Installation problem

Exactly, so that's not the cause of Roberto le Cornielle's problem as
the creator thought it might be.

Do you have any idea what is the cause of Roberto's difficulty?

SIW2


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"R. C. White" <rc.DeleteThis@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:uHkd1oL%23IHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Roberto.
>
>> screen which says "installing now, please waite..." nothing further
>> happens - just the hour glass.
>
> You didn't tell us how long you waited. Some of the waits are MUCH longer
> than we expect. So long as the hour glass (or the spinning doughnut, as
> some call it) is working, Vista Setup is probably busy behind the scenes.
> Some of my waits have been a half-hour or more and I've heard of even
> longer waits.
>
> Too bad Setup does not provide better feedback to keep us from worrying -
> or from powering down and having to start over. :>(
>
> RC
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> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc.DeleteThis@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)


Did another install Friday night but it's still a failure IMHO, here
are the details:
Got to the same point in the install process as before - copying
Windows files got the green tick, then it started the expanding
files part, there it remained on zero percent for 40mins and finaly
completed sometime during the night, [I went to bed 4hrs after
initiating the install process so it would have had to have taken
5/6hrs to complete].
Next day I rebooted the machine it went to the desktop in an
acceptable time, I then installed the chipset drivers from the MSI
Vista drivers CD [NForce 560], but after rebooting and running the
drivers CD to continue with the remaining drivers [LAN and sound] it
locked up solid and the only way out was to press the reset
button.There it remains, it will boot up but any attempt to use the
optical drive locks it up solid.

Please note I have swapped out the optical drive with another known
good one, as well as all other components [and SATA cables] bar the
MoBo and CPU, as per my orginal post. Also interestingly, XP Pro will
install successfully on this machine. So all the evidence points to
something other than a simple case of bad hardware. Neither can
you say these components don't meet the required standards for
running Vista.
All meaningfull suggestions greatly appreciated.

Roberto

> "Roberto le Cornielle" <whoisit.DeleteThis@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:Ox$ZFAu9IHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Trying to install Vista Business but it fails just after the point
>> were you have inputed the Product Key and regional details and
>> you
>> have the
>> screen which says "installing now, please waite..." nothing further
>> happens - just the hour glass.
>>
>> Machine specs are :
>>
>> Antec NSK4000B Case with 500W Power Supply
>> MSI K9 NEO3 MoBo
>> AMD A64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ AM2 CPU
>> 1 X 2GB Kingston 800MHz Hyper RAM
>> MSI NX8400 GS TD256E Graphics card
>> WD 250GB JS Caviar SATA11 HDD
>> Pioneer DVR-216 SATA Optical Drive
>> All above are new components
>>
>> Things I have tried
>>
>> Swapped out all components bar MoBo & CPU
>> Set BIOS to "fail safe".
>> Run WD diagnostics on HDD and memtest86 on RAM
>> Checked MSI site for BIOS update, although nothing specific comes
>> up
>> relating
>> to a hang during setup, I have flashed the BIOS with the latest
>> available update.
>> Tried installing to a raw HDD and allowing setup to create
>> partition[s]
>> Partitioning to30GB primary with BootitNG, rest as logical in
>> extended
>> partition
>> before running setup .
>>
>> Oddly enough I can succesfully install and use XP Pro on this
>> machine so this tends to rule out bad hardware, also the Vista
>> DVD
>> will install to a machine with an MSI K9 NEO2 MoBo, so DVD appears
>> to
>> be good.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this behaviour in a simillar setup ?.
>> all help appreciated
>>
>> rgds
>> Roberto
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