another case black screen woes

Experiencing same issues as multiple other posters here. Using a new SATA drive (no RAID). Installed XP Pro, then tried installing Vista from DVD choosing "Upgrade" option. Install proceeds until the first reboot point, at which the system will hang at a black screen. Restarting and using "safe" mode shows that the last driver loaded prior to the "black" screen is the disk.sys driver. I have redownloaded and reburned the Vista .ISO image as per previous posted suggeestions. I have also burned the image at 2x speed. A "clean" install of Vista will not work either. I read in a previous post about forwarding log files to Microsoft for analysis. Should I do so in this case? Can anyone offer any additional suggestions? Thanks..

Lary I have the same thing going on but I do not even get to safe mode. My system just hangs at the black screen with the loading bar on the bottom. This is with a upgrade from XPpro and with a totally clean install.
I also have SATa drive not in raid configuration and usually am able to load the drivers when loading 2k or xp. If I come to any answer I will post it.
Good luck,
iam
"LarryH" wrote:

Experiencing same issues as multiple other posters here. Using a new SATA drive (no RAID). Installed XP Pro, then tried installing Vista from DVD choosing "Upgrade" option. Install proceeds until the first reboot point, at which the system will hang at a black screen. Restarting and using "safe" mode shows that the last driver loaded prior to the "black" screen is the disk.sys driver. I have redownloaded and reburned the Vista .ISO image as per previous posted suggeestions. I have also burned the image at 2x speed. A "clean" install of Vista will not work either. I read in a previous post about forwarding log files to Microsoft for analysis. Should I do so in this case? Can anyone offer any additional suggestions? Thanks..

Check your MB bios. Try disabling everything to do with RAID. Had a simular problem and it worked for me. Havent had a black screen for sense then.
"LarryH" wrote:

Experiencing same issues as multiple other posters here. Using a new SATA drive (no RAID). Installed XP Pro, then tried installing Vista from DVD choosing "Upgrade" option. Install proceeds until the first reboot point, at which the system will hang at a black screen. Restarting and using "safe" mode shows that the last driver loaded prior to the "black" screen is the disk.sys driver. I have redownloaded and reburned the Vista .ISO image as per previous posted suggeestions. I have also burned the image at 2x speed. A "clean" install of Vista will not work either. I read in a previous post about forwarding log files to Microsoft for analysis. Should I do so in this case? Can anyone offer any additional suggestions? Thanks..

I have neither Raid or SATA disks in my machine but get the same symptoms - machine freezes after the first swish on the black screen. Micro seconds before the pc freezes the keyboard light will flash on and then it hangs. I have to power the system off to do anything. Happens on a clean or an upgrade installation. I'm not sure what logs to forward or where to forward them. Running chkdsk on my windows partition let the machine run slightly longeer - must have had 4 or 5 swishes run through - normally it crashes just after one. Safe mode doesn't help either - crashes after disk.sys

You may not have Raid or SATA disks but that wont stop Bios from loading Raid. It might think it has it just because the MB says it can. If thats not the problem then im at a loss on what to do. Could also do a check disk on your HD if you do a clean install just incase.
"andy h" wrote:

I have neither Raid or SATA disks in my machine but get the same symptoms - machine freezes after the first swish on the black screen. Micro seconds before the pc freezes the keyboard light will flash on and then it hangs. I have to power the system off to do anything. Happens on a clean or an upgrade installation. I'm not sure what logs to forward or where to forward them. Running chkdsk on my windows partition let the machine run slightly longeer - must have had 4 or 5 swishes run through - normally it crashes just after one. Safe mode doesn't help either - crashes after disk.sys

No SATA or Raid information in the Bios that I can see - it's a AMI K7S8X190 Bios, with an Athlon XP 2200+ processor in it. (if that helps) I have previously run chkdsk but i'm wondering if something is funny as ubuntu only shows me an unpartitioned disk rather than the 4 partitions I currently have. I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....
"Coltrus" wrote:

You may not have Raid or SATA disks but that wont stop Bios from loading Raid. It might think it has it just because the MB says it can. If thats not the problem then im at a loss on what to do. Could also do a check disk on your HD if you do a clean install just incase.
"andy h" wrote:
I have neither Raid or SATA disks in my machine but get the same symptoms - machine freezes after the first swish on the black screen. Micro seconds before the pc freezes the keyboard light will flash on and then it hangs. I have to power the system off to do anything. Happens on a clean or an upgrade installation. I'm not sure what logs to forward or where to forward them. Running chkdsk on my windows partition let the machine run slightly longeer - must have had 4 or 5 swishes run through - normally it crashes just after one. Safe mode doesn't help either - crashes after disk.sys

I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....

Fdisk didn't make any difference either :-(

One less case of those woes.
I took the advice of Coltrus and combed my bio for raid. I found two. One for the ROM and one for the PCI slot. When I diableed the ROM Raid entry the bios could not find my hard drive, but when I just disabled the PCI Raid Controller option. Vista came up fine and is now loading and working like a dream.
Thanks for the your time and knowledge, Coltrus.
Larry I hope it works for you also. Though you may not be using a RAID config, it could be in the BIOS somewhere so comb through.
I wish you the best,
iam bennu
"andy h" wrote:

I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....
Fdisk didn't make any difference either :-(

I tried looking up your bios info Andy h and had a bit of trouble finding your motherboard type or much for enlish sites. Did the fdisk work? I dont know if it will help much but is your bios the most recent version. One more thing you might check (another thing that i dont think will help much but may be worth a try) Check your strapings on your Hard drives and CD/DVD see what it looks like.
"iambennu" wrote:

One less case of those woes.
I took the advice of Coltrus and combed my bio for raid. I found two. One for the ROM and one for the PCI slot. When I diableed the ROM Raid entry the bios could not find my hard drive, but when I just disabled the PCI Raid Controller option. Vista came up fine and is now loading and working like a dream.
Thanks for the your time and knowledge, Coltrus.
Larry I hope it works for you also. Though you may not be using a RAID config, it could be in the BIOS somewhere so comb through.
I wish you the best,
iam bennu
"andy h" wrote:
I think I'm going to fdisk and try a reinstall.....
Fdisk didn't make any difference either :-(