1 Reply by gmikej

(4 replies, posted in Installation Platforms)

Thank you both.

Yes- it is a Dell Inspiron and I'm not 100% sure yet (as I haven't read the linked forum page) but I think it may have to do with ATI.

I'll read that forum page and reverse the order of the CD creation.

Thanks guys,
-Mike

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2 Topic by gmikej

(4 replies, posted in Installation Platforms)

I'm not sure how else to explain it, but here it goes.

I first copied all files to a folder. Then downloaded all DriverPacks and ran the BASE utility to integrate all the drivers.
Then the folder was 900MB.
So I used nLite to narrow it down under 700MB so I could get a CD made. I then tested it in VMWare server and it worked flawlessly!

Then I actually created a CD and put it in a brand new Inspiron 1501 and started it up (because I didn't want to have Vista yet). The setup looked like it would work great - until it got to the video detection. After that point the screen appears all garbled. I could still move the mouse and type if I wanted (since I could tell it was starting the setup) but that was it. I couldn't get around that issue.

I'm going to try to go step by step with VMWare, typing in the correct things at the correct time and see if I can get past it for now- but I would like someone else to say that they have a solution, or at the very least that they've seen this issue before.

Thanks,
-Mike

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