Installing Vista

[James]

Installing Vista - Need help!!!

Everyone on NamePros seems to know how to fix problems with their computers.

I've tried to install Vista on 2 of my computers and both get the same error to do with iastor.sys -

My motherboard is an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 running a NVIDIA 8600GT, 250gig SATA drive & 1gig DDR2 ram.


Please help
NP$ & REP will be awarded to anyone that's helpful!

 

[notlikeyou]

http://mitchgarvis.com/blogs/mitch/...nt-with-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit.aspx

http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/828351.htm

Sounds like it's a bad driver here's a couple of places that mention getting around the error.

 

[weblord]

first rename it to something else
reboot
see if there are no errors
http://www.file.net/process/iastor.sys.html

 

[James]

http://mitchgarvis.com/blogs/mitch/...nt-with-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit.aspx

http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/828351.htm

Sounds like it's a bad driver here's a couple of places that mention getting around the error.

Isn't the second one for a server?

I actually try to install the drivers for the computer in the VISTA install but it doesn't find them or recognize them.

 

[DebX420]

Unless you got 2gigs+ ram in each computer you are attempting to install Vista on, I do not recommend installing it - I actually downgraded to XP from Vista.

 

[James]

Unless you got 2gigs+ ram in each computer you are attempting to install Vista on, I do not recommend installing it - I actually downgraded to XP from Vista.

Ram is getting upgraded on Wednesday, I figured this would be a problem so I'd knock out this pain in the bum error now.

:p

Thanks though!

 

[DebX420]

Depending on what you're wanting to do too, I wouldn't recommend it - gaming and anything with mild to high graphics is a big no in vista, as they do not support OpenGL. But if it comes down to it, go for it I just highly recommend NOT going with Vista, unless it is absolutely needed. I would take ME/2000 over Vista anyday :imho: :hehe:

 

[James]

Depending on what you're wanting to do too, I wouldn't recommend it - gaming and anything with mild to high graphics is a big no in vista, as they do not support OpenGL. But if it comes down to it, go for it I just highly recommend NOT going with Vista, unless it is absolutely needed. I would take ME/2000 over Vista anyday :imho: :hehe:

I just want to use my xbox 360 with Media centre.

 

[DebX420]

You can most likely get a 3rd party plugin to make it compatible with XP/2000 - which is what I would do

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm

There ya go - they got one for XPSP2 :D

 

[weblord]

i don't feel the luv
http://www.namepros.com/3085579-post3.html

 

[James]

i don't feel the luv
http://www.namepros.com/3085579-post3.html

Sorry weblord, I'm looking at stopping the error whilst installing vista, I haven't got as far as being able to load it yet.

:p Thanks though.

You can most likely get a 3rd party plugin to make it compatible with XP/2000 - which is what I would do

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm

There ya go - they got one for XPSP2 :D

I still want vista! :]

 

[AMDWarrior]

Vista is great here, I have it and use it for gaming everyday, grant it I have 4 GB of ram but I prefer it tons over XP.

 

[weblord]

that fix i posted is for the iastor.sys error btw

 

[liquidcherry]

Everyone on NamePros seems to know how to fix problems with their computers.

I've tried to install Vista on 2 of my computers and both get the same error to do with iastor.sys -

My motherboard is an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 running a NVIDIA 8600GT, 250gig SATA drive & 1gig DDR2 ram.


Please help
NP$ & REP will be awarded to anyone that's helpful!

Hey jamesssssyyyyyy,

Good that you will update your RAM...bad that you want to install Vista..LOL

Get the latest ASUS Driver for your board, i also sugest tht you update your BIOs(be careful)

Can you specify the error with iastor.sys because there are different errors out there.....

Cheers

Frank

 

[James]

Hey jamesssssyyyyyy,

Good that you will update your RAM...bad that you want to install Vista..LOL

Get the latest ASUS Driver for your board, i also sugest tht you update your BIOs(be careful)

Can you specify the error with iastor.sys because there are different errors out there.....

Cheers

Frank

0xc0000096 -

How can I update my bios? I'm running the latest ASUS drivers for XP....

Went to load it again and got a new error code - 0xc0000221

Missing Iastorv.sys

 

[liquidcherry]

I believe it is a RAID Driver problem, SATA is well known for that on Vista....got a solution somewhere in my bookmarks folder(just have 2 browse 250.000 bookmarks)

Cheers

Frank

 

[James]

I believe it is a RAID Driver problem, SATA is well known for that on Vista....got a solution somewhere in my bookmarks folder(just have 2 browse 250.000 bookmarks)

Cheers

Frank

Bloody legend, I narrowed it down to the RAID driver problem but do I need to turn AHCI on or off etc?

Everytime I try to load those drivers from USB pen, It didn't work....
I was using my phone as a usb pen drive though


EDIT: My Board doesn't support AHCI.... I need to get this USB way working

 

[James]

Fixed!


Done the cheap way and used an IDE harddrive with my SATA as a back up!


+Rep to all & NP$ to Frank :]

 

[Tippy]

My laptop came with Vista and I want rid of it, I keep getting display driver errors due to my nvidia card and Vista not in tune, there seems to be no fix for this at this time... search yahoo for such problems about your card, I dont believe its a laptop only problem.

Mike

 

[liquidcherry]

My laptop came with Vista and I want rid of it, I keep getting display driver errors due to my nvidia card and Vista not in tune, there seems to be no fix for this at this time... search yahoo for such problems about your card, I dont believe its a laptop only problem.

Mike

mike, let me know the specific error messages, your hardware specifics and i try to help you

Cheers

Frank

P.S: thanks James