Video Problems with Vista Beta
Posted 06-18-2008 at 01:47 PM by Bob_McMillen
A couple of months ago I installed the Vista SP1 Beta before the final release came out. What a mistake that was. After rebooting several times and taking over an hour to install I was presented with wallpaper that said "Vista Demo".
By istelf that's no big deal, but every time I did a rmeote session into my work computer from another location I would be presented with a simple white cursor and a black screen.
I would then have to do a hard restart.
I thought that it couldn't be the Beta. It must be a memory leak so I added the max four GB of RAM that a 32 bit Windows OS can handle but still had the same problem. I decided to risk it and uninstall the Beta and install the final service pack. Many people have nuked their systems by doing this but I was just so frustrated I decided to do it. You can't just install SP1. You have to uninstall the beta first.
I did so, and after taking an hour to uninstall, I started the install of the final product and went home. The next morning it was like a miracle. everything worked as it did before and better.
It made me so happy I cried and forgot the motherboard cover was still open. I fried the board, the RAM, and the video card, but that's another story.
By istelf that's no big deal, but every time I did a rmeote session into my work computer from another location I would be presented with a simple white cursor and a black screen.
I would then have to do a hard restart.
I thought that it couldn't be the Beta. It must be a memory leak so I added the max four GB of RAM that a 32 bit Windows OS can handle but still had the same problem. I decided to risk it and uninstall the Beta and install the final service pack. Many people have nuked their systems by doing this but I was just so frustrated I decided to do it. You can't just install SP1. You have to uninstall the beta first.
I did so, and after taking an hour to uninstall, I started the install of the final product and went home. The next morning it was like a miracle. everything worked as it did before and better.
It made me so happy I cried and forgot the motherboard cover was still open. I fried the board, the RAM, and the video card, but that's another story.
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