 Vista Home Premium Install Hangs At Completing. (clean Install) |
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 Dec 28 2007, 09:54 AM
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New Member  Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 28-December 07 Member No.: 179,408  |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard XFX PVT71PUDP3 GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported EXTREME Video Card OCZ S.O.E 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) {TWO OF THESE} Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black IDE Model SH-S182M I put up the whole entire name of the parts from Newegg just to make sure I did not foget anything like model # incase you guys need it. Anyways on to the problem. Everything goes good all the way up to the Completing Installation part. It will hang there forever. I've tried a few times, sometimes it would just hang there forever until I reboot it and it gives me the usual error you all are used to hearing about about not being installed properly, or it will randomly restart on its own and give the same error. I have searched and searched and searched but I can't seem to find anything that helps. I've tried messing with the BIOS like instructed from some other help sites but I do not have much experience in the BIOS so maybe I'm missing a setting I need to change? If someone that knows about this motherboard can tell me the steps on what I should change and how to get there I would greatly appreciate it and try it out. My computer has no floppy drive just so you guys know. Also I'm not sure what version of BIOS I have but I know I have to press the Delete key to enter it if that helps any. Any help would be greatly appreciated and if there is any more information you guys need please ask and I will try my best. |
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Dec 29 2007, 01:32 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: 1-November 07 Member No.: 166,999 |
First of all, Did you install the sata drivers?
In the Bios set every thing to default. Vista asks for a few questions then does the rest its self. give it tops about 2 hours usually takes like 30 min or less. You say you got an error message? Please post the entire message This post has been edited by PoweredByGoogle: Dec 29 2007, 01:35 AM |
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Dec 29 2007, 06:36 AM
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This article describes the location of the Vista setup logfiles: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927521
Perhaps you could use a Linux live distro, a copy of BartPE, or the Ultimate Boot CD to find those files and examine the contents? That may reveal where the error is occurring and we can work from there. -------------------- - John
**If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack. ** BTW - the avatar pic is a camel as it looks back at me while I'm in the saddle (and he wasn't happy!) |
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