black screen unable finish installation vista beta

I'm not able to log in after I installed Vista Beta 2. When the computer re-boots at the end of installation I'm getting a black screen and I'm not able to log in at all.
I have tried to go into Safe Mode with no avail. Right now I can't do anything at all. I was able to bring the system up the first time in Safe Mode and I did not do any changes after that I'm not able to log in at all. I believe I may have an issue with the video card. I'm running a Dell computer with a ATI Radeon card.
Does anybody have a suggestion on how I can get out of this mess? Regards Frank

I'm having the same problem (with the exception that I was never able to load up the system even once). It reboots, says "completing installation", goes to a black screen, and appears to stop doing anything.
However, I found that, after a long long time, it would reboot itself from that state. So I sat and paid attention, and voila - for a second I could see a Bluescreen flash up. Then, using the "disable automatic reboot" option from the startup options, I was able to catch it.
"Attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout has failed"
and:
"STOP: 0x00000116 (0x84198960, 0x88DB9730, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)
nvlddmkm.sys - Address 88BD9730 base at 88BD7000 Datestamp 4451004b"
Trying to boot into safe mode or 640x480 video mode (or any other mode, in fact) has the exact same result. The system startup repair tool on the DvD tells me that there was an error during setup that it can't fix. Therefore I assume that it is some final step of the installation that fails; and when I try to boot Windows it attempts to continue where it left off, but fails again.
I am running a Gigabyte GV-N66T128D, which is a Geforce 6600 GT with 128 MB memory. I already submitted a detailed report to Microsoft about it. But is there anything I can do to fix it?

We will need alot more information about your hardware to help either of you. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Streetwind" wrote:

I'm having the same problem (with the exception that I was never able to load up the system even once). It reboots, says "completing installation", goes to a black screen, and appears to stop doing anything.
However, I found that, after a long long time, it would reboot itself from that state. So I sat and paid attention, and voila - for a second I could see a Bluescreen flash up. Then, using the "disable automatic reboot" option from the startup options, I was able to catch it.
"Attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout has failed"
and:
"STOP: 0x00000116 (0x84198960, 0x88DB9730, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)
nvlddmkm.sys - Address 88BD9730 base at 88BD7000 Datestamp 4451004b"
Trying to boot into safe mode or 640x480 video mode (or any other mode, in fact) has the exact same result. The system startup repair tool on the DvD tells me that there was an error during setup that it can't fix. Therefore I assume that it is some final step of the installation that fails; and when I try to boot Windows it attempts to continue where it left off, but fails again.
I am running a Gigabyte GV-N66T128D, which is a Geforce 6600 GT with 128 MB memory. I already submitted a detailed report to Microsoft about it. But is there anything I can do to fix it?

This is probably a driver bsod
Finding setup logs, reporting and attaching logs to report, figuring out what device or driver causes hangs or crash during setup:
1. google -> beta client (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43655) The first link should be Microsoft link. It needs .NET but I think it will be installed if you try to run it without it..
2. finding and identifying the correct logs
setupapi.app.log setupapi.dev.log <<-- last 100 lines here may indicate the hanging driver
These are the primary setup logs, there are others but these are the major.
Hint: Before searching logs try Folder Options and enable viewing of hidden folders and files. Also try Run diskmgmt.msc -> assign drive letters for partitions with no drive letters.
A:
There can be multiple logs with the same name, but they are different! First look at the drive you tried to install Vista to, if it has Vista Windows\INF\ directory and the mentioned logs files.
B: early setup failure
If you can't find Windows VISTA directory (if setup did not get so far) then look all volumes/partitions in the drives that were on the machine during the install for directories starting with $. There are 2-4 of them (possibly in different partitions) depending on when the setup failed. Search for .log under all the *:\$WINDOWS
A & B:
Make sure the date and Minute timestamp of the log files are around the time when the setup failed, sometimes a setup/install failure causes the computer to automatically reboot and the setup will run again but failing in different way than the first time (making the bug report less useful). For best bug report it's better to catch the failure when it first happens. Yes it means starting the install all over again and keeping eye on it. But this will guarantee that the last line in the log will be around the time of the failure. If it is a driver crash then you can figure out the offending driver yourself just by looking at the last lines of setupapi.dev.log.
You wouldn't want to be looking at or submitting the wrong logs, right?


"Frank G." <Frank G.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

I'm not able to log in after I installed Vista Beta 2. When the computer re-boots at the end of installation I'm getting a black screen and I'm not able to log in at all.
I have tried to go into Safe Mode with no avail. Right now I can't do anything at all. I was able to bring the system up the first time in Safe Mode and I did not do any changes after that I'm not able to log in at all. I believe I may have an issue with the video card. I'm running a Dell computer with a ATI Radeon card.
Does anybody have a suggestion on how I can get out of this mess? Regards Frank

Chris, what kind of information you need to help me. I must tell you that I can't get the system up at all. I installed Vista Beta 2 copying the entire DVD to my hard drive on a folder named Vista Program and executed from there.
At present I can't do anything to get out of this mess. I have tried to bring the system up on every Safe Mode modality with no avail.
I also tried to boot up from my DVD using Vista DVD and still I'm not able to bring it up at all.
At one point I hit F9 and I have some OS commands in the black screen but I don't know how to go about entering any command.
At this point my computer is useless.
I also went to the Bios to change some Video setting with no avail either.
I really hope you have an answer because I'm getting desperate.
Best regards Frank G.
"Chris S" wrote:

We will need alot more information about your hardware to help either of you. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Streetwind" wrote:
I'm having the same problem (with the exception that I was never able to load up the system even once). It reboots, says "completing installation", goes to a black screen, and appears to stop doing anything.
However, I found that, after a long long time, it would reboot itself from that state. So I sat and paid attention, and voila - for a second I could see a Bluescreen flash up. Then, using the "disable automatic reboot" option from the startup options, I was able to catch it.
"Attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout has failed"
and:
"STOP: 0x00000116 (0x84198960, 0x88DB9730, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)
nvlddmkm.sys - Address 88BD9730 base at 88BD7000 Datestamp 4451004b"
Trying to boot into safe mode or 640x480 video mode (or any other mode, in fact) has the exact same result. The system startup repair tool on the DvD tells me that there was an error during setup that it can't fix. Therefore I assume that it is some final step of the installation that fails; and when I try to boot Windows it attempts to continue where it left off, but fails again.
I am running a Gigabyte GV-N66T128D, which is a Geforce 6600 GT with 128 MB memory. I already submitted a detailed report to Microsoft about it. But is there anything I can do to fix it?

Chris, one more thing I forgot to add to my previous message I saw when I bring the system up on Safe Mode I see that stops while loading CRCDISK.SYS, I don't know if this helps. Thanks Frank
"Frank G." wrote:

Chris, what kind of information you need to help me. I must tell you that I can't get the system up at all. I installed Vista Beta 2 copying the entire DVD to my hard drive on a folder named Vista Program and executed from there.
At present I can't do anything to get out of this mess. I have tried to bring the system up on every Safe Mode modality with no avail.
I also tried to boot up from my DVD using Vista DVD and still I'm not able to bring it up at all.
At one point I hit F9 and I have some OS commands in the black screen but I don't know how to go about entering any command.
At this point my computer is useless.
I also went to the Bios to change some Video setting with no avail either.
I really hope you have an answer because I'm getting desperate.
Best regards Frank G.
"Chris S" wrote:
We will need alot more information about your hardware to help either of you. -- AMD-FX-60 2gb OCZ Plat. memory ATI 1800 AIW 2x74gb Raptors in RAID-0 2x400gb WD HDD in RAID-1 Epox Nvidia-4 Ultra M/B Senior Member Overclockers.com
"Streetwind" wrote:
I'm having the same problem (with the exception that I was never able to load up the system even once). It reboots, says "completing installation", goes to a black screen, and appears to stop doing anything.
However, I found that, after a long long time, it would reboot itself from that state. So I sat and paid attention, and voila - for a second I could see a Bluescreen flash up. Then, using the "disable automatic reboot" option from the startup options, I was able to catch it.
"Attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout has failed"
and:
"STOP: 0x00000116 (0x84198960, 0x88DB9730, 0x00000000, 0x00000002)
nvlddmkm.sys - Address 88BD9730 base at 88BD7000 Datestamp 4451004b"
Trying to boot into safe mode or 640x480 video mode (or any other mode, in fact) has the exact same result. The system startup repair tool on the DvD tells me that there was an error during setup that it can't fix. Therefore I assume that it is some final step of the installation that fails; and when I try to boot Windows it attempts to continue where it left off, but fails again.
I am running a Gigabyte GV-N66T128D, which is a Geforce 6600 GT with 128 MB memory. I already submitted a detailed report to Microsoft about it. But is there anything I can do to fix it?