c90 Vista installation problem

After installing Vista when it goes to boot up Vista for the 1st time at the loading screen it just stays at that screen. I left it for 20 min and nothing happened. After waiting 20 min I rebooted and I got a screen saying it might be a hardware problem and I had the options of booting in safe mode etc. Anyone else having trouble installing Vista on their c90? Anyone have any ideas on how to get Vista to work or anything? I am gonna try and install XP and then upgrade is to Vista.

 

first are on battery or plugged in? plugged in is ussually problem free.

what bios version are running? if its 402 then try upgrading to either 502, 601 or 704 some work better for some people.

i have vista installed and dont have problems as long as im plugged in (recently testing to see if its turbogear fault)

 

yea, I have it plugged in. I'll try upgrading the bios.

 

Did you solve your problem because I am having the same problem, it just runs and runs on the loading screen after setup was complete.

 

I had the same exact problem as this. I finally just gave up and installed Windows XP which is what I am using now, but I did run the Vista compatibility test and I got many, many compatibility issues.

 

Dont take this personally but was it a retail vista disk?

I mean almost all of us have Vista working, I infact have 2 different versions of it installed. I know that certain "unofficial" copies of Vista will not install on the c90.

 

By "unofficial" you mean bought from the guy on the street corner, where the cd is glued together and melt in you bag? Or "Unofficial" as in "I'm so L33t i don't have to pay for windows!!!" Because, those downloaded disks could be fake.

 

try 64bit windows - 32 bit has done that too me before (downloaded vista ), but the 64bit has worked fine

hangs at the first boot - on the bar going across - just keeps going and going

 

I ended up going with X64, the x86 version would not install, just loop over and over again. I gave up after 3 tries

 

I am guessing that its "unoffical" then because I know the x64 release installs fine and the x86 doesn't thru friends.

 

I also had a lot of problems on my desktop with an unofficial vista (patched Dell OEM , but heh, not my fault if hotmail deleted my "thanks for participating in the vista beta, now we give you a free vista ultimate" email from microsoft to everyone who reported a bug in the Beta 2).

I kept BSOD on my old maxtor HDD, then I bought a new Western Digital one and it BSODed during the first boot until I formated the drive using Western Digital Drive Management Software (it was an OEM drive, so it did not come with the CD).

Someone on a forum told me that OEM WD Drives must be formated to NTSF with the software.

 

Hmm when you install Vista it should format the drive to NTSF for you. I think it did for me anyway.

 

Yes it does, but my drive worked very baddly until I re-formated it using WD's own software, strangely.

I must have re-installed Vista 10 times and it never worked, formated it with the soft, worked in first time never re-BSOD.

The guy on the forum told me that the initial formating shoudl be done with the software

 

Yup, retail copy of Vista Ultimate that I purchased for my desktop. It worked fine on my desktop but all the ultimate extra features ran a little too slow on my old desktop computer.