The install will blank the screen after the first reboot and then hang. It
looks like a video or screen driver issue.
The system is a Sony VAIO S270 with a ATI Mobility Radeon 9700.
Any help would be appreciated.

"To get Vista Beta you would need to be a Beta tester and have an invite
from MS. Or have a subscription to MSDN or Tech Net"
can I get in?

Error - An internal Setup error occurred while displaying the image
selection wizard.
This is the farthest I have gotten, I solved "most" of the problems.
Thanks!

I installed 5308 successfully - however in a earlier post, I asked about how
to remove the extraneous boot entries and Jabez Gan said for me to use
BCDEDIT - which appears will work. However, I get this message when I run
it:

Just downloaded the latest vista build 5308 from msdn, problem is i cant
activate it.
says i cant activate any more copies, the only thing is that this is the
first install i ever tryed with as far as i can remember, atleast for this

I cannot get 5308 to install.
I have burned the image to a DVD - the disc is fine, i've checked the data
integrity etc.
When I go through to the custom install and try to choose my partiotion,

Just thought I'd share my experience installing 5308 x86. During stage 2 of
the install, the system reboots improperly over and over. I finally booted
into safe mode and the installation finished properly.

I'm attempting to install Build 5308 on my laptop that has 2 60GB
drives configured as RAID 0 (Fasttrack 378).
I get the drivers loaded, the partitions appear ok but when I select
either partition Vista says Windows cannot be installed Error Code

All,
I am trying to install Windows Vista and have a highpoint 372 raid
controller.  When the installation gets to the point of selecting where I
would like to install it no drives are displayed.  I am guessing I need a

I'm trying to install 5308 and the installation crashes on the second step.
The screen with the "do not reboot your computer" message on it.
After about 5 minutes the screen goes black and I get a flashing cursor on
the top right of the screen. I thought maybe it was doing ...

I've been having trouble installing Build 5308 also. My problem is that I
can't get the the installation to get past the "Starting installation..."
screen during bootup, but this only happens when I'm booting from the DVD at
startup... When I do the installation in Windows, it ...

All,
If I install XP on a dif partition, will it break the vista boot part?
Anyone tried?
Steve

I have had to reinstall Vista a few times and each time I reinstall it, it
adds another windows to the list - so I have something like this:
Legacy
Windows

It seems there are some issues with Vista Build 5270 and AMD Athlon XP
processors and/or driver. When I began the installation of Vista I noticed
the mouse was stuttering and assumed it was an issue with the install
process/keyboard mouse. I began to suspect that something might ...

I have had to reinstall Vista a few times and each time I reinstall it, it
adds another windows to the list - so I have something like this:
Legacy
Windows