Vista Install problem

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I am trying to install windows vista (upgrade, but a clean install) on a IP35-E motherboard. Everytime I try to install, i get a BSOD and a stop message. Its error 0x0000007B. That leads me to believe its a error with my SATA controller, but I cant find any driver to load to make this work. I am trying to put it on my secondary HDD as listed below. Does anyone here have any ideas on what driver I might need, or a way to fix this problem?
 
If it's a P35 chipset motherboard, it's probably Intel ICH-9, drivers of which are in F6 floppy format on Intel's site.
 
You don't need to load any drivers for that chipset in Vista. Try pulling 1 GB of your system memory, and give that a shot. Is this intended to be a dual boot setup?
 
DeaconFrost said:
You don't need to load any drivers for that chipset in Vista. Try pulling 1 GB of your system memory, and give that a shot. Is this intended to be a dual boot setup?
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Yes, and I already removed all but 1gb in the system and I am getting the same error.....
 
Are you able to boot into Safe Mode? Maybe you can find out more about the error message in the Event Viewer.
 
Azhar said:
Are you able to boot into Safe Mode? Maybe you can find out more about the error message in the Event Viewer.
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This is during a install. The window with the green bar comes up, then i get the BSOD. I guess I can try to install it again and see if I can get into F8, but I really dont think that will work.
 
I was thinking when install ends and you reboot into Windows for the first time. How about resetting the BIOS to default setting?
 
Azhar said:
I was thinking when install ends and you reboot into Windows for the first time. How about resetting the BIOS to default setting?
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I will try that. And my bios already has default settings (no overclocking or anything.) But I can try that too....
 
I got further along when i got into Safe mode, Once I got in safe mode it expanded the rest of the files and started to work normally.

but now I think that my video card is unsupported....Windows upgrade advisor says its unsupported.

Why is a ATI 3870 unsupported in Windows Vista? Its a DX 10.1 card....
 
Is your motherboard an nForce board? I think I read awhile back where nVidia boards and ATi cards don't always play nice in Vista.

Edit: I think it was AGP cards that were unsupported and incompatible.
 
Azhar said:
Is your motherboard an nForce board? I think I read awhile back where nVidia boards and ATi cards don't always play nice in Vista.

Edit: I think it was AGP cards that were unsupported and incompatible.
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No, I have an Abit IP-35E, which is a Intel P35 chipset. That shouldnt be a factor here.
 
Rebel44 said:
Install GPU drivers and reboot PC.
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I cant get to a working desktop, the install fails at the last moment and wont go any farther....I got a spare X1300 video card I am going to try next.....Maybe I can get it working with that then switch over to the 3870.
 
Ok, I tried a X1300 video card, and it got to the very last moment in installing vista again and gave me a "can not install error." My plan now is to find one of my IDE HDD and see if I can install it on there. Then if that works, I will ghost it to the drive I want it on and see if that works.

This is the biggest pain I have ever had installing a operating system. I dont have anything exotic or anything, its all pretty standard stuff. It wasnt this hard to install windows 3.1 back in the day...
 
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