 800-MX mobo, 1GB Ram, Seagate 40GB harddrive. I'm trying to install Windows Vista and just test it to see what it's all about, but with the system locks clean up as soon as it goes through the copying files screen and gets to the Install/Repair Windows Vista screen. No mouse pointer, keyboard stops responding. Nothing. All I can do is reboot and go through the whole process again. Installs XP Pro perfectly. Anyone with any ideas?

lee101 · 06-08-2006, 07:46 PM

try just waiting, when i installed vista it took forever(2-3 hours), and during that time stuff would just stop responding occasionally, patience is the key here

Chris Chan · 06-08-2006, 08:03 PM

Weird, when one of my friends installed Vista on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 160Gb HDD it took only around 20mins. Perhaps the hard drive is too small?

Motoxrdude · 06-08-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Chan

Weird, when one of my friends installed Vista on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 160Gb HDD it took only around 20mins. Perhaps the hard drive is too small?

Hard ddrive size wouldnt matter, but hdd speed would

[-0MEGA-] · 06-08-2006, 09:22 PM

It's not the hard drive size, since i installed it on a 35GB or so partition. It may be that you got a bad/corrupted version of it. Or perhaps your trying to install the 64-Bit version on a 32-Bit processor.

kevinw27 · 06-09-2006, 09:25 PM

Thanks for the responses. I installed it on a second partition on a 200GB Seagate SATA drive and worked fine. Except that now the video/audio is very choppy/skipping and the mouse drags horribly. When I check CPU usage in Task Manager it's pegged at 100%. Even with no apps running. All the drivers are installed correctly and working so if anyone has run into this any help would be great.

Motoxrdude · 06-09-2006, 09:29 PM

Welcome to the joy of vista... It is a resource HOG.

[-0MEGA-] · 06-09-2006, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by kevinw27

Thanks for the responses. I installed it on a second partition on a 200GB Seagate SATA drive and worked fine. Except that now the video/audio is very choppy/skipping and the mouse drags horribly. When I check CPU usage in Task Manager it's pegged at 100%. Even with no apps running. All the drivers are installed correctly and working so if anyone has run into this any help would be great.

I've had that problem in XP before too, im not sure how it got fixed, it just "went away". I tried vista, and the cpu was only at around 1-4%, but the memory was around 500MB free (out of 1GB).

SirKenin · 08-15-2006, 01:16 AM

I wouldn't call Vista a resource hog. I have it and it runs flawlessly. I am looking at my performance tab as I type this and CPU is at 3%, out of 1GB RAM I have 462 left (but a fair bit running) and pagefile usage at 1.49 GB. Nothing wrong with that.

Motoxrdude · 08-15-2006, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

I wouldn't call Vista a resource hog. I have it and it runs flawlessly. I am looking at my performance tab as I type this and CPU is at 3%, out of 1GB RAM I have 462 left (but a fair bit running) and pagefile usage at 1.49 GB. Nothing wrong with that.

Wow, old thread eh? It is a resource hog compared to XP and linux.

06-06-2006, 04:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
kevinw27 New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22	Windows Vista Beta 1/2 Install I have a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz Processor, Asus 5v 800-MX mobo, 1GB Ram, Seagate 40GB harddrive. I'm trying to install Windows Vista and just test it to see what it's all about, but with the system locks clean up as soon as it goes through the copying files screen and gets to the Install/Repair Windows Vista screen. No mouse pointer, keyboard stops responding. Nothing. All I can do is reboot and go through the whole process again. Installs XP Pro perfectly. Anyone with any ideas?

06-08-2006, 07:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
lee101 VIP Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Age: 17 Posts: 1,150	try just waiting, when i installed vista it took forever(2-3 hours), and during that time stuff would just stop responding occasionally, patience is the key here __________________ My PC: Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 Ghz, Asus P5v-VM DH , 200 GB Maxtor SATA ,2GB (21GB Kingston DDRII), Radeon x1650 Graphics (256 mb), 2 Acer 17 inch TFT's, Windows Vista Home Premium Server: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 256 Mb Ram, 8Gb IDE for o/s, 2 * 250GB SATAII for storage, Ubuntu Server 7.10

06-08-2006, 08:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
Chris Chan Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Michigan, USA Age: 16 Posts: 509	Weird, when one of my friends installed Vista on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 160Gb HDD it took only around 20mins. Perhaps the hard drive is too small? __________________ desktop: Celeron 1.7/512MB/80GB/integrated/Ubuntu 7.10 server: P4 2.8/768MB/40GB/integrated/Debian Etch laptop: G3 500MHz/256MB/10GB/RageMobility/Debian Etch laptop soon: Sempron 2800+/512MB/40GB/integrated/Ubuntu 7.10 laptop soon: PII 300MHz/192MB/40GB/?/Debian Etch

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06-09-2006, 09:25 PM	#6 (permalink)
kevinw27 New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22	Thanks for the responses. I installed it on a second partition on a 200GB Seagate SATA drive and worked fine. Except that now the video/audio is very choppy/skipping and the mouse drags horribly. When I check CPU usage in Task Manager it's pegged at 100%. Even with no apps running. All the drivers are installed correctly and working so if anyone has run into this any help would be great.

08-15-2006, 01:16 AM	#9 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	I wouldn't call Vista a resource hog. I have it and it runs flawlessly. I am looking at my performance tab as I type this and CPU is at 3%, out of 1GB RAM I have 462 left (but a fair bit running) and pagefile usage at 1.49 GB. Nothing wrong with that.

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