cant install vista ultimate 64

Animex

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Six days of nothing but headache. I ordered Windows Vista Ultimate 64 for the sole purpose of going beyond 3gb of ram. When I tried to instal I got a NTLDR missing message. So I go out and purchase a bran new hard drive "Seagate baracuda 500gb" I have only my DVD drive (for booting vista dvd instal) and the bran new HD hooked up with 2gb of ram.

I shut down the pc, Boot from Dvd and I get a black screen with "Windows is loading files...." at the bottom with a White progresion bar. After the progresion bar is done the system reboots and loops back to do the same thing in a never ending process.

MS will not help me because it's an OEM I purchased from Tigerdirect.com and tigerdirect offers little to nothing.

Anybody that can help me out would be my hero right about now.
 
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does the DVD have SP1 integrated? if not that is your problem
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    intel core 2 quad Q9450
    Motherboard
    gigabyte EP45-DQ6
    Memory
    8gb Gskill PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Visiontek Radeon 4870x2 2GB
    Sound Card
    X-FI fatality FPS 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic VG2230wm
    Screen Resolution
    1680X1050
    Hard Drives
    VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM,
    WD CAVIAR black 750GB
    PSU
    Antec TruePower New TP-750 watt
    Case
    Cooler Master HAF932
    Cooling
    XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
    Internet Speed
    comcast 16mb\second
I ended up disconnecting pretty much everything ... turns out it was having more then one stick of ram in. Vista is installed . Now My problem is that when I put more then 1 2gb stick of ram in it goes to the screen giving you the option to start in safe mode normal ect. When I try to boot up in normal with more then one stick in it fails and just restarts.
 

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I wonder if a Bios update for your Motherboard might be in order? Maybe the issue is there? At a guess? Worth a go anyway.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II x4 965
    Motherboard
    Asus M4A77TD Pro
    Memory
    4Gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia 9600GT PCI-Express Silent
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19" HP LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 900
    Hard Drives
    3 x 1Tb SATA
    1 x 500Gb External
    + Backup Drives
    PSU
    650Watt Silent
    Case
    Midi Tower
    Keyboard
    Saitek Illuminated USB
    Mouse
    Wireless Optical (Battery Free! - Powered thru Mousemat)
    Internet Speed
    20Mb Download 750K Upload (Soon to be higher, hopefully!)
is service pack 1 installed?
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    intel core 2 quad Q9450
    Motherboard
    gigabyte EP45-DQ6
    Memory
    8gb Gskill PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    Visiontek Radeon 4870x2 2GB
    Sound Card
    X-FI fatality FPS 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic VG2230wm
    Screen Resolution
    1680X1050
    Hard Drives
    VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM,
    WD CAVIAR black 750GB
    PSU
    Antec TruePower New TP-750 watt
    Case
    Cooler Master HAF932
    Cooling
    XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
    Internet Speed
    comcast 16mb\second
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