Supernova wrote:
> Hi there,
> I wonder if anyone can help me.
> I have tried to install Vista on two different machines with no joy:
>
> 1) Machine one is my main PC which is getting on now but I believe is
> more than capable of running vista it has the following: MSI KT6
> Delta-FISR Motherboard, AMD Athlon XP-A 2100+ over clocked to 3200+, 2Gb
> of DDR Ram, ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics with 256MB. Running XP pro SP2.
> I have tried to install the business, ultimate and enterprise versions.
> I have tried the upgrade and the clean install paths with each version.
> Every time the installation hangs after the first reboot when the screen
> goes black with a blinking cursor at the top left hand corner. Any ideas?
>
> 2) Machine two is an Asus W5000 laptop with Intel centrino chipset... I
> can't remember the exact flavour though! I have tried to install the
> business edition on it when the installation hang with the BSD and some
> talk about the computer is being shut down to prevent damage. Now I
> haven't tried to do a clean install on this Laptop, only upgrade.
>
> PS All the above windows are downloaded from TechNet Plus as image files
> and burned to DVDs using Nero 7 premium
> Thanks a lot for any advice / help 
Just a Couple of corrections:
My main Pc CPU is an athlon XP 2500+ and it has a 250GB IDE and 150GB HDD