Initial setup boot hangs

G

Guest

No matter if i boot from DVD or I run the setup under WinXP and then reboot:
The boot process for the setup always stops when the graphical boot screen
wth the animation comes up. The screen just stops during the animation blends
in.
This is very frustrating as you can think. What can I do?
 
G

Guest

Same here. Although maybe I even didn't even get that far. I'm stuck at the
artsy green-blue screen, no animation. After the failed install from within
XP I get a boot "option" (you have to click very fast to avoid it) which also
does nothing. It tells you not to reboot and shows a "progressbar" which
doesn't indicate progress, but just looks nice. After half an hour I gave up
and rebooted, but now I'm stuck with this boot "option".

This install was tried on a Dell 8300 with 3.2 P4, 1G of RAM and the Promise
S150 TX2 Raid controller. The Windows Server 2003 drivers seem to get
accepted by Vista. I tried several times to install, both upgrade and clean
install. The upgrade asked some questions and copied files before rebooting
and than got stuck at the same screen as the clean install. I waited for 15
minutes and up to an hour for it to go further during the several attempts,
but nothing happened. The suggested upgrade advisor saw no problems.

I also tried to install on a home built PC with an Athlon XP1600 512M of RAM
and without crappy RAID contoller. Although I didn't finish the install (I
need this PC) it did get to the first selection screen, unlike the Dell, and
in about 2 minutes total time. Virtual PC also has no problems.
 
G

Guest

Golden rule when OS installation fails: unplug all fancyware. One IDE HDD,
one DVD drive (a real one, some of the virtual ones are not recognized), one
graphics card, monitor, PS2 KBD and mouse. NOTHING ELSE! (no printer, no lan,
no modem, no web cam, no usb devices, no.....you get the idea)
All else can be added later.
If you still experience problems on the "striped down" system, burn the iso
on a new DVD. If you still experience problems re-download the iso. I know
the last one hurts if you struggled through the 12 hours it took me to
download from MS, but the iso is out on several torrents by now, and it
should go MUCH faster.
 
G

Guest

Thank you for the advice:
Fact is:
- I have removed all unnessecary USB devices, all but one HDD and
unnessecary controllers.
- I have installed Vist from the same media on another pc and under
VirtualPC. So it seems there is no problem with the ISO or the DVD medium
itself.

My guess is, that my PC hardware is too new (Motherboard, Chipset, HDD
controller etc).
 
G

Guest

Was RAID enabled in BIOS? Try to disable it.
Is the HDD SATA or IDE?
A Dell 8300 is by no means "too new", if you didn't change it from
standard.....
 

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