black screen installation

Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message

Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message

Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

Ok I left my printer attached so I will remove it and see if that was the problem.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

Can't edit my last post but anyways I removed all unneccessary peripherals and am left with just the basics. I formatted the drive I am installing to and tried to install from within windows as boot to the dvd still goes to the black screen. From within windows setup seems to run alot faster this time but at 49% an error screen pops up stating setup cannot continue and gives error code # 80070001. I searched and am unable to locate any description to this error code. Is there a way to find out what it means?
"DragonsLee" wrote:

Ok I left my printer attached so I will remove it and see if that was the problem.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

Are you installing on the entire 300 GB or a dedicated partition? Vista might have some issues with RAW disk, try installing on a dedicated partition. Also, you might need to do a BIOS update. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message

Can't edit my last post but anyways I removed all unneccessary peripherals and am left with just the basics. I formatted the drive I am installing to and tried to install from within windows as boot to the dvd still goes to the black screen. From within windows setup seems to run alot faster this time but at 49% an error screen pops up stating setup cannot continue and gives error code # 80070001. I searched and am unable to locate any description to this error code. Is there a way to find out what it means?
"DragonsLee" wrote:
Ok I left my printer attached so I will remove it and see if that was the problem.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

I'm basicly getting the same problem [Beta 2]. Except it installs a bunch of stuff, finishes and then restarts. When it restarts it loads, and just when it is ready to give me a real screen, I get a BSOD. error 9C, or a machine check expection. :(
Chris J.
"DragonsLee" wrote in message

Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

I have the latest bios that asus supplies for this motherboard. Drive isn't raw just one big partition when I formatted it. My feelings are my motherboard is the cause of these headaches and I either need to give up or upgrade. Upgrading now just doesn't seem smart with new and better hardware comming out by the end of the year that should be certified to work with vista.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Are you installing on the entire 300 GB or a dedicated partition? Vista might have some issues with RAW disk, try installing on a dedicated partition. Also, you might need to do a BIOS update. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Can't edit my last post but anyways I removed all unneccessary peripherals and am left with just the basics. I formatted the drive I am installing to and tried to install from within windows as boot to the dvd still goes to the black screen. From within windows setup seems to run alot faster this time but at 49% an error screen pops up stating setup cannot continue and gives error code # 80070001. I searched and am unable to locate any description to this error code. Is there a way to find out what it means?
"DragonsLee" wrote:
Ok I left my printer attached so I will remove it and see if that was the problem.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

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"DragonsLee" wrote in message

I have the latest bios that asus supplies for this motherboard. Drive isn't raw just one big partition when I formatted it. My feelings are my motherboard is the cause of these headaches and I either need to give up or upgrade. Upgrading now just doesn't seem smart with new and better hardware comming out by the end of the year that should be certified to work with vista.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Are you installing on the entire 300 GB or a dedicated partition? Vista might have some issues with RAW disk, try installing on a dedicated partition. Also, you might need to do a BIOS update. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Can't edit my last post but anyways I removed all unneccessary peripherals and am left with just the basics. I formatted the drive I am installing to and tried to install from within windows as boot to the dvd still goes to the black screen. From within windows setup seems to run alot faster this time but at 49% an error screen pops up stating setup cannot continue and gives error code # 80070001. I searched and am unable to locate any description to this error code. Is there a way to find out what it means?
"DragonsLee" wrote:
Ok I left my printer attached so I will remove it and see if that was the problem.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
If there are any unnecessary peripherals attached, try removing them (this includes USB based devices), Vista might be trying to detect which is causing the install problem. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Thanks I tried to install from within windows from the dvd and trying your methods which I tried out this morning as suggested from a friend of mine, everything goes fine really slowing while copy windows files took about 90 minutes and then the computer restarts and goes to that black screen again and does nothing. waited 30 minutes still nothing. I hit restart on my tower and after initial boot up for an instant it flashed a screen that said something about errors while trying to install. Then restore settings or something like that was selected along with another option that I didn't catch. Then the computer screen went black the hard drive started spinning and then the computer restarted again and went into XP with no sign of vista being installed on my second hard drive. Which I selected during the initial setup. Is this possibly a motherboard conflict? I wish it were possible to see what was happening during the install so I know what is causing the hangup or were it is erroring out at
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
Try installing from Windows instead - also try copying the contents of the DVD to a folder on the Desktop then running the setup from there.
If that fails, use Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) to mount the image virtually and install from there.
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

BTW:
My problem was fixed when I upgraded the BIOS.
Chris J.
"Chris" wrote in message

I'm basicly getting the same problem [Beta 2]. Except it installs a bunch of stuff, finishes and then restarts. When it restarts it loads, and just when it is ready to give me a real screen, I get a BSOD. error 9C, or a machine check expection. :(
Chris J.
"DragonsLee" wrote in message Hi having a bit of a problem trying to install the latest vista 5384.4 32bit version
My specs: Asus P4R800-V deluxe motherboard Pentium 4 3.4GHZ CPU hyperthreading is on 1 gig RAM ATI X800 video card 300 gig hard drive
When I try to boot to dvd to install vista it appears that files are loading and then you get the moving bar screen after that my screen goes black and doesn't change. Looking at the computer I see no hard drive activity leds or dvd-rom drive leds on. I have left the computer sitting for over an hour to see if anything starts happening and I get nothing. Am I to accept that my specs aren't compatable and I need to upgrade? Or is this a known bug with vista?

I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:

I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:

I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:

This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

Oh... and suprise suprise... unless I use IE6 (oppose of my usual, superior Fx) I get tons of error messages when posting... perhaps MS should start playing nicer with other vendors before they loose more marketshare to various Linux distros.
"blitz666" wrote:

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:
This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

The same problem here. Overlooking the posts on this matter, the problem can only be the graphic card drivers, since the problems occur on AMD based as well as Intel based systems using different branches of motherboards with different types op chipsets and regardless the use of PCI-e or AGP versions of this card. My specs are:
GigaByte GA8-INXP motherboard Sapphire X1600 Pro 512MB, AGP 8x 1GB dual channel DDR RAM WD SATA 10.000 RPM Raptor
"blitz666" wrote:

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:
This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.

Hello, just trying to figure out if anyone really ever had a fix to this problem... I had this problem with both Vista Beta 2 x64 and am now having it again with Build 5456 x64. At least in Beta 2 I could restart in safe mode to complete installation... in 5456, I try safe mode and all it spits out is a window saying that I have to do it in regular mode. My system specs are as follows:
Pentium D 820 2 x 2.8 GHz Intel D945PSNLK system board (latest BIOS updates) 2 GB PQI Turbo DDR2-667 2 x 74 GB WD Raptor RAID 0 on PCI Silicon Image 3112 RAID Controller ATI Radeon X1900 XT
I agree with everyone else above here... if Microsoft wants people to shell out so much money for Vista, they may want to make it so that people can install the operating system in the first place. Anyways, I digress. Anyone got a fix for that blinking cursor issue?
-MadHatter
"blitz666" wrote:

For the record... the 32-bit version does the same exact thing. If I restart the PC and tell it to go to safe mode, it can complete the installation. However, the PC never works except in safe mode unless you disable the video driver; the end result being that you cannot use Aero Glass...
If an MS rep is reading this right now... please fix these problems if you ever expect people to shell out $450 for Vista proper.
"blitz666" wrote:
This is the identical problem that I have. I started another thread, but my system config is:
AMD3700+ (64-bit with 64-bit Vista beta) 2048MB Cosair XMS RAM ATI X1600XT Pro AGP 512MB Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
I am trying the 32-bit version now for no real reason... maybe it will work?
"Psychocyr" wrote:
I'm having the same problem during installation. On the final part of the install it clearly says completing installation. I then get a black screen with blinking cursor on the top left.
At first I thought it was my partition that I was installing it to so I blew it off and set it up again. Ran the install and the same issue.
I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard and system specs are:
ATI x1600 PRO - 512MB - AGP 1.0 GB RAM AMD Athlon 3000+ 80 GB HDD Toshiba DVD Burner and LG CD/RW
I've tried everything to make this install work including some of the ideas presented in this thread and various other threads with install problems.
At this point, I'm giving up. It's not worth me spending another 2 hrs (I've already spent 8 trying 4 times to install this).
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be very happy to try one more install before I frisbee this DVD out my window.