trying to install vista, but it won't complete

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 15:00

I'm installing Vista on a new drive. I boot it from disk during start up, and it goes swell for most of the part, then, it restarts, and goes back to the installation, and continues, all during the "completing installation" part. Then, about 74% across the bar, it restarts, but it doesn't tell me this time, like it did before with the count down, it just restarts, my PC gets back to the safe mode window, and when I go into start normally, it says that there was some kind of error during installation, and I had to go back and do it again. The first time I installed it, the screen just remained black after the restart, went past the boot up stuff, but the installation screen never appeared, so I had to restart. What could it be?

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 15:04

hard drive is brand new, disk is perfect looking, eveything else is practically brand new too, and more than enough for vista..

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 15:13

damn, I don't have any more sata2 drives.. I have one other sata2 hard drive, but that is what I'm using now, and it has all of my stuff and XP OS on it, I don't want to use it, cause if I hate vista, I can just plug back into my old one which works perfectly, and format the vista one..

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 15:55

yeah, a 7900 GTX. Won't it work?

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 17:47

my board doesn't have onboard graphics... I tried to use an old x200 ATi pci xpress card, same thing happened of course. don't know what to try now..

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 20:10

Installed XP on the HD in question, and it worked fine, so then I formatted it, set defaults in bios, and tried again with Vista, same problem though..

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 21:11

Oh, okay, done. I'm didn't realise this was a tea party with the queen, I thought it was a computer forum. Anyway, I still can't do this install, 4th time, no luck, tried with 3 different graphics cards... Don't have any PCI or any other thing on the board, just 3gb mem, a c2d, and a gtx7900. Would where I set the jumper on the HD matter?

zaza · 11 May 2007 at 21:21

brendy said:
not really as its getting most of the way through. Is this a legit copy? if it is you cold take it back tomorrow for an exchange.

yeah legit, but net bought, so taking it back would take time.. I don't know what else to try. Hmmm. I've just had a clever idea. I have another PC here with bad HD and no gfx, it has onboard, but... It has vista certified compatible on it, so swap HD and install, then chuck it on my PC.

zaza · 12 May 2007 at 00:50

Well, I didn't do that, but I did what I said I would, and it worked.. However, I haven't yet used it through my PC, leaving that until tomorrow.. 2 things I like about it so far: chess, and it's appearance. Will have to play more with it tomorrow.

zaza · 12 May 2007 at 01:27

Just checked this in my PC, and it gets to the loading bar, then I see a tiny blue screen of death for about .5 of a second, then it restarts, same thing happens again. Hmm... I can't believe this works on a piece of junk machine, and it doesn't work on mine.. I tried the upgrade adviser, it says my PC is perfectly fine.. I really don't get it. I tried with just 1 stick of memory, no change.. Can't figure it out.. It's got to be something simple.. My board is even vista certified.