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| | Install screen goes black and hangs Installing 32bit edition. Everything goes fine through the install and update processes. Windows reboots. Go through screen that says "Getting ready to start Windows for the first time" Installation screen comes back and is on last section "Completing installation" Sits there for a while... then... screen goes black. Computer is still on. Hangs there indefinitely. After holding power button to shut down and reboot, Vista boots to a screen that tells me that installation was unsucessful and I should run the installation again. Same thing continues to happen for all eternity... Running a "Repair Computer" from Install disc finds no errors. |
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| | RE: Install screen goes black and hangs Any chance you have a nVidia based video card? A number of people, including myself, are having the same or similar problems. FX 5200, 5500, 7900 GPUs and maybe others, although many people are having no problems. I put in an old, old nVidia MX400 and was able to complete installation & get the proper drivers. But the system still hangs with my nVidia FX5500 installed. Haven't heard of any fix or if MS even considers it a problem. "BenzTech55AMG" wrote: > > Installing 32bit edition. > > Everything goes fine through the install and update processes. > > Windows reboots. Go through screen that says "Getting ready to start > Windows for the first time" > > Installation screen comes back and is on last section "Completing > installation" > > Sits there for a while... then... screen goes black. Computer is still on. > Hangs there indefinitely. > > > > After holding power button to shut down and reboot, Vista boots to a screen > that tells me that installation was unsucessful and I should run the > installation again. > > Same thing continues to happen for all eternity... > > Running a "Repair Computer" from Install disc finds no errors. |
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| | RE: Install screen goes black and hangs One more thing. The screen that comes up as your install goes black asks for the user name. Type your name in, hit enter and the install should finish. You probably will still have a black screen but at least you can then boot into Safe Mode. Don't know what good that does but it's something. john "BenzTech55AMG" wrote: > > Installing 32bit edition. > > Everything goes fine through the install and update processes. > > Windows reboots. Go through screen that says "Getting ready to start > Windows for the first time" > > Installation screen comes back and is on last section "Completing > installation" > > Sits there for a while... then... screen goes black. Computer is still on. > Hangs there indefinitely. > > > > After holding power button to shut down and reboot, Vista boots to a screen > that tells me that installation was unsucessful and I should run the > installation again. > > Same thing continues to happen for all eternity... > > Running a "Repair Computer" from Install disc finds no errors. |
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| | RE: Install screen goes black and hangs Same thing here ...video card is Intel 950 on a toshiba notebook....Beta 2 is working fine but I can't install RC1 "BenzTech55AMG" wrote: > > Installing 32bit edition. > > Everything goes fine through the install and update processes. > > Windows reboots. Go through screen that says "Getting ready to start > Windows for the first time" > > Installation screen comes back and is on last section "Completing > installation" > > Sits there for a while... then... screen goes black. Computer is still on. > Hangs there indefinitely. > > > > After holding power button to shut down and reboot, Vista boots to a screen > that tells me that installation was unsucessful and I should run the > installation again. > > Same thing continues to happen for all eternity... > > Running a "Repair Computer" from Install disc finds no errors. |
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| | RE: Install screen goes black and hangs About the same problem here! I did both a clean instal and an overwrite of XP with build 5600.16 both with the same problem. instalation is hangin in "completing installation" (no percentage indication) and and restarts my PC. When it restarts, the old fashion blue screen appears for a split second and restarts again. I believe it is an memory error, but the blue disappears to fast to read it. I tried a lot , everything at standard clockspeeds and stripped my Pc to the absolute minimum (PS, MB, CPU intel 2.4c, 40 gig IDE HDD, AGP X1600pro, 1024MB PC3200 memory, DVD-RW) but nothing works. I'm out of suggestions, anyone else? Thanks in advance and regards, Wouter "BenzTech55AMG" wrote: > > Installing 32bit edition. > > Everything goes fine through the install and update processes. > > Windows reboots. Go through screen that says "Getting ready to start > Windows for the first time" > > Installation screen comes back and is on last section "Completing > installation" > > Sits there for a while... then... screen goes black. Computer is still on. > Hangs there indefinitely. > > > > After holding power button to shut down and reboot, Vista boots to a screen > that tells me that installation was unsucessful and I should run the > installation again. > > Same thing continues to happen for all eternity... > > Running a "Repair Computer" from Install disc finds no errors. |
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