vista 5270 installation

I have installed Vista on a machine by booting from the CD and all installed fine, so I decided to do the same on my DELL Dimension 8300 system and half way though my monitor would go blank and the green light on the monitor would go orange. I have tried installing by booting from CD and also installing within windows, with the same results

Sounds like whilst installing, it misses out the video card or monitor drivers. Try with a different monitor, and make sure it's a fully clean partition - and if that fails, go back to burning the media to disk again :o)
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I don't have a different monitor, I can always try unplugging the DVI and using the VGA side of things. I thought the monitor driver is generic anyway? What if I copy the contents of the DVD to another partition install windows from there?
"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message

Sounds like whilst installing, it misses out the video card or monitor drivers. Try with a different monitor, and make sure it's a fully clean partition - and if that fails, go back to burning the media to disk again :o)
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Have a wild go - the monitor driver may be generic as is the USB one for example, however as I said, try with a different monitor *if* you have one, or yeh, try burning or using Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to emulate the ISO instead - saves a lot on writing it to disk each time ;o)
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or it could be te video card from dell that doesnt have any compatibility wih even the generic vista drivers. but thats what ou get for owning a dell. could allways slpa another vid card in there and try that

"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message

Have a wild go - the monitor driver may be generic as is the USB one for example, however as I said, try with a different monitor *if* you have one, or yeh, try burning or using Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to emulate the ISO instead - saves a lot on writing it to disk each time ;o)
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5270 did the same on my computer too! Despite me using an nVidia 6600GT which is supposed to be more than supported in Vista, my screen went black after the setup was finished and Vista should have booted normally.
After the initial loading phase with the low-resolution black and white Longhorn logo, it was time for the Vista logon screen or desktop to appear, but instead the monitor switched to standby. However, I noticed that the hard drive continued working for some time more, so I knew the OS was loading its desktop normally, only thing was the monitor could not display it. Same thing happened every time I booted Vista (never managed to see them boot normally after setup finished).
The only solution was to boot Vista in Safe Mode (VGA mode wouldn't do), and then manually install an nVidia driver for my VGA card. Strange thing is that from what I saw in Safe Mode, Vista had correctly identified my 6600GT, and installed their LDDM drivers for it, but they caused the monitor to Standby! Manuall installing 85-series nVidia drivers for XP solved the problem, and after I restared Vista booted normally in full color and resolution...
Hope this helps, Clayton.
"Clayton" wrote in message

I have installed Vista on a machine by booting from the CD and all installed fine, so I decided to do the same on my DELL Dimension 8300 system and half way though my monitor would go blank and the green light on the monitor would go orange. I have tried installing by booting from CD and also installing within windows, with the same results

I already have, it's a non Dell video card!! I think it has something to do with my s-video cable that was plugged into the video card and screwing up the PNP monitor files

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or it could be te video card from dell that doesnt have any compatibility wih even the generic vista drivers. but thats what ou get for owning a dell. could allways slpa another vid card in there and try that

"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message Have a wild go - the monitor driver may be generic as is the USB one for example, however as I said, try with a different monitor *if* you have one, or yeh, try burning or using Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to emulate the ISO instead - saves a lot on writing it to disk each time ;o)
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Mine is also a Nvidia 6600, don't think it's the GT model, windows would install ok with the VGA cable connected and also the s-video cable which goes to my TV, but not with the DVI cable connected, but it will install ok with DVI but have to remove the s-video cable.

"Elias Hantzakos" wrote in message

5270 did the same on my computer too! Despite me using an nVidia 6600GT which is supposed to be more than supported in Vista, my screen went black after the setup was finished and Vista should have booted normally.
After the initial loading phase with the low-resolution black and white Longhorn logo, it was time for the Vista logon screen or desktop to appear, but instead the monitor switched to standby. However, I noticed that the hard drive continued working for some time more, so I knew the OS was loading its desktop normally, only thing was the monitor could not display it. Same thing happened every time I booted Vista (never managed to see them boot normally after setup finished).
The only solution was to boot Vista in Safe Mode (VGA mode wouldn't do), and then manually install an nVidia driver for my VGA card. Strange thing is that from what I saw in Safe Mode, Vista had correctly identified my 6600GT, and installed their LDDM drivers for it, but they caused the monitor to Standby! Manuall installing 85-series nVidia drivers for XP solved the problem, and after I restared Vista booted normally in full color and resolution...
Hope this helps, Clayton.
"Clayton" wrote in message I have installed Vista on a machine by booting from the CD and all installed fine, so I decided to do the same on my DELL Dimension 8300 system and half way though my monitor would go blank and the green light on the monitor would go orange. I have tried installing by booting from CD and also installing within windows, with the same results