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Ok I had high hopes for Vista and well its not happening. I tried to install vista at least 5 times. Everytime after the first reboot it installs the update and then goes to completeing installation. Now it just hangs. Either of the times I tried to install it either just stopped completely and locked up or the hdd light stayed on and just did nothing. Please dont tell me to check my memory and hard drives and harware. They are all fine nothing is wrong with them at all. I have had xp installed on there for months now. BTW it is 64 vista ultimate. Retail. I have a total of 8gb or ram that will be in there but I removed 6gb and left 2 because of the supposed install bug. There are no error messages. I also have tried each memory stick.
 
What are your PC specs? We can't help with such scan info. What motherboard chipset are you using?

Is your PC overclocked?

If so, set it back to stock speeds.

And the fact that your PC had been running 'fine' on XP for months doesn't mean that there's nothing wrong with it. Vista, in my experience, is more sensitive to bad overclocks and bad hardware in general, so if you have a hardware issue, chances are it's cropping up now in Vista.

 
Well, I positively missed your rig in sig the first time :Q

Anyway...you didn't mention if you were overclocking and if so...go back to stock until you get it up and running...I'd try that first. Vista refused to install in my machine until I got it back to stock speeds.

I'd also try flashing the BIOS to the latest version.

Finally, and if all that fails, I'd try another PCI-E Video Card or if that's not available, a PCI video card and see if that works...nvidia is yet to solve all of its SLI problems in Vista and since your card is basically a single slot SLI solution, that might be causing Vista not to boot. Also get rid of all the unecessary hardware during the install (the Physics card you've got in there for instance...maybe even your SATA controller card and your sound card...one of them might be stalling the install.)
 
Stock speeds huh? Does that mean I have to keep it at stock all the time with vista?

I have the latest bios already.
Its not that vista won't boot it just freezes during install it doesnt even get to finish the install. It freezes after a few minutes after the first restart and then does nothing.
I have sent it back to get a new set and I will see if that works.
 
No...just go to stock speeds during install,make sure it's stable and then work your overclock back...you'll likely have to tweak it here and there to be stable in Vista.

Like I mentioned earlier, I believe you just have too much hardware (physics card and what not) in there which you might want to remove prior to the installation process. You can put it back in after it's up and running.

It could also be bad media, so hopefully the new disk you get will install fine. I have a feeling that's not the problem and if so, the new media will confirm it. Good luck.
 
I installed Vista with stock settings and managed to get a higher overclock than I did with XP, but Noema is right, it took some tweaking and my settings aren't quite the same.
 
I don't get why i would have to remove all that I never had to with any xp and I just installed all the drivers fine after install.
 
Vista is not XP.

Please keep that in mind. What works in XP might not work in Vista.

And we need to kep things simple for troubleshooting purposes. You have an overclocked Quad core with every PCI slot filled to the brim. Vista is newer, has less driver support than XP at this point and is also much pickier when it comes to drivers, overclocks, bad RAM and hardware. Specially Vista 64-bit. Also be sure to disconnect your network cable.

It's standard troubleshoting procedure to remove all the variables that can be hampering a desired process. Hence my suggestions.
 
Don't let Vista get updates during the install. That is a sure fire way to hose the install process.

Bozo 😀
 
Yeah. I'd go as far as disconnecting the the network during install, and not activate until everything is up and running.
 
alright ill disconnect everything that i need but do you really think Id have to disconnect my video card and replace with single and not sli? Becuase I thought most of the driver issues were with the geforce 8 family?
 
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