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Old 10-23-2008, 05:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Vista install issues - install hangs

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.

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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.
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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.
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