vista rc1 causes SHUTDOWN during install!

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I had vista rc1 running fine for 2 months. I had to replace a fan few days
ago on my laptop and coincidently the o/s was corrupt as well. I reinstalled
vista rc1 fresh (deleted partition / formatted drive) and it did the first
steps (extracting files, etc). It rebooted the first time fine to continue
installation.

During "completing installation" it shuts down after 10 minutes and never
reboots!

I don't know why. This is the 2nd fresh imaged copy of vista rc1 on dvd I've
tried. I've re-attempted this at least 10 times since yesterday, same exact
problem.
I installed XP fresh, no problem at all.

Why is it giving me a hard time suddenly out of nowhere? Even repair mode
does not work at all.

Spec:

IBM t42p
2gb memory
60gb drive
single partition / formatted / fresh install (not upgrade)
 
Its testing you Chad! Are you doing a Clean Install or an Upgrade ? Upgrade
seem to go wrong without any good reason.
 
Clean install as I stated in my post

Spirefm said:
Its testing you Chad! Are you doing a Clean Install or an Upgrade ? Upgrade
seem to go wrong without any good reason.
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You wrote "I installed XP fresh no problem". Was that before or since the fan
problem? If it was since, one can assume the hardware is OK, but if it was
beforehand maybe you've still got a hardware problem.
 
I did a CLEAN INSTALL!

I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to "default
settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but power
and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It simply
shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.

If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that install
failed.
 
*sigh*

Anyone else know how to resolve this?

Chad said:
I did a CLEAN INSTALL!

I deleted / formatted ALL partitions, still feels. I set BIOS to "default
settings", rebooted, tried again with no usb plugged in, nothing but power
and STILL fails after first reboot during "completing install". It simply
shuts down abruptly and nothing happens.

If I reboot, it loads the o/s barely, only to give an error that install
failed.
Click to expand...
 
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