Installation taking more than 24 hours?!

[Guest]

I have Vista Ultimate RC1 - installing it on a brand new Pc with a Intel Core
2 Duo E6600 with 2 gb of G.Skill DDR2 800 mhz memory a SATA 250 bg hdd, and
it gets to the part where it's "expanding files" but sits... and sits... I
left the pc on for 24 hours and it got to 44% but restarted, now it's doing
it again. I am reading on the net people only taking 20-30 minutes to install
vista. Help!

 

[Guest]

Are you performing an upgrade or a clean install? If upgrading run the
upgrade advisor tool before starting to see if anything turns up. You can
hit shift + f10 at any time during set up to get a command prompt, use it to
look for the setupact.log and setuperr.log log files. those should provide
you with additional information as to what is going wrong. Include searching
from the virtual X: root to if doing an upgrade.

 

[Guest]

Okay... so I tried that but at the command prompt it says "access is denied"
after trying to access either file, setupact.log or setuperr.log. It went all
night last night and is still at 0%. It is a clean install btw. - all brand
new equipment.

 

[JW]

Many vvendors had to make changes to their BIOSs last summer prior to the
release of RC2 and I would not be surprised if other changes had to made
prior to the RTM release. Therefore it is possible that RC1 just won't run
on your brand new dual core system as configured. I suggest that you try
disabling one of the CPU cores using the BIOS and if that solves your
current probblem you can restore it to after installing the RTM release at a
later date.

JW from SoCal

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You didn't say what the mobo is. If it is an SLI board and you have two
cards, try installing with only one card. This was still an issue with
RC1. There are still some BIOS issues with 800 memory with Asus mobos.

 

[law1979]

I left the pc on for 24 hours and it got to 44% but
Hi.


i suggest you check you BIOS settings (CPU cache, etc...)

maybe you could try to reset your BIOS settings to "optimized defaults) &
try again.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

At the very least, turn off any overclocking.

I left the pc on for 24 hours and it got to 44% but

Hi.


i suggest you check you BIOS settings (CPU cache, etc...)

maybe you could try to reset your BIOS settings to "optimized defaults) &
try again.