Slow install - Help needed !

[Guest]

Someone please tell me I am not the only one with this horrible problem ! I
am trying to install Vista Ultimate x86 on this brand new machine and it's
been almost 3 hours and it's still around 66% of "Expanding files". The specs
of the PC are :
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200, MSI K9NU Neo-V (motherboard), 1GB DDR2-667Mhz in Dual
Channel, MSI NX7600GS T2D256 - Video card, 200 GB 7200 Rpm Maxtor IDE hard
drive, LG DVD-RAM 16x. That's about it. After my first attempt this morning
where I sopped Vista after 1.5hrs, I installed Windows XP 64-bit on this
machine to see if XP would be as slow, but XP did a clean install in less
than 25 minutes. It must be something that this version of Vista does not
like in this PC/config, but WHAT ? Any ideas are welcomed !

 

[Jason]

I'll bet you have a hardware problem

1. Try testing the RAM with memtest32 or create a MS Memory test floppy
http://www.memtest86.com/memt32.zip
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

2. If the tests display any errors, you may have a voltage problem, not bad
RAM.
Compare your memory voltages in the BIOS to the recomended settings at the
RAM and Mobo manuf sites, check tech forums for the correct settings.
Sometimes the default mobo settings are off.
http://forums.pcper.com/

3. Re-seat all internal hardware

 

[Guest]

Memory testing is built into Windows. It's on Start.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Not sure if Windows Upgrade Advisor will run in XP x64... but would suggest
running the upgrade advisor with all peripherals connected. If it's taking
that long on a clean install, and we -are- talking about a clean install,
not an upgrade, right?, then something's wrong.

Also assume we're talking about RTM code, not Beta or RCx code, right?

Lang