clean install doesn't finish

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I decided to do a clean install of Vista Home Premium, on a computer that
hasn't had any problems running it. I reformatted the drive, did the
install, and after several repeated attempts doing it, I did it one final
time, and let it sit for 8 hours, hoping time would clear it up, it didn't.
It boots as far as the screen that has the green progress bar on the bottom,
then the screen goes blank, as if it suddenly stopped sending data to the
monitor. Rebooting using safe mode yields an error that it cannot finish
installing in safe mode. Graphics are via ATI x1900, but I'm also plugged
into the onboard graphics, neither gives me anything. An attempt to install
XP on it worked fine, so the hardware should all be fine. Is Vista running
something in the background that takes endless hours, or is something
seriously messed up here?
 
Use one graphics card or the other. On the screen that you select the drive
to install on, use the load drivers button and install the latest driver for
your video card.
 
did you ever find a solution because i am having the same problem except i
just did an upgrade and it seemed to install just fine but then it just stop
and the screen is blank and nothing seems to be running. i get that same
green progress bar and then nothing. please help if you can. i also got that
same error message when i tried safe mode.
 
I did have same problem and it was related to differen kind memory sticks.
I did have older and newer memory, but somehow old didnt fit with vista.
Markings were same at all memory.
I did remove oldest memory and next boot finished installation. When
installed ,Vista didnt still like my old memory :(
Any tool at installation media didnt find any memory errors or nothing at
all.
 
Most likely a driver problem at that point. Have you changed the video card
or monitor? Can you get into safe mode?
 
Have you tried safe mode? The point you are having a problem is where the
drivers are being loaded. Seems unlikely to be hardware if it is at the
same place. Capacitors, etc. are unlikely to fail at the same software
location.
 
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