vista wont install on new h/drive

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avro100

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I had to replace the hard drive on a dell insprion 1525 laptop and went to install vista home premium, every time i try to install vista it starts to load then crashes just after you see the cursor appearing on the black screen.
I have tried different disc's and even changed the bios settings to sata only. it's for a friend and it has the vista coa sticker on the bottom so i must install vista for him.
The old h/drive was dead so i could not ghost it to the new drive.

The funny thing is windows xp home installs OK then crashes just after it loads to the desktop..

anybody know whats wrong
thanks
 

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Rich46. thanks for the link. good info.

i have just found out that one of the ram chips is playing up, it has 3gb of ram and i removed the 1gb one and vista installed ok.
 

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Just some information and that is that vista is very Cautious with memory and if anything goes bad Vista "cries" And will crash to help protect your data ;)

Keep that in mind
Josh
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.10GHz
    Motherboard
    Foxconn H67MP-S/-V/H67MP
    Memory
    8.0GB DDR3 @ 665MHz (2GBx4)
    Graphics card(s)
    AMD HD Radeon 6870
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SMB1930NW (1440x900@60Hz)
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    977GB Seagate ST31000524AS ATA Device (SATA) + 250GB WD iSCSI attached Drive
    Case
    Novatech Night
    Mouse
    Dell HID-compliant mouse
    Keyboard
    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
OK good, glad that you found out the problem. We should all be grateful to the BFK for the time and effort he has put into that great tutorial.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
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