Alright well i got a copy of vista beta from a friend and went to install it after work today. I started the install within windows and then went away for a few hours. When i returned to the screen, the screen just showed an error. Not a blue screen but i black screen with a bunch of unrecognizeable text. So i restarted the computer booted from the vista dvd and the same screen popped up. I then took the disk and attempted to boot it from my dell laptop. It worked perfectly. Any idea what the problem is.

Heres a image of the screen

that looks like a basic hardware driver crash.. usually a problem with hardware on xp, but could also be a memory error... if using multiple sticks of ram, take them all but one out and try again, failing that.. dont install on that pc.

i also have the same problem when i installed windows xp on my old computer i just reboot it and it was gone...yeah..it was a trap or something....

I would beat you got a chopped up vista beta LOL

I have seen allot of threads on many forums with vista download links posted and most of them are either fake or chopped up ...