When trying to install Vista I get:
This computer hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.
When I press NEXT I get:
Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
I'm attempting to set up a new PC with RAID 0 using Vista x64 Home Edition Premium. However, I'm having no luck. (Hours of scouring various forums have yielded nothing as well.) I've set up 2 RAID 0 partitions across my 2 SATA drives using Intel's Matrix Storage Manager. (CTRL + I thing at boot). When I load up Vista for installation, it recognizes the partitions but refuses to let me install on them. I get an alert at the bottom of the screen saying that my "...computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I'm not completely clear on what this means, but after entering BIOS, I have my drive configuration set to configure SATA as RAID. Attempting to continue the installation yields something like "Windows cannot find a drive that is suitable for installation" (not verbatim, sorry.) I have downloaded all of Intel's drivers for my motherboard and have even hunted down the RAID driver for my HDDs. I put all of those files onto a USB drive, but Vista doesn't seem to recognize any of them.
I am not having fun installing Vista on my new computer. At first, I did not touch any of the BIOS settings. The Install program recognized my hardware but said it was 698.6 GB which is a bit too small. There was a warning that said, "This computer's hardware may not support booting to this hard disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu".
I ignored this message and I clicked on this item in the list that showed my hard drive. There are little icon buttons at the bottom of the window. Few are enabled. One that is enabled is one that showed the "new" option. I clicked on that and an error appeared: "Failed to create a new partition on the selected used space. [Error: 0x80042453]". So I guess "new" is not the option to click on. I went into the BIOS settings.
My laptop (Sony vaio w/Home Premium) came with a trial version of Norton 360. I decided that would uninstall it and replace it with Avast! free home. I uninstalled Norton and any other Symantic software found in Add/remove programs. I also ran the Norton removal tool that someone posted a link to. Everything seemed fine. I noticed that Sony said I had a few software updates that needed to be downloaded & installed. I downloaded them and installed them. Still everything seemed fine.
I had downloaded an earlier version of Avast last month to install on another computer. I had also downloaded the lastest version last night. I accidently installed the earlier version. It installed without any problems but soon notified me that an newer version existed. I then installed the lastest version OVER the installed version. I guess this is where I goofed.
After the install completed the computer needed to reboot. Well the computer would not fully shutdown. My screen went black but the mouse was till lit and I could move the curser. I let the computer sit this way for about 20 minutes. I was finally able to get the computer to shut down by hitting the power button a few times.
This morning when I hit the power button the computer immediately went back to this odd state. Curser worked but no windows. I hit the power button a few times and the computer finally acknowledged it had a problem and allowed me to boot in safe mode. From here I did a system restore to yesterday morning. The computer is fine right now but I would still like to replace Norton with Avast. Then I would like to install SP1.
My computer is really slow then it just freezes after a while. This started a few days ago. I turned on my computer, had a bite to eat. Then when I went to my room, my computer suddenly re-started itself. Then I began to notice it was really slow; I looked at the clocked it it was reseted to like "12:00 am" and the date was like in year 2005." It frooze so I restarted and at the beginning I was able to run a
program but minutes later it begins to be really slow until it freezes for good.
So I just went to "safe" mode and the speed on my computer and everything is normal. It's just when I go into normal mode that's when it's just horrible. I scanned for virus and nothing; cleaned all cookies and such and it didn't work. I dunno what else to do.
I have a computer, see below, which has an ATI Radeon X1250 graphics
card. I want to upgrade my LCD display. I see a good Samsung LCD
monitor which has 2048*1152 resolution, but I cannot decide my
computer can support that LCD resolution or not. Could anyone tell me
how to know the X1250 capability?
Acer Aspire 500GB 5100 Desktop PC with AMD Phenom 9500 Processor,
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium edition.
Processor Type: Phenom Quad-Core
Hard Drive Size: 500 GB
System RAM: 3072 MB
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