VISTA Ultimate fresh reformat clean Installation failure - hangs...

Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation o
Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I go
after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.

Details of the Lambo are here
'Techgage - ASUS Lamborghini VX2
(http://techgage.com/article/asus_lamborghini_vx2/

It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow i
multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played game
ok tho - but needed a cooler

Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the Asus bloatwar
mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff lik
Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc..

But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startu
and multitasking

I mentioned this to my friend a computer guru who advised me to do
format and fresh clean installation. He had a spare moment in th
weekend so he formated C drive - including the recovery partition as
did not want the pre-installed Asus software

However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs nea
the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviousl
can't get to desktop or do a safe mode

Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem

BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk. M
computer came preinstalled with the VISTA Ultimate OEM copy with only
recovery disk. This caused significant problems which was only resolve
after a lot of pain, esp. with the original crappy ASUS graphic car
drivers which caused shutdown and sleep BSOD failures

The computer is spec. No modifications made. Asus changed th
motherboard in 2008 after the headphone jack failed. But no proble
afterwards

The notebook was actually running pretty good and reliable before this
The old sleep failure problems was resolved with the long awaited ne
Nvidia drivers. Installed all the updates, no problem. I just thot th
reformat and reinstallation would clear out all the asus crap and mak
it better. Old school thinking I guess

The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem

We've tried loading up SATA drivers but no help

My friend was using his company Vista Ultimate Corporate installatio
disk to install as all I have is the VISTA CD Key

Please help

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sniper968

Hi,

The system likely requires one or more proprietary drivers that were
included in Asus' recovery method but are not found in a standard Vista
image. You need to contact Asus for a proper set of disks since you removed
the recovery data. There is no way of knowing how many driver files may be
needed or which ones they are.

Also, Vista Ultimate is not a corporate version, it is a consumer version.
The corporate version is called Enterprise. An Enterprise disk may have been
altered by the company to match their hardware and may not be suitable for
use on other machines.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"sniper968" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation of
> Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I got
> after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.
>
> Details of the Lambo are here:
> 'Techgage - ASUS Lamborghini VX2'
> (http://techgage.com/article/asus_lamborghini_vx2/)
>
> It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow in
> multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played games
> ok tho - but needed a cooler.
>
> Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the Asus bloatware
> mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff like
> Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc...
>
> But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startup
> and multitasking.
>
> I mentioned this to my friend a computer guru who advised me to do a
> format and fresh clean installation. He had a spare moment in the
> weekend so he formated C drive - including the recovery partition as I
> did not want the pre-installed Asus software.
>
> However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs near
> the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviously
> can't get to desktop or do a safe mode.
>
> Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem.
>
> BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk. My
> computer came preinstalled with the VISTA Ultimate OEM copy with only a
> recovery disk. This caused significant problems which was only resolved
> after a lot of pain, esp. with the original crappy ASUS graphic card
> drivers which caused shutdown and sleep BSOD failures.
>
> The computer is spec. No modifications made. Asus changed the
> motherboard in 2008 after the headphone jack failed. But no problem
> afterwards.
>
> The notebook was actually running pretty good and reliable before this.
> The old sleep failure problems was resolved with the long awaited new
> Nvidia drivers. Installed all the updates, no problem. I just thot the
> reformat and reinstallation would clear out all the asus crap and make
> it better. Old school thinking I guess.
>
> The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem.
>
> We've tried loading up SATA drivers but no help.
>
> My friend was using his company Vista Ultimate Corporate installation
> disk to install as all I have is the VISTA CD Key.
>
> Please help.
>
>
> --
> sniper968

"sniper968" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation of
> Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I got
> after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.
>
> Details of the Lambo are here:
> 'Techgage - ASUS Lamborghini VX2'
> (http://techgage.com/article/asus_lamborghini_vx2/)
>
> It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow in
> multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played games
> ok tho - but needed a cooler.
>
> Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the Asus bloatware
> mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff like
> Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc...
>
> But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startup
> and multitasking.
>
> I mentioned this to my friend a computer guru who advised me to do a
> format and fresh clean installation. He had a spare moment in the
> weekend so he formated C drive - including the recovery partition as I
> did not want the pre-installed Asus software.
>
> However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs near
> the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviously
> can't get to desktop or do a safe mode.
>
> Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem.
>
> BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk. My
> computer came preinstalled with the VISTA Ultimate OEM copy with only a
> recovery disk. This caused significant problems which was only resolved
> after a lot of pain, esp. with the original crappy ASUS graphic card
> drivers which caused shutdown and sleep BSOD failures.
>
> The computer is spec. No modifications made. Asus changed the
> motherboard in 2008 after the headphone jack failed. But no problem
> afterwards.
>
> The notebook was actually running pretty good and reliable before this.
> The old sleep failure problems was resolved with the long awaited new
> Nvidia drivers. Installed all the updates, no problem. I just thot the
> reformat and reinstallation would clear out all the asus crap and make
> it better. Old school thinking I guess.
>
> The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem.
>
> We've tried loading up SATA drivers but no help.
>
> My friend was using his company Vista Ultimate Corporate installation
> disk to install as all I have is the VISTA CD Key.
>
> Please help.
>
>
> --
> sniper968

You need to find an new computer guru. One that knows something about vista
other than reinstall from a disk that is not set up for your system. Before
formatting he should have advised you to make the install disks from the
hidden partition. Didn't know that? Should have read the information that
came with your machine. He also should advised you on how, when, to make a
backup of your hard drive so you wouldn't have this problem. Now as Rick
advised you need to contact ASUS and see if they can supply you with the
install disks for your system. For the future all preinstalled systems come
with an OEM version of the operating system that is modified for that
hardware. When the preload is in a partition on the hard drive there are
instructions to make a set of preinstall CD's.

sniper968;1099126 Wrote:
> Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation o
> Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I go
> after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.
>
> Details of the Lambo are here
> 'Techgage - ASUS Lamborghini VX2
> (http://techgage.com/article/asus_lamborghini_vx2/
>
> It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow i
> multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played game
> ok tho - but needed a cooler
>
> Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the Asus bloatwar
> mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff lik
> Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc..
>
> But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startu
> and multitasking
>
> I mentioned this to my friend a computer guru who advised me to do
> format and fresh clean installation. He had a spare moment in th
> weekend so he formated C drive - including the recovery partition as
> did not want the pre-installed Asus software
>
> However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs nea
> the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviousl
> can't get to desktop or do a safe mode
>
> Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem
>
> BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk. M
> computer came preinstalled with the VISTA Ultimate OEM copy with only
> recovery disk. This caused significant problems which was only resolve
> after a lot of pain, esp. with the original crappy ASUS graphic car
> drivers which caused repeated crashes and sleep BSOD failures an
> couldn't be repaired using the stupid Asus recovery disk
>
> The computer is spec. No modifications made. Asus changed th
> motherboard in 2008 after the headphone jack failed. But no proble
> afterwards
>
> The notebook was actually running pretty good and reliable before this
> The old sleep failure problems was resolved with the long awaited ne
> Nvidia drivers. Installed all the updates, no problem. I just thot th
> reformat and reinstallation would clear out all the asus crap and mak
> it better. Old school thinking I guess
>
> The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem
>
> We've tried loading up SATA drivers but no help
>
> (UPDATE: I changed the HD SATA to compatible mode and was able t
> successfully install XP PRO - my old installation disk - onto the Asu
> Lamborghini notebook. It works - even without the graphic card drivers
> Can't seem to access the internet tho. But I can access D drive and vie
> my storage information like video/photos etc..
>
> Please help

Having the same problem using recovery disks sniper96

Not the same laptop but - same issue with restoring it. hangs nea
completion

a couple tips i can give you, though i have not found a clean instal
solution, i did manage to finess my comp into submission with only a 96
recovery completion adn it's been heck ever since

prep of the comp is golden - run a memory test - i did find a ba
modua

make sure your bios timer is set to the correct time - keeping in min
if it is 24hr or 12hr displa

Remove all modules - ie:memory card reader module

if you can - ghost the restore image to your drive - i do not know wh
the disks cause problems on some laptops adn i'm sure Acer and other
like my Sony - do not sit there installing from disk

Though our comps cause may not be the same for this issues - i ca
tellyou it is a total pain in the butt to locate the problem - i've bee
fighting this Recovery for 2 weeks now

Another recomendation - go Win

i know others with the same problem or problems with Vista Recovery fo
manufacturers propietory software, that said the heck with fighting i
and went to Win7 and now no problems

I'm on the verge of it myself and it doesn't cost you anything but tim
to sign up and download the Beta version at microsoft. And like Ultimat
it comes with drivers for DVD for WMP - it's notthe final release an
updates often with fixes - but no issues from those i know using it.

best of luck - i'll watch the thread to see if maybe some posts a cure
i haven't tried yet for recovery.

Sweet looking laptop btw - may try the Leather look on my Sony
- well maybe not - i have carbon fiber... ;0)


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SonyVGNSZ460N

Does it hang at the point where setup is checking the computer's
performance? That's where the blurbs come on, telling you the advantages of
using Vista, while a progress bar appears at the bottom. If that's the case,
there may be a conflict between setup and one of the devices on the
computer. Press ALT+ F4 to, to by-pass this check, and go directly to the
desktop, and then check out the Device Manager to see what drivers need to
be installed.


"sniper968" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi. I've got a serious problem. I decided to do a fresh installation of
> Vista Ultimate on my $4000 Asus VX2S Lamborghini notebook (which I got
> after getting a nice pay bonus back in 2007.
>
> Details of the Lambo are here:
> 'Techgage - ASUS Lamborghini VX2'
> (http://techgage.com/article/asus_lamborghini_vx2/)
>
> It was very sluggish and took about 5minutes to loadup. It was slow in
> multitasking and hanged on Windows Media Centre operations. Played games
> ok tho - but needed a cooler.
>
> Things improved a bit after I deleted some of the Asus bloatware
> mentioned in the unofficial asus notebook forum FAQ. Stuff like
> Splendid, TPM, Asus Protect, Asus live update, power4phone etc...
>
> But it still seemed a tad slow for a US$4000 machine, esp the startup
> and multitasking.
>
> I mentioned this to my friend a computer guru who advised me to do a
> format and fresh clean installation. He had a spare moment in the
> weekend so he formated C drive - including the recovery partition as I
> did not want the pre-installed Asus software.
>
> However after the 1st reinstall reboot - the installation hangs near
> the completion mark. I'm puzzled - not sure whats going on. Obviously
> can't get to desktop or do a safe mode.
>
> Can anyone help? Did a search and it seems to be a rare problem.
>
> BTW, I was using a Vista Ultimate Corporate installation disk. My
> computer came preinstalled with the VISTA Ultimate OEM copy with only a
> recovery disk. This caused significant problems which was only resolved
> after a lot of pain, esp. with the original crappy ASUS graphic card
> drivers which caused shutdown and sleep BSOD failures.
>
> The computer is spec. No modifications made. Asus changed the
> motherboard in 2008 after the headphone jack failed. But no problem
> afterwards.
>
> The notebook was actually running pretty good and reliable before this.
> The old sleep failure problems was resolved with the long awaited new
> Nvidia drivers. Installed all the updates, no problem. I just thot the
> reformat and reinstallation would clear out all the asus crap and make
> it better. Old school thinking I guess.
>
> The Asus lambo uses a SATA HD which may be the cause of the problem.
>
> We've tried loading up SATA drivers but no help.
>
> My friend was using his company Vista Ultimate Corporate installation
> disk to install as all I have is the VISTA CD Key.
>
> Please help.
>
>
> --
> sniper968

I really don't understand what's going on. It was actually working i
Vista before this clean format and fresh up

XP works ok.

I just installed Vista on top of that and I still get the same problem
It shows installation was ok - then it comes to the black Microsof
Window bootup screen = and shows its loading up forever.

No error message

--
sniper968

sniper968 <> wrote:

>I really don't understand what's going on. It was actually working in
>Vista before this clean format and fresh up.
>
>XP works ok.
>
>I just installed Vista on top of that and I still get the same problem.
>It shows installation was ok - then it comes to the black Microsoft
>Window bootup screen = and shows its loading up forever.
>
>No error messages

Others have told you that since you did NOT use a disc that had
specific drivers for your machine, you can expect to have problems.

You mentioned in an earlier post that you didn't want "any Asus
software" installed, so you didn't use the recovery partition.

It is looking as if you might have screwed up big time.

Not half as screwed up as you mate

Sounds like you need more fibre in your diet

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sniper968

sniper968;1099902 Wrote:
> Not half as screwed up as you mate.
>
> Sounds like you need more fibre in your diet.


sniper968 - he's only trying ot help here - put the gun down...

no... you can't shoot him one more time... come on now... put it down

down.... no... down... that's it... good sniper968

- okay now... Bill Dagget may have a point abou the drivers - most
Computer manufacturers use custom drivers - hence the big bitch about
them not keeping them up to date - and your possible issue with your
graphics card drivers.

As well this issue made way for the the hacks to update comp
manufacturer drivers to the hardware manufaturers latest drivers. MOD
laptop being one site that has this software.

Most hardware manufacturers will tell you on their sites - you must use
say Acer drivers as they are proprietary drivers. you'll loose feature
capabilities if you don't.

try installing those drivers first - then hack them to the latest
hardware manutacturers updated driver - as mentioned - there is a way to
do this.

installing Vista via a Win Vista disk rather than a Acer Restore disk -
could be the problem... your xp install may have worked but the Vista
one will not - it's a tad tempermental and more sensitive than XP from
what i understand in my readings of others attempting the same.

again nice looking laptop you have - Sony has come out with there
leather covered version this year - looks good as well

i enjoy seeing the laptop mods as there aren't a whole lot out there
that are real eye catchers and usefull for everyday use.

yours is one of the nicer mods i've seen... now if you can just get it
back on track... with vista or the option - Win7

all just trying to help and keep in mind - it can get a tad frustrating
at times...
so take your time...


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SonyVGNSZ460N

Thanks SonyVGN

I installed the nvidia graphic driver for the system 2 months ago whe
it was finally released. not the laptop2go, but the actual ngd from th
nv website. Took them over 2 years to release it. It worked perfectly.

The original Asus graphic cards drivers caused the computer not to wak
up when it went to sleep. The only recourse from that was a reboot
Which on one occasion caused windows to break down. The stupid Asu
recovery disk provided did not offer a repair option. I had to borrow a
installation disk to do the repair

However the computer still loaded up pretty slow. It took about 5 min
+ before the HD light stopped flashing.

2 weeks ago, I deleted all the stupid asus bloatware and surprise, i
ran much faster

Last weekend, I thot I'd go one step better and do a fresh installatio
- which led to my current predicament.

Yeah, the issue is that it cannot complete the restore process. Stops
you can reboot - but it hangs exactly as you say

Called up Asus and they told me to use the recovery disk. Its loadin
up right now. I was surprised as I thought it would only work with th
image partition

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sniper968