I have this problem its a new custom pc. Intel 650 cpu, Intel mobo, 1gb
ram, geforce 7300gt. It gets to the end of the windows is copying files and
freezes.

I have the same problem too

my system:
MSI k9n sli platinum
AM2 4600+
2x1024 corsair xms2 800mhz
western digital 250GB SATA

anyone can help us?


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Libardo

Libardo wrote:
I have the same problem too

my system:
MSI k9n sli platinum
AM2 4600+
2x1024 corsair xms2 800mhz
western digital 250GB SATA

Probably you need to get the SATA driver from western digital and
supply it to the Vista installer early in the install process.

Hmm, Well
I have a MSI Too..

Had the Same Problem.. Very Very odd.. i got Vista installed after a
lot of curseing and Smacking the wall =) lol

in the end, not sure if i just got REALLY LUCKY AFTER 50000+ Restarts
trying to get past that Screen.. But i was Pressing NumLock
Repeativly.. just KEEP pressing it all the time.. i know it sounds
wired.. but i did it about the 5ht time, and i got the the START
screen, but no feather, so i tought na it cant be, then when i tryed it
again (20 mins ago) i got it to install! ?? what the hell?? i mean what
is going on MSI! Mwahah anyway, Hope this helps, Tought i would Reg
After reading this and Working out how to get MINE workin, And some of
u use MSI Mobos to, so i tought u might wanna know my WIRED way of
getting it installed xD hehe Laters!!!! Hope it Helps!!

Puregreen.


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Having read all the helpful posts made by others here and on other
forums, I tested memory, system temperature, etc. The solution for me
was with hard drives. I have three IDE hard drives. By reconfiguring
them I was able to complete an install without problems after several
dozen freezes previously.

Prior to the reconfiguration I had my boot drive (C:\) on IDE 2 as the
master and my DVD drive on IDE 1 as the slave. Both also had other
drives on the same cables.

After the reconfiguration, I put my boot drive as the master on IDE1
and the DVD drive as the slave on IDE1. I disconnected my two other
hard drives.

This time the install worked perfectly from beginning to end. I don't
know why or how, but it did. ...may just have been luck, of course.

I've read a few posts on other sites that suggest it may have something
to do with one of the Microsoft patches put out over Xmas. I don't know
if that's true, but I went away for 2 and a half weeks over Xmas. My
machine was stable before and when I returned it was crashing at random
intervals. The only change had been installing several patches on my
first day back. One other alternative to reinstalling Vista for those
who have the option, may be to roll back those patches.

Hope this helps someone.


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I was having a problem installing Vista on a ASUS board. I had 8 gig ram
installed (got a great deal).

The installing files screen kept repeating, and then restart.

Took out 2 mem sticks. Worked just fine.

Things like this, early in the installation, are usually memory.

Looks like my great deal was not such a great deal after all.


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I have 3gb of ram in my machine, taking 1gb out fixed the problem. I'm
installing now.


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There must be an epidemic or something because I'm having a similar
problem. I recently upgraded from an nForce 410 motherboard to ECS'
GeForce 8200A Black Edition. The upgrade didn't force me to do anything
more than reactivate Vista, but I knew that I would eventually have to
do a clean reinstall. Unfortunately, that day came yesterday. It took 20
minutes to boot into Vista, with one-minute lock-ups along the way, so I
decided to reinstall.

That's where the troubles started. The installation took twice as long
as it did for the nForce 410 mobo, and locked up during the "Expanding
Files" phase several times. The few times that I was able to get it to
install all the way, it chugged slowly through the "start up for the
first time" phase, then the HD light came on solid, which indicated a
lock-up. I have never been able to get past that phase.

Now, I know it's not the MB because I do not have these problems in
Linux, which I used to dual-boot with, and I also know it's not the HD
or cables because I switched over to a second SATA drive and the cables
that came with the mobo, and the problem persisted.

The version I used to install Vista with was a first-gen 32-bit Home
Premium System Builder. Are there cases of mobo's that will not install
with the original versions of Vista and will only install under SP1, and
if so, where can I find how to slipstream?


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Never mind. I found out what the problem was. Apparently at one time my
BIOS got reset, and it enabled the floppy drive. I don't currently have
a floppy, so it hung up because it was waiting for a response it wasn't
going to get . Fortunately, I fixed the problem, and Vista is back up
and running quite nicely--for once.

So it turns out that the entire reinstall--even though it was going to
have to happen eventually--was for nothing, in that it was the BIOS
setting that was causing Vista to misbehave, not Vista itself. If I had
caught that, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache, because I was
really waiting until I got another WD Green Power drive so that I could
make a RAID setup. Oh, well...


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