Vista Installation freezes at Completing Installation stage.

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Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home Premium.
I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory and
a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've stripped
the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported hardware.
About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
again. Still Nothing!

Any suggestions will be happily received.

At the moment I'm ready to chuck Vista in the bin..
 
Brain Ache said:
Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home Premium.
I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory and
a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've stripped
the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported hardware.
About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
again. Still Nothing!

Any suggestions will be happily received.
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You might want to try a Mac, these problem simply don't occur on a more
modern computer.

You can get them here:

http://www.apple.com/store
 
Michelle Steiner said:
You might want to try a Mac, these problem simply don't occur on a more
modern computer.

You can get them here:

http://www.apple.com/store
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If you have no suggestions for the OP to help them install Vista then go
troll in a Mac newsgroup. You're nothing but a troll. It's pathetic,
really.
 
Brain Ache said:
Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home
Premium.
I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory
and
a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've
stripped
the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported
hardware.
About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
again. Still Nothing!

Any suggestions will be happily received.

At the moment I'm ready to chuck Vista in the bin..
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Brian what's the computer configuration, what motherboard, what hard driver,
PATA or SATA, how are they configured, what video system, what drivers? How
are you doing the installation and where does it fail? Maybe if you provide
more details someone here will be familiar with the issue and offer some
suggestions.
 
Dear Brian,

I had a similar experience. At about 67% of part five in the installation it
just froze. I was able to get it going again and it actually completed.
However, since then it has screwed so much that I had to go back to XP and
reinstall everything there. Now I have no wireless network, can eith get on
the internet or use my Vonage phone but not both. I paid $172 for this piece
of shit and I worse off than when I bought it. I called Geek Squad today and
they said they could come and fix it next Saturday and charge me $171
dollars. I do use a NAC at work and they have their problems too.

Dana
 
You might want to try a Mac, these problem simply don't occur on a more
modern computer.

You can get them here:

http://www.apple.com/store
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If you have no suggestions for the OP to help them install Vista then go
troll in a Mac newsgroup. You're nothing but a troll. It's pathetic,
really.[/QUOTE]

look above, he clearly said:

"Any suggestions will be happily received"

I provide a high quality "suggestion", and you are upset about it? not
sure why.

Just trying to help!
 
I don't think you've advertised enough that you're a technologically inept
troll. Though I am amused by how you think your opinion actually matters...

Brain, I'f you've got a wireless B network adapter in your system uninstall
or remove it and see if that helps.

:
 
Are you upgrading on clean installing? I tried to update my XP and got stuck
at 64% every time. i then just did a complete install on a partitioned disk
and it was flawless. It is probably programs in XP that keep running and mess
things up. I heard one fix was to go to msconfig and change it to diagnostic
startup. That worked for some people but not for me.
 
After a great deal of trial and error I managed to get Vista to install on my
machine. Sadly it was incredibly unstable and hung at every oportunity.

However I've managed to identify the hardware causing the problems.For
future reference avoid installing Vista on systems using a Foxconn 945GZ7MC
Motherboard and it's also a good idea to avoid the ATI Radeon X550 as it was
only barely able to cope even with it's own 512Mb of memory.

Well I'll wait till payday and get a new motherboard and video card. Any
suggestions?

Cheers
 
It looks like a general Foxconn problem, I have a 945P7AA Foxconn motherboard
that did EXACTLY the same as you (froze every time at "completing
installation" and now freezes every minute or 2 within Vista)

I contacted the company that supplied it (as they still sell it, which I
don't think they should if it's only going to work with and old OS) and they
tested it and got the same result, they have contacted Foxconn China to try
to get it resolved, we're still waiting though!
 
BRAIN ACHE - please get in touch with me
maff "at" mace-media.co.uk

I have some info that may be able to help you!
 
I had the same problem. I was running with 4 GB RAM. Removed two and
installation finally completed. Now I can't get it to boot with more than 2
GB, but at least I got it runnning.
 
You described the same problem I had with an Intel DQ965GF...exactly. I have
two different pairs of 1GB RAM, one Kingston and one off-brand, but they both
have the same specs (1GB DDR2-667 PC2 5300). I can get Vista to boot with any
pair, even mixed between the two brands, but it won't boot with more than
2GB. I too have updated the motherboard BIOS and drivers, to no avail. I just
hate having $300 worth of RAM sitting on my desk NEXT to my PC. I am very
interested to find out what Intel has to say. Thanks for the post.
 
I can confirm that this is a known problem with the latest family of Q965
motherboards from Intel.



I have a DQ965GF motherboard which runs without problems with up to 4GB of
Kingston KVR800D2N5K2/2G RAM, which is on the compatibility list for the
board, but only with XP or Windows 2003. Vista cannot accept more than 2GB
on the motherboard, no matter which banks or which sticks I choose.

It simply doesn't start, hanging forever at the startup screen (if it was
already installed with just 2GB), or at the "Completing Installation" step
of Setup. Give it up to 2GB and it will work, but not more than 2GB.



I've tested all the memory sticks, and they're ok, so this doesn't seem to
be a memory problem. Intel says that they have already received several
reports, and they are investigating the issue, but nothing more.



Their point is that they have obtained the Vista premium logo on a DQ965GF
with 4GB, on December, but they have not disclosed on which motherboard
revision.



I have a revision 305, which is actually under test in Swindon, UK. Do you
have other news on this issue ?
 
Success after nearly a month.

Today I popped out and bought a Asus P5B motherboard and to be on the safe
side I also bought an ATI X1650 graphics card with 512Meg of memory on it.

Vista loaded like a dream.

Ta Ta
 
Brain Ache said:
Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home Premium.
I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory and
a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've stripped
the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported hardware.
About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
again. Still Nothing!

Any suggestions will be happily received.

At the moment I'm ready to chuck Vista in the bin..
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I am having the same problem , I have tried installing it almost 20x and
cannot understand why it will not install. I tried installing Win Server
2003 Ent this worked fine no problems at all. If anyione knows how to fix
this issue with foxconn etc.. please let me know, my motherboard etc.. is
below: -

2gb OCZ platinum revision 2 dual channel
foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H
520w Corsair cmpsu-520hxuk
core 2 quad q6600
256mb sapphire radeon hd2400 pro
250gb samsung sp2504c
Lite-on LH-20A1s-11c SATA

Any help would be really apprciated
 
I had the same problem.

Fortunately, I could solve it by changing the SATA mode from AHCI to IDE under BIOS settings.

Hope it helps!
 
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