Just like the titles says. I got this replacement M1730 and so far its been full of problems. The dvd drive is hard to open. Its like its bent. To open it, I press the eject button then I have to hold the laptop on it side and shake it gently and the drive will open.
It came with Vista home premium but loaded with all the garbage Dell puts on. I have Vista Ultimate OEM that I bought when Vista first came out. I popped that in the drive and went ahead and started the install. I deleted all partitions and made one large partition for the install.
When I use my Ultimate disk I get it to copy all of the files and do the first restart. Then I get the completing instillation screen and after so long that finishes. Then it restarts and goes to the Windows Vista boot screen for about 5 seconds. and then I get a blue screen on death. The computer will restart and ask me if I want to go to safe mode. No matter what I do it will keep going in this loop.
So I tried to used Dells Vista home premium install disk. With this I get it to copy all of the files and then restart. After the restart it goes to to the completing instillation screen. Thats it... Nothing else. It will sit on this screen for up to 30 minutes (the longest I waited) and have little to no HDD activity.
What could possibly be the problem here. I have installed many OS's on my M1710 and dual boot config with Vista and XP but for some reason I cant get anything to install on my new XPS m1730...
Any ideas?
It came with Vista home premium but loaded with all the garbage Dell puts on. I have Vista Ultimate OEM that I bought when Vista first came out. I popped that in the drive and went ahead and started the install. I deleted all partitions and made one large partition for the install.
When I use my Ultimate disk I get it to copy all of the files and do the first restart. Then I get the completing instillation screen and after so long that finishes. Then it restarts and goes to the Windows Vista boot screen for about 5 seconds. and then I get a blue screen on death. The computer will restart and ask me if I want to go to safe mode. No matter what I do it will keep going in this loop.
So I tried to used Dells Vista home premium install disk. With this I get it to copy all of the files and then restart. After the restart it goes to to the completing instillation screen. Thats it... Nothing else. It will sit on this screen for up to 30 minutes (the longest I waited) and have little to no HDD activity.
What could possibly be the problem here. I have installed many OS's on my M1710 and dual boot config with Vista and XP but for some reason I cant get anything to install on my new XPS m1730...
Any ideas?
