Comments on: Installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on 256 MB

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:22:59 +0000

i Just installed Windows Vista Ultimate and it took 40 mins to fully install and i thought my grapics card was not compatible with vista but it actually worked for me i have 1.00 GB of ram and NVIDIA 6150 LE Grapics and i don't understand that ur screen is in 16 color mode which was the setting of low ram and low grapics. Microsoft Removed the 2,16,64 colors in 2001 so i dont understand y it's like that

By: Andrew Washington

Andrew Washington — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:00:13 +0000

Thanks for this post, I pulled an old Acer Veriton 5100 (PIII 933) out of storage and added three 256MB chips from my box of old memory and fired this up and got the same message.

After reading here that the error is generated by lack of memory I inspected the PC closer and although the BIOS Setup clocked 3x 256MB chips the summary screen only showed 256MB total RAM.

I mixed and matched the memory I had and found 2x 256MB PC133 CL=2 chips and away I went so just a warning to those IT Managers like me utilising old bits of kit!

PS. This page shows an unnamed field, a mail field and an e-mail field using IE7 Beta3, had to goto a PC with IE6 to post.

By: Martey

Martey — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:55:42 +0000

Maybe. I have never used WinPE, but I know that BartPE can be difficult to use if the program you are trying to run relies on a part of Windows that you have failed to include on the CD. I would not recommend it if you were low on memory, since BartPE would be using a substantial part of it to run other programs and as a ramdisk.

By: andy

andy — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:44:43 +0000

can you do an install from Bart PE / Win PE perhaps ??

By: Martey

Martey — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:53:28 +0000

If you were trying to boot off of the Vista DVD, it might be worth running the installation program from Windows.

Also, note that some computers' on-board video use shared video memory which could decrease the amount of RAM available to less than 256 MB.

By: haris

haris — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:10:45 +0000

but how did ya manage to install it on 256 mb ram cuz i get an error msg sayin dat my memory is lower than stated by ms!

By: Nightfire

Nightfire — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:44:47 +0000

I've successfully installed Vista on 256 MB of RAM (Beta 2) just to see what it would do. With 256 MB of SDRAM and a 128 MB GeForce FX 5200, and an Athlon 1700+, it runs at 1024×768 and Aero with minimal slowdown. I don't want to turn it down to 800×600. For regular tasks such as e-mail etc. and not for Media Center (which I run at only 1024×768), then I run it at 1600×1200 (still with Aero), so it is possible to manage Vista with only 256 MB of RAM. I have yet to test it on an Athlon MP 2200+ with 792(?) MB of DDR, but it should be ALOT better.

~Nightfire

By: BananaAcid

BananaAcid — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:06:54 +0000

The specific setup error 0xe0000100 at program location 0×77493f63 means:

error enumerationg hard drives.
(setup could not collect and validate the harddrives +information)

usually it is:
any of the HD has a faulty/broken MBR ( masterboot record ) -> use partitionmagic's "fdisk /x" to delete all displayed partitions if winXP's bootCD-repairconsole command:"fixmbr" option does not work

you won't probably realize if it is not your boot HD. use partitionmagic to see if a #104 error is displayed.

By: Atul Varaskar

Atul Varaskar — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:26:18 +0000

got a link to this post on google
yeps was trying to install vista on 256mb ram
got the error "The file WinSetup.dll could not be loaded or is corrupt. Setup cannot continue. Error code is [1114]"
i thought my dvd was corrupt
so as usual googled it
and found out that error was due to less Ram
as postedby you too
hehehe this world is sure cruel to us low end pc owners lol :P