System restarting itself during booting up Vista DVD

[Guest]

My current system spec is
3000hz AMD Athlon processer
MSI K8NGM2 (Scoket 939) mother board
2 GB Ram 3200/ 400 Hz
Samsung 8X DVD writer
250 GB Hitachi HDD

Accordingly my hard ware should not have any problems installing Vista.
However, when I try to boot up my PC and install using the Vista home premium
edition (32 bit) DVD, my system just automatically restarts it self. So far
I have not been successful geting into the start up screen to install vista.

I suspect it is my mother board, however, MSI did publish that the mother
board is compatible with Vista. The current mother board works well with
installing WinXP Pro.

Can any one help ?

 

[Not Me]

You are installing from inside an existing Windows XP install?
Or booting from the DVD?
If installing from XP, turn off or uninstall antivirus and
antispyware/security software.
It can interfere with writing necessary files to disk.
If you're booting from the DVD, make sure both it and the drive are clean.

I had a machine that gave me fits for months.
I would install XP on a feshly formatted HDD and after installation claimed
to have completed successfully; I would get error after error.
I swapped out everything, including the motherboard.
Still totally unexplained errors and different every time.
One day I accidentally grabbed the wrong XP CD and installed, I never had
another problem.
The Genuine MS CD was defective, not dirty, not scratched, just plain
defective.
I test installed on a fresh HDD on a different machine (disconnected the HDD
with XP installed on it first) and got the same results.
Rare, but it happens.

 

[Guest]

I am actually booting up and installing on a new hard disk. there was no pre
installed windows version. I connected the HDD to another computer and used
it to install Windows XP. the installation works well and I am able to log
onto windows. However when I reconnect this hard dsk back to my system, the
system just restarts itself continuously once windows starts to boot.

My processor is AMD 3000 64 bit. and the windows version is a 32 bit version
.. is that what is causeing the problem?

 

[Guest]

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for the advice. But that still does not slove the problem of not
being able to using Vista. I think right now my more critical problem is
that I am not able to boot up my PC using Vista be it booting from DVD or
from HDD.

It is giving me a very bad headache. Thanks .

 

[Guest]

Shawn

my Hard disk is a IDE type I guess that is ATA.
The portion about updating my motherboard bios sound like a feasible idea
.... however I had never tried updating a mother board bios before .. you able
to provide any assistance?

 

[Dave]

Google "how to upgrade bios"

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/33