Night Hawk
Vista Guru
This one is a bit baffling to start off with! Having originally bought and built the case for Vista/XP the case started off with two WD Caviar SE 500gb drives one still in use as the second storage drive and the other host drive lasted until June-July 2012. When building a new case after having tested Win 7 on the old case and both supply and board went belly up I put the case aside. And this is where the story begins.
Last year when a friend's old XP case fell apart literally when something let go I suggest my old case could be a good substitute just in time for the friend's birthday no less and Vista saw a nice clean install once again on the host drive. After creating a full system image with Acronis to have onhand the Vista installed lasted until December. Suddenly the host drive had problems and it was decided a new drive would replace it. The original system image was then restored onto the new Caviar Blue 500gb drive and all went well until last week when the restored Vsta image would no longer boot.
When going to replace the restored Vista with a fresh install of Windows both installation attempts by dvd and by a usb installation key failed! The initial copy of setup files over to the drive failed after several tries with each method. Then the new drive was wiped completely for the next attempt with both dvd and flash drive to no end. ???
All hardwares are in perfect working order with memtest having been run and finding no faults with the 4gb of Mushkin Enhanced DDR3 1600 memory. The board identical to the one in my own 7 Ultimate case originally ordered as a spare was found good as well. The cpu however was swapped out being the AMD Phenom II X4 965 for a 975 upgrade on this case and went for the second case. The only other original item left would be the old video and sound cards with no display problems and stalls at post showing the old card is still in working order as well.
Two optical drives were tried and when discovering a large scratch was found on the Vista dvd that wasn't there last summer the flash drive was used. That same flash drive recently saw two clean installs of Vista on a laptop with a new drive and later when that new drive quit suddenly showing the integrity of the files remain. But the decision to try to install XP instead results in seeing the option to create a new primary, delete the existing where the XP installer indicated the fresh primary as invalid and needed a format. But that effort results in another error unable to format the new primary that the XP installer created.
Suspecting that new drive may be having a problem the second older drive was wiped and efforts to see an XP install to that drive also fail. The system specs are as follows here in case anyone has any idea as to why neither Vista or XP will at least get the initial setup files copied over to one of the drives and see the initial restart but simply stalls after a few minutes with each attempt
Case: Antec 900
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 965
Memory: 4gb Mushkn Enhanced DDR3 1600 1.5v
Hard Drives: WD Caviar Blue 500gb for OS, WD Caviar SE 500gb Storage
Board: Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
Video card: MSI Radeon HD2600XT(Still good after 5yrs. while old)
Sound card: Creative Xtreme Gamer
PSU: Corsair CX600 Gamer series
LCD: Samsung 24" with speakers
Note the USB Installation Key was made up prior to the scratch found on the Vista dvd and wouldn't be unable to read certain files as it seems the dvd is running into. So far that is limited to the dvd and not with the XP cd also stalling during each attempt to toss a fast install of the older version on. The friend was considering an upgrade to 7 since he originally would only go to Vista since his wife's laptop has Vista on that.
Besides the scratch the two optical drives and usb hub may be two culprits while he refused to reach behind the case to plug the flash drive into a rear port directly to try the usb key there instead. That doesn't help any since the 6port hub isn't a self powered by ac adapter type which could be another possible cause for the flash key install stalling.
Here's an update! My friend was able to get XP installed onto the new drive but is having problems with the install. The yellow triangle and popup indicating a "Failed to Write" type error prevails while the board is set in the Native ide mode. I will try to get him to edit the registy item indicated in the MS page seen at the link here but still have to get him to run the WD LifeGuard tools to confirm or rule out the new drive bought in December as good or bad. You receive a "Delayed Write Failed" error message in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
Last year when a friend's old XP case fell apart literally when something let go I suggest my old case could be a good substitute just in time for the friend's birthday no less and Vista saw a nice clean install once again on the host drive. After creating a full system image with Acronis to have onhand the Vista installed lasted until December. Suddenly the host drive had problems and it was decided a new drive would replace it. The original system image was then restored onto the new Caviar Blue 500gb drive and all went well until last week when the restored Vsta image would no longer boot.
When going to replace the restored Vista with a fresh install of Windows both installation attempts by dvd and by a usb installation key failed! The initial copy of setup files over to the drive failed after several tries with each method. Then the new drive was wiped completely for the next attempt with both dvd and flash drive to no end. ???
All hardwares are in perfect working order with memtest having been run and finding no faults with the 4gb of Mushkin Enhanced DDR3 1600 memory. The board identical to the one in my own 7 Ultimate case originally ordered as a spare was found good as well. The cpu however was swapped out being the AMD Phenom II X4 965 for a 975 upgrade on this case and went for the second case. The only other original item left would be the old video and sound cards with no display problems and stalls at post showing the old card is still in working order as well.
Two optical drives were tried and when discovering a large scratch was found on the Vista dvd that wasn't there last summer the flash drive was used. That same flash drive recently saw two clean installs of Vista on a laptop with a new drive and later when that new drive quit suddenly showing the integrity of the files remain. But the decision to try to install XP instead results in seeing the option to create a new primary, delete the existing where the XP installer indicated the fresh primary as invalid and needed a format. But that effort results in another error unable to format the new primary that the XP installer created.
Suspecting that new drive may be having a problem the second older drive was wiped and efforts to see an XP install to that drive also fail. The system specs are as follows here in case anyone has any idea as to why neither Vista or XP will at least get the initial setup files copied over to one of the drives and see the initial restart but simply stalls after a few minutes with each attempt
Case: Antec 900
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 965
Memory: 4gb Mushkn Enhanced DDR3 1600 1.5v
Hard Drives: WD Caviar Blue 500gb for OS, WD Caviar SE 500gb Storage
Board: Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
Video card: MSI Radeon HD2600XT(Still good after 5yrs. while old)
Sound card: Creative Xtreme Gamer
PSU: Corsair CX600 Gamer series
LCD: Samsung 24" with speakers
Note the USB Installation Key was made up prior to the scratch found on the Vista dvd and wouldn't be unable to read certain files as it seems the dvd is running into. So far that is limited to the dvd and not with the XP cd also stalling during each attempt to toss a fast install of the older version on. The friend was considering an upgrade to 7 since he originally would only go to Vista since his wife's laptop has Vista on that.
Besides the scratch the two optical drives and usb hub may be two culprits while he refused to reach behind the case to plug the flash drive into a rear port directly to try the usb key there instead. That doesn't help any since the 6port hub isn't a self powered by ac adapter type which could be another possible cause for the flash key install stalling.
Here's an update! My friend was able to get XP installed onto the new drive but is having problems with the install. The yellow triangle and popup indicating a "Failed to Write" type error prevails while the board is set in the Native ide mode. I will try to get him to edit the registy item indicated in the MS page seen at the link here but still have to get him to run the WD LifeGuard tools to confirm or rule out the new drive bought in December as good or bad. You receive a "Delayed Write Failed" error message in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
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My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade