Vista - Absolutely NOTHING has worked!

I finally got it to work. The DVD media was fine. Vista didn't want to
cooperate the my North and South bridges. Only was able to install after
changing Mobos. It wasn't the SATA controller, because I disabled it
physically with the board jumper and attempted an IDE ATA drive. If anyope
else is using nForce 2, have fun...

I ultimately will have to upgrade, but for now Im using a diffrent Mobo and
processor. Im only ticked because Upgrade advisor andf Vista both claimed to
be fully compatible.

"Peter Hayes" wrote:

> Jason Sansone <JasonSansone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Tim,
> > I have the newest drivers installed for the 6600 GeForce. I have all the
> > most recent updates for everything in the system. The chipset is nForce2.
> > ASUS has not released a BIOS update for the Mobo. Sadly, I doubt they will,
> > yet the Upgrade Advisor has given me no hickups and claims I allllll set to
> > proceed with Microsoft suicide.
> >
> > I have spent a few hours talking to tech support in India and Canada. They
> > have been extremely helpful in reminding me how to open and close my DVD-ROM,
> > to check the disk is in the drive, and that I need to use my mouse to click
> > on upgrade. They also adamantly reminded me I purchased and upgrade and I
> > would not be able to do a clean install. I thank them for the leap forward
> > in progress they provided.
> >
> > Tim, all good ideas. Unfortunately, as my subject line reads, nothing is
> > working.
> >
> > Anyone got any crazy thoughts?
>
> Faulty DVD?
>
> --
>
> Immunity is better than innoculation.
>
> Peter
>

Only while attempting a Vista installation did I find out that certain nVidia
chipsets do not play nice with a specific LiteOn DVD drive. The combo of
that chipset, that exact model of drive, and Vista were simply never going to
co-exist. I swapped in a dfferent drive for Vista and installation went
flawlessly. Put the LiteOn back in and it would not recognize discs and
would complain that it needed a driver update. Of course there were no
drivers to update. A firmware update seemed to go fine then it permanently
forgot what region it was.

It's currently on RMA with LiteOn. Model SHM-165H6S

"Jason Sansone" wrote:

> I finally got it to work. The DVD media was fine. Vista didn't want to
> cooperate the my North and South bridges. Only was able to install after
> changing Mobos. It wasn't the SATA controller, because I disabled it
> physically with the board jumper and attempted an IDE ATA drive. If anyope
> else is using nForce 2, have fun...
>
> I ultimately will have to upgrade, but for now Im using a diffrent Mobo and
> processor. Im only ticked because Upgrade advisor andf Vista both claimed to
> be fully compatible.
>
> "Peter Hayes" wrote:
>
> > Jason Sansone <JasonSansone@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Tim,
> > > I have the newest drivers installed for the 6600 GeForce. I have all the
> > > most recent updates for everything in the system. The chipset is nForce2.
> > > ASUS has not released a BIOS update for the Mobo. Sadly, I doubt they will,
> > > yet the Upgrade Advisor has given me no hickups and claims I allllll set to
> > > proceed with Microsoft suicide.
> > >
> > > I have spent a few hours talking to tech support in India and Canada. They
> > > have been extremely helpful in reminding me how to open and close my DVD-ROM,
> > > to check the disk is in the drive, and that I need to use my mouse to click
> > > on upgrade. They also adamantly reminded me I purchased and upgrade and I
> > > would not be able to do a clean install. I thank them for the leap forward
> > > in progress they provided.
> > >
> > > Tim, all good ideas. Unfortunately, as my subject line reads, nothing is
> > > working.
> > >
> > > Anyone got any crazy thoughts?
> >
> > Faulty DVD?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Immunity is better than innoculation.
> >
> > Peter
> >

Tim Bostonia wrote:
....
> Vista's a stinker when it comes to reconizing devices...
> ... the older NVidia card may be a problem too... I don't
> believe Vista's supported on cards below the 6000 series, and again,
> that could be a .inf problem...


That's definitely a misbelief: Vista is fine in recognizing and
installing older display adapters!
I have successfully tried Matrox G400 32 MB, Matrox G550 32 MB, MSI
GeForce4 MX440 64 MB, PNY Quadro NVS 280 AGP, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
128 MB... and drivers are updated via Windows Update.


Roy