Not able to install WHS on PC

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  I have purchased a HP P6011y desktop computer to install WHS on. When I boot into the install I get a “unable to initialize UI subsystem”. The system came with, and is running Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit just fine. It is a dual core Pentium with 6 gigs of RAM. I have WHS with Power pack 1 install media

  
  First, WHS is 32-bit only (so you might as well remove at least 2 GB of RAM since you'll never get any use out of it).
  
  Does it even get to the Welcome to Windows Home Server screen?  Have you tried using that media in a different computer (to see if it's a problem with either the media or the DVD drive)?

  Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:47 AM

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  Try a different DVD-ROM drive.

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  I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)

  Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:21 PM

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  Looks like I got it. I had to change the SATA setting in the Bios to (IDE) from(RAID) and I got to the Install Sceen.
  
  Will update after I get the install done, Thanks for your help
  
  Russ

  • Proposed as answer by kariya21Moderator Friday, November 20, 2009 3:28 AM

  Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:25 PM

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  It seemed to wok with IDE, but I would like to run the controller in AHCI mode, getting BSOD..
  
  Can this be done?
  
  Any idea?
  
  
  Russ
  
  I did get it installed with the controller set to AHCI
  
  thanks

  • Marked as answer by Russ_S99 Friday, November 20, 2009 4:50 PM

  Friday, November 20, 2009 4:06 AM

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