Vista Install Freezes at "Setup Desktop"

> (If setup becomes non-responsive), do a cold boot, Start the computer,
> when the Windows Boot Manager is displayed, select Microsoft Windows press
> F8 on your keyboard and finish the installation..
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> Andre
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> "art76" <art76@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A515EB76-AC6D-41DA-AF61-A1B56B9BAE0F@microsoft.com...

> > Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup
> > your
> > Desktop".
> > Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> > safe-mode sized cursor.
> > The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> > happens.
> > After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> > reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> > allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
> >
> > Did this 4 times:
> > With and without intnt connection, always with username and password,
> > always
> > without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> > (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> > Same result.
> > Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> > Desktop".
> >
> > Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download
> > lasted
> > 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> > server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> > Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in
> > Nero 6
> > at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> > think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> > download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> > XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
> >
> > Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe
> > mode
> > and it went to install windows instead.
> >
> > My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> > Athlon 64 3200+
> > Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> > Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> > Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> > partition for Vista.
> > Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> > where I wanted it!
> >
> > ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> > anti-virus disabled before first try.
> > Help... Art
> >
> >

>
>
>

> Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
> Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> safe-mode sized cursor.
> The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> happens.
> After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
>
> Did this 4 times:
> With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> Same result.
> Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
>
> Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
>
> Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> and it went to install windows instead.
>
> My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> Athlon 64 3200+
> Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> partition for Vista.
> Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> where I wanted it!
>
> ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> anti-virus disabled before first try.
> Help... Art
>
>

> Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
> Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> safe-mode sized cursor.
> The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> happens.
> After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
>
> Did this 4 times:
> With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> Same result.
> Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
>
> Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
>
> Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> and it went to install windows instead.
>
> My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> Athlon 64 3200+
> Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> partition for Vista.
> Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> where I wanted it!
>
> ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> anti-virus disabled before first try.
> Help... Art
>
>

> Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
> Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> safe-mode sized cursor.
> The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> happens.
> After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
>
> Did this 4 times:
> With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> Same result.
> Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
>
> Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
>
> Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> and it went to install windows instead.
>
> My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> Athlon 64 3200+
> Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> partition for Vista.
> Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> where I wanted it!
>
> ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> anti-virus disabled before first try.
> Help... Art
>
>

> Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
> Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> safe-mode sized cursor.
> The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> happens.
> After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
>
> Did this 4 times:
> With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> Same result.
> Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
>
> Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
>
> Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> and it went to install windows instead.
>
> My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> Athlon 64 3200+
> Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> partition for Vista.
> Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> where I wanted it!
>
> ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> anti-virus disabled before first try.
> Help... Art
>
>

> Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
> Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> safe-mode sized cursor.
> The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> happens.
> After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
>
> Did this 4 times:
> With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> Same result.
> Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> Desktop".
>
> Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
>
> Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> and it went to install windows instead.
>
> My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> Athlon 64 3200+
> Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> partition for Vista.
> Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> where I wanted it!
>
> ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> anti-virus disabled before first try.
> Help... Art
>
>

> I noticed other people having the same problem and also using the ATI x1300
> video card. I pulled mine out and went back to my ATI x300 and it booted up
> just fine. Try it - it may work for you too.
>
> "art76" wrote:
>

> > Install x86 Beta 2 goes smoothly through Login and "wait while we setup your
> > Desktop".
> > Then I get a rather dark blue screen with a faint geometric pattern and a
> > safe-mode sized cursor.
> > The hard drive works for about 10-15 minutes and that's it. Nothing more
> > happens.
> > After waiting for another 20 minutes to 2 hours cntrl>alt>delete causes a
> > reboot defaulting into "setup windows". (Boot into XP is available too) I
> > allow this to proceed and end up at the same place.
> >
> > Did this 4 times:
> > With and without intnt connection, always with username and password, always
> > without check for updates, without activate now, with default firewall
> > (green) without firewall (red). with and without DVD in my NEC 3550 drive.
> > Same result.
> > Always starts from scratch and stalls after "wait while we setup your
> > Desktop".
> >
> > Incidentally: Andre, Thanks for your tips on DVD making. My download lasted
> > 7.5 hours Wednesday night with continual disconnects and restarts from the
> > server . Quite a grind for an old fellow..I'm 78 now and need my sleep.
> > Complaining aside, I verified the download with Nero MD5, burned it in Nero 6
> > at 2.4x and verified it. I strongly doubt if the DVD is at fault. If you
> > think it might be, I can wait for my wife's DVD to arrive. I aint gonna
> > download that monster again! No sirree, sir!
> > XP RC1 was great fun... This sucker: I'm not so sure.
> >
> > Is there an F8 selection I should have used? I tried to boot into safe mode
> > and it went to install windows instead.
> >
> > My machine: Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9
> > Athlon 64 3200+
> > Dual NEC 19" LCD monitors
> > Pre-existing Sata HDD on Sata 0, Win XP Home SP2 on C:\
> > Installed a 40GB Pata drive on IDE0, Single Master. Formatted a 24.4 GB
> > partition for Vista.
> > Setup saw all 4 partitions and selected Part1 of Disk 0 on IDE 0. Just
> > where I wanted it!
> >
> > ATI x1300 video card 256 MB, 2x 1GB ram. All extraneous stuff removed. AVG
> > anti-virus disabled before first try.
> > Help... Art
> >
> >