vista 64-bit home premium wont install

[meIam]

I have a M2A-vm motherboard with 690g sb600 chipset, running amd dual core
4400+, two WD 250gb 8mb SATA hard drives, one 800mhz 2gig kingston stick.
So when attempt to install vista 64-bit it freezes at 0% during the
expanding section. I have tried everything under the sun I can think of.
Including new drivers and updating the bios, running with my sata controller
on every setting and with only 1 HDD.
I have tried three dif dvd players all internal.
Its been four days of about 8 hours a day screwing with this, if anyone has
a link to drivers they know work(posts I have seen say some work some don't,
I have tried some that others recommended) or have any ideas pls let me know.

 

[meIam]

Ok here is a little better break down now that I have the time.
Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM
Chipset: northbridge AMD 690G / southbridge SB600
CPU: AMD 64 4400+ dual core
RAM: 2gb 800 MHz kingston DDR2
2GB total RAM
HDD: 2x 250GB Western Digital SATA with 8MB cache
DVD: Tried multiple DVD ROM's
Floppy: Maxtor, vista compatable
Mouse/Keyboard: Basic keyboard and mouse

I have spent entirely to much time trying to install Vista. I have
previously built 15-20 systems, none with Vista unfortunately. I am receiving
error code: 0x80070017 during the expand files potion of installation. I have
loaded different audio, video, raid, USB, and Lan drivers. During bios I have
also tried all configurations for the 690G chipset controller.

I currently have the DVD set as a slave. Only 1 of the hard drives is
connected. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas for drivers they know will
work please let me know. My guess at the moment is that there is some sort of
mis-communication between the DVD and the hard drive.

 

[Daniel L. Lieberman]

Why don't you copy the DVD to a HD and install from it?

 

[Tinker]

I have a M2A-vm motherboard with 690g sb600 chipset, running amd dual core
4400+, two WD 250gb 8mb SATA hard drives, one 800mhz 2gig kingston stick.
So when attempt to install vista 64-bit it freezes at 0% during the
expanding section. I have tried everything under the sun I can think of.
Including new drivers and updating the bios, running with my sata controller
on every setting and with only 1 HDD.
I have tried three dif dvd players all internal.
Its been four days of about 8 hours a day screwing with this, if anyone has
a link to drivers they know work(posts I have seen say some work some don't,
I have tried some that others recommended) or have any ideas pls let me know.

I had all sorts of problems installing Vista64 until someone told me
that to use a SATA drive it had to be connected to the first SATA
connection for the installation to proceed.

I'm not saying that is your problem, but it is something to check.

Tinker

 

[meIam]

I have been thinking I would try that, afraid to sink another 50-70 dollars
on an ide drive without knowing if it would even have a chance of working. If
you know of a situation where this has worked before pls post again Daniel.
If I have no chance with this I will take the cash and go buy a non-OEM
version of XP then prolly try an upgrade.

 

[John Barnes]

As indicated, some MOBO's only allow certain connectors to be bootable.
Also check the BIOS settings.