January 12, 2004
@ 05:58 PM
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The monster has arrived

So my new notebook is an Alienware Area-51m. It's really, really fast, and looks great, but as of now, it doesn't get past the boot screen when I try to install Longhorn. The Longhorn boot screen starts fading in and the machine locks up. Win03 and XP work just fine ("great!" I should say). So I am sitting here, fiddling around with the install options and I am suspecting that something in the BIOS isn't quite like Longhorn expects it to be. To be continued ...

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:55:02 AM UTC
I had a similar problem when trying to install LH on a dektop system with an old ELSA graphics board. After replacing the board everything was fine. This might be a problem with a laptop, though ...

Best,

Gerry
Beuchelt
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:49:18 AM UTC
Hmmm, is this a clean install? I had trouble installing LH on a second partition.

Ben
Benjamin J. J. Voigt
Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:13:40 PM UTC
Yes; it's a clean instal and the box hangs right at the boot screen, abut 3 seconds into the boot sequence. It doesn't even know about the install partition by then.
Clemens Vasters
Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:46:54 PM UTC
So that's what the "monster" is called. I Had a chance to see "the flashing Monster" when you visited Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Oslo together with, among others, Arvindra Sehmi.
The machine has a tendency to take away some of the attention from the material being presented. But that can be a good thing when Arvindra goes on about Microsoft and their vision of the future :-)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by. It is always appreciated.

Lars
Lars Mathiesen
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