initial reboot immediately black screens

I'm running a WD SATA 160GB HD and a Silicon Image on-board SATA Controller. That's the setup that will run my Vista install. I have no other HDs on my system. Anyways.
I've loaded the controller drivers onto a floppy. I pop the Vista DVD in and it loads, no problem. I click the load drivers option and it finds the controller driver on A:, again, no problem. I select, click format(it's a new drive after all), and then commence with installation, still no problem. It installs through the initial install process and then goes to reboot, still no problem.
Once it reboots it then proceeds into this:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue
I click enter and it takes me to choose the O/S loading choices, ie: Safe Mode, with Networking, so forth...
I have chosen both safe mode and start windows normally. Either way it just goes back to the same black screen with the image hash error.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

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"Sean" wrote:

I'm running a WD SATA 160GB HD and a Silicon Image on-board SATA Controller. That's the setup that will run my Vista install. I have no other HDs on my system. Anyways.
I've loaded the controller drivers onto a floppy. I pop the Vista DVD in and it loads, no problem. I click the load drivers option and it finds the controller driver on A:, again, no problem. I select, click format(it's a new drive after all), and then commence with installation, still no problem. It installs through the initial install process and then goes to reboot, still no problem.
Once it reboots it then proceeds into this:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue
I click enter and it takes me to choose the O/S loading choices, ie: Safe Mode, with Networking, so forth...
I have chosen both safe mode and start windows normally. Either way it just goes back to the same black screen with the image hash error.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

I too have a very similar experience. I believe this to be because of the new low level integrity checks on drivers. Your driver is not being verified for such a signature during the installation and so it runs and gets copied onto the drive. But once the system is now running Vista, these checks take place, and your driver is not on the "official list" of drivers and so Vista rejects it as unsigned and thus untrustworthy. I am hoping MS will either add the driver to a "short list" when it copies it, or else replace it with an approriate driver during install... otherwise there are going to be some *really* unhappy first boot experiences when Vista comes on the market.
"Sean" wrote:

Once it reboots it then proceeds into this:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue

A follow-up to my previous post. I was trying to install Vista 64 on an AMD 64 X2 system. The driver SIS driver was copied into: \windows\system32\drivers\si3114r5.sys
My curious question is why is a 64bit driver being copied into a directory named system32? Shouldn't that be system64?
"Nick" wrote:

I too have a very similar experience. I believe this to be because of the new low level integrity checks on drivers. Your driver is not being verified for such a signature during the installation and so it runs and gets copied onto the drive. But once the system is now running Vista, these checks take place, and your driver is not on the "official list" of drivers and so Vista rejects it as unsigned and thus untrustworthy. I am hoping MS will either add the driver to a "short list" when it copies it, or else replace it with an approriate driver during install... otherwise there are going to be some *really* unhappy first boot experiences when Vista comes on the market.
"Sean" wrote: Once it reboots it then proceeds into this:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue

A follow-up to my previous post. I was trying to install Vista 64 on an AMD 64 X2 system. The driver SIS driver was copied into: \windows\system32\drivers\si3114r5.sys
My curious question is why is a 64bit driver being copied into a directory named system32? Shouldn't that be system64?
"Sean" wrote:

File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.

Just came across this page http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/64bit/kmsigning.mspx which has a link to a file which describes how to temporarily disable driver signing in Beta 2. I have yet to try this (the machine I need to test on is at home, and I am not [yet]) but I will be trying this tonight. The trick is going to be to find a way to get in. It looks like I might be able to use the F8 option to disable the signing once, long enough to get in and then make is "psuedo temporary" as described in the doc.
"Sean" wrote:

Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue

Just boot using F8 key and use 'Disable Driver Signature Enforcement' tab Should work
"Sean" wrote:

I'm running a WD SATA 160GB HD and a Silicon Image on-board SATA Controller. That's the setup that will run my Vista install. I have no other HDs on my system. Anyways.
I've loaded the controller drivers onto a floppy. I pop the Vista DVD in and it loads, no problem. I click the load drivers option and it finds the controller driver on A:, again, no problem. I select, click format(it's a new drive after all), and then commence with installation, still no problem. It installs through the initial install process and then goes to reboot, still no problem.
Once it reboots it then proceeds into this:
Windows Boot Manager: Windows did not start correctly....blah blah blah...
File: \Windows\system32\drivers\si3112.sys
Stats: 0xc0000428
Info: The image hash cannot be found in the system catalogs. The image is likely corrupt or the victim of tampering.
Enter = Continue
I click enter and it takes me to choose the O/S loading choices, ie: Safe Mode, with Networking, so forth...
I have chosen both safe mode and start windows normally. Either way it just goes back to the same black screen with the image hash error.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!