Different HD might be a good idea, or see if the manufacturer has a
firmware update for your HD..
We have also seen similar issues with new PC's we just started getting
at work. Our Image does not work right on the brand new ones unless
get into the BIOS and change the HD from AHCPI to ATA/SATA before we
install the image. Not sure what Dell or the HD manufacturer may have
changed, just know we need to do it..
On Jun 29, 2008, at 7:46 PM, maccrawj wrote:
Have you tried installing using a different HDD?
I'd be starting lower than a Vista reinstall by running the drive
manufacturers diagnostic CD & doing a long DST.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out on me after only
a month
and I needed to do a fresh reinstall (kept rebooting everytime a
DVD was
inserted or locking up every 15 min). So this time I pulled my
RAID card
and only had my boot drive attachced when I installed. But on
reboot it
stopped at the "loading DMI" part of the boot process again unless
I put the
Vista install DVD in the drive. Then it would load Vista no prob.
I installed the EasyBCD proggie linked to this thread and tried
just about
every option, including "write MBR" and "recreate missing/deleted
boot
files".
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