Installing Vista

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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I upgraded my PSU, Ram, and GPU. I had a hard drive that was blank that I was using for storage when I was on XP, the hard drive was formatted, and has nothing on it. I boot up past my splash screen on my XP hard drive, I unplug that, and attach the blank drive to install Vista. My screen is blank, with the disc in the drive, and I tried rebooting and tapping F12 or Del, no luck, when I tap them long enough, my computer beeps as I tap.





Thanks.
 
What is set as the first boot device in the bios itself presently? We went over this some in the other thread about how to isolate the XP and to see if your board has the boot device menu by pressing a specific key like F8 or another.

The assigned key is usually shown on the bios screen or refer to the manual. The first device in the boot order otherwise should be set to cd rom not hard drive to see the "press any key now to boot from cd" message onscreen.

Once you are booting with the Vista dvd you will see the first screen come up with the Install Now button and Repair Tools options in the bottom section. You can use the drive tools found in there to partition even now format one separately before the installer even starts doing that like seen with XP. Refer to the board's manual anyways about setting the boot order and make sure the new drive has both power and data cabled plugged in.
 
I was booting with a 32'' LCD, so I plugged in my 17'' and am now installing Vista. Once Vista is in, should the GPU disc solve the problem, and boot with the 32''?



Thanks.
 
You were exceeding the 1280x1024 max seen with the basic vga drivers found in Windows there. Once you threw the 17" on the hardware/display detection process went to work for you. After Windows is up and running ok with the drivers/software inplace for the larger monitor since Windows will likely want that you shouldn't have any real problems.

Windows will detect and want a monitor drive where once connected online simply allow Window to perform the auro search, sownload, and install of the latest available. You can always try manually adding the new hardware by selecting the browse to disk option and store the driver for hte 32" in a folder. That's if a driver disk was included however.
 
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