Installation won't start when booting from DVD

[Guest]

Whenever I boot from the official Windows Beta 2 DVD from Microsoft, I get
the "Windows is loading files..." screen. However, after this is finished, I
get the windows vista blue background (with my cursor) and then everything
just stops. It sits on the blue background for hours. Any help would be
appreciated.

Note: I have also tried installing through windows XP, but when the computer
restarts...I get a similar situation. So there is obviously a problem
loading the DVD on startup. Perhaps because I'm on a laptop?

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem on a brand new desktop with AM2 Socket, AMD
64X2 4400 processor. i would really appreciate some suggestions too.

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem on a brand new desktop with 300 G hard drive
and dual AMD processor. I would really appreciate any suggestions too.

 

[Guest]

try removing extra devices: i.e usb, cd drives and the like. I never could
get mine to install ,just froze , until i remoced my secound cd drive vista
install fine now every time

 

[Guest]

I had a crazy idea of leaving it on overnight to see what happens, and it
worked! It took about 2 hours to load the installation screen, who knows
why! Anyway, now I have other problems now that it is installed...