Vista RC1 update failure

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.

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" <> wrote in message
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> 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.

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" <> wrote in message
> news:902D3DB1-80C0-422A-8DEF-...
> > 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.
>
>

How much hard drive space is available?

Disconnect attached devices not absolutely needed for installation,
especially usb devices.

Run some memory tests.


"VT Phantos" <> wrote in message
news:C7407BA5-21E3-4247-82F0-...
> 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" <> wrote in message
>> news:902D3DB1-80C0-422A-8DEF-...
>> > 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.
>>
>>