Vista - Vista Installation Hang: Possible Solution (worked for me)

Hello -

Having had the same issue with Vista RC1 that a lot of other people seem to
be having, that is the installation hanging at either a blank screen or at
the blue/green background, I can report some success here that I'd like to
share.

I originally had the DVD-ROM drive on the slave channel of IDE 0. Changing
it to the master of IDE 1, changing nothing else, got a normal installation
sequence. If you're out of tricks and nothing else seems to work, give that
a shot. Worked for me.

Background (for those interested): system is home-built with an iWill K266
motherboard, an AMD Athlon and 1Gig of RAM, successfully installed and ran
Vista RC1 (Build 5600) for about three hours. Nice eye candy at least.
After installing Gristoft's AntiVirus software on Vista, which seemed to
install and run fine, the OS would not reboot - it just hung at the blank
screen. Wiping the hard drive and starting over revealed that even the
installation DVD, which worked fine first time, would only get me to a blank
screen or a blue/green background screen before hanging in perpetuity. That
same DVD and DVD-ROM drive worked fine in another system, though that
computer did not have the 512Meg of RAM necessary to install.

YC

The other (simpler) way...pull out the Vista DVD when it first reboots (this
happens when it expands files). The installation will complete without a
hitch.

"Young Coot" wrote:

> Hello -
>
> Having had the same issue with Vista RC1 that a lot of other people seem to
> be having, that is the installation hanging at either a blank screen or at
> the blue/green background, I can report some success here that I'd like to
> share.
>
> I originally had the DVD-ROM drive on the slave channel of IDE 0. Changing
> it to the master of IDE 1, changing nothing else, got a normal installation
> sequence. If you're out of tricks and nothing else seems to work, give that
> a shot. Worked for me.
>
> Background (for those interested): system is home-built with an iWill K266
> motherboard, an AMD Athlon and 1Gig of RAM, successfully installed and ran
> Vista RC1 (Build 5600) for about three hours. Nice eye candy at least.
> After installing Gristoft's AntiVirus software on Vista, which seemed to
> install and run fine, the OS would not reboot - it just hung at the blank
> screen. Wiping the hard drive and starting over revealed that even the
> installation DVD, which worked fine first time, would only get me to a blank
> screen or a blue/green background screen before hanging in perpetuity. That
> same DVD and DVD-ROM drive worked fine in another system, though that
> computer did not have the 512Meg of RAM necessary to install.
>
> YC
>
>
>