Still evaluating Vista

Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
evaluating Vista
for several months now.
Though I was not ready to "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1 to be
officially released
before I made my "final" decision.

I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely standard
hardware
(Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The SP unpacked OK...
and progressed to the point where a reboot was expected...then failed with
an error
code and a weblink.

The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and chkdsk.

Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
pack...
I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I used Vista Home
Premium
but got the same results.

Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.

Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.

Why would that be???

/philo/ said:
> Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
> evaluating Vista for several months now. Though I was not ready to
> "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1 to be officially released
> before I made my "final" decision.
>
> I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely
> standard hardware (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The
> SP unpacked OK... and progressed to the point where a reboot was
> expected...then failed with an error code and a weblink.
>
> The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and
> chkdsk.
>
> Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
> pack... I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I
> used Vista Home Premium but got the same results.
>
> Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
>
> Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
>
> Why would that be???

As unhelpful as it is, this suggests that a more advanced feature, not
found in "Starter", is incompatible with your hardware or drivers.

<> wrote in message
news:...
> /philo/ said:
> > Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
> > evaluating Vista for several months now. Though I was not ready to
> > "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1 to be officially released
> > before I made my "final" decision.
> >
> > I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely
> > standard hardware (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The
> > SP unpacked OK... and progressed to the point where a reboot was
> > expected...then failed with an error code and a weblink.
> >
> > The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and
> > chkdsk.
> >
> > Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
> > pack... I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I
> > used Vista Home Premium but got the same results.
> >
> > Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
> >
> > Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
> >
> > Why would that be???
>
> As unhelpful as it is, this suggests that a more advanced feature, not
> found in "Starter", is incompatible with your hardware or drivers.

That is of course logical...
but I had no 3rd party drivers of any type installed.

The Vista installation was fresh and nothing at all was done to it.
I tried applying SP1 immediately after Vista's initial bootup.

Interestingly enough, though I never would have even tried Vista Starter...
from what I saw of it ...it appeared to be a perfectly good system.

the only way to give your blessing to vista is to do a exorcism

HA!

"philo" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
> evaluating Vista
> for several months now.
> Though I was not ready to "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1 to
> be
> officially released
> before I made my "final" decision.
>
> I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely standard
> hardware
> (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The SP unpacked OK...
> and progressed to the point where a reboot was expected...then failed with
> an error
> code and a weblink.
>
> The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and chkdsk.
>
> Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
> pack...
> I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I used Vista Home
> Premium
> but got the same results.
>
> Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
>
> Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
>
> Why would that be???
>
>

"on the Bridge" <On@the,bridge> wrote in message
news:47e51d98$...
> the only way to give your blessing to vista is to do a exorcism
>
> HA!
>
That's the feeling I'm having <G>


> "philo" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
> > Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
> > evaluating Vista
> > for several months now.
> > Though I was not ready to "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1 to
> > be
> > officially released
> > before I made my "final" decision.
> >
> > I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely standard
> > hardware
> > (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The SP unpacked OK...
> > and progressed to the point where a reboot was expected...then failed
with
> > an error
> > code and a weblink.
> >
> > The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and chkdsk.
> >
> > Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
> > pack...
> > I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I used Vista
Home
> > Premium
> > but got the same results.
> >
> > Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
> >
> > Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
> >
> > Why would that be???
> >
> >
>
>

it was probably some difference in a driver version
that created such problems...

it seems to me that we will have to wait until sp2 for vista to react in a
expected manner and not do strange things




"philo" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
>
> "on the Bridge" <On@the,bridge> wrote in message
> news:47e51d98$...
>> the only way to give your blessing to vista is to do a exorcism
>>
>> HA!
>>
> That's the feeling I'm having <G>
>
>
>> "philo" <> wrote in message
>> news:. ..
>> > Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
>> > evaluating Vista
>> > for several months now.
>> > Though I was not ready to "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1
>> > to
>> > be
>> > officially released
>> > before I made my "final" decision.
>> >
>> > I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely
>> > standard
>> > hardware
>> > (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The SP unpacked OK...
>> > and progressed to the point where a reboot was expected...then failed
> with
>> > an error
>> > code and a weblink.
>> >
>> > The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and chkdsk.
>> >
>> > Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
>> > pack...
>> > I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I used Vista
> Home
>> > Premium
>> > but got the same results.
>> >
>> > Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
>> >
>> > Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
>> >
>> > Why would that be???
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

"on the Bridge" <On@the,bridge> wrote in message
news:47e5227f$...
> it was probably some difference in a driver version
> that created such problems...
>
> it seems to me that we will have to wait until sp2 for vista to react in a
> expected manner and not do strange things
>
>
>


I think I'm putting Vista on the back burner for now.
Next time I do a major harware upgrade I'll probably try it again
>
> "philo" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
> >
> > "on the Bridge" <On@the,bridge> wrote in message
> > news:47e51d98$...
> >> the only way to give your blessing to vista is to do a exorcism
> >>
> >> HA!
> >>
> > That's the feeling I'm having <G>
> >
> >
> >> "philo" <> wrote in message
> >> news:. ..
> >> > Since I have a lot of people depending on me for advice I have been
> >> > evaluating Vista
> >> > for several months now.
> >> > Though I was not ready to "give it my blessing" I was anxious for SP1
> >> > to
> >> > be
> >> > officially released
> >> > before I made my "final" decision.
> >> >
> >> > I had a fresh install of Vista Ultimate installed on completely
> >> > standard
> >> > hardware
> >> > (Asus, AMD, NVIDIA) but SP1 would not install. The SP unpacked OK...
> >> > and progressed to the point where a reboot was expected...then failed
> > with
> >> > an error
> >> > code and a weblink.
> >> >
> >> > The link of course gave non-helpful advice such as run sfc and
chkdsk.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway after trying several times and even re-downloading the service
> >> > pack...
> >> > I decided to format the drive and start over. This time I used Vista
> > Home
> >> > Premium
> >> > but got the same results.
> >> >
> >> > Now, out of curiosity I formatted again and installed Vista Starter.
> >> >
> >> > Oddly enough SP1 installed just fine....not a trace of a problem.
> >> >
> >> > Why would that be???
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>