Vista Install Failure on a fully loaded PC???

[Guest]

I tried the ISO direct to hard drive install but at around 80-90% just got
hung and my monitor became de-activated giving me just a black screen. I
waited 20 minutes to no avail and then restarted with a roll-back to my
previous windows XP. Then I tried to install the 32-bit version using the CD
I ordered from Microsoft and the precise same thing happened. It goes all the
way to about 85% and then just sort of crashes, de-activating my display
again and forcing me to restart manually.

My system is a Windows XP SP2 with 940 Gigs of HDD space, 2G Ram, 3.46GHZ,
with Dual Nvidia SLI Graphics cards. I can't possibly imagine what's going
on. I successfully installed Vista on another Notebook computer I have with
hardly the same characteristics.

What gives??????? I'm thinking that I'll have the same problem with the
official public release version.

 

[Richard Urban]

I believe that you are getting to the point where the setup program is
trying to detect your video card (cards) and adjust the screen resolution.
Remove one of the video cards and try installing with just one card
installed. See if it goes any better.

BTW, you did run the upgrade advisor on your system first, right?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I'll try that but then would not be able to re-insert the second one
right?
I did run the upgrade advisor and didn't detect any problems.

 

[Guest]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32330

 

[Richard Urban]

I thought I had read something about that.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!