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   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Don84 (tatata9999@gmail.com) writes:   
   > No, Erland, some users reported sql server 2005 express sp3   
   > installation onto their vista os crashed their computer while others   
   > like the one I quoted said "using my installer it simply hanged at   
   > installing sql server stage" while he ran the installation manually   
   > with success, something obviously very odd.  Do some of these users   
   > lie to me?  I don't see motivation, would MS mess up with little   
   > guys?  A strong possibility but just a speculation.  If so, don't bad/   
   > evil decision makers fear consequence?   
      
   I'm not suggesting that your users are lying to you, but you need to get   
   hold of the log files to determine what is happening.   
      
   And I would certainly recommend that you install Vista on a computer, so   
   that you can test your install before you ship. In this day and age of   
   virtual machines, you don't even need more hardware.   
      
   By the way, if the installation caused the entire OS to crash, that is   
   they got a blue screen, then the problem is likely to be elsewhere than   
   in the SQL Server install.   
      
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at   
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx   
   Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at   
   http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx   
      
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