THANK YOU!!!! This worked! After hours on the net and forums, it is finally
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Please spread this procedure. It is nothing short of awesome.
"Bryce" wrote:
> I am running build 5600 w/ RC1 update. This is a basic explanation of if you
> get a black screen at first boot, which may be usefull to some who are
> experiancing this for the first time on any pre-release version in the beta
> test.
>
> -Black screen or video corruption at first boot.
>
> Welcome to Windows Vista! Both Nvidia and ATI based cards have known
> problems for certain models that are still under investigation. If you get
> the black screen or corrupt video output after seeing the grey screen saying
> "Windows is preparing to boot for the first time", this is a highly likely
> culprit. Chances are you panicked and rebooted and keep ending up either at a
> ascreen with a blinking cursor or random lines or snow accross the screen
> after the "Windows is loading" screen. So we'll take it from there.
>
> 1. Rebooot and enter Bios. Make sure the following is set up correctly. If
> you have never changed adavanced Bios setting, please call you rgeeky cousin
> who has and have him explain as he does the next steps.
>
> 2. Make sure that APIC is enabled and ver2.0 is supported. In simple terms,
> this is the software that assigns priority to all devices attatched to your
> motherboad. Please see Wikipedia for the heavy description. Ver2.0 is
> required for Vista to make sure that all your devices will be found during
> setup and running the OS. For those with some previous experiance, APIC takes
> care of assigning IRQ and DMA addressing to all system devices to make sure
> that every device can coomunicate with the system in order of priority. If
> you have a computer or motherboard made after 2005, this is almost assured to
> be an option. You can get Vista woring under Ver1.0, but we are leaving that
> to those with previous experiance and simply saying that this is not a MS
> supported option.
>
> 3.Make sure that ACPI is enabaled. This is different than above. ACPI is
> what makes the computer go to "sleep" or "hibernate". It is universal in
> computers after 2000. Make sure you have at least ACPI S1 enabaled. S3 is
> only possible in very custom system without headaches.
>
> 4. Make sure that MPS table 1.1 or 1.4 is selected. I recomend 1.1 from
> personal experiance. This only applies to those with dual-core systems.
> Please consult your computer/MB documentation.
>
> 5.Make sure that on-board video is disabled if availible. Please also
> disable quick/fast boot for your own sanity.
>
> 6. Now save and reboot. (Typically F10)
>
> 7. On reboot, after the machine has counted the system memory and found the
> hard drive, hit F8 to enter the windows boot menu. Your machine has not yet
> loaded up winodws from the hard drive, and is essentially no different than a
> machine with a blank hard drive. You want to choose safe mode with networking.
>
> 8. You will now see the system loading, line by line. Have a cup of coffee
> on slower systems.
>
> 9. You will end up in Safe mode, but will now be getting a message of not
> being able to continue as setup was not completed. Please hit Shift-F10. This
> will leave you staring at the command prompt. You do *remember* DOS, right?
>
> 10. Type "devmgmt.msc" and the Device manager from the windows controll
> panel will show up. Look at the video card. Chance are it will not have an
> exclamation point like some devices. Feel free to load up drivers for
> anything needed from here if you know how to.
>
> 11. Right click on the video card entry and choose "Update Driver..." A
> wizard will start to guid you through the proccess.
>
> 12. You will see "Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for
> software?" Click "No, not this time"
>
> 13.Click Next, then click "Chhose from a list", now click next.
>
> 14. Select the generic VGA Driver and click next. Windows will now install
> the standard VGA driver. Click OK to close the wizard and then close the
> device manager. Now click ok to that old warning about winodws not finished
> installing. The system will reboot.
>
> 15. The system will now boot up without without hanging or faulting on your
> video cards driver. The machine may want to reboot one more time after
> setting up your settings. If it does, you may have to repeat the proccess
> above one more time.
>
> 16. After completing set-up, you should now be looking at the desktop and
> thinking "Thank god". Now feel free to install the video drivers of your
> choice. Please make a restore point first.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
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