[jakeyman_i_am]

No matter what version or disk I use, whenever I try to install vista, the install always hangs. I can move the mouse and I have the reed vista background, but nothing will ever come up. I have tried taking my graphics card out and using onboard graphics with no luck.

Specs:
amd 64 x2 4800+
Asus mobo (model...)
nVidia 9500 gt 512
sata drive
sata optical
ide optical
thermaltake 700 watt psu


Hijack this?

[Lexluethar]

Have you run upgrade advisor prior to installing Vista? I guess you can't if you are doing a clean install, but my guess would either be a driver/hardware conflict with vista, or you have a bad hard drive.

Run memtest just to make sure it isn't bad ram. IMO it is a hardware conflict OR bad hard drive.

[Mak213]

I bet it has to do with the SATA Optical drive. Vista has drivers for the SATA HArd Drive. But not the SATA Optical Drives.