installation failure

I've just downloaded windows vista beta2 from microsoft site and i have some problem when I try to install it
I have installed windows xp sp2 32bit on my pc and it works perfectly.
When i try to launch the setup program of windows vista b2 64bit i receive a message that tell me that setup.exe is not a valid windows 32 bit application. I think it's normal (or not??) because the operating system i'm trying to install is 64bit.
So I have tried to boot up my pc (with cpu Athlon64) and appears the black screen with a grey bar and the "windows is loading files" text. The bar becomes white while charging the files but after my computer hang or restart without doing anything else. Can anyone help me?
PS I have tried to install windows xp 64bit but i 've had similar problems.
Can you help me?
Thank's

Hi when you boot your PC does it go into windows XP ok with out error or does windows fail to load
-- John S. PRU
"Fla78" wrote in message

I've just downloaded windows vista beta2 from microsoft site and i have some problem when I try to install it
I have installed windows xp sp2 32bit on my pc and it works perfectly.
When i try to launch the setup program of windows vista b2 64bit i receive a message that tell me that setup.exe is not a valid windows 32 bit application. I think it's normal (or not??) because the operating system i'm trying to install is 64bit.
So I have tried to boot up my pc (with cpu Athlon64) and appears the black screen with a grey bar and the "windows is loading files" text. The bar becomes white while charging the files but after my computer hang or restart without doing anything else. Can anyone help me?
PS I have tried to install windows xp 64bit but i 've had similar problems.
Can you help me?
Thank's

You cannot install Vista x64 from an XP x86 desktop (although you can from an XP Pro x64 desktop). You have to boot the system with the dvd to install Vista x64 in your scenario.
"Fla78" wrote in message

I've just downloaded windows vista beta2 from microsoft site and i have some problem when I try to install it
I have installed windows xp sp2 32bit on my pc and it works perfectly.
When i try to launch the setup program of windows vista b2 64bit i receive a message that tell me that setup.exe is not a valid windows 32 bit application. I think it's normal (or not??) because the operating system i'm trying to install is 64bit.
So I have tried to boot up my pc (with cpu Athlon64) and appears the black screen with a grey bar and the "windows is loading files" text. The bar becomes white while charging the files but after my computer hang or restart without doing anything else. Can anyone help me?
PS I have tried to install windows xp 64bit but i 've had similar problems.
Can you help me?
Thank's

Wndows xp still works fine, the installation process booting from dvd hangs at the point I'have told you, i think nothing is installed when I restart the system boot normally with windows xp.
Maybe i have found a solution, pressing F8 during the initial loading of files appears a menu with various choices, i have chosed "debug mode" and the installation seems to start but yesterday i have'nt time to complete the installation so i stopped it. This evening i retry and i return here to tell you how it's gone
Thank you for your response.
"John Stubbs" wrote:

Hi when you boot your PC does it go into windows XP ok with out error or does windows fail to load
-- John S. PRU
"Fla78" wrote in message I've just downloaded windows vista beta2 from microsoft site and i have some problem when I try to install it
I have installed windows xp sp2 32bit on my pc and it works perfectly.
When i try to launch the setup program of windows vista b2 64bit i receive a message that tell me that setup.exe is not a valid windows 32 bit application. I think it's normal (or not??) because the operating system i'm trying to install is 64bit.
So I have tried to boot up my pc (with cpu Athlon64) and appears the black screen with a grey bar and the "windows is loading files" text. The bar becomes white while charging the files but after my computer hang or restart without doing anything else. Can anyone help me?
PS I have tried to install windows xp 64bit but i 've had similar problems.
Can you help me?
Thank's

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

What is your computer setup?
How did you try to install, from within XP or from boot up DVD disc?
Do you have IDE drives or SATA
Bill
"JMiller" wrote:

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

Finally got it installed after about ten tries. What I found out was this:
I couldn't install on a secondary primary partition. It had to be a LOGICAL partition.
I had to run CHKDSK thoroughly several times on the formatted logical partition.
I couldn't do an upgrade install it HAD to be a clean install (probably better anyway)
The ATI Radeon driver that came with Vista Beta 2 is defective and will cause critical OVERHEATING. I have retried and verified this. In order to have enough time (before it overheated and caused a shutdown) I had to put my entire laptop in the FREEZER (yeah I said freezer - it's an old trick) for an hour. That gave me enough time to get an internet connection and update the ATI graphics driver (a fix was available from windows update) that solved the problem. It works great now!
That was my experience, your mileage may vary.
"Bill B" wrote:

What is your computer setup?
How did you try to install, from within XP or from boot up DVD disc?
Do you have IDE drives or SATA
Bill
"JMiller" wrote:
I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?

I am having a simalare problem except the DSOD showes up on my secondary monitor for a second then the system restarts. I can get it to boot into Safe Mode and was able to finish the setup process there. I have installed the Nvidia Geforce Vista 64 beta2 drivers in safe mode as well but no change. Any clues?
"JMiller" wrote:

I have tried several times to install Vista. It goes through the entire process and gets through the final reboot, Vista appears to be starting and then BSOD (Paged memory error in unpaged area, or something like that one time and the famous IRQless than or equal to the other time)
I am doing this on a clean partition. I have tried it both from booting the DVD and from inside XP... same problem either way. I've removed my anti virus and anything else I could think of that might cause boot up problems.
Any ideas?