Vista Installation freezes at Completing Installation stage.

Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home Premium.
I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory and
a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've stripped
the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported hardware.
About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
again. Still Nothing!

Any suggestions will be happily received.

At the moment I'm ready to chuck Vista in the bin..

Brain Ache <Brain Ache@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home Premium.
> I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory and
> a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've stripped
> the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported hardware.
> About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and tried
> again. Still Nothing!
>
> Any suggestions will be happily received.

You might want to try a Mac, these problem simply don't occur on a more
modern computer.

You can get them here:

http://www.apple.com/store

"Michelle Steiner" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote

> Brain Ache <Brain Ache@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Have been trying for two days without success to install Vista Home
>> Premium.
>> I'm trying to install it on a 3.4Ghz Dual Core machine with 3Gb of memory
>> and
>> a terrabyte of storage. In my endeavours to install the new OS I've
>> stripped
>> the machine down piece by piece to check for faulty or unsupported
>> hardware.
>> About an hour ago I took the last possible piece of hardware out and
>> tried
>> again. Still Nothing!
>>
>> Any suggestions will be happily received.
>
> You might want to try a Mac, these problem simply don't occur on a more
> modern computer.
>
> You can get them here:
>
> http://www.apple.com/store


If you have no suggestions for the OP to help them install Vista then go
troll in a Mac newsgroup. You're nothing but a troll. It's pathetic,
really.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

Brian what's the computer configuration, what motherboard, what hard driver,
PATA or SATA, how are they configured, what video system, what drivers? How
are you doing the installation and where does it fail? Maybe if you provide
more details someone here will be familiar with the issue and offer some
suggestions.

You described the same problem I had with an Intel DQ965GF...exactly. I have
two different pairs of 1GB RAM, one Kingston and one off-brand, but they both
have the same specs (1GB DDR2-667 PC2 5300). I can get Vista to boot with any
pair, even mixed between the two brands, but it won't boot with more than
2GB. I too have updated the motherboard BIOS and drivers, to no avail. I just
hate having $300 worth of RAM sitting on my desk NEXT to my PC. I am very
interested to find out what Intel has to say. Thanks for the post.

[computerbutler]

I believe I have found and solved the problem folks... I just stumbled on it. Disable the execute disable bit in your BIOS... did it, successfully installed Vista, and have not crashed yet. Good luck!