problem installing vista

gav2pac · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:52

Hi,
i have my friends acer aspire m3600. he has deleted the backup partition and hasnt got windows on at all now. the problem is when i try installing vista ultimate, it gets to the last part and just pauses. im wondering if it needs the raid drivers, but i cannot find them anywhere! i understand the chipset is an intel 946PL/GZ

thanks

J.B · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:58

What are you classing as the last part?
If Vista is letting you pick a drive to install onto then you dont need the RAID drivers.

gav2pac · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:15

it stalls at "Completing Installation" part and goes no further, never come across this problem before

J.B · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:20

Im going to give you my generic advice that I say to anyone who has trouble installing an OS....go into the BIOS and disable all the additional hardware (like network and sound) then try reinstalling. If it installs properly turn the devices back on.

How long have you left it for?

gav2pac · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:29

thanks, il try that now. i left it about 2 hours, i lost my head then and shut it down, but ive tried a few times

gazza0371 · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:29

How much memory in the machine? Vista can have problems installing with 4GB installed - if this is the case you should remove some and re-install the RAM after install

gav2pac · 22 Jan 2009 at 15:38

sorry to bring this thread back up, but im still having no joy. tried disabling sound and network. the machine has 2gb