Vista Beta 2 Won't Install

[Xab]

I have been trying to install Vista Beta 2 without any success since I got it. I have had this exact same problem with 5365 and 5381. When I "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" the grey loading bar comes up, and after a few passes, it just completely freezes and locks up. I also tried doing an upgrade install, and after going through the part inside XP, it reboots, and again freezes on the progress bar.

My system specs are:

Antec Neopower 480w PSU
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ Dual Core CPU
eVGA nForce4 SLI Motherboard
2048MB (512x4) Simpletech Nitro Extreme PC3500 DDR Memory
2x eVGA GeForce 7800GT SLI
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
WD Raptor 150GB 16MB Cache 10,000 RPM SATA HD
Maxtor Diamondmax 250GB 16MB Cache SATA HD
Hitachi 160GB 8MB Cache SATA HD
Plextor 712SA SATA DVD/RW
Samsung IDE DVD-ROM

and I have tried the following without success:

Switching to just 1 GPU without SLI

Unplugging all SATA drives except my Raptor

Removing Creative X-Fi


I still have the exact same problem after trying all of that. That grey status bar just moves a few times then freezes.

If anyone has ANY ideas at all, please share. I would really like to get Vista installed, and I'm at a loss for why this is happening. Surely my system is more than adequate to handle it. Thanks

 

[ITJunkie]

Well, I don't know how much help this will be if you don't have an OS loaded but Windows Vista adviser, here, may have helped you isolate install problems before you tried the install. It'll tell you if you might have driver issues with Vista...which it sounds like you might.

FWIW...

 

[Xab]

Bumping this cause I'm still having the same problem even with builds 5456 and 5472.

 

[Xab]

No one has any idea?

 

[dfuze]

I had a similar problem, it wouldn't install. I downloaded it and burned it with my good
burner. I burned it twice and it still would hang on install. Then for some reason, I tried
to install it using my "crappy" burner (the one I didn't burn it with) and it worked fine.
I have no idea why it worked, but it did. I hope this helps.

 

[Xab]

Originally posted by: dph1077
I had a similar problem, it wouldn't install. I downloaded it and burned it with my good
burner. I burned it twice and it still would hang on install. Then for some reason, I tried
to install it using my "crappy" burner (the one I didn't burn it with) and it worked fine.
I have no idea why it worked, but it did. I hope this helps.

Thanks, but I still have trouble believing it is any kind of burn issue, since those same DVDs work on other PCs, and even in this PC using VMWare.