I was trying to install windows BAsic edition (not the upgrade) onto my friends PC.
He has an ASUS P4P800 SE, GF5200, 1 GB RAM and LG DVD-ROM-RW, Windows XP
I ran the vista compatibily advisor program from microsoft and passed.
Now, when it comed to format his drive and install vista, it kept booting up to xp, until i had to restart the pc once again.
I made sure that in my BIOS, my boot list had the dvd rom ahead of the HDD. Once i hit restart, it detects the vista dvd in the player and ask to hit any key to boot from dvd or cd.
I hit it and up comes windows xp. so whats wrong with the bootloader??
I decided to try and boot with my windows vista premium disk and got a little further. He boots from the disk, but freezes and forced me to restart the cycle once again.
I try to insert windows xp, and no luck. I get an error message 8xxx.
Some people are saying that the bios update is needed but, don't see recent updates on the asus website.
If someone could guide me to resolve this issue, I'll greatly appriciate it.
Thanks