Vista Installation hangs

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I am trying to install Vista Ultimiate (for 4 hours now). The computer boots
from the CD and says Windows is loading files, I see the status bar moving
and it finally completes. Then the screen goes black and I see another
smaller status bar and the words Mcrosoft Corporation (Text is dimly lit) and
then it hangs on this screen, no hardisk activity, no DVD Drive activity.

I have tried changing setings in the BIOS but nothing has worked so far.

Setup
P5WD2-E Premium
Penitum D 930
2 GB RAM

Radeon 1900XTX
Hauppague PVR-150
Dvico Fusion Gold 5

SATA
3 Western Digital 500GB HDs
1 Segate 320 GB HD

IDE
2 DVD Burners
 
Are you installing onto IDE or SATA drive??
If SATA you will need the SATA VISTA drivers for your mobo SATA
chipset....right at the beginning of installation.."add drivers"

peter
 
Peter

I am installing onto SATA drives (Marvell Controller) but I have never even
get far enough for the installation to even ask for any 3rd party drivers.
 
Is this a NEW installation...onto an empty HD??...or an upgrade over XP??
judging by where you get stuck its a new install ....
is this a 64 or 32 bit version of Ultimate.........64 bit needs to be
installed clean
the process does take a little longer than under XP but not 4 hours.
might I suggest you disconnect unnecesary hardware and try again.
peter
 
I have exactly the same issue, after trailing the web for hours i have found
no solutions. I have even tried stripping my system to the bare minimum
hardware necessary to run and i still get the same result.
The only thing that i havn't tried (due to the fact of being sick of sitting
here for 13 hours banging my head agaisnt a wall) is the recomendation of
doing an upgrade from windows...and disabling all boot drives except the hard
drive from which Vista is being installed..
Current state of mind - desperate and furious at the situation.
 
Leigh

It is furstration, but I did find one thing. I was messing around in the
BIOS and I turned off all the IRQs 2 -14 I believe and then I got past
disk.sys problem, unfortunately when Vista did attempt to allow me to install
it I could find no drives because I assinged no IRQ to the SATA hub.

I am at the point where I have removed all PCI cards except for my PCI
express video card and renalabled all IRQ. I right now I am installing Vista
onto my other PC, whether it will work when the installion finishes is the
question?

If you haven't already tried remove the PCI cards and hopefully it will let
you install it.

I will post again if the installion is successful

Thanks

B.D.
 
I am having the exact same issue. I installed Vista from the DVD (Ultimate 64
bit version) with no issues. Then I had some hardware issues, and I changed
my motherboard, but everything else is the same. Now when I try to intall
Vista (from the exact same DVD, in the exact same DVD drive) I get the same
issue you are having where it hangs on the black screen. If you come up with
anything please post a reply.
 
Jason

I finally got it to work, I had to remove all of my PCI cards, once I did
that, I was able to get past the Black screen (which for me was disk.sys
driver not functioning properly). It appears that the Vista installer
thought one of my PCI cards was a raid controller when it was really a TV
tuner card. After the installation completes apply all the patches first,
then reinstall your PCI cards. Everything is now working 100%

Thanks
 
Glad to hear your success, unfortunately I dont use any PCI devices so the
battle goes on
 
I tried uninstalling my sound card (only pci device other than my video card)
as well as my USB card (which was connected directly to my motherboard). It
seems to have done something, as now when I get stuck at the black screen my
mouse pointer shows up, and I can move that as well as activate and
deactiviate my num and caps locks. However it still doesn't go beyond the
black screen.

I tried to disable my IRQs in BIOS, but then my computer wouldn't go beyond
the post.

I'm at a real loss here, Windows XP installed fine, but its 32 bit, and I
can't upgrade to Vista since my Vista CD is only the 64 bit version.
 
I had major problems trying to install Vista ultimate 32bit... I found that
if you have a hidden partition on you HDD or a boot up recovery applet like
true image's secure zone or Rx rollback vista won't install.
I managed to install vista after deleting the hidden partition on my main
HDD and removing the offending disaster recovery software.
 
Shane said:
Hi guys i have been sitting with this exact same issue for a while now
too and i thought it was my pc or my vista cd and after now using a
different cd and a completely different pc i still get the exact same
issue how the hell is that possible?! the only simliarities between the
2 is that they are both using SATA HDDs
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No, no one here knows for sure, but the info above suggests that you
may need to supply a driver for the SATA disk controller before Vista
can proceed with the install. I've read that Vista is not well-stocked
with SATA drivers, so check the mobo manufacturer's website for drivers.
 
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