How much hard drive space is available?
Disconnect attached devices not absolutely needed for installation,
especially usb devices.
Run some memory tests.
"VT Phantos" <VTPhantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry that got posted twice. IE gave me an error message both times, and I
> wasn't sure if it made it the first time. Also, I went back and managed to
> take a picture of the error and it gave me this line:
>
> "*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x8883D6AC, 0x843E7890, 0x843E758C)"
>
> Just would like to know what that means.
>
> My Specs on the Vista PC:
> Pentium 4 3Ghz HT Enabled
> 1Gb ram
> Radeon 9700 Pro
> 50Gb HD space
> Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Probably not much you can do at this point, the old installation is
>> probably
>> corrupted now and the new one will not complete. Format the installation
>> partition and do a clean install instead. Upgrades between builds of a
>> beta
>> product are always iffy, even though this particular scenario is
>> supported,
>> and this is why there are lots of warnings about not counting on them to
>> do
>> everything right.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "VT Phantos" <VTPhantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:902D3DB1-80C0-422A-8DEF-88048BEE1B49@microsoft.com...
>> > I was trying to update my copy of Vista Beta 2 to the newly released
>> > Release
>> > Candidate 1 using the the DVD I was sent, the update went ok for awhile
>> > then
>> > about the last 90% or so it restarted. Upon finishing the restart the
>> > new
>> > Vista RC1 loading screen came up (The one with the green progress bar
>> > and
>> > the
>> > black background) then just after that a blue screen came up full of
>> > text
>> > and
>> > at the bottom I made out the line about it creating a dump file for
>> > some
>> > reason, but thats all I could make out since the screen was there and
>> > gone
>> > in
>> > 2 seconds. Then it restarts, and does it again..... endlessly. I used
>> > the
>> > memory tester program thats on the Vista RC1 DVD, but it passes all the
>> > tests. I'm not sure whats happened, or if theres a way around it.
>>
>>