Setup failure

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

Hi, again, Roberto.

Please see my response to your other, apparently identical, post.

RC
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"Roberto Cornielle" <whoisit.DeleteThis@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> 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