Vista Tutorial - Installation hangs - please help!!!

I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"

Can anybody please help??

Details please. Are you upgrading? Clean install? What version of Vista?

"Installation hangs" wrote:

> I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
>
> Can anybody please help??

"Installation hangs" wrote

>I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times
>from
> CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
>
> Can anybody please help??

Also what hardware? Did you run the upgrade advisor?

--

Rock [ MVP User/Shell]

How about if you try booting into safe mode? I could be a bad display
that's causing the screen to go blank.

"Installation hangs" <Installationhangs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:7D129B33-CAD5-457E-8DB7-E8804150FFB8@microsoft.com...
>I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times
>from
> CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
>
> Can anybody please help??

I had the same. Try disabling the onboard sound and usb while installing. You
can enable them after the installation has finished. I managed this way to
complete the installation but it didn't solve all my problems though.

"Installation hangs" wrote:

> I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
>
> Can anybody please help??

Did you disable it through the system utility? Can you please tellme the steps?

To answer other questions:
1. It was a clean install (i formatted the drive)
2. I can't open it even in safe mode coz it says installation cannot
continue in safe mode
3. I am installing 5600 RC1 build


Your help is appreciated!


"ReMeE" wrote:

> I had the same. Try disabling the onboard sound and usb while installing. You
> can enable them after the installation has finished. I managed this way to
> complete the installation but it didn't solve all my problems though.
>
> "Installation hangs" wrote:
>
> > I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> > CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> > then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> > tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> > shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
> >
> > Can anybody please help??

I looked at my system utilities and i don't have any option to disable sound
- the only one is see is the legacy usb support and i disabled it - tried to
do a clean install again and doesn't work.


"Installation hangs" wrote:

> Did you disable it through the system utility? Can you please tellme the steps?
>
> To answer other questions:
> 1. It was a clean install (i formatted the drive)
> 2. I can't open it even in safe mode coz it says installation cannot
> continue in safe mode
> 3. I am installing 5600 RC1 build
>
>
> Your help is appreciated!
>
>
> "ReMeE" wrote:
>
> > I had the same. Try disabling the onboard sound and usb while installing. You
> > can enable them after the installation has finished. I managed this way to
> > complete the installation but it didn't solve all my problems though.
> >
> > "Installation hangs" wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> > > CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> > > then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> > > tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> > > shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
> > >
> > > Can anybody please help??

You have to disable them in the Bios.

"Installation hangs" wrote:

> I looked at my system utilities and i don't have any option to disable sound
> - the only one is see is the legacy usb support and i disabled it - tried to
> do a clean install again and doesn't work.
>
>
> "Installation hangs" wrote:
>
> > Did you disable it through the system utility? Can you please tellme the steps?
> >
> > To answer other questions:
> > 1. It was a clean install (i formatted the drive)
> > 2. I can't open it even in safe mode coz it says installation cannot
> > continue in safe mode
> > 3. I am installing 5600 RC1 build
> >
> >
> > Your help is appreciated!
> >
> >
> > "ReMeE" wrote:
> >
> > > I had the same. Try disabling the onboard sound and usb while installing. You
> > > can enable them after the installation has finished. I managed this way to
> > > complete the installation but it didn't solve all my problems though.
> > >
> > > "Installation hangs" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> > > > CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> > > > then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> > > > tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> > > > shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
> > > >
> > > > Can anybody please help??

I don't see an option for sound in bios. My version of BIOS is 1.9. My
machine is a Toshiba Satellite. Can you please tell me how i can disable the
sound.


"ReMeE" wrote:

> You have to disable them in the Bios.
>
> "Installation hangs" wrote:
>
> > I looked at my system utilities and i don't have any option to disable sound
> > - the only one is see is the legacy usb support and i disabled it - tried to
> > do a clean install again and doesn't work.
> >
> >
> > "Installation hangs" wrote:
> >
> > > Did you disable it through the system utility? Can you please tellme the steps?
> > >
> > > To answer other questions:
> > > 1. It was a clean install (i formatted the drive)
> > > 2. I can't open it even in safe mode coz it says installation cannot
> > > continue in safe mode
> > > 3. I am installing 5600 RC1 build
> > >
> > >
> > > Your help is appreciated!
> > >
> > >
> > > "ReMeE" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I had the same. Try disabling the onboard sound and usb while installing. You
> > > > can enable them after the installation has finished. I managed this way to
> > > > complete the installation but it didn't solve all my problems though.
> > > >
> > > > "Installation hangs" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> > > > > CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> > > > > then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> > > > > tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> > > > > shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anybody please help??

I'm having this problem as well. I'm doing a clean install on a 2nd hd for
duel boot. Only once have I been able to reboot once to continue install but
after the 2nd reboot, it just has a black screen. I've tried 4 different
times and even redownloaded the ISO file. I am using 5600 rc1 build from the
microsoft website.

any help or ideas would be much appreceated!!!!



"Installation hangs" wrote:

> I have installed Vista 4 times now (2 times from the network and 2 times from
> CD) but everytime when it get to "Completing installation", it reboots and
> then the screen goes blank. I left it that way for an hour or so and then
> tried to reboot. Not it says that "an error was encountered or it was
> shutdown.... so i can restart my installation"
>
> Can anybody please help??