Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Error.

So my new shiny Vista disk arrived today, and having put it in the drive it
got to the end of the "windows is loading files" bar and then BSODed me. The
error message was something along the lines of Machine_Check_fail (that could
be a very poor transcription)

Anyway, assuming there must be a hardware problem somewhere that vista
didn't like I tried running the vista upgrade advisor under my XP install and
after around 3 seconds of "scanning" got this error:
"Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor encountered an error while scanning your
devices. If the problem persists, you can uninstall W.V.U.A. and reinstall
the latest version."

Several reinstalls later I have no progress on this front... so, any idea
what could be causing this?

You might give a description of your computer and all devices. Did you
format the hard drive yourself or is it new? Are you running the 32 or 64
bit version?

Clark

"sir_James" <> wrote in message
news:EB35FF48-E2AD-4834-97E4-...
> So my new shiny Vista disk arrived today, and having put it in the drive
> it
> got to the end of the "windows is loading files" bar and then BSODed me.
> The
> error message was something along the lines of Machine_Check_fail (that
> could
> be a very poor transcription)
>
> Anyway, assuming there must be a hardware problem somewhere that vista
> didn't like I tried running the vista upgrade advisor under my XP install
> and
> after around 3 seconds of "scanning" got this error:
> "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor encountered an error while scanning your
> devices. If the problem persists, you can uninstall W.V.U.A. and reinstall
> the latest version."
>
> Several reinstalls later I have no progress on this front... so, any idea
> what could be causing this?

I found the issue... I think...

Turns out the Vista Advisor didn't like the idea of my Network Card... could
be a problem as it is built into my Motherboard, but uninstalling this device
from device manager seemed to solve the problem... Any idea why this might
happen would be my next question...

The network card is an "IC Plus IP100 10/100 Fast ethernet adapter"

The problem occurs no matter which way I attempt to install Vista (clean,
upgrade etc) and in both 32 and 64 bit modes. My hard drive was formatted by
the Windows XP installation tool (full format) several months ago.

"Clark" wrote:

> You might give a description of your computer and all devices. Did you
> format the hard drive yourself or is it new? Are you running the 32 or 64
> bit version?
>
> Clark
>
> "sir_James" <> wrote in message
> news:EB35FF48-E2AD-4834-97E4-...
> > So my new shiny Vista disk arrived today, and having put it in the drive
> > it
> > got to the end of the "windows is loading files" bar and then BSODed me.
> > The
> > error message was something along the lines of Machine_Check_fail (that
> > could
> > be a very poor transcription)
> >
> > Anyway, assuming there must be a hardware problem somewhere that vista
> > didn't like I tried running the vista upgrade advisor under my XP install
> > and
> > after around 3 seconds of "scanning" got this error:
> > "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor encountered an error while scanning your
> > devices. If the problem persists, you can uninstall W.V.U.A. and reinstall
> > the latest version."
> >
> > Several reinstalls later I have no progress on this front... so, any idea
> > what could be causing this?
>
>