Finally Installed

I have posted several times about the " Worker_Thread_Returned_At_Bad_IRQL " BSOD that I was getting whenever I tried to install the Vista upgrade on my XPS 410 (only two months old).  I was also unsuccessful doing a clean install.  I tried all of the workarounds posted here (disabling RAID, disconnecting the 2nd HD, etc), and all I got for my trouble was the loss of my restore partition, as well as losing a lot of time restoring XP, etc.  An online chat with a Dell tech almost got it done (another clean install), but it went BSOD at the very end (no idea what it was - just saw something about a driver before it went to reboot).  The result of that was continuous reboots that I could only stop by shutting the system down and clean installing XP.  Once again spent several hours getting everything back to the way it used to be - this time swearing that I was done with Vista :smileymad:.  That was last week, and ever since I've been checking the boards to see if anyone else was still having this issue, or if Dell would post a fix.  Last night (I don't know why), I threw the upgrade assistant in, let it remove my ATI drivers, etc, and tried the upgrade again (no more clean installs, my life isn't that long).  I left to run some errands and came back an hour later - it had installed:smileyvery-happy: (!?).  I have no idea why it worked - can only guess that there are some new updates out there picked up by the upgrade assistant or the Vista install program.  It seems to be running fine - just needed to update some drivers and programs - hope to finish that after work today. 

 

So, you other folks that were posting with the same issue - maybe you need to try again....:smileywink: