My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Keith Combs — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:21:04 GMT

Jerr,

Have you contacted Dell for support? Do they have a XPS 1330 installation procedure for SP1? Have you tried the Microsoft free support at https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11274&gprid=500921 ???

And lastly, you might take a look at http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board?board.id=Tech_Talk_XPS_Laptop and see if there are any known issues described there.

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Jerr — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:15:38 GMT

I got a Dell xps 1330 just a week ago and i'm struggling with the instalation of SP1 ever since. When I run the SP1 exe, after 20 secs I get the same internal error message. I tried everything - updating all drivers, disc scan/check, calling MS support center 10 times and still nothing..

Any suggestions? :)

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Keith Combs — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:32:02 GMT

I get that question every time I mention it.

I like Ghost. It's reliable and fast. I've been using it for years.

If I was going to use the Microsoft tools I have available, I'd probably just setup a client/server model where I could take snapshots of machines with the WAIK, MDT, or SCCM tools and store them on a WDS or SCCM server. But this is a home environment for the most part so it's just easier to park one of the laptops next to the 1TB drive and do a 20 minute backup with Ghost.

If the Vista CompletePC tool was a little more flexible and reliable, I'd switch to it.

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

sergio — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:11:23 GMT

Any reason you are using Ghosts instead of the Vista Backup and restore feature?

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Gary Watson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:56:27 GMT

I tried several times to get SP1 to install on my Sony Vaio VGN-SZ470N which came pre-loaded with Vista. Got various hexidecimal error codes (what is it with you guys and hex codes anyway???). Looked around the web and thousands of people are also getting aborted SP1 installs -- my unscientific poll shows that SP1 installation fails more often than it succeeds, which makes me wonder how it could have possibly passed a QA process.

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Keith Combs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:43:12 GMT

LOL! True!

re: My baby survived the Windows Vista SP1 install

Stephen Edgar — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:27:16 GMT

<cough> There is no Exchange 13 or Office 13 either Keith</cough>