Good Evening, I have been having a small issue trying to get Vista to install
on my home built machine. Here are the stats:

K9n SLI Platimun
AMD 4400 x2
dual seagate 160gb raptors (sata) as seperate drives (no striping or raid)
dual 7600 Nvidia graphics cards (running SLI)
2 GB DDR2 800
Lightscribe DVD multi drive
XP Pro x64

Problem. I am trying to install Vista on one of the Raptors from within the
XP Pro environment. I am able to get past the intial set up, and down load.
The computer restarts and hangs in the black screen with the green Microsoft
progress bar. It seems that all HD activity stops. And there it sits, for
hours. I have plugged away at various forums, but nothing seems quite
correct. I notice that perhaps MSI mother boards might have an issue, and I
have checked for drivers. In fact I load one up in the vista install but it
doesn't change the out come.
I have tried stopping antivirus (AVG), all non essential services, I even un
plugged the Hard drive with XP on it, and plugged the other drive into the
SATA port trying to install Vista from a DVD boot up. Same exact issue. I
am thinking Vista is having issues reading the hard drive? Anyone else have
this issue and found a solution?
--
Dayfd, Seattle Wa.

Dont install from within XP
Boot from the Vista DVD....have your SATA drivers handy you will need to
load them during the installation
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-6157570.html
peter
"Dayfd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Good Evening, I have been having a small issue trying to get Vista to
> install
> on my home built machine. Here are the stats:
>
> K9n SLI Platimun
> AMD 4400 x2
> dual seagate 160gb raptors (sata) as seperate drives (no striping or raid)
> dual 7600 Nvidia graphics cards (running SLI)
> 2 GB DDR2 800
> Lightscribe DVD multi drive
> XP Pro x64
>
> Problem. I am trying to install Vista on one of the Raptors from within
> the
> XP Pro environment. I am able to get past the intial set up, and down
> load.
> The computer restarts and hangs in the black screen with the green
> Microsoft
> progress bar. It seems that all HD activity stops. And there it sits,
> for
> hours. I have plugged away at various forums, but nothing seems quite
> correct. I notice that perhaps MSI mother boards might have an issue, and
> I
> have checked for drivers. In fact I load one up in the vista install but
> it
> doesn't change the out come.
> I have tried stopping antivirus (AVG), all non essential services, I even
> un
> plugged the Hard drive with XP on it, and plugged the other drive into the
> SATA port trying to install Vista from a DVD boot up. Same exact issue.
> I
> am thinking Vista is having issues reading the hard drive? Anyone else
> have
> this issue and found a solution?
> --
> Dayfd, Seattle Wa.