after 2 1 2 hours install cant do anything

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

Those sound cards are sometimes pretty difficult to get going in Vista. Have you tried going here yet? If not, give it a try. http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/down.php?language=en. "Guess Who" wrote in message

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

Maybe you can give beta 2 a try when it becomes available. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Guess Who" wrote in message

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

Yeah, I would also do that. I would recollect that it will be astronomically better than 5308. My guess is it will be coming out in a week or thereabouts. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Maybe you can give beta 2 a try when it becomes available. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Guess Who" wrote in message Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

I'm not sure I can trust recollections from the future....
Travis King wrote:

Yeah, I would also do that. I would recollect that it will be astronomically better than 5308. My guess is it will be coming out in a week or thereabouts. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Maybe you can give beta 2 a try when it becomes available.

LOL! -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Mike Williams" wrote in message

I'm not sure I can trust recollections from the future....
Travis King wrote: Yeah, I would also do that. I would recollect that it will be astronomically better than 5308. My guess is it will be coming out in a week or thereabouts. "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message Maybe you can give beta 2 a try when it becomes available.

Guess Who wrote:

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

Welcome to Betaville!

Frank

Have you tried booting in safe mode? I get BSOD with certain drivers installed. For example I keep getting drivers for a Matrox card from Windows Update. But every time I install one I get a blue screen at startup. If safe mode gets you around the faulty driver, you may be able to disable the corresponding device from there.
"Guess Who" wrote in message

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

I got a BSOD every once in a while - totally random but reinstalled the whole thing and this time instead of taking 8 hours to do (literally did, went to bed and woke up and still bloody installing), it only took an hour and a half - the wireless drivers still don't work and cause it to BSOD but still, at least it doesn't randomly restart :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Puppy Breath" wrote in message

Have you tried booting in safe mode? I get BSOD with certain drivers installed. For example I keep getting drivers for a Matrox card from Windows Update. But every time I install one I get a blue screen at startup. If safe mode gets you around the faulty driver, you may be able to disable the corresponding device from there.
"Guess Who" wrote in message Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

Did you install to the same partition or a different one?
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"Guess Who" wrote in message

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

No, I installed to a different, empty, partition. Tried again in vain tonight, no luck. I can move about fine in Safe Mode, but I really can't do much there. Changed a few settings, but could not install anything.
I tried on my laptop tonight -- after 3 1/2 hours, and the screen just sitting there, no disk activity or anything, I just shut the laptop off and my XP pro was restored.
What a HUGE letdown!
"Peter Foldes" wrote in message Did you install to the same partition or a different one?
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"Guess Who" wrote in message

Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

re-install
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"Guess Who" wrote in message

No, I installed to a different, empty, partition. Tried again in vain tonight, no luck. I can move about fine in Safe Mode, but I really can't do much there. Changed a few settings, but could not install anything.
I tried on my laptop tonight -- after 3 1/2 hours, and the screen just sitting there, no disk activity or anything, I just shut the laptop off and my XP pro was restored.
What a HUGE letdown!
"Peter Foldes" wrote in message Did you install to the same partition or a different one?
-- Peter
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"Guess Who" wrote in message Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2 hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours to install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why 2 - 2 1/2 hours?
I finally got to install on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1705) when deleting the XP Partition altogether and installing 5308 to C:\, but again, I have no wireless access, things are EXTREMELY slow, I can't install a graphics driver, and it's practically useless.
I do hope the newer builds will install under 2 hours and can be used for something other than staring at a 640 x 480 ugly screen.

"Peter Foldes" wrote in message re-install
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"Guess Who" wrote in message

No, I installed to a different, empty, partition. Tried again in vain tonight, no luck. I can move about fine in Safe Mode, but I really can't do much there. Changed a few settings, but could not install anything.
I tried on my laptop tonight -- after 3 1/2 hours, and the screen just sitting there, no disk activity or anything, I just shut the laptop off and my XP pro was restored.
What a HUGE letdown!
"Peter Foldes" wrote in message Did you install to the same partition or a different one?
-- Peter
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"Guess Who" wrote in message Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

The best you can do is to try the next available build which is BETA 2, expected to be released on Tueday. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Guess Who" wrote in message

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2 hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours to install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why 2 - 2 1/2 hours?
I finally got to install on my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1705) when deleting the XP Partition altogether and installing 5308 to C:\, but again, I have no wireless access, things are EXTREMELY slow, I can't install a graphics driver, and it's practically useless.
I do hope the newer builds will install under 2 hours and can be used for something other than staring at a 640 x 480 ugly screen.

"Peter Foldes" wrote in message re-install
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"Guess Who" wrote in message No, I installed to a different, empty, partition. Tried again in vain tonight, no luck. I can move about fine in Safe Mode, but I really can't do much there. Changed a few settings, but could not install anything.
I tried on my laptop tonight -- after 3 1/2 hours, and the screen just sitting there, no disk activity or anything, I just shut the laptop off and my XP pro was restored.
What a HUGE letdown!
"Peter Foldes" wrote in message Did you install to the same partition or a different one?
-- Peter
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"Guess Who" wrote in message Uggghhhh This is killing me!
I downloaded the CTP build 5308 tonight (MSDN). It took MUCH LESS time to download the ISO than to install! It took less than an hour to download, but just about 2 1/2 hours to install! But, NOW I can't do ANYTHING!
The computer always end up with a BSOD, which goes away much too quickly to see what's going on! Every time I restart, it eventually gets into windows, but once windows is up, I keep getting error messages that the services and apps running have stopped responding and will shut down. (run DLL as APP, explorer, etc - you name it, it stops responding!)
I tried to view the drive Vista is installed on so I can install the Geforce 6800 driver, and the Audigy 2 ZS driver I downloaded thru XP. Of course, that stops responding, then blue screens. I tried to install the drivers in safe mode, and I kept getting the "stopped responding" errors and these drivers would not install. So basically, I spent 5 hours tonight, for NOTHING!
I've installed this on a DELL Dimension 9100 with 2 x 500GB hard drives (no RAID). I have a total of 8 partitions on the 2 drives. (C: is my XP drive... I installed Vista on D: (80 GB partition).
Hardware: Intel 945 Chipset / Pentium D 3.2Ghz Geforce 6800 256MB PCI- express Audigy 2 ZS sound card 3 GB total (2 x 1 GB, 2 x 512MB) Dual channel DDR2 533 Mhz DIMMS 9 in 1 Card reader 16x DL DVD +/- R/RW 48X CDRW external 200GB Firewire drive (Seagate) Canon LIDE 60 scanner Konica Minolta 2400W laser
I Think that's about it.....
How do I get this thing running???

On Fri, 19 May 2006 03:56:48 +0100, Guess Who wrote:

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2 hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours to install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why 2 - 2 1/2 hours?

LOL, when Vista was still longhorn, Microsoft were promising it would only take 20 minutes to install!!! Perhaps they missed off the "2 Hours And..." bit...
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"Mark Gillespie" wrote in message On Fri, 19 May 2006 03:56:48 +0100, Guess Who wrote:

I've tried to install 3 TIMES! It's REALLY frustrating waiting over 2 hours, only to find out it doesn't work. Why does it take over 2 hours to install? I can fully install Windows XP w/SP2 in about 19 minutes! Why 2 - 2 1/2 hours?

LOL, when Vista was still longhorn, Microsoft were promising it would only take 20 minutes to install!!! Perhaps they missed off the "2 Hours And.." bit...
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