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I just got windows vista yesterday, and failed to install. I Have p4 1.6GHz, stock, 768MB RAM, X1600 pro AGP 4x agp speed, DVD DRIVE, sound card, dial up modem, LAN card, 300W PSU. And when i try top install vist this happens:

Recap:

1. boot disc with dvd
2. not put in key when it comes, and choase vista prem, one he bought.
3. installed, restarted A COUPLE OF TIMES IN INSTALLATION.
4. at 60% of installation, when he was completeing inaLLation, the screen went black, and 2 sec later, a vertical line apeared top left corner, and then a blue screen apeared with some writeing, and 3 out of 4 to way bottom, there was a counter 1-100, and it went in a split second. ALL HE COULD MAKE OUT FROM THE MESSAGE WAS,: hardware, vendor, hard, driver, itechnical information (000000x0000) x (00000x00) (something like that) then it restarted, and kept doing same message restarting all night. help. the other time my friend tried to do a clean installation from xp, and it was succss, untill thecmpleting instalation, message, and when it restarted there was a list: old windows, windows vista, and windows setup rollback, i tried windos vist, and message came, so i tried windows rollback, and it sais the installation was not success full, and it set my settings back for me to use win xp, again.

Right, Ive got a nasty problem with my CD/DVD drive/s.As you can see in the attachment, the drive labelled."VOBID Instant Drive CD SCSI CdRom Device" is malfunctioning. Now I believe that is related to the Pinnacle Studios Instant CD/DVD SE...

i used Acronis Disk Director to create a 20GB FAT32 partition (in order to dual boot win98)

which appeared to be successful, until i rebooted, when it refused to load windows and said i should reboot with the vista disk in my DVD drive to repair the install

it did not successfully and i conclued i needed to reinstall windows

reinstalling vista was very quick and painless

however when booting i get a black screen giving me two options:

1. windows vista
2. windows vitsa (repaired)

choosing 2. gets me to the same error screen, so it is a useless option

Windows, as of the last week or so, keeps installing a 3rd DVD drive (I only have 2). I never installed an emulator (knowlingly anyway)

Just purcheased a LG DVD-Writter drive for a new build.Have Windows Vista installed.I am trying to install the LG Bundled software which comes with Cyberlink DVD Playback and Nero software....it wont installWhat do you suggest???

Yep, you heard right, custom make your PC. You might even get the some of the same features as the high end pre bulit model, for LESS. for example, I saw this HP 17" laptop for $2,500. I custom made it for fun and ended up around $1,984. Some features i remoed were:

HD DVD Drive
240GB HD (I lowered it to around 160GB)
Added on a 512MB Nvidia Graphics card
higher res. display

Came close to 2,000, but a lot better then 2,500.

So do reasearch, if you want to buy the high end model, look up the specs, if there are some features you don't want/need such as an HD DVD drive or a 512MB Graphics card (256 MB will do just fine) etc, you may want to do a customzible model.

I recently upgraded my laptop to vista with a free upgrade i got with it. I have quite a few problems including:AVG anti virus not working and it won't uninstall it, i managed to disable it for now though.It couldn't detect my DVD Drive, but i...

hye guys!

i tot im done with problem.. here's another....

i cant locate my dvd rom.. the picture or the icon dont appear at computer... why?

i cant use my NERO... it doesnt want to burn...

help!

i updated my firmware from the dell site late last week - i downloaded some stuff from my newsgroup and went to burn on a bulkpaq 4.7gb dvd - normally fine

didnt work so re-booted and then vista asked for driver, ok search nothing - so got all my dell discs nothing fount on there

so i have a dvd -r/w and no abilty to burn anything, any idea's how to fix this ?? maybe try another download of the firmware see if was dodgy can see that helping

any other idea's you can give me "nec site has firmware update no drivers" as its auto detect drivers "even

Hello, I just got my Vista PC last week. It's a Velocity Micro Promagix E1200. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, and a LITE-ON lh-18a1p DVD RW optical drive.

It's been running quite smooth, almost problem free, but just today, I went into "Computer" and saw that the DVD Drive wasn't there!

This is more important than you might think: It's the only disc drive on my PC. When I went to the device manager, it listed the device with a yellow exclaimation point. I clicked on the "find solution" button and nothing happened. No windows popped up. The blue circle next to my mouse didn't even appear.