droid

There was just one log?

If it was a driver crash there should be 2 logs:
setupapi.app.log
setupapi.dev.log

The last 20 lines in the ....dev.log tell you in human readable way often
what piece of hardware was it, in the case it was driver crash.

"keja" <keja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4C83C33D-D10E-463C-A821-89591BBB7F86@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your very detailed response.
> I've found a log in the inf directory that ends with "Exit status:
> failure"
> so I guess that's the important one and I'll send it off.
>
>
> "droid" wrote:
>
>> try the install again all over, when it hangs again, reboot *but be sure
>> to
>> boot into previous os XP or whatever*. Make sure it doesn't try booting
>> vista again after the hang.
>>
>> then:
>>
>> change folder options to make hidden folders visible before the search.
>>
>> search all partitions (may not be visible! -> diskmgmt.msc -> assign
>> drive
>> letter) for .log files. The interesting log files are 4 to 30 MB in size,
>> sometimes at vista partitions windows\inf directory if the setup went
>> that
>> far. Submit these logs to microsoft using Beta Client.
>>
>> *If there was no vista partition in diskmgmt.msc* then the log files are
>> most likely in the same drive your previous OS was installed (if it had
>> space for the setup files). There should be a hidden, weird named folder,
>> in
>> root of the volume and the logs are somewhere under there (search).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "keja" <keja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1ABA3DBC-C5A9-4AEC-92E5-73308CE73748@microsoft.com...
>> > I'm on my 4th install by different methods and the same thing happens
>> > each
>> > time....
>> >
>> > During the installation, when it gets to "Completing Installation" and
>> > reboots, the screen hangs at "Windows 2006" and eventually all the
>> > drive
>> > activity stops (left it for 90 mins - still nothing).
>> >
>> > When I try to reboot the same happens - however, if I press F8 and
>> > choose
>> > "Last known good" I can access Vista - but if I try anything that needs
>> > a
>> > reboot, it's back to the same black screen.
>> >
>> > Any advice?
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>>