Check the BIOS settings for ACPI...are they on? acpi subcomponents are
required....
From: "JW" <nospam@no.spam>
Subject: Re: Hyper-threading hangs OS loading
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM
Did you fdisk and reformat the old disk in the new machine before trying to
install?
Do you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO?
I had no trouble installing Vista RC1 or RC2 on a HT system after doing the
above.
"Jussi Palo" <jpalo@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:6B6E5B1D-B96D-496D-AF19-E062B22D1AAF@microsoft.com...
> This same freezing occurs on the first boot when installing Vista to a
> clean
> HD if I have HT enabled.
>
> The answer to your question is, yes, but on another machine, meaning that
> on
> my old computer (2.4 GHz HT) this very same installation installed and
> worked
> just fine. I actually moved the HD from old machine to new one, but this
> is
> not the problem in this case since Vista won't even start installing on
> the
> new machine.
>
> I also suspect this is a driver issue, but is it possible to load
> motherboard/chipset drivers during the Vista install before the first
> reboot?
> I've done it with NT 4.0 and SCSI drivers, but are we talking about more
> fundamental drivers here?
>
> - Jussi
>
> "Michael O" wrote:
>
>> Did you install Vista with hyperthreading enabled?
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jussi Palo" <jpalo@community.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:5C87E2B9-5A03-40CB-8E5D-43F46F397655@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> > having experienced this problem already on Beta 1 version I now finally
>> > sat
>> > down and begun tweaking my BIOS settings on my RTM Vista Ultimate. It
>> > turned
>> > out that whenever I have Hyper-threading enabled in BIOS Vista hangs on
>> > boot,
>> > on the screen where you see the progress bar (and the nice invisible
>> > Vista
>> > logo). The progress bar just freezes.
>> >
>> > I can boot the system in Safe Mode just fine and also if I disable HT
>> > in
>> > BIOS. I've run Windows Update and there are nothing to update. I also
>> > cannot
>> > find anything on this from on the net, nor on Intel, AOpen, etc. sites.
>> >
>> > Any ideas on what I should do to get Vista working with HT enabled?
>> >
>> > Here are the specs, please let me know if you need more details.
>> >
>> > Computer: AOpen XC Cube EZ915
>> > CPU: Intel P4 3.0 GHz HT (775)
>> > MB: based on Intel 915G
>> > RAM: 2 x 512 MB Kingston 3200 (removing one didn't make any difference)
>> > BIOS: 1.11 (newest, from early 2005)
>> > More details:
>> > http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specif...0.aspx?Auno=13
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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