Stressed Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 I've been trying to load Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5270 onto a Dell XPS600 without success. My system is running a 3.2GHz Dual-Core Pentium processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 500GB SATA drive using a NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller (not running RAID at this time). When I attempt to install the OS it initially loads some files and then reboots over and over again. I suspect it cannot deal with the NVIDIA RAID controller (i.e. - no drivers), but I can't seem to find any that will work. Has anyone else experienced this and gotten around it??? If so, how did you do it?
fizban2 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 NForce 4 has had many many issue with working on Vista, you may not be able to get it running through that SATA drive, if you ahve a IDE port still on that board you can try hooking up a IDE HD and see if it will pick that up but i suspect the NForce to be the culprit
fizban2 Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 actually i have installed Vista on a dozen dell machines and they work fine, the issue here is with the Nforce chipset, the drivers just aren't compatible with vista, nothing that dell did...
suryad Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 its dell...duh. wot do you expect!?Typical Dell hater response. It is a known fact that nforce chipsets have Vista related problems
hougtimo Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 well A) never had any problems with NF2 and anybuild of vista / longhorn. B)I have good reason for hating dells. I have purchased over 340 of them (some for corporate network, some for home use) about 2 thirds of them have gone bad. I only buy Elonex Machines now.
fizban2 Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 well then you might have a good reason for not liking dell, but the matter is still with the chipset, like you said you have it running on a NF2 chipset where as the NF4 is the one in question. try it with a NF4 mobo and see if you can get it running. It might be possible but i have yet to find drivers or a method that will work
hougtimo Posted February 11, 2006 Posted February 11, 2006 yes i have had it running fine on an nf4 chipset. check iexbeta - detailed instructions there
Porn Loader Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 well then you might have a good reason for not liking dell, but the matter is still with the chipset, like you said you have it running on a NF2 chipset where as the NF4 is the one in question. try it with a NF4 mobo and see if you can get it running. It might be possible but i have yet to find drivers or a method that will workno issues here with it on a nF4 or nF3
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