Anybody seen this before? (installing windows)

[Colt45ws]

I have a Dell XPS M1330 Laptop sitting here that had the HD die. It now has a replacement drive and Im trying to install Vista. It gets past the initial black and white loading bar but once it gets to the green bar it just does not do anything! Ive let it sit there for more than an hour with nothing occuring. Ive even gone though the trouble of making a bootable Vista USB key and it does the same thing. I also plugged in my bootable linux key to run memtest and let it go for a couple passes. No errors.

 

[EricF]

make sure your bios is set to boot to cd/dvd.
Assuming it gets to the point of booting on its own, make sure you format the drive using regular ntfs format. don't do the quick.

is the bios up to date as well? is the vista dvd in good shape?

 

[Colt45ws]

Actually the vista dvd is brand new. It is booting the DVD but for some reason the installer is stalling (lawl) at this point. Ive tried 3 different Vista DVDs along with a Vista USB key.

 

[Colt45ws]

Oh, yeah, it quite the process to get disc out of this thing too. Its a stupid slot drive and for some reason it does not pay attention to the eject button. Ive been booting into my linux usb key just so I can type `eject` and then `reboot`...

 

[javacontour]

Maybe the old HD is good and your DVD drive is causing problems?

If you've tried several DVDs and none install, perhaps you have a DVD drive issue?

What happens if you remove the DVD drive and put the original disk back in?

What about booting from the Vista key drive with the DVD drive removed?

 

[Colt45ws]

Im trying that one now. You cant actually remove it from what I can see but it can be disabled in the bios. I dont actually have the old HDD, my Dad sent this to me after he couldnt get it working.

 

[Colt45ws]

Noop. Stops at disk.sys no matter what I do. Ive even set the SATA mode to ATA instead of AHCI.

 

[Colt45ws]

The only thing I have gotten to work so far is to remove the HD. Which is perfectly useless. Anybody think its possible to start the install on a surrogate machine? I mean get it to first restart and swap it in.

 

[Colt45ws]

I hooked the drive to my computer, (eSATA and AHCI FTMFW) partitioned it and formatted it NTFS. It booted this time. I have no idea why that would hold it up but it works now.

 

[Colt45ws]

Thats perfect. Its not booting off the HDD now for the next part of the install. Not disk.sys this time. The next driver that is loaded. crcdisk.sys. Grr

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Are you booting a version of Vista w/o any SPs, with SP1 or with SP2?

 

[javacontour]

If you can hook up the drive to another computer to format it, can you copy the Vista CD files to that drive, boot from floppy and then execute the installer from the vista files freshly copied to the hard drive?

 

[Colt45ws]

SP1. I finally got it to work by resetting the BIOS and then setting it the way I had it before. I tried to install with AHCI which worked until it tried to reboot then I got a STOP 0x0000007b. I had to reinstall in ATA mode. I suspect for some reason it does not like or does not recognize the SATA and was not installing the proper driver. That does not make much sense though because its an Intel chipset.

 

[Colt45ws]

Hmm, another strange issue. The finger pad does not wake up properly when the computer goes into a sleep state.

 

[StormRider]

I just repaired my wife's M1530 with the same HD failure except I tossed vista and put Win 7 (32bit) on it. She was having problems with Vista connecting on the wireless. It took less than an hour to install the operating system on a fresh drive (no formating). I was pretty amazed.

I had to go to the Dell website to download the driver for the touchpad (Alps), it would work but wouldn't scroll on the side. I also downloaded other drivers and flashed the BIOS to the lastest version. It all went pretty smoothly.

 

[Colt45ws]

Okay, I have no idea what is going on. I got it installed with a SP2 Vista disc and it failed quite randomly after I had it all installed. Just the green bar for hours if you let it. I was able to get it booting again by disabling the processor features (multi-core, speed step, dynamic accel) for one boot up then it worked fine even with them all enabled. If it does it again Ill just kill one at a time starting with dynamic accel to find the culprit.

 

[Colt45ws]

Hate to double post so much....
Its multicore. Basically it will randomly fail to boot. So shut it off and disable the second core in the bios. Boot to logon screen then reboot, reenable the second core and it will boot successfully again. Im very confused why this works like this. The cooling fan works; I can see it spinning.

 

[Colt45ws]

Its crashing in ntkrnlmp reliably when being woken up. I found if I try to wake it from sleep it will eventually BSOD.
I have pulled the crash dump apart.

nt!KeBugCheckEx
nt!wctomb+0xd821
nt!KeUpdateRunTime+0x98d
nt!KeInsertQueueDpc+0x4c8
nt!KeUpdateRunTime+0x53f
nt!IoAcquireRemoveLockEx+0x39d
nt!IoAcquireRemoveLockEx+0x1af
nt!FsRtlAllocateFileLock+0x1ff3
nt!KeSynchronizeExecution+0xd07
acpi!ReadSystemIO+0x52
acpi!AccessBaseField+0x236
acpi!AccessFieldData+0x2bb
acpi!ReadFieldObj+0x97
acpi!RunContext+0x86
acpi!InsertReadyQueue+0xd5
acpi!RestartContext+0x36
acpi!AsyncEvalObject+0x1cc
acpi!SyncEvalObject+0x143
acpi!AMLIEvalNameSpaceObject+0xbc
acpi!ACPIIoctlEvalControlMethod+0x68
acpi!ACPIIrpDispatchDeviceControl+0x14e
acpi!ACPIDispatchIrp+0x12b
dxgkrnl+0x719aa
dxgkrnl+0x7f3d0
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x22a28
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x9bdb1
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x9c8af
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x239f6
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x266b0
igdkmd64!hybDriverEntry+0x2707d
dxgkrnl+0x77f2b
dxgkrnl+0x75273
dxgkrnl+0x7e99e
dxgkrnl+0x7e601
dxgkrnl+0x71caf
nt!IoWMIWriteEvent+0x422a
nt!IoCheckQuerySetFileInformation+0x97
nt!KeInitializeTimer+0x4e